Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from [ill], Dept. of Finance, requesting permission to attend Midnight Mass on Christmas Day in the Convent of [ill], Lower Mount [ill].

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 Parish Priests from +McQuaid requesting them to celebrate Mass on 1st January on the Day of Peace. 4/30/b. 28 December Invitation from +McQuaid to the World Day of Prayer for Peace Mass in the Pro-Cathedral.

Letter from John Feeney, Editor, Grille, entitle Grille’s May Day pray…

Card giving the Order of the Day for the One Day Retreat organised by the Catholic Stage Guild.

Handwritten minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. John Galhen, Secretary, British Communist Party, was invited to speak at the Trinity debate but was unable to attend. He was replaced by Bill Garritt. Shirley Armstrong and Sal Duffy elected to the new Fencing Committee. The group frequently goes abroad, including to Iron Curtain countries. Worth watching them. Sean O’Rourke, Lily O’Rourke and Geoffrey Palmer visited Moscow for the May Day Parade. Cutting taken from The Irish Times, 3 May.

O’Shea, Daniel, Catholic Boy’s Secondary School. Balbriggan. Draft reply, in + McQuaid’s writing, concerning the establishment of a Day Secondary School by the De La Salle Brothers in Skerries.

Includes; counsel and guidelines offered to new entrants to the Presentation Congregation with advice to meditate on them.

Photographs taken of the interior and exterior of the convent and Presentation Sisters on the day of the closure of Turner's Cross Convent. Also includes original enclosing envelope labelled 'Photographs taken on day of closure'.

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