Letter from +Robinson to +McQuaid thanking him for the cheque of £100 in connection with Canon Dargan’s appointment as Parish Priest of Rathgar. He now enclosed a receipt.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Patrick Dargan, Rathgar Road. Having examined the proposed ‘Health Bill, 1950’ he is of the opinion that it deals satisfactorily with what he considers the objectional features. In his opinion the proposed amendments would render the Health Act, 1947 unobjectionable from the standpoint of Catholic moral principles.

Harold’s Cross from Rathmines, Rathgar & Terenure

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Archbishop requests institute to consider a home for poor convalescent mothers and a private nursing home or hospital on south side of the city. Mt Carmel Hospital is begun, See Hospital File. Intimation of visitation by Visitor appointed by the Holy See, later cancelled in view of excellent reports received from Ordinaries in UK and Ireland. Refusal for sisters from outside Ireland to seek postulants in Dublin Letter from Lord Pakenham to AB explaining context of National Bank of Ireland's refusal to loan Pound300,000 for hospital in Rathgar.

Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate. They are granted permission to open a Retreat House. Marianella [Rathgar] is considered.

. Burke, John, 12 Rostrevor Terrace, Rathgar, Dublin. Encloses photograph of Frank Duff taken from a school group at Blackrock College, 1903.

Curran, C.P., Garville Avenue, Rathgar. Thanks the Archbishop for his kindness to his brother during his illness, and to himself when his brother died.

Dargan, Patrick, Rathgar Road, Dublin. Donal Buckley, former Governor- General of Saorstat Eireann, wishes to have Mass celebrated in his home in Blackrock.

Flusk, Moire, 123 Rathgar Road. Thanks the Archbishop for his goodness to her sons.

Hayes, Michael, 20 Brighton Square, Rathgar. Could ‘your people’ influence the Fianna Fail party to speak for the Amendment on the Children’s Bill.