Series Building Committee and 28 Mountjoy Square

Typed letter to +McQuaid from N.C Ball, Ass. Secretary, Dept. of Justice. Fr. John Kelly has resigned as Chaplain at Mountjoy Prison. Asks that a successor be nominated.

Typed letter to + McQuaid from David Pigot. The National Graves’ Commission lodged a proposed inscription with the Committee to go on the memorial of Lieut. General Patrick McGrath. The Committee could not accept the wording. McGrath was executed in Mountjoy Prison on 6 September 1940. The inscription suggested that McGrath was a member of the National Defence Force and died in defence of the state.

Handwritten draft letter to G. Boland, Minister for Justice, from M.P. O’Connell, Secretary, regarding the departure of Fr. M. Clarke as Chaplain to Mountjoy Prison, and the proposal that Fr. Joseph Carroll and Fr. Jerome Curtin should be Chaplains to that Institution.

Printed letter from Una Bean A. Staic, Strand Road, Merrion, asking the people of Ireland to join with her in a Triduum of Masses for a special intention – Charlie Kerins who is to be hanged in Mountjoy

• 11 Five items relating to the resignation of Fr. Richard J. Glennon as Sept. 1945 Catholic Chaplain to Mountjoy Prison and the appointment of Fr. M.J. Clarke as his replacement.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from G. Boland regarding the appointment of Fr. Carroll as Assistant Chaplain at Mountjoy Prison.

Copy of typed letter to Rev. John Byrne from +McQuaid appointing him as Chaplain to Mountjoy Female Prison.

Letter from Sean Kavanagh, Governor, Mountjoy Prison, seeking permission to have Fr. J.C. Heenan, Catholic Missionary Society of England, give a lecture to the prisoners in Mountjoy. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Three items relating to the appointment of Dr. Curtin as Senior Chaplain to Mountjoy and Dr. O’Connell as Chaplain.