Letter from Mgr. Moynagh to +McQuaid regarding his consecration in Maynooth. The co-consecrators are +MacNamee and +Keogh. Annotated by +McQuaid.

• 16 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on Catholic Headmaster’s Association and the ASTI, evening lectures in UCD, the indenture for the establishment of the National Pilgrimage to Lourdes, and the annual report for the Catholic Information Bureau. Finances and the state of buildings at Maynooth College discussed by the Maynooth Trustees. 1953

• Correspondence between Dr. Hamell, Maynooth,

Letter to +Heenan from Fr. Enda McDonagh, Maynooth inviting him to give a lecture on ‘Corresponsibility in the Pastoral Mission’ during the Maynooth Union Summer School. Copy of programme attached.

Note from Rev. Dr. J. McConnell in connection with the reception for the new Nuncio which is to be held in Maynooth. On the last occasion there was a certain amount of confusion regarding the event when the Archbishop of Dublin never told that a special Ordo Recipiendi had been sent to the Hierarchy.

• 7 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the 1947 Health Act, Emigration, ‘Save Derrynane Fund’, Catholic Protection and Rescue Society and issues relating to legalised Adoption. Information relating to the work of the Maynooth Trustees. Also education and lay organisations. (Item 34 oversized. Stored in Drawer 1) 1948

Letter from James McConnell, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to McQuaid, thanking him for explaining what had happened at the college, on the previous occasion, in relation to the reception for the new Nuncio. It will be suggested to the President of the College to contact McQuaid before the coming ceremony, if it does not occur to him to do so.

Copy of a typed letter to the Hon. Joseph P. Walshe, Ambassador to the Holy See, from + D’Alton informing him that the Bishops were unwilling to sponsor the proposed Chapel due to their heavy commitment to Maynooth College. They also felt that they should have been consulted about the project and that their consent and cooperation should have been obtained before definite steps were taken.

telegram from +Collier to +McQuaid giving details of the Maynooth meeting and sending Easter greetings.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from John McCarthy, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, enclosing a copy of the Report compiled by the Sub-Committee on Legal Adoption.