Typed letter to +McQuaid from Seamus O Riain. Dr. Tierney and he have reached substantial agreement on a Section related to facilities for teaching and research in local authority hospitals.

Handwritten note by +McQuaid. Wrote to + Kinane. Dr. Tierney confirmed that the draft is substantially what they had agreed.

Part of a copy of a typed letter to Dr. Michael Tierney, President, University College, Dublin, from the Dept. of Education. The Vocational Educational Committees are legally within their rights, under the Vocational Educational Act, 1930, to establish colleges of higher technical education offering courses of University and equivalent level. There is a strong public demand and support for these higher courses.

Correspondence involving General Richard Mulcahy, +McQuaid, and Dr. Michael Tierney, President, UCD. The Government is concerned to think that the lack of suitable co-ordination between the Medical School at University College, Dublin, and the Hospitals associated with its teaching, should endanger the recognition abroad of graduates from University College, Dublin. It approves of the Archbishop’s proposal that a small committee of one representative from each of the hospitals for which he is responsible should meet under a Chairman to discuss the scheme of co-ordination necessary to set in order the medical teaching at UCD so that there may be no grounds upon which Great Britain or America may refuse to recognize its graduates.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Michael, Galway. Is in agreement with 57. He would strongly insist that O’Rahilly not refuse to attend the interview as it would play into P. Browne’s hands. Tierney will be firm and effective in such an interview. The Government knows that the three Presidents are not agreed, but it is important that they go.

Handwritten letter from + Michael, Galway, to + McQuaid thanking him for his gift to the new Cathedral. He felt ‘dignitus Dei est hic’ when recalling the extraordinary coincidence of the views of Tierney and the Minister.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from T. O Raifeartaigh enclosing a copy of the Department’s reply to Dr. M. Tierney regarding technical education in certain Vocational Schools.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Michael Tierney. The Minister’s proposed new section of the Health Bill seems to be entirely satisfactory from the Cork and Galway point of view.

Copy of typed letter to Dr. J. Ryan from Michael Tierney, President, University College, Dublin, presenting a number of points on behalf of Dr. O’Rahilly. These are: the chairmanship; ‘clinical teaching’. He himself is uneasy about the reference in sub- section 2 to ‘one or more than one such College…’

Letter from +Morris to +McQuaid providing a listing of the Cullen letters in their archives which was compiled by Dom Mark Tierney of Glenstal. Annotated by +McQuaid.