Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from John McCarthy, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, enclosing a copy of the Report compiled by the Sub-Committee on Legal Adoption.
Copy of the Episcopal Committee’s considerations regarding Legal Adoption.
One handwritten and one typed copy of conclusions which sets out the attitudes of the Hierarchy on Legal Adoption.
Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from +J. Kinane, Thurles, thanking him for his letter and documents.
Letters to +McQuaid from + J. Kinnane, +M. Browne and +Cornelius Lucey. Date of meeting suits them.
Typed letter to +McQuaid from Gerard Boland, Minister for Justice, enclosing five copies of the Adoption Bill.
Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from +J. Kinane, Thurles, regarding the Adoption Bill.
Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Kinnane. Archbishop McQuaid has used his discretion very wisely.
Notes on Scheme for Adoption Bill.
Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + James Staunton, Ferns, making the following points: encloses two suggested clauses for the Adoption Bill; the Minister realizes that Irish children are being raised by money partly contributed by foreign bigots, in the Protestant religion, to continue the British policy of increasing the number or Protestants in the country, and to provide recruits for the British Army; the Children’s Act helps to proseltyse; Irish law allows anybody of any ‘ism’ to adopt a child if he states that he is doing it for ‘love and affection’; children in the Bird’s Nest are all Catholic.