Typed letter to Chris from Paddy Crean, 41 Fairview Strand, regarding the activities of the I.W.L. Students Council. Student body dangerous as they are clever and well organised. A ‘few stool pigeons’ needed.

Correspondence between Fr. Cyril Crean, Head, 20, January 1960, Chaplain and +McQuaid in relation to vocations in secondary schools., 6 items

Copy of a typed letter to Mgr. Coghlan informing him that Fr. Crean is free to remain an Army Chaplain if he so wishes.

Copy of a typed letter to Fr. C.P. Crean leaving him free to remain as a Chaplain if he so wishes.

Typed letter to Chris from Paddy Crean. There is no doubt that the Bernard Shaw crowd are Communists. The fact that Mrs. Nolan is on the list is enough. She and her husband are leading lights of the whole Communist show in Dublin.

Correspondence between +McQuaid, Frs. John, 19, May 1965, O’Regan, Cyril P. Crean and Patrick Duffey in relation to the Annual Army Pilgrimage to Lourdes. (see also file 21), 7 items

• Correspondence and reports from Frs. Joseph A. Carroll and Cyril P. Crean relating to the Charlie Chaplin film A King in New York. 22 November 1957

Letter from Fr. Paddy Crean to Michael seeking permission for Fr. Arthur McMahon to speak to a private meeting to the Bakery Trades Branch of St. Joseph’s Young Priests Society.

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. Its function this year is to report to + McQuaid in detail on officials of the various trade unions. Each member was given 22 trade unions with names of officials. The V. Rev. Chairman had a report, compiled by the Knights of Columbanus in 1948, on Communist members and their activities. Fr. Crean was delegated to approach Colonel Callaghan, the Head of Army Intelligence, to update the list of Communist Party members. Information was sought on journalists Brian O’Neill, Tony Malone, Annie Kelly, Maurice Hickey, Don Rooney and Michael McInerney.

Typescript copy letter from +McQuaid to Rev. C.P. Crean C.F., Head Chaplain enclosing the request from the Nuncio to prepare a report, with as much detail as possible, on the religious services for the Armed Forces.