Typed copy of a letter to Fr. Liam Carey from Fr. MacMahon asking for comments or suggestions regarding the enclosed notes.
Typed copy of a letter to Fr. Kavanagh from Fr. MacMahon asking for comments or suggestions on the enclosed notes.
Two copies of ‘Towards a Draft Policy Document for the Committee of Priests set up by the Archbishop of Dublin to inform and advise him regarding social groups hostile to the Church.’
Copy of a typed letter to Chief Superintendent Philip MacMahon from Fr. MacMahon. + McQuaid is looking for help regarding a Mr. David Graham who was recently deported from Sweden, having spent 22 months in prison there. The Archbishop would like to meet the Chief Superintendent and also Superintendent Fleming.
. Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon from Fr. Carey informing him of the date of the next Committee meeting and suggests the theme ‘The Role, Function and Purpose and Development of the Committee Itself.’
Centre for the Exchange of Information, Piazza Navona, 93, Rome. Resume of an article by Hannes Burger in Suddeutsche Zeitung. Asks if the baptism of infants is best practice for the times? A growing number of young parishes are asking that the practice of adult baptism be reintroduced. Document in Italian. 1.item
Typed document titled “Addendum”. It asks if this Committee must exist in its present form and suggests that the Committee Justitia et Pax could identify groups hostile to the Church. The Document asks if formulating a plan would be desirable and a real development. It then suggests nine points for procedures.
Letter to + McQuaid from Fr. Jeremiah Twomey, C.M., St. Patrick’s Training College, Drumcondra, with two confidential Police documents enclosed “in connection with ….Communistic activities in the country.” Documents would imply that four students are implicated. Only one has given any cause for concern, Bernard Byrne. This concern is based on “feeling, not on evidence.” The students had received a letter from Peadar O’Donnell. Fr. Twomey asks for a meeting with + McQuaid for direction. A handwritten note from + McQuaid says he met Fr. Twomey and that nothing is to be done.
May, 1942 Copy of a letter from Peadar O’Donnell to four students – Bernard Byrne, John Gallagher, Isaac Logue and Charles McGeady, St. Patrick’s T.C. - inviting them to meet him for a chat in response to their letter to him. O’Donnell is toying with the idea of planting them into the migratory workers’ bothies in Scotland. Their idea of going to a turf camp is equally good.
Typed report on CPI and KO activities, stamped ‘confidential’. The following items are mentioned in the report: the statements from George Jeffares on the international situation and Sam Nolan on the national situation. Nolan laid stress on inadequate social services alleging that no Government in the last 30 years had tried to solve the problem. The following topics were reported on: the “Geneva Fiasco” the Manor House, Dunkineely Dr. Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Peadar O’Donnell addressing the inaugural meeting of the Dublin Typographical Debating Society the Peace Campaign’s meeting on the 16th December 1955.