Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Joseph A. Rice, Brooklyn, New York, making a suggestion to bring about a peaceful solution.

Correspondence regarding routine community life and apostolate. Archbishop prefers diocesan priest to Jesuit as Spiritual Director of revived Sodality at O’Connell Schools. Archbishop warmly approves introduction of Legion of Mary in schools (O’Connell’s and Seville Place) as it ‘will fill a lacuna in Legion educated young men…’ New foundations approved at Dolphin’s Barn and Sutton. Centenary celebrations of death of Edmund Rice.

Includes; transcript of letter from Brother Mark Hill to the Superior General [of the Presentation Brothers] telling of how much he discovered about Edmund Rice on a visit to the Presentation Convent in Waterford.

Includes; history of Christian Brothers school in Ennis.

Includes; hymns and music to accompany, biography of Edmund Rice.

Includes; informational brochure on "Edmund Rice Centre, Mount Sion, Waterford".

Includes; information that Pope John Paul II would declare Edmund Rice "Venerable" on the 2nd of April 1993 and the plans to celebrate and to disseminate that information.

Includes; history of Ignatius Rice and the Presentation Brothers written by D.H. Allen.

Includes; invitation to Sister Pius [O'Farrell] to the celebratory Mass.

Includes; biography on Edmund Rice entitled "Steadfast in Giving"; Mass programme celebrating Edmund Rice; leaflet giving brief account of works of Edmund Rice.