Correspondence between architect Frank Murphy & Partners, the Department of Education, and South Presentation Convent regarding approval of school design plans. Also includes estimations of building costs and a letter from the Munster & Leinster Bank Limited regarding financing of school.

Correspondence between +Levame to +McQuaid regarding the Bishops meeting for the Province of Leinster, which is held on the Wednesday of Low Week. There is also discussion on the subject of Emigrants. An Episcopal Committee has already been established and includes the Archbishop of Tuam and the Bishops of Raphoe, Ferns and Kerry. As for the Apostolatus Maris in Dublin, the Catholic Seamen’s Hostel is administered through City Quay parish and a Vincentian father also attends regularly as Chaplain to the special work of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul which has care of the hostel.

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

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

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

Copy of account of a IHA meeting at 5 South Leinster Street at which Dr Noel Browne spoke. The following points were raised: the 1953 Act – the Medical Association fought against the principle that people should have the best of surgery, etc, and to an extent it has won he accepted the ‘Mother and Infant’ part of the present scheme but not the aspects……pauper medicine maternity aspect free choice of doctors educational clauses said Medical Association White Paper was appalling.

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.

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.