Committee has been set up to consider the possibility of launching a paper in which ideas would be discussed and questions – political, social and educational – investigated in a spirit of impartial enquiry. Brendan Behan, James Plunkett and Owen Sheehy –Skeffington among those on the Committee.

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

-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.

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: a definite agenda should be prepared in advance of each meeting and sent to members a special summary should be sent immediately to the Archbishop. Censorship Reform Group: personalities involved were discussed – Jim Fitzgerald, a former producer with Telefis Eireann Micheal MacLiamor, already known James Plunkett, former Secretary of the WUI and a friend of Jim Larkin Hugh Leonard, no information available Bruce Arnold, no information available T. P. McKenna, an actor of repute.

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.

Typed copy of an appeal for publishing a monthly paper which would discuss political, social and educational ideas in a spirit of impartial enquiry. Committee includes Brendan Behan, Matt Merrigan, James Plunkett and Owen Sheehy Skeffington.