Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid thanking him for meeting with him in Cork. He is having many difficulties with the Dominican Provincial and this has filtered down to the clergy in diocese. There have also been other issues in relation to Anglican Bishops and lectures on contraception and issues with mixed marriages.

Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid regarding the projected Education Ordinance.

Wording of telegram from +McQuaid to +Ryan, Cork thanking him for his good wishes. 1 item

Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid stating his resignation has been accepted on both sides of the Atlantic. +Fitzgerald has been named Apostolic Administrator. 1 item

Wording of telegram from +McQuaid to +Ryan stating he is most welcome in Dublin.

Letter from +Ryan, Bon Secour’s Hospital, Cork to +McQuaid stating he has been inundated with greetings from Trinidad. The Holy See has finally ended the association between the Port of Spain Diocese and the Dominicans. He mentions the birth prevention programme announced by the Trinidad government. The new Archbishop will be busy answering questions relating to this. 1 item

Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid delighting in the two recent addresses by the Archbishop. He also mentions Fr. Doolan O.P. who is no longer welcome in the Dominican Houses in Dublin and is to go to Nairobi. He feels very sorry for him He states he has been awarded the highest honour Trinidad and Tobago can give.

Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid thanking him for an unabridged copy of his Communications letter. He shares his distress at the rejection of the Rosary. 1 item

Letter from +Thomas Ryan, Bishop of Clonfert, to +McQuaid, accepting his invitation to the Liturgical Reception. He states that the new Nuncio was a colleague and close friend as far back as the early 1940s, both at the Academia where we lived and at the Secretariat of State where we worked.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +O’Hara with regard to the property bequested to the Bishop of Autun. In January, Mgr. Lebrun asked the +McQuaid to intervene with the Minister for Finance in securing the transfer of the sum of £1538. +McQuaid sought the legal advice of Richard Ryan of O’Hagan’s Solicitors. He has already given this information to the Nuncio.