January - November Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the Irish Association of Catechists & Statuata Conferentiae Episcoporum Hiberniae. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to the position of Rector of the Irish College, Rome, Irish Nurses Organisation, Catholic Headmasters Association, Catholic Boy Scouts, the Hierarchy University Fund, vernacular in the Liturgy and the Marriages Bill. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as the formation of priests, the Liturgy, first Mass for newly ordained priests, CERT and faculty business. 1966

Handwritten letter from Fr. Cathal MacCarthy, Holy Cross College, Clonliffe to +McQuaid regarding the arrangements for the reception of the new Nuncio at Maynooth.

Reports on the Fabian Society, Trinity College, between 28 February and 29 October 1962. John Byrne spoke on the Capitol system in Ireland. Said that unless the power of the Catholic Church was restricted there was no hope of getting a decent wage for workers. Religious Orders held wealth of the country. Jesuits were dictators. The Catholic Workers’ College was set up to train people to take over trade unions. Maynooth College did not pay its workers a living wage. Jeffers was a lecturer in Trinity but forced to leave due to his work for Communism. Michael O’Riordan deplored Ireland being used as a cushion between Russia and America. Trade should be encouraged between Ireland and the Socialist countries. Michael Foot and John Collan were unable to attend a meeting due to the unsettled state of the world.

Letter from Fr. William J. Byrne to +McQuaid regarding an old custom to ask the curate in Maynooth to assist at the Conformation Ceremony.

• 20 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on Professorships of Theology, Carysford Training College, appointment and conditions of chaplains, Irish Martyrs, Boarded-Out children, O.M.E.P., teacher training, marriage rule, National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, teaching of Latin, various circulars from the I.N.T.O. Finances of Maynooth College and the state of its buildings discussed by Maynooth Trustees. Addenda - letter from I.N.T.O. to the Cardinal. 135 items 1955

January - December Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on primary and post primary education and changes to the Leaving Certificate. File also includes communications from the Holy See, information on ‘Humanae Vitae’, World Communications Day, sodalities, Justice & Peace, Apostolate of the Laity and annual reports from Universities. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as college and faculty business. 1969

Correspondence between Fr. James Duff, Maynooth, and +McQuaid. Fr. Duff cannot continue as editor of the I.E.R. due to the workload which came as a result of his appointment as Vice-President of the College. He will act as Editor until Dr. Brennan is free to replace him.

Telegram from Cardinal Glennon to +McQuaid stating he will be unable to visit Ireland. He hopes to visit on his return from the consistory and asks that he inform Maynooth.

Letter from +Ryan, Lisbon to +McQuaid stating he is going on pilgrimage to Lourdes with the West Indies pilgrims. He will be in Ireland after that and then head to Rome for a meeting of C.E.L.A.M., Episcopal Conference of Latin America. He has also been invited to the student retreat in Maynooth.

January - December Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on proposed law reform, Eucharistic Congress in Bombay and Episcopal Finance Committee. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to Conference of Convent Secondary Schools, the Intoxication Liquor Laws and the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as the Nicholas Callan Society, Holy See changes relating to seminaries and universities and findings from the Council for Administration for Primary Schools. 1963