Copy of the letter to The Evening Mail titled “The Health Bill”.
Typed letter to Fr. Martin from [Una Byrne?]. name and address redacted / torn out. Informed that 47 to be closed down. Debts incurred by Kavanagh were of his own making. He should have been less ambitious. Writes that she asked IHA what they were going to do about Hilda’s membership and the fact that there were Communists in the IHA?
Handwritten letter to + McQuaid [from Una Byrne – name and address redacted] informing him that the International Alliance of Women were holding their Congress in Athens. If Mrs Byrne could not go Mrs Tweedy would ask Mrs Brown or Mrs Lloyd both of whom have no religion. If all failed Mrs Tweedy herself would go. If Mrs Byrne refuses to go Ireland will be represented by somebody of different spiritual and political views from those of Catholic Ireland.
Copy of the Report of the meeting between the Drogheda Branch and the Central Committee of the Irish Housewives’ Association.
Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon. The following items are mentioned over 200 foreign delegates to attend Congress Mr. Rosengrave spoke twice to the Housewives, was excellent. Opposition disturbed Workers’ League sent letters to delegates attending the Trade Union Congress asking them not to support the Common Market political situation under control.
Typed letter to + McQuaid asking if he would receive the President of IHA, Mrs Hilda Tweedy, should she ask to pay her respects.
Typed letter to + McQuaid from Hilda Tweedy, Chairman, IHA, thanking him for the use of the Institute of Catholic Sociology. The kindness and co- operation of all will be remembered.
Typed note to + McQuaid informing him of a write-up in the Irish Times on Dr. Mayr. Dr. Mayr’s efforts tend to blur the memory of the present Communist persecution in the minds of Catholics here.
Women’s Christian Total Abstinence Union (Eire): officers, committee and report for year ending 31 December 1957.
Typed letter to Fr. Martin [Una Byrne]. The following items are mentioned: gave her point of view on divorce, birth control, marriage. Considered second marriage “legalised prostitution” advantages of education in Ireland being controlled by religious bodies Congress a waste of money countries with women working outside the home face monster Gene Kerrigan worried at Branigan’s return to union Civil Liberties plan to hold meeting outside Mansion House regarding IRA prisoners Tom Boyle seriously ill.