File relating to prayer leaflets for the Mission Field Brigade and issued by the Holy Ghost (Spiritan) Fathers

File relating to a site for a transformer being installed by the Electricity Supply Board (E.S.B.) in a field opposite the church.

Copy of typed letter to Fr. Murray from Seamus O Cathail, Dept. of Education. Mr. Henry Saltzman, Executive Director of the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague, visited the Department about last Easter. The Foundation’s interest lies in the field of education as it relates to the development of the intellectual potential of children and youth from disadvantaged milieus. Mr. Saltzman intimated that the Foundation would be prepared to consider proposals from this country. The Department asked a small committee to formulate a suitable project in relation to children between the ages of 3 and 8 years resident in the area served by Ruthland St. National Schools, for submission to the Foundation. The project was accepted by the Department and sent to the Foundation in May. Fr. Murray invited to accept in principle the managership of the Project School.

File relating to parochial property. Mentions Roundwood Parochial Hall and field, Roundwood Lodge, Annacarter teacher’s residence.

• 19 August 1953 Correspondence from Fr. Patrick F. Clarke with Fr. Martin and +McQuaid regarding the possible sale of a field from Mrs. Doherty.

Correspondence involving Archbishops, Cardinals. Bishops, and others on the activities of Fr. Michael Hurley, S.J. in the field of ecumenism. The Archbishop requests the Provincial to ensure Fr. Hurley will give no public lectures in the diocese, to which the Provincial replies ‘We are doing our best’. The Archbishop expresses to Cardinal Cicognani, Secretary of State, his sense of anxiety at Fr. Hurley being chosen by the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity as a member of its delegation to a Methodist meeting in Stockholm. He does not command confidence as an exponent of Catholic doctrine according to McQuaid. The text of a laudatory lecture by Fr. Hurley on the Apostle Jesuit G. Tyrrell enclosed. Also a School of Ecumenics is proposed for Milltown. On advice from McQuaid, Cardinal Willebrands of Rome Secretariat declines to be a patron. Also enclosed are the papers relating to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s co-operation in launch of a book by Fr. Hurley, S.J. in 2008. Legionaries of Christ

Letter from Fr. T.J. Traynor to Fr. Mangan informing him that the number of Holy Communions received in the parish was 176,800, and those who failed to make their Easter Duties in 1951 was 27. 28/70/1. Letter from Fr. Moriarty to +McQuaid seeking permission to buy a field beside the cemetery, and to buy out the title on the existing graveyard.

Letter from Fr. W. Field suppling answers to queries regarding the parish.

Letter from +O’Hara to Cardinal D’Alton regarding the International Congress of Catholic Doctors which is to be held in Dublin in June. The Holy See is anxious that this be an opportunity for proclaiming Catholic teaching in the field of medicine.

• 19 December 1946 Letters from Fr. MacMahon to +McQuaid saying he had a meeting with Fr. Kennedy S.J., regarding the purchase of a corner of the Sports’ Field at Baggot Road.