• Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some October 1963 minutes. Includes information on secondary education, salaries & curriculum. Also discusses the Breviary supplement, and the ‘Veterum Spaientia’ and the ‘Ordinationes’. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to education and liturgy. Finances of Maynooth College and the state of its buildings discussed by Maynooth Trustees. Also information on Nicholas Callan Society, Arts & Science Faculties and appointment of Dr. Finnegan as Dean. Letter from Fr. Kevin McNamara regarding his invitation to speak to the Bishops. Fr. McNamara later became Bishop of Kerry before being appointed Archbishop of Dublin in 1984. 1964

Wording of telegram of congratulations to Fr. Eamonn Casey on his appointment as Bishop of Kerry.

Copy of letter from + Peter Birch of Ossory to the Bishop of Kerry regarding the Conference on Poverty in Ireland.

Handwritten note to Kerry T.Ds. In view of the fact that the Government has made its decision public it would be injudicious for the Archbishop to make further representation.

Letter from Fr. Padraig Mac Carthaigh, Diocese of Kerry, to +McQuaid asking permission to attend plays which are part of a course he is to attend in the Damer Hall.

Cortlandt Herbst, The Maharees, Castlegregory, Co. Kerry. Encloses a copy of a letter to + Cunnane and + Harty. Annotated by + McQuaid.

Joy, Katie, C/o Thomas Nunan, Ardfert, Co. Kerry. Asks the Archbishop if she can depend on the reliability of Mr. Matthew.

Handwritten letter from + Michael, Galway, to + McQuaid thanking him for the text of Fr. McDonagh’s address on contraception. Kerry

• 8 August 1947 Correspondence between +Kinane, +O’Brien of Kerry, Dr. Herlihy and +McQuaid regarding the appointment of Dr. Herlihy as Vice Rector of the Irish College, Rome.

will not be able to attend the meeting on Monday due to the death of the Bishop of Kerry.