Letter to E. Nolan from T. O'Donnell regarding Food Service.

Report of a meeting at the Mansion House, chaired by Peadar O’Donnell. Speakers included Mr. Koininge from Kenya, Jim Larkin, Donal Nevin, Mrs P. Rushton and Mr. Briscoe, T.D. Koininge spoke with restraint considering the way his family was treated by the British Government. O’Donnell asked people to join the Republican Forum, an organisation being set up to help African people.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: Patrick Carmody gave an illustrated lecture on Sean O’Casey. ‘Buster’ McCabe arrived from Belfast. Peadar O’Donnell spoke on ‘The Irish in Britain’, saying that English Catholics were antagonistic towards Irish émigrés. Tommy O’Reilly (a retired ITGWU official) said that “150 unemployed from each side of the city should purchase food and having no money to pay would be jailed. This would bring matters to a head.”

Letter from the Secretary to Canon O’Donnell regarding the blessing of the new church.

Letter from Fr. O’Donnell to +McQuaid regarding the proposed purchase of a bungalow on Oakdown Road.

Copy of conveyance between Archbishop Edward Byrne, Monsignor Michael Cronin, Rev. Patrick Dunne & Rev. Thomas O’Donnell of first part and County Dublin County Council of the second part regarding sale of land to the council.

Letter to the Archbishop from Fr O'Donnell with handwritten note by the Archbishop.

Letter to the Archbishop from [T.] O'Donnell.

Letter from Fr. T. O’Donnell to +McQuaid thanking him for the donation for the Food Centre, Townsend Street.

Letter from Colum Gavan Duffy to + McQuaid informing him that Kathleen O’Donnell, Secretary of the Catholic Council for Polish Welfare in Britain, seeks an interview with him to discuss the possibility of setting up such an organization in Ireland.