Letters from Fr. Joe Dunn, Director, re the opening and running of the Centre. Includes two photographs of the opening day.
Letters and memoranda from Dowling and others to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include Tim Pat Coogan’s request for an interview with +McQuaid, the Herder Correspondence and McQuaid’s “curial mentality”, an advertisement for “C.D. Indicators” in Woman’s Way, and a controversy concerning a Protestant child in the Mercy Convent Booterstown. c.50 items June-July 1965
Letters and memoranda from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include the wealth of the Church, Travellers, church building in Dublin since 1960, personal attacks on +McQuaid by Myles na Gopaleen Dr. Simms’ tribute to +McQuaid for Studies, and +McQuaid’s silver jubilee. c. 40 items Nov.- Dec. 1965
Letters from Dowling to +McQuaid and Fr. McMahon. Topics include contraception, Louis McRedmond’s articles in The Furrow, ITV’s Men in Black and The Irish Times’s ‘Backbencher’. c. 30 items Mar. – Apr. 1966
Letters from Dowling and others (including John Horgan of The Irish Times) to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon. Topics covered include the Church and trade unions, requests for +McQuaid to appear on television programmes, +McQuaid’s meeting at Archbishop’s House with Archbishop Ramsay and the post Vatican Council Church in Ireland (Des Fisher article). c. 30 items Jan. – June 1967
Letters from Dowling and others to +McQuaid and Fr. MacMahon re the Trinity College ‘Ban’. Includes many press cuttings. c. 40 items. 1967 41) The Diocesan Press Office: Printed copies of press releases issued by the Press Office.
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