Letter from +Griffin to +McQuaid in relation to the building of a large social centre for the transferred war workers from Ireland. Mrs. Murtagh has been involved along with the Ministry for Labour.

letter from +Charles Grant to +McQuaid thanking him for sending another priest to help Fr. Murtagh in Luton. Nottingham

Correspondence regarding the theological training of Richard Murtagh, aged 78, and his forthcoming ordination at Milltown. Plymouth

• 6 July 1971 Letters from Fr. Liam Murtagh to +McQuaid seeking permission to have Benediction in the church yard. 2 items

Typed copy of the minutes of the ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: at a recent Postal Workers’ Union election Sean Moore was not allowed to speak Des Brannigan was elected Murphy is the new Secretary and seems to be “under party discipline” Mr. Murtagh, their solicitor, was “booted out without warning” and has joined the IWL. A priest told a Committee member a boy informed him that he was trained as a Communist by his father. If the father deviated the boy would report him. During the last (general) election Michael O’Riordan, a bus-conductor, stood for election. When it was rumoured that a letter from the Archbishop was to be read at Masses it seems that protests were arranged in all churches in the constituency. O’Riordan is very affable.

Letter from +Bernard Griffin, Auxiliary Bishop to +McQuaid regarding Irish girls in the diocese and the work of Mrs. Murtagh. He praises the Archbishop’s work with the Catholic Social Welfare Bureau and also compliments the work of the Legion of Mary.

Letter from +Thomas Williams to +McQuaid regarding the situation of unmarried Irish mothers in his diocese. He mentions the work of Mrs. Murtagh who he speaks of highly.