Typed report of telephone call from Mr. Norton, T.D. regarding the IWL. In last year’s election local clergy in Kildare condemned IWL candidates. Some electors wrongly got the impression that the Labour Party candidates were being condemned too. He wishes to avoid a repeat in the elections this year.

Copy of typed letter from R.J. Glennon to + Moynihan, Bishop of Kerry, forwarding leaflets which the Jehovah Witnesses gave to a school girl. Kildare & Leighlin

Handwritten minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following are mentioned in the report: the play, ‘Maria Goretti’, was performed in schools and parochial halls by the Daniels’ family from Leixlip, Co. Kildare. The Committee feel that it should have been submitted to the ecclesiastical authorities for approval. The membership of the Catholic Guild of Journalists is not good. The National Union of Journalists and the Guild of Irish Journalists are the other associations. There is a strong and effective need for a Catholic Guild. It suggests that an assistant chaplain to Fr. Thomas Murphy is needed and recommends Fr. Austin Flannery, O. P. Mgr. O’Halloran will discuss the matter with Fr. Murphy.

Letter from +Keogh to +McQuaid. The letter concerns a Kildare priest travelling in the September pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Doyle, J.E., Kildare Street, Dublin 2. This correspondence refers to the secret of a sacramental confession where one is under the greatest obligation never again to refer to it.

Daly, Patrick H., Clongowes Wood College, Naas, Co. Kildare. Offers his sincere good wishes to + McQuaid on his Silver Jubilee.

-14 December 1960 Herkner, Professor Frederick, National College of Art, Kildare Street. Letter to Fr. MacMahon from Mr. T.O. Raiftearaigh on his suitability to carry out the work mentioned.

Letter from Mgr. Cassidy to +McQuaid stating that the Holy Father has accepted the resignation of Most Reverend Dr. Thomas Keogh from the See of Kildare and Leighlin. He has appointed Dr. Patrick Lennon as the new Bishop. Both resignation and appointment will be announced on Monday, 25th September.

Copy of typed letter to The Governor, No. 1 Internment Camp, The Curragh, Co. Kildare, informing him that the undersigned interned Irish Republicans intend to go on hunger strike from the 24th instance for their unconditional release. They sent communications to Mr. de Valera, Mr. Gerard Boland, His Eminence Cardinal MacRory, His Excellence Most Rev. Pascal Robinson, Nuncio Apostolic, requesting that these be forwarded. Signed by Sean MacCumhaill, Sean Maxwell, Peadar Houston, J.G. O’Doherty, Seamus Gerard Bohan, John Curran, Christopher O’Callaghan, Terence McLoughlin. This is an eleven-page document.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Thomas Keogh, Kildare and Leighlin. He wishes it to be understood that the delegation he granted is a wartime measure and is to cease when normal peace returns. The special needs of a large civilian population have been catered for by the Curragh Chaplains.