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File relating to no. 4 & 6 Mount Harold Terrace, Leinster Road.

• Letters and petition from Mary Dowling, 63 Leinster Road,

File relating to 12 Leinster Road West.

Letter from Fr. Willian O’Riordan to +McQuaid informing him of the sale of ‘Leinster Hall’ and asks that he direct him as to the maximum he should make.

Copies of two letters from Garret Fitzgerald, TD, offering to arrange visits to Leinster House for school pupils, and help from political societies in schools.

Letter from Florence Ryan, Munster and Leinster Bank, Crumlin to +McQuaid asking if +Crawford can attend their annual sale of work in the Mansion House. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Handwritten letter to Father Finnegan from Seo. O Ceannaigh, Leinster Council, Irish Republican Army, Woodpark, The Rise, Glasnevin regarding collections for the needy widows of I.R.A. personnel. The Parish Priest instructed that no collections were to be made in the parish without his permission. This is wrong, smacks of Communism, and the people resent the P.P. wanting everything for him and nothing for the missions and charity.

Correspondence between +Levame to +McQuaid regarding the Bishops meeting for the Province of Leinster, which is held on the Wednesday of Low Week. There is also discussion on the subject of Emigrants. An Episcopal Committee has already been established and includes the Archbishop of Tuam and the Bishops of Raphoe, Ferns and Kerry. As for the Apostolatus Maris in Dublin, the Catholic Seamen’s Hostel is administered through City Quay parish and a Vincentian father also attends regularly as Chaplain to the special work of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul which has care of the hostel.

Board of Assistance 1941 – 1957 59/ A/1. 28-29 May Correspondence from [ill.], Leinster House, to +McQuaid regarding the proposed new Hospital. A/2. 21 May Press cutting from The Irish Independent entitled Plan to Convert Dublin Mansion into Hospital. 1 item A/3. 11-12 June Typed letter from P.C. Doyle, Leinster House, to +McQuaid

File relating to lay societies. Includes mention of a dramatic society, The Little Dublin Singers (St. Louis Primary School choir), the Friendship Centre, 140 Leinster Road (non-Catholic Bible group organised by Samuel and Robert Lindsay).