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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.

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