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Handwritten note. Eamon Davis, Dundrum, is suing Professor Ian Finley, Dental Hospital, on behalf of his son. The wrong root was removed and the child will have a dental plate for the rest of his life. Mr. Davis advised to write to the Minister for Health and to be slow to accept any settlement. Imagines the Minister might be glad of an opportunity to investigate or ask awkward questions.

Letter to The Evening Mail from John de Courcy Ireland entitled ‘Employment Plan of the Trade Unions.

Typed copy of a biographical report on John de Courcy Ireland, marked ‘Secret’. De Courcy Ireland was born in Lucknow, India, on 19 October 1911. Educated in England. Read history in Oxford and Ph.D., at Trinity (1950). Taught at grammar school in Bury and active in local Communist affairs. Taught in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Grammar School, Derry. In 1944 was expelled from Labour Party on basis of being an active Communist. During the next few years he devoted a great deal of time and attention to the promotion of Communism. Was able and energetic writer and contributed to left-wing journals in England and Ireland. In 1948 co- founded Review with other Communists. In 1949 took up teaching post in Drogheda Grammar School, then moved to Bandon GS and finally to Kingstown GS. His interests are openly educational, social and cultural. Is member of the Labour Party, Joint Secretary of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, a member of the VEC (Dun Laoghaire Branch) and founder member of the Military History Society. Is still truly and avowedly a Communist.

Report by Douglas Hyde on ‘Communist Group Discussion Method’. In his opinion Communist indoctrination courses are successful because of the methods they employ and because they relate to the lives of those taking the course. An intimate atmosphere is created and the lecturer leads a ‘controlled discussion’. His aim is to get two or three points accepted by everybody in the class and in such a way that the participants think they themselves arrived at the conclusion.

Handwritten letter to + McQuaid from Patrick Roche, Secretary, the Richard Corish Branch, Irish Labour Party, Rosslare Harbour. Thanked the Archbishop for his visit to James Larkin. Is grateful for all he has done in “genuine Christian charity”. Archbishop has much in common with Dr. Dignam, Bishop of Clonfert, who did his duty. But Dr. Dignam made one mistake. He was too honest “for our newcomers to the ballot box”, and went down gloriously. “Right under Might.” The working-class pray that similar just prelates do not suffer same fate. Earnest wish is that Labour leaders of future will pay respect to bishops.

Typed copy of a report on Mr. Aiken’s speeches. One suspects that these two speeches were inspired by Communists. Mr. Aiken cannot be suspected of being a Communist, but is very anti-American. His chief advisors are Mr. Woods (who writes for The Irish Times), Mr. Conor Cruise O’Brien and Miss McEntee. Woods and Cruise O’Brien have strong left views. Miss McEntee is a close friend of Professor David Green of Trinity. Steps should be taken to stop Irish foreign policy becoming an instrument of Communist propaganda.

Republicans/Subversives

Typed letter to + McQuaid from Fr. Donal Reidy PP, VG, Tralee, dealing with the execution of Charles Kerin, Tralee, in Dublin. Wants to bring to the notice of + McQuaid a matter in which his parish has serious difficulties with practices in Dublin. Accuses the IRA of using the trial, reprieve/agitation, execution and post-mortem as propaganda. Fr. Reidy and seven priests refused to sign the petition for reprieve as it would be a public censure of the Government without sufficient reason. Neither did the condemned man deny his crime or show remorse. Explained that diocesan regulations forbade such publicity.

Typed letter to + McQuaid from David Pigot. The National Graves’ Commission lodged a proposed inscription with the Committee to go on the memorial of Lieut. General Patrick McGrath. The Committee could not accept the wording. McGrath was executed in Mountjoy Prison on 6 September 1940. The inscription suggested that McGrath was a member of the National Defence Force and died in defence of the state.

Typed letter to Dr. O’Connell from J. Boylan. The National Graves Association submitted a revised form of inscription and this was accepted.