Report on the Irish Workers’ League. General feeling is that the League is losing ground. At their meeting at Mansfield Corner their speakers were attacked, so the League has gone underground. Last summer it held camps at Dundalk, Skerries and Killybegs. Excursion to Enniskerry ended with a drunken orgy. Links between the IWL and the ‘folk university’. Information on Miss Annie Peach, Miss Hilda Verlin, Sean Nolan the following need watching: John Byrne, Patrick O’Neill and Stephen Daly. John Dalton has returned to Church.

Correspondence relating to the development of school projects at Skerries, Ballyfermot, Rathfarnham and Finglas. Mention of a detention home. Archbishop regret that the Brothers did not undertake schools in Arklow. Embarrassment at Ballyfermot over transfer of Brother who trained band. One brochure ‘Institute des Freres des Ecoles Chretienne - circulaires etc.’ dated 6 January 1957; one brochure ‘L’education Chretienne - sa function et sa portee’ by J.C. McQuaid - a translation from English.

Letter from Mgr. Felici to +McQuaid, forwarding documents relating to Mr. Lorcan Connaughton, who was born in Skerries and has been a scholastic at the Holy Ghost Missionary College, Kimmage. Mr. Connaughton now wishes to continue his studies for the priesthood in St. John’s College, Waterford. This has been requested for him by the H.E., the Bishop of Amarillo, Texas.

Skerries from Lusk