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Typed report by ‘Grandmother’. A meeting of the 1913 Club discussed plan to publish a series of articles on past items of news which would show that the Church was running the State. Peadar Ward, ex Editor of The Standard, was criticised by Downey (Irish Times).

Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon. Thanks him for getting Vincent Grogan to speak at her Association. The Federation wants to take an active role in the coming event but it is now too late. They were asked two years ago to send people to help but not one member joined. Criticism made that the group did not have the education to entertain at this level. Mentions importance of voting. One member failed to get on the Committee by one vote. Youth section of the Irish Workers’ League are planning an excursion to Belfast. Death of Sean Murray, Chairman of CP Northern Ireland.

Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon from ‘Grandma’. Gerry Kerrigan was spokesman for the Newsvendors’ Association during dispute with newspapers’ management and was successful in getting a settlement. Now have funds for illness and deaths of members. Now hopes to stop the selling of papers by children after 6pm.

Handwritten note saying the enclosed copy of covering letter to an editor shows link between C. O’Connell, the aggrieved parent, and O. Sheehy Skeffington who uses her. The other letter has developed into a very bitter feeling between the two sects.

Reports on the Fabian Society, Trinity College, between 28 February and 29 October 1962. John Byrne spoke on the Capitol system in Ireland. Said that unless the power of the Catholic Church was restricted there was no hope of getting a decent wage for workers. Religious Orders held wealth of the country. Jesuits were dictators. The Catholic Workers’ College was set up to train people to take over trade unions. Maynooth College did not pay its workers a living wage. Jeffers was a lecturer in Trinity but forced to leave due to his work for Communism. Michael O’Riordan deplored Ireland being used as a cushion between Russia and America. Trade should be encouraged between Ireland and the Socialist countries. Michael Foot and John Collan were unable to attend a meeting due to the unsettled state of the world.

Handwritten cover note. There was a smear campaign against Charles [Haughey] some time ago. Could not trace source.

Telephone number for Mrs. Byrne.

Typed Report 1963. The following items are included: Adoption Amendment Bill. Mrs. Byrne suggested they write to the Minister. He was smashing and shot down both Miss Odlem, Protestant Society, and Dr. Brady on all issues turn-over tax next Congress in Italy, 1964 International Alliance of Religion other business.

Typed note on Mrs. Byrne. She is on the track of a narcotics distributor in Co. Wicklow who supplies “the younger set of the upper crust”. May ask the Minister to set up some kind of FBI group to apprehend the guilty.

Handwritten letter. Jerry not a delegate on the Executive of the WUI and is not happy with the set-up. Delegates have come to the top “from nowhere”. Now definite that the Reds are organising trouble and taking every advantage of strikes.