Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Fr. Patrick J. McKillop, Springfield Road, Belfast, thanking him for letter and financial assistance. The effects of the troubles on the minds of people and the spiritual deterioration are causes of alarm.

-1 March Correspondence between +McQuaid, Fr. Gallen, Fr. John Kelly, Fr. John O’Connell, Fr. Patrick Leahy, +W. Philbin, Belfast, +Michael Browne, Galway regarding the papers of the 1968 Maynooth Summer School which are to be published by M.H. Gill. However, Fr. J. Coveney, S.J., Heythorp College has now published one article in the ‘Furrow’ entitled ‘The presence of Christ’. Annotations by +McQuaid. Front Page Detective 1969

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: Patrick Carmody gave an illustrated lecture on Sean O’Casey. ‘Buster’ McCabe arrived from Belfast. Peadar O’Donnell spoke on ‘The Irish in Britain’, saying that English Catholics were antagonistic towards Irish émigrés. Tommy O’Reilly (a retired ITGWU official) said that “150 unemployed from each side of the city should purchase food and having no money to pay would be jailed. This would bring matters to a head.”