Copy of wire sent by +McQuaid to +Rodgers expressing sympathy on the death of +Fogarty.
Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate. Mount Argus celebrates its centenary. The Order is given permission for a Juniorate at Greystones and acquire Belvedere Hall. Their mission in Bechuanaland [now Botswana] becomes a Prefecture Apostolic information on this mission. 79 itemsa Redemptorists (C.S.S.R)
Letter from Mgr. Patrick Boylan to +McQuaid regarding Fr. Finbar O’Mahony O.S.B., the Superior of the Benedictine University Hostel. He has been appointed Conferencier to the Sisters at the Nunciature by Mother Mary. He will not however be 40 years old until the following year and so perhaps he can be allowed to have weekly or monthly conferences with the Sisters while making it clear he has not been appointed Confessor. He notes ‘…Mother Mary has never had the slightest tendency to look on the authorities of the Dublin Diocese as deserving any special recognition or respect’.
Kearns, Thomas, 91 Windmill Road, Crumlin, Dublin. Complains about deferential rent system.
- Correspondence relating to the hostel at Palmerston Park, ordinations. A lay proposal to Glenstal to supply a headmaster for responding as a lay-school, “The farmer school of Mount St. Benedict at Rush.” Archbishops lack of enthusiasm for Glenstal Liturgical Conferences. Benedictine of St. Ottilien
Copy letter from Fr. James Ardle MacMahon to Mgr. M. O’Halloran regarding a play ‘A view from a bridge’ which is to be staged at The Olympia.
Letter from +Cavallera to +McQuaid asking for Mass intentions to help continue their work on the missions. Annotated by +McQuaid.
Extract of handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Fr. Thomas Kehily, DICS. The Garda problem has been solved.
Letter of thanks from the CSSC with receipt.
Letter from +Lucey to +McQuaid stating he will be unable to attend the proposed conference in Drumcondra due to illness. He mentions the crisis in UCC which was exaggerated by the media. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1 item