Letter from Kevin Delaney, Chairman, The Patients’ Entertainments Committee, Lourdes Hospital, Dun Laoghaire, to +McQuaid thanking him for his contribution of £5. Newspapers Hibernia

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19 March 1941 - 27 December 1953 66 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate: orphanage, retreat house, guest house. St. Joseph's orphanage, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire. Monsignor Boylan's unease regarding their please to build a chapel in his parish Correspondence re fundraising for the Orphanage by "friends". Referred by archbishop to Monsignor Walsh One booklet

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18 February 1954 - 24 February 1961 64 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate, particularly Difficulties over proposed new oratory Difficulties over desire to open a primary school, Monsignor. Boylan's opposition Fundraising for Orphanage

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18 February 1954 - 24 February 1961 64 items
Correspondence from lay Chair of Fundraising Committee re permission to hold such events Monsignor Boylan's assessment of personnel involved

Letter from +Norton, All Hallows College, to +McQuaid regarding the death of the Pope. He asks permission to say High Mass at University Church fro the medical personnel attached to the hospitals of the Sisters of Charity. It is the centenary of their foundress; to open a sale of work in Dun Laoghaire; to give benediction at Terenure College and to speak to senior boys at James’s Street school. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1 item

Typed letter to Fr. Dunne from Ita D. Brady, Acting County Medical Officer of Health, regarding the dates for Confirmation in County Dublin and the Dun Laoghaire Boro’ area.

Copy of ‘Evacuation of Dublin City and Dun Laoghaire Borough.’

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

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The Executive Committee of the IWL met to discuss the advisability of resuming ordinary League activities. Decided not to hold activities likely to arouse hostility. Would wait until Christmas. Normal delivery of papers disrupted by dockers who refused to unload them at Dun Laoghaire.

Typed letter to the Chief Reporter, Irish Press, from John de Courcey Ireland enclosing a summary of the speech by Labour candidate for the Dun Laoghaire – Rathdown constituency, John Fitzgerald. Also encloses a letter to the Editor of The Irish Press from Victor Meally, Hon. Sec., Irish Pacifist Movement, deploring the outbreak of violence in Ulster.

Minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Prescott has given up his agency and booksellers are now inspecting his stock and returning any objectionable ones. No evidence of The Plough reappearing. Mr. Piggot attended a lecture on Scientology in Dun Laoghaire. There seems to be a connection between the advanced stages of Scientology and Hypnotism. The Secretary is to write to Msgr. Kappes regarding St. Anthony’s Hospital, Ohio, and Msgr. McGovern regarding the Little Company of Mary Hospital, Illinois. Regarding Michael O’Riordan, Fr. Jarleth, OFM, will do his best in the Sodality (CIE), but he is doubtful if he will be able to prevent his election.

Handwritten letter to Fr. Martin from Michael O’Halloran regarding the problem of housing accommodation with three bedrooms. Had interviews with Mr. M. O’Brien, Town Planning Dept., Mr. J. Smith, Housing Dept., Dublin Corporation and Mr. O’Callaghan and Mr. Hanley, Dun Laoghaire.