Typed copy of a letter to be sent to the Archbishop of Cashel, and the Bishops of Galway, Ferns and Cork regarding a meeting.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: attendance at the World Youth Festival in Warsaw, the Peoples’ College Annual Summer School, Constance O’Carroll’s (Secretary, School Children’s Protection Society) visit to Galway, and Michael O’Riordan’s letter regarding a visit to the USSR by a party of well-known educationalists. The third page is stamped ‘Confidential’.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Browne regarding a Domestic Prelacy award for Dr. P. Browne, who is President of University College Galway and a priest of the Dublin Diocese. As he is a Dublin priest, the Diocesan Council believe the Archbishop of Dublin should petition the Holy See for the honour.

Copy of lecture by Dr. Felician Prill to the Irish Management Institute, Galway Regional Group, at University College Galway, titled ‘The role of management in the reconstruction of the German economy – a contribution to the strengthening of the Free World. 10/11A. 4-5 April Handwritten letter to Fr. MacMahon from Fr. Thomas Fehily. The German Ambassador made discrete inquiries to Fr. Fehily regarding the presentation of the Grand Cross to +McQuaid.

Handwritten letter from + Michael, Galway, to + McQuaid thanking him for his gift to the new Cathedral. He felt ‘dignitus Dei est hic’ when recalling the extraordinary coincidence of the views of Tierney and the Minister.

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.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Browne regarding the transfer of St. Enda’s College to St. Patrick’s, Drumcondra until such time as a suitable premises is found in Galway. He has appointed two Irish speaking confessors, Fr. O Cuiv and Fr. Quigley. He suggests the Bishop remains as manager of the transferred College.

Handwritten letter from Patrick Glynn, St. Joseph’s, Galway. Dr. Browne accepts +McQuaid’s view in the Adoption Act.

Handwritten letter from + Michael, Galway, to + McQuaid thanking him for the text of Fr. McDonagh’s address on contraception. Kerry

Letter from +Browne, Galway to +McQuaid regarding +Heerey’s correspondence.