Handwritten ‘Report to Hierarchy on Meeting with the Taoiseach, Mr. de Valera, and the Minister for Health, Dr. Ryan.’

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Brian Lenihan explaining the Manager’s position, religious and moral formation, the position of Fr. Ryan, a sociologist who had done similar work in Limerick, Fr. O’Doherty’s reports.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from John A. Costello, enclosing a copy of the letter he received from Dr. Rodgers and the reply he sent. The issue was the Court case of the Attorney- General v. Rev. Patrick Ryan, C.C., Clonlara, regarding a complaint of assault by a Mr. Miller, a Jehovah Witness.

Typed note. Possibility De Valera will retire from public life and Lemass will probably succeed. His success in holding the party together will depend on the action the splinter groups within the National Executive take. Hard to know which way Charles Houghey [sic] [Haughey], Dr. Ryan, Noel Lemass, Dan Breen will go as each is there to foster their own interest. Donal Nevin and Jeffares have replaced Larkin and de Courcy Ireland in the Labour Party. The IHA received a legacy of £300 from Rebecca West. The chance of it going out of existence is gone. In CIE Riordan got 134 votes in election representative to the Management. Its not that the men want him but they feel he is able to push their case for them.

Typed note to +McQuaid. Mgr. Ryan was coming to represent the Vatican Secretariate of State at Cardinal D’Alton’s funeral.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Dermot A. Ryan, Chairman, Northern Ireland, Inter-Denominational Distress Organisation, asking the Archbishop to become a patron.

Handwritten letter to + McQuaid from R. Ryan, solicitor, saying he sees no legal objection to the enclosed.

-8 August 1962 Correspondence relating to a booklet by Fr. Dermot Ryan, later Archbishop of Dublin, entitled ‘The Living Word’. Some annotations by +McQuaid.

Letter from Richard Ryan, solicitor, to Fr. Des Williams, with note to +McQuaid, regarding a vacant plot in Shankill. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letters from Richard Ryan, solicitor to Fr. Des Williams and Dr. Hurley regarding the Priests’s house, Loughlinstown.