Sutton from Howth
Letter from Tom to Fr. Bill regarding a house, Summer Ville, in Sutton/ Howth, which Cardinal Cullen purchased for Clonliffe students from Christo Gore-Grimes.
Correspondence regarding routine community life and apostolate. Diamond Jubilee of Brother Clancy, Superior General. Centenary of Synge Street school and Westland Row school celebrated. Project of a foundation at Ballyroan. Sutton C.B.S. has difficulties with a neighbour.
Letter from +Joseph A. Carroll to +McQuaid regarding a suitable priest for the Nunciature. He suggests Fr. Enda Lloyd, a curate in Sutton or Fr. John Jones, chaplain to the Mercy Convent, Arklow. One obvious difficulty is their present location within the Archdiocese.
Correspondence between +McQuaid and Canon F. Drinkwater, Sutton Coalfield, clarifying ‘some of them (brick bats) may as well be earmarked for a later book of the same kind which comes via Dublin, of all places.’
Letter from Edward Gleeson, solicitor, to Fr. Williams regarding land sold to a property developer by the Dominican convent, Sutton. They now wish to run a surface drain through the convent and parochial property.
Letter form Fr. Liam Thackaberry to +McQuaid regarding the new parish of Sutton and boundaries.
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.
Letter from Fr. O’Keeffe to +McQuaid seeking an appointment regarding the presbyteries in Howth and Sutton.