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.

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’.

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

Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid thanking him for his repeated generosity in relation to the new Galway cathedral.

Hyland, Matthew L., Mount Pleasant, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, enclosing a cheque for £51-17-7. 8/49. Hynes, Mary, Blakestown, Mulhuddart, seeking advise over what she and her brother see as ‘badmouthing’. 1 item I

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Michael, Galway. Is in agreement with 57. He would strongly insist that O’Rahilly not refuse to attend the interview as it would play into P. Browne’s hands. Tierney will be firm and effective in such an interview. The Government knows that the three Presidents are not agreed, but it is important that they go.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Michael, Galway, outlining his ideas on the Health Bill.

• 11 July 1942 Letters from Hugh Allen, Grace Park Road, Dublin to + McQuaid informing him of various events, including: reviving the Catholic Mind with the new name Irish Mind; relations with his employer at C.T.S.I.; states he will act out of harmony with the Archbishop; Hugh O’Neill, Coras na Poblachta (an Irish Popular Front) scorning the Bishops’ action regarding the Labour Party and the Workers’ Republic; he would have no objection to O’Neill being appointed as Secretary of The St. Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society if he would withdraw from politics; the Trade Union Bill and Professor O’Rahilly, friend of Dr. Browne; a row in the Labour Party where it looks as though the Communist element will be elbowed out; Russia entering the war and censorship; quarrel between the Bishop of Galway and Professor O’Rahilly; article in The Standard by Gearoid Mac Eoin. One copy reply from +McQuaid included.

Letter from +Michael Browne, Galway to +McQuaid regarding the suggestion by +Heerey re the National University and affiliation for the Nigerian Catholic University. He advises against any approaches to the National University on the subject and gives the reasons why. 1 item

Copy of a typed letter to Mr. Sean MacBride from +McQuaid referring to his speech at Galway University where he spoke of the need of a new approach in education and of the necessity of allowing the Church freedom in moral and spiritual spheres.