Handwritten letter from Joseph J. Cooney to Rev. Father informing him that Top-Spot had incurred the wrath of the Censorship Board.
Copy of the statement issued from Archbishop’s House regarding the play The Ginger Man.
-8 Correspondence regarding the play ‘The Hostage’ being November 1960 staged in The Olympia from Fr. Gerard Nolan, S.J. and Dermot O’Flynn, Knights of St. Columbanus. Also some newspaper cuttings.
-5 April Letters regarding the play ‘Suddenly last summer’ which was staged at theatre near Bus Aras. 1961
-6 August Correspondence regarding the play, ‘The voice of the turtle’ being staged at the Gas Company Theatre, Dun Laoghaire. Programme enclosed. 1962
Newspaper cutting entitled ‘Dublin boy fought poverty to become great dramatist: the story of Sean O’Casey’.
Letter from Moira Lysaght to +McQuaid regarding the plays, ‘Tarry Flynn’ and ‘The Loves of Cass Maguire’ being staged at the Abbey Theatre. Annotated by +McQuaid.
Note, in +McQuaid’s hand, stating that stage-plays that are ‘atheistic or obscene or that disregard Christian morality is a grave peril.’
Letter from Roisin Ni Lathasaigh, Runai Oinigh, to Fr. C. Mangan asking permission for the Clergy and Christian Brothers to attend the National Drama Festival. And also nuns when needed to control their pupils.
Letter from J. O’Farrell, Chair, Film Censor’s Office, to +McQuaid offering sympathies on the death of Mgr. Cronin. Annotated by +McQuaid.