Correspondence between Fr. Gabriel Harty, O.P., Tallaght and Dr. O’Connell regarding ‘The Rosary Letter’. Annotated by +McQuaid.

• Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate (first items referring to Fr [later Cardinal] M. Browne O.P.) a Dublin priest joins order. A low-key Rosary Crusade begins to move. CF file “Rosary Crusade (Fr. Peyton)”. Project of a Retreat House at Tallaght is initiated. Desire of O.P for a Theologate on new site countered by Archbishop’s concern over religious acquiring properties in Dublin area. Archbishop declines to appoint chaplain to Old IRA.

Czira, Sidney, Strand Road, Merrion, Dublin. Asks if it would be possible for people in Ireland to give some public expression to our feelings of sympathy with His Holiness during these dreadful days. D 4A/1. 17 February 1949 Dack, Michael, St. Ignatius Road, Drumcondra. He is deeply shocked by the news from Hungary and what is happening to Cardinal Mindszenty. Asks + McQuaid to support a movement to the spread of the Rosary.

O’Sullivan, et al, ‘Madonna’, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin. This group of five persons make proposals regarding the broadcasting of the Rosary from Radio Eireann.

Westby, Joseph P., 166 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge. Asks the Archbishop for his opinion on the Rosary being broadcast on Radio Eireann.

• 1 August 1952 Larkin, Ignatius, 49 Mountjoy Square, Dublin. He suggests that the Rosary be broadcast each evening during the month of October.

Letter from +Joseph McCormack to +McQuaid thanking the Archbishop and looking forward to news from the Holy Rosary Sisters.

Letter from +Staunton to +McQuaid stating he has declined an invitation from Dr. Cleary, Prior of the Dominicans to preach on Rosary Sunday. He again mentions the visit of +McQuaid to Wexford and hopes Dr. Collier and Dr. Keogh will also join them.

Letter from Fr. Maurice Browne to Michael. He wishes to have Confraternities of the Holy Rosary established and asks him to have the documents signed by +McQuaid.

Typed note to + McQuaid saying Fr. T. Harty, O.P., wrote seeking permission to run a pilgrimage to Clonmacnoise. People from the different shops and factories where the Rosary is said would travel. The idea of the pilgrimage would be to bring these people together and to develop the spirit, which has already been aroused in them.