Typed letter to +McQuaid from Sean Moylan, Minister for Education. School buildings need to be maintained and widespread neglect has placed a heavy burden on taxpayers. The Minister believes that a demand should be made on the local community to make a minor contribution to ensure attention to the maintenance of buildings.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Sean Moylan, Minister for Education, enclosing a document which suggests that St. Enda’s College, Galway, be turned into a Training College for Catholic lay women teachers of National Schools.

Correspondence between Sean Moylan and +McQuaid regarding a scheme for the acceptance of graduates as a temporary avenue of recruitment for the staffing of National Schools.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid thanking him for allowing Fr. Stephen Clancy leave the Clergy Retreat to accompany Fr. Moylan, former Vicar General to the Nuncio and from Atlanta, to Shannon Airport. Neither he nor Mgr. Alibrandi were available to accompany Fr. Boylan to Collinstown and hence he is very grateful to the Archbishop. He also discusses the merits of the complaints of Br. John O’Toole which will be sent to the Sacred Congregation for Religious and he has followed the advice and information provided by the Archbishop. He also mentions Professor H. Bruck who has been nominated for membership to the Pontifical Academy of Science. He mentions the new Nuncio who is leaving Cairo on 31 July and who plans on stopping in Rome before coming to Dublin.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Sean Moylan, Oifig an Aire Oideachais, informing him that Mr. Patrick Duffy, Principal of Rush Boys’ National School, has been granted leave of absence to attend the World Congress of the Lay Apostolate.

Typed letter to Fr. Patrick Dunne, Archbishop’s House, from Sean Moylan, Office of the Parliamentary Secretary, Dept. of Defence, requesting that an announcement be made at all Masses in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire emphasizing the advisability of registering in the event of an evacuation.

Twenty four replies to the form delegating to the Head Chaplain diocesan facilities. 31/7/6/a. 19 March - October 1941 File relating to the development of an Air Raid Precaution Scheme (A.R.P.). Mentions concern about food shortages. Includes names of those involved with various charities, Catholic and others. Includes letter from Pamela Hinkson which speaks about the work done by the Bewley’s in feeding the poor of Dublin. Also mentions Dr. Collis, Marrowbone Lane Samaritan Fund, Inchicore and a conference chaired by Sean Moylan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence. One enclosure thanks Archbishop for his financial assistance in helping St. George’s parish local group with their A.R.P.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid thanking him for the information on the solemn consecration of Ireland to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He will forward this information to the Canadian Hierarchy. He states that Mgr. Moylan and himself went in the car of the Nuncio of Vienna to within 29 miles of the Iron Curtain but they did not approach any closer. He describes it as a strenuous trip.