Copy of typed letter to the Secretary, St. Vincent de Paul Society, 64 Grafton Street from Maire Ní Gabann, Ard Runaidte, Sinn Fein, 3 Lower Abbey Street. Sinn Fein understands that the Society has invited Mr. Richard O’Sullivan Q.C. to lecture in the Aberdeen Hall on 9th January 1955. He was the Crown Prosecutor when Barnes and McCormack were sentenced to death in Birmingham in 1939. A large number of people will object to his public appearance.
.1955 Typed letter, marked Confidential, to An Runai, An Roinn Dli agus Cirt, from P. Carroll, Leas Choimisineara, forwarding a typed copy of ‘An t- Oglach’ for the information of the Minister. This publication is only issued to active members of the I.R.A.
Draft letter to the clergy, penned by + McQuaid, urgently requesting the Clergy to use gentleness in their endeavour to persuade young men not to join the I.R.A.
.1956 Handwritten draft of letter to ‘Very Reverend and dear Father’ from + McQuaid, enclosing a statement requesting the Vicar Generals to read at the Conferences of the coming week. Asks that the statement be made known to all priests under their control.
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Typed letter to + McQuaid from Fr. T. Lyne S.D.B., Provincial Delegate, Crumlin House, Kimmage Road West. He will make the statement known to his priests.
Typed document on ‘The effect on the I.R.A. of the statement made by the Taoiseach.’
Item from The Irish Times titled ‘Labour-The Hope of Republicanism.’ Photo of Mairtin O Cadhain, George Gilmore and Peadar O’Donnell.
Item published by Sinn Fein entitled ‘Where Sinn Fein Stands.’
Item from The Irish Press entitled ‘Sinn Fein picket U.S. ship.’