Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid thanking him for taking his new student. He mentions the age gap between himself and his clergy which makes dialogue difficult. He also mentions National Independence Day which is to take place at the end of the month. 1 item

• Correspondence relating to details of community life an apostolate. OSA allowed to have a Boat Club at Ballyboden Archbishop wary: let Parochial clergy keep an eye. Future of John’s Lane Primary school further considered. Question of Day school under OSA for Rathfarnham are CF. file “LORETO No. 8”

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Hugh S. Roberton enclosing a copy of the procedure for ANZAC Day.

Correspondence between P.D. McCarthy and Fr. Leon O Cuinnleain regarding Holy Days of Obligation. The 6th January will henceforth be a Holy Day of obligation for Catholics to hear Mass, and New Year’s Day will no longer be such. -1970

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Alibrandi thanking him for the information on the World Day of Peace. He is having a Mass in the Pro Cathedral and asks if the Nuncio will celebrate it? He would invite members of the Government and Diplomatic Corps.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from the Taoiseach, Sean F. Lemass. The President is to visit the Holy Father on St. Patrick’s Day. The text of a statement is enclosed.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from M.J. O’Neill, Works Manager, informing him that the men would like to have the Mass celebrated in one of the Workshops on New Year’s Day, 1951, in thanksgiving for their safety and welfare during the year.

Letter from +McGeough to +McQuaid thanking him for the ‘…marvellous Symposium which you organized for 1st January on the occasion of the World Day of Peace’. A report has been sent to the Holy Father.

Handwritten report saying that Sam Nolan and Deasy are going to seminar in Czechoslovakia. Selected by IWL at the request of the British Communist Party. Their subject is: ‘The Relationship between the Church and Trade Unions’. O’Riordan was in Moscow for May Day. Wonders what Eamon Byrne is doing here. Is he trying to start a branch of Connolly Association?

The L.D.F. want to hold a Field Day in Swords.