Letter from Aod MacNeill, Major-General (retired) and organiser of the festival to Basil Clancy enclosing a copy of the discussion with Mgr. Kissane regarding exhibitions and visits to St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth as part of the festival celebrations.

Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid returning the copy of ‘Agora’. He considers the articles are poor and immature. He mentions Fr. Connolly who seems to have been the inspiration. He also states that some of the Maynooth Students have joined the University Students Movement. The Pax Romana National Congress is going to be held there at Easter.

File relating to the sale and purchase of lands in Maynooth & Leixlip. Mentions the Coogan Trust and Thomas Bruton.

-1 March Correspondence between +McQuaid, Fr. Gallen, Fr. John Kelly, Fr. John O’Connell, Fr. Patrick Leahy, +W. Philbin, Belfast, +Michael Browne, Galway regarding the papers of the 1968 Maynooth Summer School which are to be published by M.H. Gill. However, Fr. J. Coveney, S.J., Heythorp College has now published one article in the ‘Furrow’ entitled ‘The presence of Christ’. Annotations by +McQuaid. Front Page Detective 1969

Letter from Cardinal Conway to +McQuaid regarding the next meeting of the Bishops and the Maynooth Visitors. Annotated by +McQuaid.

File relating to fund-raising events, the Maynooth Carnival and the Leixlip Water Festival.

• Correspondence between Allen Nolan, Browne & Nolan, +McQuaid, and Fr. John McMackin, Maynooth, regarding the publication of the I.E.R. The Record has been incurring losses over the years, and in the year 23 June 1971 lost £1,408. Browne & Nolan could not afford to sustain such losses and reluctantly decided, on financial grounds, to cease publishing the Record. The final issue was the December 1968 one. 25 items The Marian Year 1968

January - December Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on comprehensive schools, the O’Malley Scheme, the Catholic Managerial Committee, Year of Faith, liturgical changes, sacred art, Apostolate of the Laity, the Communications Council, university reports and the Nicholas Callan Society. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to emigrants and education. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as proposed alterations to the college and faculty business. 1968

• 12 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on a draft catechism, religious knowledge programmes in schools, finances at Maynooth College, salaries of teachers, Irish Girl Guides and the work of the Maynooth Trustees. 1949

January - December Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the Synod of Bishops, emigrants, education, seminaries & formation, Apostolate of the Laity, church music, liturgy, Irish Turf Club, annual reports on universities, ecumenism and report entitled ‘Ireland in the Seventies’. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as college development and expansion plans, farm and college administration, faculty business and the re-drafted lease. Items 103-106 (plans) are oversize. They are stored in Drawer 1. 1970