Four items relating to the appointment of Fr. Richard O’Donoghue, Rialto, to the Censorship of Films Appeal Board.

Rialto from Dolphin’s Barn

McDonnell, Pat, Fatima Mansions, Rialto. Asks the Archbishop to intervene with the Commissioners of Public Works who wrongfully dismissed him. He has eight children and gets 50/- a week. He has refused offers to have some of his children adopted in America.

File relating to the new church in Rialto, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fatima.

Canning, Mollie, 65 Rialto Cottages, Rialto, Dublin. Seeks a short interview with the Archbishop. She is a convert and has said the Rosary every day for two years.

Griffin, Josephine, Rialto Buildings, Rialto Street. She has had a baby by a man not her husband. She wants to get the baby into a Catholic Home.

Dolphin’s Barn/Rialto from St. James’s (also mentions Crumlin & Clogher Road)

• 28 November 1950 Correspondence relating to ground at the rear of the new church in Rialto which is to be purchased from the Corporation.

Kennedy, Mary, Rialto, Dublin. Her daughter had her handbag stolen while doing her penance after Confession. Family in dire straits.

Cullen, Patrick, Fatima Mansions, Rialto, Dublin. Two of his sons have been sent to Daingan and he asks the Archbishop to help him get them out.