Letters and memoranda re the episcopal consecration of Joseph Carroll as Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin.
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 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.
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