Letter from Mgr. P.J. Dalton to +McQuaid asking him to preside at his consecration in Maynooth in September. The co-consecrators are +McCarthy of Kaduna and +Hagan of Makurdi. Annotated by +McQuaid. Rhodesia

Letter from +Collier to +McQuaid. He thanks him for sending the new Formula for the Profession of Faith and hopes to meet him at the next meeting Maynooth.

Letter from +Collier to +McQuaid. He writes about the draft catechism and while he only has two students coming out of Maynooth this year he can send one to help in Dublin. Annotation by +McQuaid.

and agendas. Letters re the Irish Film Institute of Ireland, The All Ireland Gaelic Congress and the Centenary Year of the Holy Childhood Association. Letters regarding the heating and maintenance of primary schools and the retirement age of religious. Includes correspondence from Bishop Staunton & T. O Deirg. Information on matters concerning the Trustees of Maynooth College and their work. 1944

Committee. Includes information on the Catholic Young Men’s Society, Adoption and Emigrants Welfare. Also mentions salary scales for teachers. Minutes of meeting of Maynooth Trustees. 1947

• 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

• 29 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the INTO and legal adoption, the issue of school buildings and maintenance, crime comics, the NUI, and the definition of the Assumption of Our Lady. Finances and the state of buildings at Maynooth College discussed by the Maynooth Trustees. 1951

• 9 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on Ireland and refugees, a Women’s Hospital for Cork with many letters from Alfred O’Rahilly, primary school issues, Save Derrynane Appeal and Alcoholics Anonymous. Finances and the state of buildings at Maynooth College discussed by the Maynooth Trustees. 72 items 1952

• 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

• October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on education, Vexilla Regis, Baptism certificates for adopted children, Veritas, an appeal from Polish Catholics, and the Cause of the Irish Martyrs. Notices and minutes from Standing Committee mainly relating to emigrants and the establishment of the Legion of Mary in England and education. Also discussion on the F.C.A. (Foras Cosanta Aitiuil). Finances of Maynooth College and the state of its buildings discussed by Maynooth Trustees.