Copy letter from Fr. James Ardle MacMahon to Fr. Michel Cooney, S.T.L., C.C., Propagation of the Faith, Dublin enclosing correspondence from the treasurer of the Archdiocese of Tabora. Tanga

Letter from Joseph J. Cooney, Phibsborough Road, to Rev. and dear Father asking that he get the elite of the Catholic societies to have the play A View from the Bridge stopped.

Letter from Joseph J. Cooney to Rev. and dear Father enclosing a copy of a letter from Public Morality Council Secretary.

Handwritten copy of a letter from Ger Tomlinson, General Secretary, the Public Morality Council, London, to Joseph J. Cooney regarding the plays A View from the Bridge and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Handwritten letter from Joseph J. Cooney to Rev. Father informing him that Top-Spot had incurred the wrath of the Censorship Board.

Note from Fr. James Ardle MacMahon saying that Mr. Cooney had called. Suggested he work through C.W.F., Professor Pigott and Dermot O’Flynn regarding evil literature and plays.

Note to +McQuaid relating to letters received from J.J. Cooney regarding Sartre’s play The Respectable Prostitute.

• Correspondence involving M.T. Cooney, Killucan, Co. Westmeath, R. Ryan, Arthur O’Hagan & Son, solicitors, +McQuaid, Fr. M.P. O’Connell, Secretary, and G. Connellan, Westland Row, relating to the investment in the film The Divine Tragedy. Those who invested in this venture did so as they believed that the film was being sponsored by +McQuaid and the other Irish bishops. The project fell through and the investors assumed that their money would be returned to them. A court case followed and investors were awarded 50% of their contributions. Irish Cine Club 5 January 1957

Letter from J.J. Cooney, Phibsborough to the Chancellor regarding two newspaper cuttings which are enclosed. The first, ‘Are you a glamorous mother?’ appeared in the ‘Catholic Standard’ and the other is an advertisement for the Embassy Club. Copy reply attached.