Letter from Mgr. Michael Curran asking for a Celebret.

Copy of typed letter to The Governor, No. 1 Internment Camp, The Curragh, Co. Kildare, informing him that the undersigned interned Irish Republicans intend to go on hunger strike from the 24th instance for their unconditional release. They sent communications to Mr. de Valera, Mr. Gerard Boland, His Eminence Cardinal MacRory, His Excellence Most Rev. Pascal Robinson, Nuncio Apostolic, requesting that these be forwarded. Signed by Sean MacCumhaill, Sean Maxwell, Peadar Houston, J.G. O’Doherty, Seamus Gerard Bohan, John Curran, Christopher O’Callaghan, Terence McLoughlin. This is an eleven-page document.

Letter from Mgr. Michael Curran seeking permission to buy land at the upper end of the Rosemount holding. This would link the church with Blacklion.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid, marked Confidential. He encloses a copy of a letter he is sending to Cardinal D’Alton and the Archbishops of Tuam and Cashel in relation to Fr. Edward Lodge Curran, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn who is due to visit Ireland where he wishes to give a number of open-air public addresses. The priest is persona non grata in many American Dioceses. He had visited Ireland previously and addressed several public meetings. Fr. Lodge Curran claims there was never any objection to these by the Irish Hierarchy. He wishes the Cardinal and Archbishops to inform their Bishops. Annotated by +McQuaid stating ‘The address was given in O’Connell Street without my knowledge. I should never have allowed it’. See item 483.

-3 October Letters form Thomas Wall, Irish Folklore Commission to Mgr. Curran regarding an article on Dr. Carpenter, former Archbishop of Dublin. 1955

Telegram from +Liston to +McQuaid sympathising on the death of Mgr. Curran. 1 item

-6 June 1945 File relating to the available images of St. Laurence O’Toole and mentions the painting by John Hungerford Pollen. Many of the letters sent by Mgr. Michael J. Curran, Greystones and all annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from Mgr. Michael Curran to Fr. Mangan regarding Sean T. O Ceallaigh.

Handwritten draft letter, penned by + McQuaid, to Miss Comerford. The Archbishop regrets that he cannot regard it as advisable to give permission to Rev. Edward Lodge Curran to address any meetings in the Diocese of Dublin.

Note to +McQuaid saying Mgr. Curran thinks the headstones at Glendalough are a disfigurement and that the Advisor Council’s aim is worthy of commendation. The file was retained by His Grace.