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Letters and memoranda from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include the opening of the Press Office, the Sunday Bulletin, requests from Tim Pat Coogan and Tony Gray for interviews with +McQuaid, Dr. David Thornley, ‘Nuns in Ireland Today’. Includes a letter to +McQuaid from Archbishop Martin J. O’Connor, President of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications offering congratulations on the founding of the Press Office. c. 50 items Apr. – May 1965

Press releases.

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. McMahon. Topics include statistics for the archdiocese, Vatican II, the “Mansion House affair”, Edna O’Brien, and the future of the Diocesan Press Office. c. 30 items Jan. – Feb. 1966

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. McMahon. Topics include the Catholic Social Service Conference, Radharc, changes in the vernacular, the Dublin Council of Priests, the Dublin Institute of Adult Education and a fall in vocations. c. 30 items Oct. – Dec. 1966

Letters from Dowling and others including Bishop Hanly of Elphin) to +McQuaid and Fr. McMahon. Topics covered include Peter Lennon’s (The Guardian) proposed documentary on “Changing Dublin”, Father Brophy and the Church and television, and the Press Office’s relationship with the Catholic Communications Office. c. 30 items July – Dec. 1967 (39a) the Diocesan Press Office Copies of the Dublin Diocesan Bulletin. c. 7 items Summer – Christmas 1967

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include the role of the Press Office, World Communications Day, McQuaid’s confrontation with an Irish Times journalist during a conference of convent secondary schools. c. 30 items Apr. – June 1968

Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include the introduction of more religious priests into parish administration, B.B.C.’s Panorama programme (26/7/71), creation of new parishes, +McQuaid’s addresses at Lourdes, Francis Xavier Carty’s proposed article on Catholic Church finances in Ireland, the bishops and Constitutional changes, +McQuaid’s achievements in office (1940-71) and marriage dispensations. c. 30 items July – Dec. 1971

Typed half-year reports of the Director submitted to +McQuaid. Includes some covering letters.

Photographic prints compiled for an article by Mary Stark titled ‘The development of the horse’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977).

Daniel Corkery, ‘The despised Aisling’, ‘The Irish commonwealth: a monthly review of social affairs, politics and literature’, Vol. I, No. 2, (April 1919), pp 78-80.