Letter from Fr. Patrick Dunne to +McQuaid regarding the Chapel at Portmarnock.

Letter from Fr. Patrick Flanagan to +McQuaid seeking permission to have the Devotion of the Miraculous Medal held each week. 1 item

Typed letter to Fr. J.A. MacMahon from Chief Superintendent Philip MacMahon. The only Dr. Woods at 3 Fitzwilliam Place is the chief Ear, Nose and Throat specialist at Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital. His daughter is married to Mark Hely-Hutchinson, son and heir to Lord Dunoughmore, Grand Master of the Freemason Order in Ireland. Enquiries failed to reveal the existence of the ‘Vietnam’ group of which Dr. Woods is stated to be Secretary.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: a talk was given on Sean O’Casey (a loyal supporter of IWL) by Patrick Carmody. Paul M. Sekiya, Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Japan, is to speak at the home of Mr. Alfred Bewley under the auspices of the Dublin Society of Friends’ Peace Council and the Irish Pacifist Movement. A small Left -Wing Labour group has been started by Matthew Merrigan and John Byrne. Its policy is anti-coalition.

Correspondence from Frs. Edward Rhatigan and Patrick Rice to +McQuaid thanking him for his cheques for the Club and help for poor people for Christmas.

Letter from +Morris to +McQuaid providing contact details for Fr. James Holway. Also mentions Fr. Patrick Russell’s wish to be present at a relative’s wedding and hopes the Archbishop can release him. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from Fr. O’Connor, Parish Priest, Clonskeagh regarding a request from Patrick Connaughton who wishes to be ordained in the parish. He is originally from the area and his family still live there. He is currently based at the seminary in Pretoria and his Bishop is Cardinal McCann. Annotated by +McQuaid.

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

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

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.