1-2 August 1952 Correspondence between +Patrick Dunne and +McQuaid regarding a problem over a property.

Preparation for first session including correspondence% Nunciature re attendance & also Bishop Dunne, first schemata. Cardinal Cicognani referring to Council procedures% Cardinal Michael Browne re meeting on subject of membership of the church% Letter to priests of diocese% Fr. Michael O’Connell on first schemata.

• 30 June - Correspondence between Dublin, Parkminster (Sussex) and Rome regarding a proposal to make a foundation in Dublin. Archbishop suggests the Farnan property at Moone to Prior of Parkminster as it is his desire ‘to have a Cathusian, not Cistercian, house in my diocese’. +Patrick Dunne (auxiliary) visits Parkminster (where he knows Dom Stephen, brother of Dom Eugene OCSO Boylan) and draws up short put penetrating report. Archbishop’s evident lack of sympathy for the Cistercian life in contrast with his enthusiasm for Carthusians. Carthusians regret inability to accept offer, essentially due to lack of personnel, though there is an interesting suggestion of an historic Carthusian prejudice against Irish foundations. Several brochures on Carthusian life. CF also file ‘Cistercian Monks’. Carmelites Calced (O. Carm)

Copy of letter from the Secretary to Mrs. Dunne regarding a certificate for her child.

Letter from James Ryan, solicitor to Fr. Patrick Dunne regarding the purchase of the Graham rent. 1 item

Letter from Fr. Walsh to Fr. Dunne informing him that there was no Mass at Ballymount in Narraghmore, a Chapel of Ease, on Sunday, 19 January.

Letter from Fr. Hugh C. Dunne to Fr. Glennon mentioning Fr. Costello’s illness, lunch with +McQuaid and parochial account books.

Letters from + Patrick Dunne to +McQuaid regarding Mass times. 2 items

Letter from Perry McGough to Fr. Dunne asking him to ask +McQuaid to sanction the appointment of an additional temporary assistant teacher in Harold’s Cross Boys’ National School, Clareville Road.

Copy letter from [+Patrick Dunne] to +McQuaid regarding Fr. Edmund Brennan who is incapacitated.