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

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.

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 minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: the police make a weekly report on Tweedy, nee Ann Peach. Her son is married to Hilda, possibly Hilda Verlin. Barr is a professed Communist, as are Irvin and Binks. Esther Bishop is a Protestant and not known as a Communist. Voluntary Labour Service is a form of Catholic action and has the blessing of the Bishop of Galway. Baptists are reported to be making a drive for perverts (people led astray from religious beliefs) and are using bookshops as a means of contact. Kinninmouth is looking for a house in Dublin. Pirek joined by Imlav and Sporrer at Skoda Cars. They are to handle the JAWA motor cycle and the MANET and CEZETA scooters. The two Biggest dealers are Murray (Jeffares) and Philip Kennedy, Dundrum, Co. Tipperary. A Disarmament branch has started in Trinity College, sponsored by Professors Moody, Stanford and Greene.

-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

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17 March 1946 - 27 March 1971 68 items
Correspondence which chronicles their recruiting campaigns in Dublin and their eventual foundation in Sandymount.

XLIV/52 Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood
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15 January 1944 - 18 September 1957 8 items
Correspondence detailing unsuccessful attempt to have permission for a foundation in Dublin; reference to Irish Guild of Catholic Nurses; a copy of "Forum" review. (This institute made a foundation in Dublin in later times).

/2 25 June 1956 - 10 May 1962
Correspondence re Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, marked Secret.

XLIV/53 Franciscan Missionaries of Mary
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19 November 1941 - 25 December 1971 74 items
Correspondence chronicles institute's attempts to have a foundation in Dublin. Eventually this is granted- a hostel for their sisters in Ballsbridge, copy of letter from the Postulator of the Cause in their Founders; they seek to transfer to convent in Mt. Tallant being vacated by the Carmelites, see Mt. Tallant Carmelites file for more.

Dockery, Richard, Glenamaddy, Co. Galway, seeking a reference for the position of Rates Inspector for Galway.

Manifold, Deidre, Quay Street, Galway. Mentions Communication Centre, training journalists, Bunny Carr on censorship, contraception and communism.

O’Donnell, John E., Mainguard Street, Galway. He informs the Archbishop that the higher strata of Catholics are under the influence of the Freemasons.

letter from Vatican thanking for a donation of £300 (9 December 1950) (signed J.B. Montini); letter from Benedictine Abbey, Kylemore, County Galway concerning research into Nano Nagle (17 July 1955); letter written in French with English translation concerning research into Irish novices in the French Ursulines sent by Nano Nagle (26 February 1957).