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.

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.

Letter from +Alibrandi to +McQuaid stating it would be an honour to celebrate Mass on the occasion of World Day of Peace.

‘Message of His Holiness Pope Paul VI for the observance of a “Day of Peace”’. 2 copies.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, Apostolic Delegate, London, accepting the Archbishop’s decision not to grant a foundation in Dublin for the Assumption Sisters. He has been invited to lunch by the Irish Ambassador on St. Patrick’s Day. The Ambassador failed to attend Mass at the Oratory to commemorate the Pope’s coronation.

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

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.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Hugh S. Roberton, Australian Ambassador, seeking permission to ask Mgr. Cassidy to say a prayer at an inter-denominational service to commemorate ANZAC Day.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Maurice B. Ekpang, President, Nigeria Union of Ireland, requesting permission to have a Mass at University College to commemorate Independence Day.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from the Apostolic Nuncio enclosing a copy of the Message of Pope Paul VI for World Day of Peace.