Handwritten report. Very little happening for Reds. They are becoming despondent about their task, which is hopeless. Paul Keating reduced to selling Socialist paper in public houses.
Typed letter to Fr. Diffney from Una Byrne. The IHA had a Brains’ Trust in the Mansion House. Fr. Corcoran was well able for Donal Nevin and held his own. Mr. Maloney, Secretary of the Contemporary Club, has resigned. Will be a loss as he kept an eye on liberal speakers. Replaced by Miss Pepita Keating, daughter of Justine Keating. The Communist Party have converted No. 37, Pembroke Road into flats. Are holding meetings in Pembroke Hall. She (Una) refuses admittance, but Art McArdle reporting to her.
Handwritten report from “Grandmother”. Anthony Coughlan was sub- editor of The Daily Worker and The Irish Democrat in England. Prime mover in the Connolly Club. In May 1961 met Michael O’Leary, Justin Keating, Igo, Frank Edwards, Miss Simms. O’Leary has been picked to stand for Labour in South Central Constituency.
Includes; letters from Sr Raphael Considine, in Australia to Sr. Rosario Allen, South Presentation Convent, Cork, dated 1980 to 1999. In her letters Sr. Raphael thanks Sr. Rosario for her hospitality each time she visits South Presentation Convent. Sr. Raphael gives updates on her progress of the books which she is writing on Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters. She gives details of her visits to the Presentation Sisters missions in India, Pakistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Philippines. Sr. Raphael makes arrangements for other Sisters and lay people to visit South Presentation Covent. File also includes a letter to Sr. Anthony Moloney, Sr. Lelia Kaar and Sr. Ambrose; Letter from Sr. Raphael to the Sisters requesting their help to enable her to write a short book on explaining the changes in apostolic religious life after Vatican11; Presentation Mission Link November 1994; and letter from Sr. Bernadette Keating,” Cove Lane”, St. James Parade, Elsternwick 3184, to Presentation Sisters, 21 Ashdene, South Douglas Road, Cork, Ireland, 12 May 2000, giving details of Sr. Raphael’s last illness and death and including the eulogy given at her funeral.
Letter from +Cohalan to +McQuaid. He thanks +McQuaid for agreeing to place Fr Keating as a chaplain to the Irish Sisters of Charity in Sandymount and informs +McQuaid that Fr Keating would be glad to be asked to teach at the North Strand Technical School.
Handwritten report. Justin Keating going to continent for agricultural research. Being sent by Government. Was refused permission to go to the US some years ago by Dillon, but evidently P. Smith does not mind. Keating a member of the British Communist Party and is active here. Smith condemned Dr. Lucey at a meeting some months ago.
Typed copy of the cover letter from Mrs. M. Keating and Donal Nevin giving a Press Statement on the West European Conference for the amnesty of Spanish political prisoners and exiles.
Typed report of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Conor Farrington was refused visa to study in USA. Justin Keating also refused. Anthony Morrison was married to Maria Timmons in 1957 and is unemployed at present. Mrs. O’Connell’s report is awaited. Mrs McAuley’s husband makes vestments. She was appointed to the Adoption Board at the instance of Maureen Keane. Is a source of trouble to Fr. Barrett and the Government. She is a Socialist of the Welfare State type tends to be anti-clerical and anti-nun. Frank Edwards and his wife are soured and bitter. Their son and daughter practice their religion. Eamonn Lyons was an activist in the Connolly Association in England. Spoke at a Public Meeting in Abbey Street. His mother is a practicing Catholic and Lyons did not undertake propaganda work in the area in which his family resides. Regarding the motor trade and the Iron Curtain Countries, George and Pirek, two Czechs, are trying to push trade in the motor business. Imminent merge of the CIU and the TUC. Fr. Kent spoke of certain aspects of the proposed union of these congresses of Trade Unions.