Letter to the Archbishop from Dr. O'Donovan.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Colman J. O’Donovan, Dept. of External Affairs. He has received the letters sent for Fr. O’Sullivan and Fr. Correia and shall deliver them when he gets to Lisbon.

Typed letter to Fr. T. Fehily from Fr. Michael O’Neill, St. Columban’s, Navan. Fr. O’Neill’s informant is not prepared to give an opinion on the Irish Workers’ Union at present. Pat O’Donovan has been expelled. There is a split in the Connolly Association, led by O’Donovan and the Trotskyites. Believes that the IWU came into being as a result. The key man in IWU is Michael Callinan. Does not know if there is a link between the Socialist Labour League and the IWL. It seems that the Trotskyites hoped to use the Irish Workers’ Union as a front for recruiting just as the British CP used the Connolly Association, but failed.

Extract from The Newsletter, titled “The truth about the Stalinist-controlled Connolly Association”, by Pat O’Donovan. The Connolly Association has been attacking the Socialist Labour League so Irish workers want to know the truth about it, and the ideology of its paper, the Irish Democrat. It is not a nationalist organisation but a sordid Stalinist set-up. After Stalin’s death in 1953 wrote a glowing tribute to him, but was silent when Khrushchev exposed him.

Eileen O’Donovan, Rathfarnham, requests assistance re schooling of her disabled daughter. Sympathetic response from archbishop, annotated. Business Beecham (Sales)

Copy of typed letter to D.J. O’Donovan, Commissioner for County Dublin, from +McQuaid. The delay about the proposed sites for the Church and School in Ballygall is that the scheme cuts into three parishes and the comments of the Parish Priests were awaited.

Copy of typed letter to P.J. Ruttledge, Minister for Justice, from Sgd. D.J. O’Donovan, enclosing the First Report, Second Report, Third and Final Report of the Child Adoption Committee.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from D.J. O’Donovan, Office of County Commissioner, forwarding Reports, Act and other papers.

Letter from +Dunne to +McQuaid regarding a request by the O’Donovan-Rossa Memorial Committee to hold a commemorative Mass in the chapel, Dublin Castle in June and unveil a plaque in St. Stephen’s Green. The latter will be performed by the President. He gives details of the death and burial in 1915. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from Fr. Ernan T. Neville to +McQuaid informing him that James Donovan did his Leaving Certificate at Synge Street.