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• Letters and newspaper cutting regarding the formation of the Censorship Reform Society. Members include Jim Fitzpatrick, theatre and television producer, Michael Mac Liammoir, James Plunkett, Hugh Leonard, Edna O’Brien and Bruce Arnold. Dr. Paul McQuaid also asked to join the Society. Theatre 31 March 1967

-25 March 1958 Correspondence to + McQuaid from Shane Leslie who is on a lecture tour of the United States. Topics mentioned include: the Tostal disagreement; the ‘Negro’ question, which he feels is as insoluble as the Ulster question; the possibility of the Archbishop meeting Seymour Leslie; the idea that a historic play on Oliver Plunkett be written and staged.

Plunkett, Lillia, Portmarnock House. Invitation to the Archbishop to lunch. Petrol restriction prevented it.

Letter from Fr. John J. Gaffney to +McQuaid regarding Plunkett Dillon. He is grateful for His Grace’s permission regarding Trinity College, and regrets the ill-advised wording of his letter of application.

Letter from Cardinal Conway to +McQuaid regarding the Blessed Oliver Plunkett Crusade.

Letter from Cardinal Conway to +McQuaid nominating Fr. Fergus O’Higgins for the Cause of Blessed Oliver Plunkett.

cutting from The Kerryman newspaper containing advertisement for a series of stories relating to Fermoy written by Mary Hickey that would shortly be published in the newspaper (4 October 1958); "British troops ran amok but Fermoy did not wilt" (c1950s); "Fermoy man's arrest after taking of British arms" (c1950s); cutting containing image of "Blessed Oliver Plunkett Girls' Pipe Band" (c1960s); "Many mourn [Archbishop] Dr Mannix" (1963); "Edmund Burke's youth by the Blackwater" (c1980s).

Letter from Brother Alexander Kelliher, S.A., St. Paul’s Friary, Graymoor, Garrison, NY, to + McQuaid seeking two first class relics of Blessed Oliver Plunkett.

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: a definite agenda should be prepared in advance of each meeting and sent to members a special summary should be sent immediately to the Archbishop. Censorship Reform Group: personalities involved were discussed – Jim Fitzgerald, a former producer with Telefis Eireann Micheal MacLiamor, already known James Plunkett, former Secretary of the WUI and a friend of Jim Larkin Hugh Leonard, no information available Bruce Arnold, no information available T. P. McKenna, an actor of repute.

Committee has been set up to consider the possibility of launching a paper in which ideas would be discussed and questions – political, social and educational – investigated in a spirit of impartial enquiry. Brendan Behan, James Plunkett and Owen Sheehy –Skeffington among those on the Committee.