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.

Correspondence between +McQuaid and D.J. O’Donovan, Commissioner for County Dublin, regarding the location of a cemetery in West Dublin.

Extract from The Newsletter. Pat O’Donovan spoke of the need to create a workers’ republic in Ireland.

O’Donovan, John, Cavendish Square, London. In a card to the Archbishop he says he received a letter asking him to become a Catholic. Why should he leave the Church of England which follows the teaching of Jesus?

Letter from +Dunne to +McQuaid stating he will find out the facts about the death of O’Donovan-Rossa. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Telephone message – Dr. Ward, Parliamentary Secretary, seeks interview for Dr. Deery and Mr. O’Donovan.

• Correspondence between +McQuaid from D.J. O’Donovan,

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.

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.

24 -28 August 1963 Handwritten letter to + McQuaid from Thomas J. O’Donoghue, Ballymun. He is working in a secondary school ‘down the country’ and, as a family man, wants to return to Dublin. As more secondary schools are to be built in Dublin he asks the Archbishop for a list of these schools. The Secretary suggests he approach the Christian Brothers and De La Salle Brothers. 15/30aa. 7 July 1970 O’Donovan, Eileen, Rathfarnham. Letter to + McQuaid seeking his help to have her deaf mentally handicapped daughter secure a place in a unit for children like her.