James’s Street from Meath Street

Donore Avenue from Meath Street

Rescript from Archbishop McQuaid delineating the boundary between Meath Street parish and the new parish on Donore Avenue.

• 14 March 1946 Letters from Fr. Boylan to +McQuaid regarding the proofs of a Parish Magazine in Meath Street. 2 items

File relating to the old CYMS property located at 61-62 Meath Street.

Letter from Mgr. John Kyne, Bishop-Elect of Meath, to +McQuaid. He writes about the plans for his consecration in Rome and mentions Mgr Curran, Fr Brown and Dr MacCarthy.

Copy affidavit of Barry M. O’Meara, solicitor regarding the estate of Elizabeth Mary Frances Creagh, owner of property in Dublin and Meath. Mentions the abduction of Thomas Hornibrook in April 1922, his surviving daughter Matilda Warmington Woods and son, Thomas, who now resides in New Zealand.

Letter from Mgr. Benelli to +McQuaid regarding a ‘rather strange letter he has received from a person who resides in the Archdiocese of Dublin’. Annotations, in the hand of McQuaid, suggest the lady is Mrs. Lily Cox, of the Diocese of Meath and she has written many such letters. She is well known to the clergy.

’51 Draft handwritten copy and two typed copies of a letter to His Excellency, the Most Rev. Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio, marked ‘Secret’. The following items are referred to: the Government has accepted the Hierarchy’s judgement; the Leftist elements in the Labour groups and Women’s Associations have repeated the calumnies of the Irish Times; the Irish Times has surpassed itself in injustice, noticed by representative Protestants; his position on the case of the Meath Hospital Committee and lawsuit ensures that the attitude of the Protestants and Freemasons will not tolerate any injustice done to the Church; Partition; the Government’s decision has thrown Socialism and Communism back a long time.

Letter from +John McCormack, Bishop of Meath, stating he will be at the Liturgical Reception.