Correspondence between Richard Mulcahy, Minister for Education, and +McQuaid. Mr. John Harte, Superintendent of Marlborough House, Glasnevin, is due to retire, aged 75. The Minister would be happy to meet +McQuaid whom he believes has expressed a desire that the institution should be in the hands of some Religious Order.

Letter from Fr. Cathal McCarthy to Archbishop McQuaid regarding a 50th wedding anniversary Mass for General Richard Mulcahy and his wife.

Copy of typed letter to General Mulcahy, Minister for Education, from +McQuaid. The Draft is a distinct improvement on the previous suggestions.

Letter from +Cohalan to +McQuaid. He hopes that +McQuaid might be able to offer a placement in Dublin to Fr Mulcahy who returned from England on health grounds and is now fit. Annotation by +McQuaid.

File relating to Gerard Mulcahy and the Irish Youth Crusade.

Letter from +Cohalan to +McQuaid. He regrets that he hadn’t informed +McQuaid that Fr Mulcahy had already secured an appointment in the Diocese of Southwark. Annotation by +McQuaid.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Richard Mulcahy, returning the books of the Christian Family Living Series. 38/173A. 26 January Copy of typed letter to General R. Mulcahy, T.D., Minister for Education, from D.J. Kelleher, General Secretary, INTO. The INTO acknowledge that secondary teachers had a grievance regarding pay as they did not get the increase the INTO received in 1955. However, the pay increase they now received means there is a widening in pay differentials and this is unjust.

Correspondence involving General Richard Mulcahy, +McQuaid, and Dr. Michael Tierney, President, UCD. The Government is concerned to think that the lack of suitable co-ordination between the Medical School at University College, Dublin, and the Hospitals associated with its teaching, should endanger the recognition abroad of graduates from University College, Dublin. It approves of the Archbishop’s proposal that a small committee of one representative from each of the hospitals for which he is responsible should meet under a Chairman to discuss the scheme of co-ordination necessary to set in order the medical teaching at UCD so that there may be no grounds upon which Great Britain or America may refuse to recognize its graduates.

Copy of letter from +McQuaid to +Cohalan. He is able to place Fr Mulcahy with the Presentation Sisters in Blackrock and asks him to take up duty on 3rd September.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Richard Mulcahy enclosing a copy of the Report of the Conference on the system of rating the work of National School Teachers. Also, a copy of a letter to + Staunton.