Handwritten report saying that Sam Nolan and Deasy are going to seminar in Czechoslovakia. Selected by IWL at the request of the British Communist Party. Their subject is: ‘The Relationship between the Church and Trade Unions’. O’Riordan was in Moscow for May Day. Wonders what Eamon Byrne is doing here. Is he trying to start a branch of Connolly Association?

Letter from John Nolan to +McQuaid inviting him to the official opening of an exhibition on modern Irish religious art and architecture. Annotated by +McQuaid. An Tóstal

-8 Correspondence regarding the play ‘The Hostage’ being November 1960 staged in The Olympia from Fr. Gerard Nolan, S.J. and Dermot O’Flynn, Knights of St. Columbanus. Also some newspaper cuttings.

Letter from Gerard Nolan to +McQuaid thanking him for his extremely generous gift of £500 to the Guild Welfare Fund. Office Catholique International du Cinema

Letter from John Kelly to +McQuaid informing him that he has received a copy of a book entitled ‘A Tribute to Newman: Essays on aspects of his Life and Thought’ from Messrs. Browne and Nolan. He intends to grant the diocesan licence for publication.

Partial letter informing the Monsignor that Brown Nolan wish to reprint Mgr. Fulton Sheehan’s ‘Communism and the Conscience of the West.’ He has given the ‘Nihil Obstat’ but questions whether it is needed.

Letter from M. Brennan to +McQuaid informing him that he has been in negotiations with Browne & Nolan with the view of altering the cover of I.E.R. so that the table of contents are placed on it.

-8 November Correspondence between Fr. Joseph A. Carroll, Diocesan Censor, Fr. C. Mangan, Secretary, S.J. Hughes, Browne & Nolan and Patrick Dargan regarding the translation into English the German book Bekenntnis Zur Katholischen Kirche (Conversion to the Catholic Church). The book consists of four essays written by four German Protestant married ministers who were received into the Church. The issue is whether it is appropriate at this time to translate this work into English in either England or Ireland. No. 1955

Letter from James Nolan, Aughrim, to +McQuaid complaining about the conduct of Mass in the parish church. Reply from Fr Henry PP and annotated by Archbishop. Note of thanks

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