Letter from +O’Brien to +McQuaid stating he will be in Dublin in July as he has been awarded an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland. He mentions his continued search for priests and the bishops of Cloyne and Meath have said they will try to help. He has had over one million migrants settle in his diocese. Torn. 1 item

Letter from +Walsh to +McQuaid. He writes to +McQuaid about the fact that the Bishop of Meath has given Fr Simoni permission to make a foundation at Glasson Co. Westmeath.

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

’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 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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