Letter from Fr. A. Moriarty to +McQuaid regarding a Mass in the Eagle Nest.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + James Staunton, Ferns, making the following points: encloses two suggested clauses for the Adoption Bill; the Minister realizes that Irish children are being raised by money partly contributed by foreign bigots, in the Protestant religion, to continue the British policy of increasing the number or Protestants in the country, and to provide recruits for the British Army; the Children’s Act helps to proseltyse; Irish law allows anybody of any ‘ism’ to adopt a child if he states that he is doing it for ‘love and affection’; children in the Bird’s Nest are all Catholic.

• 28 January1970 File relating to parish property including Betty Glen, 279 & 379 Howth Road, 21 St. Assam’s Avenue, Cameron Lodge Estate, home for elderly, 81 Maywood Crescent, 28 Maywood Lawn, Swan’s Nest & 100, 101 & 122 Grange Park estate.

Letter from P. Maguire to Fr. McKernan telling him of the ‘unsavoury reputation’ of the district around the Eagle Nest premises at Bray Head.