Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include R.T.E.’s Seven Days programme on church building, R.T.E. programme on mixed marriages, Morris West’s Scandal in the Assembly, the work of the Diocesan Press Office, and the visit of Mr. Rennie McOwan of the Catholic Press Office of Scotland. c. 31 items Apr. – June 1970
Letters and memoranda concerning the salary and contract of the Director. Correspondents include Ossie Dowling, Edward Gleeson, Arthur O’Hagan & Son, Fr. Ardle MacMahon, Fr. Des Williams, and Fr. Liam Carey (D.I.A.E.).
Letters exchanged between Dowling, Fr. MacMahon and Fr. Liam Carey re production of the Bulletin.
Letters and memoranda from Osmond (Ossie) Dowling, Director, to +McQuaid and his secretary, Fr. Ardle MacMahon, re the establishment of and the work of the Diocesan Press Office.
Letters and memoranda from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include Fr. Tom Fehily and the Travellers, Louis McRedmond and facilities for reporters covering Vatican II, Fr. MacMahon’s “reflections” on the first six months of the D.P.O., and the housing shortage in Dublin. c. 40 items Aug.- Sept. 1965 28) The Diocesan Press Office: Letters and memoranda from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include Myles na Gopaleen and Merrion Square. Father Fehily and the Travellers, Pax Romana, and a Diocesan Bureau of Information.
Copies of the Director’s addresses and correspondence re same.
Newspaper cuttings and correspondence re the “Mansion House affair”. Includes typescript copies of Monsignor Ryan’s address on the Decree on Ecumenism.
Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include the creation of new parishes, controversy at conference of convent secondary schools, the role of the Press Office and diocesan Public Relations, John Horgan as theologian and Desmond Fennell and Humanae Vitae. c. 30 items July – Dec. 1968
Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include the Dublin succession, birth control, sex-education in post- primary schools, +McQuaid’s refusal to be interviewed by the press (including reference to “ogre in his den” comment), and the creation of new parishes. c. 30 items Jan. – June 1971
Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon re the production of the Dublin Diocesan Bulletin. Includes copies of same.
