Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid thanking him for allowing Fr. Stephen Clancy leave the Clergy Retreat to accompany Fr. Moylan, former Vicar General to the Nuncio and from Atlanta, to Shannon Airport. Neither he nor Mgr. Alibrandi were available to accompany Fr. Boylan to Collinstown and hence he is very grateful to the Archbishop. He also discusses the merits of the complaints of Br. John O’Toole which will be sent to the Sacred Congregation for Religious and he has followed the advice and information provided by the Archbishop. He also mentions Professor H. Bruck who has been nominated for membership to the Pontifical Academy of Science. He mentions the new Nuncio who is leaving Cairo on 31 July and who plans on stopping in Rome before coming to Dublin.
Letter from +O’Hara to Mgr. Glennon asking him to send the most up to date information on the Diocese to Sir Harold Hood, Assistant Editor of the Catholic Directory, published by Burns, Oates & Washbourne in London. With his imminent departure, he is unable to do this himself. Attached is a copy of the reply from Mgr. Glennon to Sir Harold Hood forwarding details for 1951 which was the last year a census was taken.
Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid thanking him for the ‘gracious letter that I received from the Hierarchy of Ireland through His Eminence, the Most Reverend Cardinal D’Alton and their Lordships the Most Reverend Secretaries of the Hierarchy on the occasion of my departure from Ireland to take up new duties that have been assigned me in Great Britain’. He especially thanks the Archbishop for all his help and that he will treasure the memories he has of Ireland, whose people have a deep practical catholic faith. He asks for continued prayers in relation to his new position on ‘…the other side of the Irish Sea…’
– 17 October 1960 Correspondence between +O’Hara and Fr. Michael O’Connell and their continued friendship after the Nuncio left Ireland. He is due to visit and wishes to meet his old friend. Mgr. Alberto Levame 1954-1958
[August] Blank invitation card to the Ecclesiastical Reception of the Most Reverend Alberto Levame in the Pro Cathedral on 31 August 1954.
Copy of letter sent by +McQuaid to all members of the Irish Hierarchy, except Cardinal D’Alton, giving them the time and location of the Liturgical Reception for the new Nuncio.
[August 1954] List of those invited to the reception for the new Nuncio at the Gresham Hotel.
Letter from Mgr. Levame to +McQuaid stating that the Secretariat of State has asked the Irish Hierarchy to solicit prayers of the faithful for the Holy Father’s health.
Letter from Mgr. Levame to +McQuaid thanking him for the copies of the Lenten Regulations. In French.
Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Levame regarding the raising of funds to build a church in Rome dedicated to the ‘Queenship of Our Lady’. He will put the matter before the Catholic Federation of Women’s Secondary School Unions.