Letter from +O’Donnell to +McQuaid regarding +Duhig’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. He asks that the Archbishop to send a congratulatory note. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from Mgr. Alibrandi to Mgr. Glennon stating that he has received a ‘Junior Digest’ and correspondence from Peter J. O’Donnell and he seeks advice on how to reply to this.

Typed letter to Dr. O’Donnell, Secretary, Archbishop’s House, from Miss Murphy, Department of the President, enclosing the design for the Postage stamp to be used in connection of the Eucharistic Congress.

Letter to + McQuaid from Fr. Jeremiah Twomey, C.M., St. Patrick’s Training College, Drumcondra, with two confidential Police documents enclosed “in connection with ….Communistic activities in the country.” Documents would imply that four students are implicated. Only one has given any cause for concern, Bernard Byrne. This concern is based on “feeling, not on evidence.” The students had received a letter from Peadar O’Donnell. Fr. Twomey asks for a meeting with + McQuaid for direction. A handwritten note from + McQuaid says he met Fr. Twomey and that nothing is to be done.

May, 1942 Copy of a letter from Peadar O’Donnell to four students – Bernard Byrne, John Gallagher, Isaac Logue and Charles McGeady, St. Patrick’s T.C. - inviting them to meet him for a chat in response to their letter to him. O’Donnell is toying with the idea of planting them into the migratory workers’ bothies in Scotland. Their idea of going to a turf camp is equally good.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities, stamped ‘confidential’. The following items are mentioned in the report: the statements from George Jeffares on the international situation and Sam Nolan on the national situation. Nolan laid stress on inadequate social services alleging that no Government in the last 30 years had tried to solve the problem. The following topics were reported on: the “Geneva Fiasco” the Manor House, Dunkineely Dr. Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Peadar O’Donnell addressing the inaugural meeting of the Dublin Typographical Debating Society the Peace Campaign’s meeting on the 16th December 1955.

Item from The Irish Times titled ‘Labour-The Hope of Republicanism.’ Photo of Mairtin O Cadhain, George Gilmore and Peadar O’Donnell.

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.

Letter from Fr. Hurley, St. Kevin’s to +McQuaid regarding a discussion on censorship. He quotes Peadar O’Donnell and Fr. Connolly.

Typed draft of an article/speech titled ‘The Writer’ by Peadar O’Donnell. Would come near defining a writer when they reveal people “behaving and misbehaving towards one another.” The writer needs freedom and in Ireland he enjoys less than any other country. Irish writers are shut in and silenced by their job and “conditioned to bark if they want to prosper as emigrants to America.” Perhaps Ireland’s greatest cultural crime has been her waste of the poet Patrick Kavanagh.