Typed letter to Rev. J. A. McMahon, Secretary, Archbishop’s House, from Fr. Fehily, Director, Institute of Catholic Sociology. At the AGM of the Marine Port and General Workers’ Union Desmond Brannigan, who was expelled from the Union, was readmitted to membership. Legally this was an appeal against his expulsion, and by being readmitted it means that he never ceased to be a member of the Union. He is eligible for election and has a good chance of being elected as General Secretary. His opponents, Mr. O’Donoghue and Mr. Byrne, may use delaying tactics. If This happens Brannigan may have to leave the country as he is in severe financial difficulties.

Letter from Fr. M.S McMahon to +McQuaid informing him that the instructions to the priests in his deanery would be loyally and cheerfully carried out.

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. + McQuaid renewed the faculties of the members of the Committee to read Communist literature. Fr. McMahon to supply list of names the Committee can use to seek information on Communist activities. A Catholic, Laurence Roche, has been elected President of the Philosophical Society in Trinity College. He has strong socialist tendencies.

Typed letter from P. A. Carter, British Embassy, Dublin, to Fr. A. McMahon. He is new to the post but will continue sending reading material “in which you had an interest.” He needs assurance that the literature is satisfactory and good use can be made of it. Maybe he is receiving too much literature or not enough.

Letter from Fr. Paddy Crean to Michael seeking permission for Fr. Arthur McMahon to speak to a private meeting to the Bakery Trades Branch of St. Joseph’s Young Priests Society.

Letter from Fr. Troy to Fr. Leo Quinlan regarding the GAA and the visit of the Sam Maguire Cup to the local schools. 1 item 13/27/1. Postcard from Fr. Troy to Fr. McMahon from Israel where he is having a wonderful time. 1 item

Prescott, Martin, Brighton Road, Foxrock. Correspondence with Fr. J.A. McMahon where Mr. Prescott, a Jew, complains of an article headlined Hungary Murdered by Jewish Gangsters in Fiat. Letter to Mgs. Tardini enclosed.

Letter from B. McMahon, Censorship Board to J.J. Murphy regarding ‘The dead, the dying and the Damned’ by D.J. Hollands.

Typed letter to Fr. James McMahon from J.G. Dowling, County Secretary, Waterford, thanking him for his letter relating to the E.S.B. dispute.

Letter from Fr. John Moloney to Dr. McMahon informing him that John Feeney at no time asked for permission to use the Pro-Cathedral. They wanted to know if some groups of sodalities might be organising to resist them.