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Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include Fr. Michael Cleary and Women’s Choice Weekly, Mrs Corish (wife of Brendan) and homily preached at Donnybrook Church, Directory on Ecumenism, liturgical changes (Vatican II), student revolutions and a Dublin and/or a national press office. c. 30 items Jan. – June 1969

Letters and memoranda from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include the future of the Diocesan Press Office/National Press Office, Brian Cleeve, Anna Raeburn and television programme on divorce, T.C.D. ‘ban’, the D.P.O. being ignored by the Communications Institute, vocations, +McQuaid’s irritation at R.T.Es attention to bishops and priests, Easter Emigrant Congress and the Ne Temere decree. c. 30 items Jan. – Mar. 1970

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include Mgr. Tabet, McQuaid’s seventy-fifth birthdayand speculation about his possible retirement, “Backbencher”, Morris West’s Scandal in the Assembly, appointment of chaplain to T.C.D., newspapers’ treatment of +McQuaid’s addresses, mixed marriages, birth control, and vocations. c. 50 items July – Dec. 1970

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon re the Mass and reception held annually to mark World Communications Day.

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon re the Bulletin.

Letters and memoranda from Dowling and others to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include Tim Pat Coogan’s request for an interview with +McQuaid, the Herder Correspondence and McQuaid’s “curial mentality”, an advertisement for “C.D. Indicators” in Woman’s Way, and a controversy concerning a Protestant child in the Mercy Convent Booterstown. c.50 items June-July 1965

Letters and memoranda from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include the wealth of the Church, Travellers, church building in Dublin since 1960, personal attacks on +McQuaid by Myles na Gopaleen Dr. Simms’ tribute to +McQuaid for Studies, and +McQuaid’s silver jubilee. c. 40 items Nov.- Dec. 1965

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. McMahon. Topics include John Horgan and the Social Study Congress, and the annual diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes. c. 30 items May – Sept. 1966

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include a proposed referendum on divorce, the Hierarchy’s Commission on Ecumenism, Tim Pat Coogan’s appointment as editor of The Irish Press, and priests’ salaries. c. 30 items Jan. – Mar. 1968

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include discussions concerning the future development of the Diocesan Press Office, Fr. Freeney’s article in Doctrine & Life, John Feeney’s article in Nusight, the advent of a National Catholic Press Office and forms of address for the Archbishop. c. 41 items July – Dec. 1969