• 28 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the Health Act 1953, the Department of Philosophy, Dublin, new programme in catechism for primary schools, closure of dance halls at midnight, insurance policies for schools, Adoption Act 1952, banned literature, emigrant Irish girls in England, the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Catholic Women’s League, Catholic Information Bureau and the Catholic Boy Scouts. Finances of Maynooth College and applications for faculty positions discussed. 1954

Letter from Fr. Michael T. MacSweeney to +McQuaid saying he will forward the suggested contribution from Maynooth to Fr. Glennon.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Nicholas Barron. Was asked by the Women’s Societies and Social Workers to draft an act. Did so with the help of Drs. McCarthy and Lucey, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and brother members of the Irish Bar. Anxious to know if the Bishops consider an Adoption Act as feasible, and if so whether his draft has the necessary precautions.

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.

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.

Letter from Fr. Fergus O’Higgins to +McQuaid informing him that the people of Maynooth have refused to help Leixlip as Leixlip had refused to join when the Planned Giving began here.

Letter from +Keogh to +McQuaid. He asks whether an elderly priest who lives in his diocese but spends five or six weeks a year with his sister in the city could be given permission to habitually celebrate Mass in his sister’s house. Annotation that Dr K himself at Maynooth advised against giving this permission even per modum actus.

Letter from Fr. John Fitzpatrick to +McQuaid asking permission to allow Dr. Cremin of the Canon Law Faculty, Maynooth, to borrow their Baptism Register. An entry may be examined by the judge in court.

• 11 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the teaching of the catechism, the Catholic Information Bureau and the need for a conference of convent primary schools. Finances and the state of buildings at Maynooth College discussed by the Maynooth Trustees. Also Irish Colleges Paris and Salamanca. 1950

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.