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.

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.

Grant, Margaret, 134 Leinster Road, Rathmines, asking the Archbishop to intervene in the Hotel Strike to bring it to an end.

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.

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

Byrne, James (Garda), “Killarney”, 87 Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin. Appeals for help.

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).

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

Handwritten letter to Fr. Dunne from Fr. Joseph Deery, Leinster Road. In giving the Nihil Obstat to the ‘Beatha ar d Tighcarna’ attention is drawn to points for emendation.

3 -24 April 1941 Concannon, Helena, Seanad Eireann, Leinster House, Dublin. The Sisters at Marymount, Los Angeles, USA, want to recruit postulants in Ireland and they feel they can best do this by having their own foundation in Dublin. + Byrne refused them permission and they now want to approach + McQuaid. They have asked Mrs. Concannon to act as their intermediary.