File on the proposed erection of a monument to Christ the King in Dun Laoghaire.

Telephone message from Mr. D. O’Laoghaire, Dept. of Education. The French cultural attaché, M. Souillac, approached Mr. O’Laoghaire regarding the possibility of having a primary school in Dublin to cater for the children of French families. The school proposed is to be on the lines of the state school in France, non-confessional. They do not wish to have it under the management of any specific religious group. The French Government would supply two teachers, one for girls and one for boys. Asks if a secretary from Archbishop House meet M. Souillac? Informed that Mgr. Fitzpatrick deals with these issues.

Correspondence between D. O Laoghaire, Dept. of Education, and Fr. Michael P. O’Connell, regarding the replacement of Canon T. Barry by Fr. James O’Keeffe, Navan Road, as representative of the Catholic Managers on the Dublin Advisory Committee for Juvenile Employment.

File relating to the building of a new church. Includes photographs of old Dun Laoghaire.

Summary of tentative proposals arising out of the discussion on the Dun Laoghaire Short Term Scheme.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from L. O Muirthe, Dept. of Education, enclosing a copy of a notice to managers of the schools which will be used as registration centers, and the ‘Notice to all Managers of National Schools in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire.’

‘Notice to all Managers of National Schools in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire.’

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Brendan M. Roantree, Adelaide House, Dun Laoghaire, seeking spiritual guidance in relation to the vote on Question 3 in the Referendum. The Dispensary doctors may vote for the Scheme and they are in the majority. If the Scheme comes in the doctors in Private Practice will suffer grave material loss. If Private Practitioners are included in the Scheme it would result in State medicine.

Typed letter to Fr. Patrick Dunne, Archbishop’s House, from Sean Moylan, Office of the Parliamentary Secretary, Dept. of Defence, requesting that an announcement be made at all Masses in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire emphasizing the advisability of registering in the event of an evacuation.

Letter from Mgr. Boylan, Dun Laoghaire to +McQuaid regarding his visit to the Little Sisters of the Poor.