Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Johnson accompanied Jeffares to Paris last August. Fr. Nolan, S.J., has written a full report on the ‘Ginger Man’ for + McQuaid. The theatre is mainly based in Dun Laoghaire and its directors are Godfrey Quigley and Genevieve Lyons. Both are Catholics. All to seek information on Andrew Barr and Irwin, both from Belfast and on the council of ICTU.

Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon from Fr. Brian O’Sullivan giving information on Eamon Lyons, Crumlin. He worked in England and the USA. Was a promoter in the Connolly Club movement in England. Is reported to have appeared at a public meeting in Abbey Street.

Letter from +Lyons to secretary in Archbishop’s House. He writes that it would be a pleasure to attend the consecration of the archbishop elect and hopes to attend.

December 1940 Card from +Lyons to +McQuaid sending Christmas greetings.

Letter from +Lyons to +McQuaid. He begins by thanking +McQuaid for his gift and how it will help the nuns and then writes about the questioning of the nuns following the orphanage fire and their being questioned by the civic guards. He also mentions details of the new orphanage being built.

Telegram from +Lyons to +McQuaid greeting him at the Convention of League of Prayer for Canonisation of Blesses Oliver Plunkett.

Telegram from +Lyons to +McQuaid greeting him at the Convention of League of Prayer for Canonisation of Blesses Oliver Plunkett assembled at Veritas House.

Letter from +McQuaid sympathising on the death of +Lyons.

Lyons-Jones, J., Castlewood Park, Rathmines. Questions + McQuaid’s interpretation of the Scriptures. Two booklets.

-23 November 1959 Lyons, Julie, Somerville, Carrick Ave., Dun Laoghaire. Correspondence regarding her nephew, Patrick Begley (see XL/2/10). The family are asking + McQuaid to use his influence to get Patrick a job in broadcasting. She predicts he will have to account before God for his ungracious and unfeeling letters. Mac