- Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some October 1963 minutes. Includes information on secondary education, salaries & curriculum. Also discusses the Breviary supplement, and the ‘Veterum Spaientia’ and the ‘Ordinationes’. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to education and liturgy. Finances of Maynooth College and the state of its buildings discussed by Maynooth Trustees. Also information on Nicholas Callan Society, Arts & Science Faculties and appointment of Dr. Finnegan as Dean. Letter from Fr. Kevin McNamara regarding his invitation to speak to the Bishops. Fr. McNamara later became Bishop of Kerry before being appointed Archbishop of Dublin in 1984. 1964
January - October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the use of the vernacular in the Liturgy, education and proposed changes to the Marriage Act. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to education and dispensation from abstinence on New Year’s Day. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as the formation of priests, declining number of new vocations, pastoral relevance of the liturgy, applications for various teaching positions and the centenary celebrations of the Nicholas Callan Society. Addenda - reference to Constitution on the Liturgy. Mention of the proposed establishment of an Irish Theological Association and Hierarchy University Fund. 1965
January - December Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the Synod of Bishops, emigrants, education, seminaries & formation, Apostolate of the Laity, church music, liturgy, Irish Turf Club, annual reports on universities, ecumenism and report entitled ‘Ireland in the Seventies’. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as college development and expansion plans, farm and college administration, faculty business and the re-drafted lease. Items 103-106 (plans) are oversize. They are stored in Drawer 1. 1970
- File relating to the Research and Development Unit,
Letter from Mgr. Cecil Barrett, Booterstown to +McQuaid stating he has read the enclosures re the poverty conference. He makes reference to Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy.
Letter from +Peter Birch to +Mc Quaid informing him of the Conference on Poverty in Ireland at the Newpark Hotel, Kilkenny, on 19th -
. Programme for the Conference.
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Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Robinson stating that he had meet with Bishop Wall who has agreed to remain as Auxiliary but has also accepted the suggestion of becoming an assistant at the Pontifical Throne.
Letter from +Robinson to +McQuaid thanking him and all involved in the celebrations marking the second anniversary of the Pope Pius XII.