Typed report. The following items are mentioned. John Nolan has gone to Russia for celebrations. Efforts made to push The Plough. Letter in The Sunday Independent looking for money and old clothes – same address as The Plough. Garda to be informed. Mrs MacAuley and others are “all out” to change the method of calling jurors.

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: Letchford has another article published in The Irish Democrat. The meaning of Murphy’s (ex T.D.) resignation discussed. D. Fennel, ex Belvedere and ex Opus Dei. Has written articles on China and Northern Irish Catholics. Another copy of The Plough appeared. The Socialist Review is due out soon. Fr. Tuohy to speak to Mr. Owen Dudley Edwards on the matter of the 1913 Club. Irish Workers’ League holds weekly meetings in Pembroke Lane addressed by Sam Nolan. 58A. 22 May 1958 Note for Dr. MacMahon regarding information for V. Deals with Technical Teachers Union affiliated to the Workers Union of Ireland.

Letter from Gerard Nolan, Catholic Stage Guild, to Fr. Mangan mentioning confessions for theatre staff, preparations for the Feast of the Regality of Our Lady, and the General Meeting of the Guild House Club.

Nolan, Allan, The Richview Press, Clonskeagh, concerning the Imprimatur of Da La Bedoyere’s work.

Typed letter to Fr. Glennon, S.T.L., Archbishop’s House, from N.F. Nolan, Dept. of External Affairs, regarding remittances owed for cables. Cables now cost £2-15-11 instead of £1-0-4.

Typed letter to Fr. Mangan from Lt. Colonel J.E. Nolan enclosing a list of disputed boundaries.

• Correspondence between Allen Nolan, Browne & Nolan, +McQuaid, and Fr. John McMackin, Maynooth, regarding the publication of the I.E.R. The Record has been incurring losses over the years, and in the year 23 June 1971 lost £1,408. Browne & Nolan could not afford to sustain such losses and reluctantly decided, on financial grounds, to cease publishing the Record. The final issue was the December 1968 one. 25 items The Marian Year 1968

Handwritten minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. Fr. Tuohy submitted a full report on M. O’Riordan and was informed by the local clergy that O’Riordan did not have a change of heart. As far as Fr. Tuohy knows Nolan has not been to Russia. Members to find out who is the head of the Communist Party in Ireland and information on John de Courcey Ireland, George Jeffares and Hilda Alberry.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities (two copies). John Nolan was to report on the Executive Committee meeting in London but failed to turn up. On 18th July Nolan met four members at New Books, 16a Pearse Street, and told them that the London conference did not have a satisfactory outcome. On the 19th July Nolan gave a talk on ‘Emigration, a National Crisis’. Capitalism had failed the census returns showed a decline in the population agricultural production and manufacturing industries are less than half developed 60,000 unemployed. He referred to a series of lectures under the patronage of Dr. McQuaid titled ‘The Answer to Communism’.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities, stamped ‘confidential’. The following items are mentioned in the report: the statements from George Jeffares on the international situation and Sam Nolan on the national situation. Nolan laid stress on inadequate social services alleging that no Government in the last 30 years had tried to solve the problem. The following topics were reported on: the “Geneva Fiasco” the Manor House, Dunkineely Dr. Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Peadar O’Donnell addressing the inaugural meeting of the Dublin Typographical Debating Society the Peace Campaign’s meeting on the 16th December 1955.