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.

-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.

cutting from The Kerryman newspaper containing advertisement for a series of stories relating to Fermoy written by Mary Hickey that would shortly be published in the newspaper (4 October 1958); "British troops ran amok but Fermoy did not wilt" (c1950s); "Fermoy man's arrest after taking of British arms" (c1950s); cutting containing image of "Blessed Oliver Plunkett Girls' Pipe Band" (c1960s); "Many mourn [Archbishop] Dr Mannix" (1963); "Edmund Burke's youth by the Blackwater" (c1980s).

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

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.

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