Handwritten letter to Dr. McMahon from Patrick Moloney, O’Connor & Aylward, Architects, wishing him every blessing for Christmas.

5-6 September 1949 Letter from Mgr. Paro to +McQuaid enclosing a rescript which has arrived from the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church. It wants the Hierarchy to establish an organisation entitled ‘The Pontifical Mission for Palestine’, in accordance with the wishes of the Holy Father. Mgr. Thomas McMahon, National Secretary of the Catholic Near east Welfare Association in the United States of American has been asked to take charge of the ‘Mission’.

Card to Fr. James Ardle McMahon acknowledging his letter of the 19 April 1958.

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 minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Fr. Crean has checked on J. Driscoll and J. Meehan and found that they are of good standing. Fr. Kent drew attention to a meeting of the GAA in London which was reported in The Cork Examiner. It stated that the Irish in London were warned that the Bolsheviks and Trotskyites were attempting to infiltrate Irish ranks. Fr. McMahon referred to a letter in The Evening Mail which may be Trotskyite.

Handwritten letter from Fr. Liam Carey to Fr. Ardle McMahon, with the report of the meeting attached (item no.126). He hopes this format better helps to outline the work of the Committee.

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. Carey to Fr. Ardle McMahon enclosing a copy of the minutes.

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. Fitzpatrick to Fr. McMahon regarding the proposed Childrens’ Playroom.