Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from T. O Raifeartaigh requesting an interview to discuss an application to have St. Michael’s House, Northbrook, recognized as a national school for Mentally Handicapped Children, and the general problem of providing for the teaching of backward children.

McGowen, Ml., Chairman, Dublin Unemployed, Northbrook Ave., North Strand. He is appalled at men eating their meal, at the Bon Succour premises, out of their hands; at men being turned away from the Centre at Meath Street as they were a few minutes late; the food at Usher’s Island substandard.

O’Connell, T.J., 15 Northbrook Road, Dublin, regarding an invitation to Mass in Westland Row.

Correspondence relating to the need for providing a school for mentally retarded children in the Crumlin area. This could be attached to Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children as the Order of St. Vincent de Paul are experts on the problems of mentally handicapped children. Such a School (Day Centre) has already been set up: St. Michael’s House, Northbrook Road, Dublin. The Association of Parents and Friends of Mentally Handicapped Children wish to have this Day Centre be recognized as a National School and seek State assistance to have a similar Day Centre established on the North side. Ruthland Street National School Project, 1968-69