-16 March 1958. Begley, Patrick, Sommerville, Corrig Ave., Dunlaoire. Seeks the assistance of + McQuaid to help him obtain an appointment as a broadcaster in Radio Eireann. Emigrates to work in similar position abroad.

• Correspondence between Gertie Searson, +McQuaid, +Michael Browne, Galway, Fr. Laurence Redmond and Patrick Byrne, Crumlin regarding articles on contraception and marriage. Many of the articles were written by Nurse McEnroy. Also mention of Angela McNamara. Statement by +McQuaid marriage and family planning. Copies of Journals & Newspapers 26 November 1971

Note to + McQuaid from his Secretary saying Patrick Kavanagh phoned to ask if he might the Archbishop. He plans to marry next week.

Report on the Irish Workers’ League. General feeling is that the League is losing ground. At their meeting at Mansfield Corner their speakers were attacked, so the League has gone underground. Last summer it held camps at Dundalk, Skerries and Killybegs. Excursion to Enniskerry ended with a drunken orgy. Links between the IWL and the ‘folk university’. Information on Miss Annie Peach, Miss Hilda Verlin, Sean Nolan the following need watching: John Byrne, Patrick O’Neill and Stephen Daly. John Dalton has returned to Church.

Copy of release and conveyance from Archbishop McQuaid to Rev. Patrick Dunne and Rev. Thomas O’Donnell regarding the purchase of the remaining one fourth part of the rent on the property at Crumlin.

Release and conveyance from Archbishop McQuaid to Rev. Patrick Dunne and Rev. Thomas O’Donnell regarding the purchase of the remaining one fourth part of the rent on the property at Crumlin.

Letter from +Robinson to +McQuaid regarding a request that Rev. Patrick Dunne VG be bestowed with the title of Domestic Prelate, and Rev. Richard Casey bestowed with the title Privy Chamberlain. Both have been made Domestic Prelate but there may have been an error regarding the title for Fr. Casey. He advises waiting further communication for the Secretariat of State to clarify the matter.

Typed draft of an article/speech titled ‘The Writer’ by Peadar O’Donnell. Would come near defining a writer when they reveal people “behaving and misbehaving towards one another.” The writer needs freedom and in Ireland he enjoys less than any other country. Irish writers are shut in and silenced by their job and “conditioned to bark if they want to prosper as emigrants to America.” Perhaps Ireland’s greatest cultural crime has been her waste of the poet Patrick Kavanagh.

Letter from Fr. Patrick Clarke to +McQuaid regarding the need for a new National School. The Corporation has offered a site for £400.

Correspondence between +McQuaid and Frs., 2, March 1965, Richard Casey, John O’Regan and Patrick Duffey seeking dispensations from the Lenten Fast for Army personnel, 29 items