Copies of two letters from Garret Fitzgerald, TD, offering to arrange visits to Leinster House for school pupils, and help from political societies in schools.

Letter from Florence Ryan, Munster and Leinster Bank, Crumlin to +McQuaid asking if +Crawford can attend their annual sale of work in the Mansion House. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from Fr. Willian O’Riordan to +McQuaid informing him of the sale of ‘Leinster Hall’ and asks that he direct him as to the maximum he should make.

Board of Assistance 1941 – 1957 59/ A/1. 28-29 May Correspondence from [ill.], Leinster House, to +McQuaid regarding the proposed new Hospital. A/2. 21 May Press cutting from The Irish Independent entitled Plan to Convert Dublin Mansion into Hospital. 1 item A/3. 11-12 June Typed letter from P.C. Doyle, Leinster House, to +McQuaid

File relating to lay societies. Includes mention of a dramatic society, The Little Dublin Singers (St. Louis Primary School choir), the Friendship Centre, 140 Leinster Road (non-Catholic Bible group organised by Samuel and Robert Lindsay).

File relating to 12 Leinster Road West.

File relating to no. 4 & 6 Mount Harold Terrace, Leinster Road.

Handwritten letter to Father Finnegan from Seo. O Ceannaigh, Leinster Council, Irish Republican Army, Woodpark, The Rise, Glasnevin regarding collections for the needy widows of I.R.A. personnel. The Parish Priest instructed that no collections were to be made in the parish without his permission. This is wrong, smacks of Communism, and the people resent the P.P. wanting everything for him and nothing for the missions and charity.

• Letters and petition from Mary Dowling, 63 Leinster Road,

Handwritten letter to Fr. O’Donnell, Archbishop’s Secretary, from Frank Fahey, Leinster House. Encloses a pamphlet.