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Text of address given by Father Hayes at the opening of the Muintir na Tíre Hall in Ballyduff, County Waterford. Father Hayes notes that this is the second hall in Ireland built from the ground up by a Muintir na Tíre parish guild. He also promotes the upcoming Rural Week in Waterford.

Address given by Father Hayes commemorating 3 years of operations for Rural Industries Ltd., a collectively-owned jam factory in Bansha opened as a project of the local Muintir na Tíre parish council.

Draft of a lecture given by Father Hayes at the annual inaugural meeting of the Agricultural Science Society of University College Dublin, Earlsfort Terrace, 8 December 1939. Father Hayes talks of the economic troubles plaguing rural Ireland, the need for better rural education to keep young people on the land, and of Muintir na Tíre and its parish guild model. Includes an invitation card for the lecture (1p), Father Hayes' handwritten lecture notes (11pp), and a typed draft of the notes with annotations and corrections (10pp).

Typed copy of Father Hayes' address given at the Muintir na Tíre Rural Week-End, Lucan, 1941. Includes annotations and corrections. The address touts the successes of Muintir na Tíre guilds and councils and their various endeavours, and states that 'you should also build an order that will survive when the emergency will have passed. That is the work of Muintir na Tíre.'

Handwritten text for an article or lecture written by Father Hayes on the Legion of Mary, an organization of lay people in the Catholic Church founded in Dublin by Frank Duff in 1921.

Draft of an address by Father Hayes on the history of Muintir na Tíre's Rural Week and promoting the upcoming 8th National Rural Week at De La Salle College, Waterford.

Notes written by Father Hayes for a standard address on behalf of Muintir na Tíre he gave at Waterford.

A page of notes for a lecture or address by Father Hayes promoting the Catholic Church. The notes are written on the back of a sheet of letterhead from the 163rd Liverpool Troop Boy Scouts, of which Father Hayes was the chaplain.

Draft of a lecture written by Father Hayes on rural cooperation and Muintir na Tíre. Includes annotations and corrections.

2 typed drafts of an address on Muintir na Tíre given by Father Hayes in Wexford [see also P134/12/1/2/11/27]. Father Hayes laments the rural economic depression in Ireland, and notes that it exists in England as well. Father Hayes also laments the lack of marriage in rural Ireland which he claims is due to lack of wealth, and condemns the 'propaganda' that has led young Irish people to leave for the cities. Hayes notes that the Minister for Agriculture, James Ryan, is in attendance, but it would take 'a miracle worker to use the present accepted economic position to bring satisfying and permanent relief to Agriculture.' Hayes also congratulates the attendees on their new bishop (James Staunton, Bishop of Ferns, appointed 10 December 1938) and mentions that the 1939 Rural Week will take place in Galway. Includes annotations and corrections.