January - December Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on liturgy, celibacy, ecumenism, the new marriage rite, education, theology, doctrine, justice and peace, missions, emigrants and universities. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and minutes. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as college development and expansion plans, college administration, faculty business and students. Letters from priests nominating candidates for the Episcopal election. Items 189-196 (plans) are oversize. They are stored in Drawer 1. 1971

Letter from +Doorly to +McQuaid thanking him for the cheque for £10 for the Maynooth College appeal.

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.

Letter from +Keogh to +McQuaid concerning a student who has received a county council scholarship which can only be availed of at the national University and not Maynooth and so wondered if the student could live in Clonliffe College and attend UCD. Annotation that it is a pleasure to fix him up and he is directed to write to the president.

March as a possible date for the Nuncio’s Reception in Maynooth. Annotated by +McQuaid.

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.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Heenan regarding Fr. Andrew Moore. He also states he has no objection to the Cardinal speaking at the Maynooth Summer School.

Letter from +Heenan to +McQuaid stating he was at Maynooth but did not visit as he knew the Archbishop takes his holidays during this month.

Letter from Mgr. Levame to +McQuaid thanking him for the reception at Maynooth.

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.