Letter from Fr. Paddy Crean, Department of Defence, Office of the Head Chaplain, Parkgate, to Fr. Chris [Mangan] in relation to a request that female workers in the Voluntary Defence Forces could wear ‘slacks’.

Letter from Fr. Cyril Crean regarding dance hall.

Correspondence asking if Fr. Cyril P. Crean is to be re-appointed as a member of the new Dublin Advisory Committee for Juvenile Employment.

Correspondence between +McQuaid and Fr. Paddy, 20, December 1958, Crean in relation to Curragh Camp. Discusses issues such as visitations from the wives of internees to visitations by priests from the Diocese. 4 items

Handwritten letter from Fr. Cyril P. Crean, Office of Head Chaplin, regarding a portable Altar Box. 1 item Lourdes

Correspondence relating to the activities of both the, 3, December 1963, Irish Army and its Chaplains in the Congo. Includes letters of appointment, reports on activities there and also gives information on the social conditions of the time. Information from +McQuaid, Kevin Boland, Minister for Defence, Fr. Cyril Crean, Fr. Patrick Duffey, Lt. General Sean MacEoin, Gerald Bartley, Department of Defence, and other., 83 items

Copy of typed letter to General Sean MacEoin, Minister for Defence, from +McQuaid, regarding the changing of the Head Chaplain. He wishes to replace Fr. John O’Regan with Fr. C.P. Crean. Fr. Crean was highly esteemed by the Allied Command during the war.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Sean Mac Eoin accepting Fr. C.P. Crean as successor to Fr. O’Regan.

Copy of typed letter to Fr. Crean from the Secretary asking him to take part in the study-group on the Credit Union Movement.

Correspondence between +McQuaid and various, 20, August 1971, Head Chaplains in relation to the construction of Army chapels. Includes information on the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, the chapels in McKee Barracks, Griffith Barracks and Baldonnel. Also mentions the proposed chapels in Santry Court and in the grounds of the RDS and the restoration works at Kilmainham Gaol. Also includes information on altars, statues, Stations of the Cross and sketch plans for the chapel in McKee Barracks., 48 items, 20a, 20 January 1960, Letter from Fr. Cyril P. Crean, Collin’s Barracks, to + McQuaid informing him that he has been given information by Military Intelligence sources which he thought he should send at once. 1 item, 20b, 20 November 1963, Copy of letter from + McQuaid to Gerald Bartley, Minister for Defence, informing him that he wishes to promote Fr. Joseph Fagan to a vacant curacy and should like to propose Fr. Ronald Neville as Fr. Fagan’s successor., 1 item