File relating to special collections taken up in the parish.
Letter from Fr. Bernardo Capezzali to +McQuaid sending olive sprigs to be given to the people at Easter time as a sign of peace. Annotated by +McQuaid. Diocese of Bobbio
Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid regarding ‘The Furrow’ which in his opinion ‘…is doing harm’. He states that Dr. Lennon should not allow his Diocese be a ‘…escape vent for heretics’. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1 item
Copy of a reply from Fr. MacMahon thanking her for the information.
Typed letter to Fr. J. A. MacMahon from Fr. Liam Carey who has read the enclosed documentation and found it positive, stimulating and informative. He encloses some suggestions.
Handwritten note, penned by + McQuaid. The German agitator, guest of Cruise O’Brien, kept at Mrs Maura “Woods”, 81 Ailesbury Road.
Handwritten letter to Ardle [Fr. J.A. MacMahon] from Rev. James Kavanagh, Department of Social Science, UCD. He is convinced that the attitude they adopted prevented the College from degenerating into utter chaos. Some changes are desirable. This does not make one a Student for Democratic Action or a Marxist revolutionary.
Article in the Sunday Independent by Fr. Paul Devereux in response to June Levine’s article entitled June Levine makes me feel like a leper.
Typed letter from Bob Quinn to his friends and colleagues in R.T.E. This organisation has become a large, impersonal technocracy, not run by people but by a ‘system’. Systems are invented by people to avoid thinking. His personal philosophy of ‘responsible irresponsibility’ will attempt to counter the organisation’s pseudo-philosophy of ‘irresponsible responsibility’. 12.4 Student Agitation 1969
Typed letter to Fr. James A. MacMahon from N.S. Nuallain Copy of typed letter to enclosing the up-to-date list of the members of Government, Dail, Seanad, Council of State and Parliamentary Secretaries.