Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Griffin regarding the establishment of an Information Bureau. He has put it on the agenda for the next Bishop’s meeting in Maynooth.

• Correspondence between Dr. Hamell, Maynooth,

Letter from +Dunne to +McQuaid regarding Fr. Lynch Provincial of the S.V.D. Fathers (Sacred Heart Missionaries) who has sought permission to rent the Crofton Hotel in Bray as Glena is too small. This will be used by the students attending Maynooth. He has given permission. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Note from +Wall to +McQuaid asking if he should do the Ordinations in Maynooth. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid stating Archdeacon Hynes will accompany Cardinal Marella to Galway and they will have a short visit to Maynooth.

Handwritten draft letter, and four typed copies, to the Taoiseach from +McQuaid. At their General Meeting on 4th April in Maynooth the Hierarchy considered his letter of 27th March with the memorandum of the Minister for Health on his proposed Mother and Child Health Scheme.

Typed copy of a report on a discussion on County Council Scholarships at a meeting of the Rathdown Comhaile Ceannter Fianna Fail. Mrs Byrne asked that the scheme be explained. Booth saw the present scheme as ‘religious discrimination’. University College Dublin (UCD) worked the scholarship scheme for Dublin County Council. If a student wanted to go to Maynooth, Galway or Trinity they would have to apply through UCD. De Valera approached by Booth and said it was a matter for the County Council and UCD and would not get involved. He inferred that His Grace, the Archbishop of Dublin, wrote to The Standard.

Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon from ‘Grandma’. Sent him provisional programme for the Congress. No success in getting lay people to give talks on the items on the programme. At 1913 Club meeting R. Ryan TD, Brendan Corish TD, Peadar O’Donnell and David Thornley on platform. Topic: ‘Ireland from 1913bto 1961’. Three groups represented at the meeting: the IRA the Pro British element from Trinity and the Beat-nicks. Speakers heckled from all three. O’Donnell referred to some of the Labour members being controlled from Maynooth and blamed the failure of Labour to “the Holy-water hens” throughout the country stopping progress.

-24 September Letters from Fr. Joseph Deery, Rathmines to +McQuaid regarding a book on the Mass by Dr. Moran, Professor of Theology, Maynooth. One letter annotated by +McQuaid. 1942

Letter form Fr. Edward Gallen, Drumcondra to +McQuaid regarding ‘A history of Irish Catholicism’ by Rev. Dr. Patrick Corish, Maynooth.