Letter from +J.G. Holland to +McQuaid asking for permission to perform a marriage in Wicklow town in June. Written from The Cedars Hospital, Dun Laoghaire. Annotated by +McQuaid. Kenya Diocese of Mombasa

Typed letter to the Editor from Senator Dr. Patrick McCartan, Villanita, Wicklow, concerning the falsified version of Fr. Gemelli’s lecture issued by Dr. Browne and relied upon by Mr. Cowan.

Letter from Fr. Patrick O’Reilly to +McQuaid regarding the Youth Sodality’s trip to Wicklow. He is asking for permission to say Mass in the hostel.

Correspondence regarding the progress of their existing foundations. Golden Jubilee of Wicklow community is celebrated. Agreement to open a secondary school at Roebuck; project later encounters difficulties. A project for Kilbarrack. Provincialate transfers to Kilmacud from Castletown, county Laois. A Brother’s hostel is envisaged for Maynooth. A centre for young adolescents in difficulty gets under way at Finglas. The first Sisters of Christian Schools arrive in the diocese to help.

and Fr. Christopher Mangan regarding the staffing of the new County Wicklow Hospital in Rathnew.

Correspondence relating to the recruiting of an Order of Sisters to establish, care and maintain a Home for Unmarried Mothers to cater for counties Wexford, Carlow, Kildare and Wicklow. 57/

Correspondence relating to the official blessing and opening of Sheldon Abbey, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, on 11th February .

• Correspondence between Lord Wicklow, Fr. Mangan and the

File relating to the church in Wicklow town. 10 items

• Mt Mellery: Abbot regrets inability to take up Archbishop’s confidential offer of a foundation at Glencree due to insufficient lands. Later, Woodstock in Wicklow not deemed suitable by Archbishop. CF file “O.M.I - Glencree”. Roscrea: Archbishop regrets Dom Eugene Boylan’s extra-cloistral activities. He proposes a foundation at Moone, Co. Kildare. Dom E Boylan is elected Abbot! Bishop Dunne’s shrewd observations. Foundations is made at Moone. CF file “Carthusian Monks”