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Handwritten letter to Fr. MacMahon from Seamus Grace, 11, Ardagh Park, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, reporting on the Nigerian Students’ Conference. The High Commissioner, Alhaji Abdul Maliki, gave the students a lot of encouragement and at the same time expressed the view that the Union was occupying itself too much with politics to the neglect of other things.

Copy of typed letter from + McQuaid to + Fergus noting that all Episcopal Commissions are to make a report. Ardagh & Clonmacnoise

Letter from +Cathal Daly, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, to +McQuaid, stating he will be unable to assist at the Liturgical Reception as he is leading a Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock on the same day.

• Correspondence relating to the presence in Dublin of one priest and two lay-brothers of the German Missionary Congregation of St. Ottilien. Letters and Memoranda. Already pre- war fund-collecting in several parts of Ireland by one of the lay-brothers (Ferns, Ardagh, Limerick). Immediately before outbreak of war the trio were in Ireland, escaping interment in Britain as Enemy Allies; their house in Hendon (Westminster) having as Superior a priest (English?) who was the only member of the community not interned. Archbishop gravely displeased at the trio’s residence in Dublin. Plan for temp. Hospitality at Glenstal fails. Superior at Hendon takes issue with Archbishop. Report of Dept. of External Affairs Benedictines Monasteries-General

Letter from +Fergus to +McQuaid regarding an Order of Nuns. He mentions the La Sagesse Sisters but suggests the Archbishop contact the Bishop of Elphin also. Ardagh & Clonmacnois

Typed letter to Chris from Tom Harty. The Bishop of Ardagh is quite thrilled with the idea of bringing workers from Dublin. 1 item

Handwritten note to + McQuaid informing him that the Bishop of Ardagh to hold the pilgrimage at Clonmacnoise. Would he now give permission?

Handwritten letter from Fr. Ciaran Ryan, Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, to + McQuaid. He is to take up a position as lecturer in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics in UCD and in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Seeks his permission to reside in Dublin.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.