Letter from +Patrick Lennon, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, to +McQuaid accepting the invitation to the Liturgical Reception.

Correspondence regarding Ballymount N.S., Cookstown Boys and Girls National Schools and Skerries N.S., in the parish of Ballitore, county Kildare. Reports seem to indicate that the schools have not been kept in suitable repair in accordance with Rule

Single page of document relating to school buildings in Co Kildare.

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.

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.

• File of correspondence between +McQuaid and Professor F. Herkner, National College of Art, Kildare Street, mainly relating to a bust that the artist is creating of the Archbishop. Some annotations by +McQuaid. 9 February 1967

File relating to the proposed sale of land in Leixlip for road widening by Kildare County Council. Mention the Coogan Trust.

• Mt Mellery: Abbot regrets inability to take up Archbishop’s confidential offer of a foundation at Glencree due to insufficient lands. Later, Woodstock in Wicklow not deemed suitable by Archbishop. CF file “O.M.I - Glencree”. Roscrea: Archbishop regrets Dom Eugene Boylan’s extra-cloistral activities. He proposes a foundation at Moone, Co. Kildare. Dom E Boylan is elected Abbot! Bishop Dunne’s shrewd observations. Foundations is made at Moone. CF file “Carthusian Monks”

Adderly, Sarah J., Main St., Leixlip, Co. Kildare. The money she received from Saint Vincent de Paul has been taken back from her.

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.