January - October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the use of the vernacular in the Liturgy, education and proposed changes to the Marriage Act. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to education and dispensation from abstinence on New Year’s Day. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as the formation of priests, declining number of new vocations, pastoral relevance of the liturgy, applications for various teaching positions and the centenary celebrations of the Nicholas Callan Society. Addenda - reference to Constitution on the Liturgy. Mention of the proposed establishment of an Irish Theological Association and Hierarchy University Fund. 1965

Letter from +Wall to +McQuaid stating he can do the Ordinations in Maynooth and is very grateful for the use of the Archbishop’s car.

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

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.

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.

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

• 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

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

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

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