Letter from Fr. John J. Gaffney to +McQuaid regarding Plunkett Dillon. He is grateful for His Grace’s permission regarding Trinity College, and regrets the ill-advised wording of his letter of application.

-25 March 1958 Correspondence to + McQuaid from Shane Leslie who is on a lecture tour of the United States. Topics mentioned include: the Tostal disagreement; the ‘Negro’ question, which he feels is as insoluble as the Ulster question; the possibility of the Archbishop meeting Seymour Leslie; the idea that a historic play on Oliver Plunkett be written and staged.

Plunkett, Lillia, Portmarnock House. Invitation to the Archbishop to lunch. Petrol restriction prevented it.

Letter from Cardinal Conway to +McQuaid nominating Fr. Fergus O’Higgins for the Cause of Blessed Oliver Plunkett.

Letter from Brother Alexander Kelliher, S.A., St. Paul’s Friary, Graymoor, Garrison, NY, to + McQuaid seeking two first class relics of Blessed Oliver Plunkett.

Telegram from +Lyons to +McQuaid greeting him at the Convention of League of Prayer for Canonisation of Blesses Oliver Plunkett assembled at Veritas House.

Letter from Cardinal Conway to +McQuaid regarding the cause of Blessed Oliver Plunkett. Mgr. John Hanly, Vice Rector of the Irish College has been appointed Postulator.

File relating to religious ceremonies including changes to Mass times and a pilgrimage to the shrine of Oliver Plunkett in Drogheda.

• Letters and newspaper cutting regarding the formation of the Censorship Reform Society. Members include Jim Fitzpatrick, theatre and television producer, Michael Mac Liammoir, James Plunkett, Hugh Leonard, Edna O’Brien and Bruce Arnold. Dr. Paul McQuaid also asked to join the Society. Theatre 31 March 1967

Davenport, Anne, Oliver Plunkett Road, Dun Laoghaire, wrote to Pope Paul regarding birth control.