Typed report of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Conor Farrington was refused visa to study in USA. Justin Keating also refused. Anthony Morrison was married to Maria Timmons in 1957 and is unemployed at present. Mrs. O’Connell’s report is awaited. Mrs McAuley’s husband makes vestments. She was appointed to the Adoption Board at the instance of Maureen Keane. Is a source of trouble to Fr. Barrett and the Government. She is a Socialist of the Welfare State type tends to be anti-clerical and anti-nun. Frank Edwards and his wife are soured and bitter. Their son and daughter practice their religion. Eamonn Lyons was an activist in the Connolly Association in England. Spoke at a Public Meeting in Abbey Street. His mother is a practicing Catholic and Lyons did not undertake propaganda work in the area in which his family resides. Regarding the motor trade and the Iron Curtain Countries, George and Pirek, two Czechs, are trying to push trade in the motor business. Imminent merge of the CIU and the TUC. Fr. Kent spoke of certain aspects of the proposed union of these congresses of Trade Unions.

Handwritten letter from + Patrick Lyons, Cullin, Cavan, to + Mc Quaid thanking him for his pastoral.

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

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.

Telegram from +Lyons to +McQuaid greeting him on the occasion of the assembly of the Convention League of Prayer in the Gresham Hotel.

Letter from +Lyons to +McQuaid. He thanks +McQuaid for the circular about religious education in vocational schools. He also writes of the relative merits of single sex education.

Letter to +McQuaid from Dr. Lyons on the Bill.

Letter from +Lyons to +McQuaid. He thanks +McQuaid for his letter of sympathy following the fire in an orphanage in his diocese. He writes that had they found out earlier, or had a longer ladder all would have been saved. They hope to build a new and better orphanage.

Letter from +Lyons to +McQuaid. He thanks him for his pastoral and commend him for writing it. He also discusses the education of girls by nuns.

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