Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid thanking him for the work being done in relation to the copying of the documents. Galway will bear all the costs. He is also prepared to answer any questions in relation to problems which may arise during the transcription process. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid stating Archdeacon Hynes will accompany Cardinal Marella to Galway and they will have a short visit to Maynooth.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Alfred O’Rahilly, Vice- Chancellor, National University of Ireland. At their meeting with the Bishops it was decided that the three Presidents should make a preliminary approach to An Taoiseach concerning the autonomy of their Medical Schools in Cork and Galway. He was asked to draw up a statement and while he can do so for Cork he is quite at sea regarding Galway.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Fr. F. McGrath, S.J., St. Ignatius College, Galway, acknowledging receipt of his kind and helpful letter. Many convents have expressed similar concerns.

of Mr. O’Malley was a shock. He had a great and kind heart. His St. Patrick’s Day speech included a word in favour of our nuns, brothers and priests. He was displeased with recent attacks on +McQuaid. 1 item 38A/15/2. Draft of the Address by Mr. Donogh O’Malley, Irish Minister for Education, at the Annual Dinner of the National University Club of New York at the Saint Ragis Hotel there, on Saturday, 16 March, 1968. 38A/16. 30 March Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Michael, Galway, regarding the date 22 April for a meeting. 38A/17. 30 March Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from T.J. Raifeartaigh enclosing 2 items

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Michael Browne, Galway. He is unable to attend the meeting of 6 November. Agrees with the case made in the Sub-Committee’s Report.

Correspondence relating to Maeve MacNeill who is terminating her services in Galway Co. Council.

Typed profile of Professor George Thompson, Marxist, Birmingham University. Associated with Muiris O Suilleabhain and stayed at his house in Carrowroe, Co. Galway. Won O Suilleabhain’s son over to Marxism secretly. This boy went to Scoil Enna, Galway, to train as a National Teacher, but was expelled for propagating Communism among students. Now doing degree in Birmingham. Thompson regarded as a decent man and benefactor of Gaeltacht people whom he helps in Birmingham.

Typed copy of a report on a discussion on County Council Scholarships at a meeting of the Rathdown Comhaile Ceannter Fianna Fail. Mrs Byrne asked that the scheme be explained. Booth saw the present scheme as ‘religious discrimination’. University College Dublin (UCD) worked the scholarship scheme for Dublin County Council. If a student wanted to go to Maynooth, Galway or Trinity they would have to apply through UCD. De Valera approached by Booth and said it was a matter for the County Council and UCD and would not get involved. He inferred that His Grace, the Archbishop of Dublin, wrote to The Standard.

-1 March Correspondence between +McQuaid, Fr. Gallen, Fr. John Kelly, Fr. John O’Connell, Fr. Patrick Leahy, +W. Philbin, Belfast, +Michael Browne, Galway regarding the papers of the 1968 Maynooth Summer School which are to be published by M.H. Gill. However, Fr. J. Coveney, S.J., Heythorp College has now published one article in the ‘Furrow’ entitled ‘The presence of Christ’. Annotations by +McQuaid. Front Page Detective 1969