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17 pages of speech notes handwritten by Father Hayes on the role that the guilds and councils of Muintir na Tíre play in building community and moral structure. Includes annotations and corrections.

Portion of a speech by Father Hayes on Muintir na Tíre's media efforts, including the difficulty in obtaining financing for its film units and the necessity of outreach to children. He writes that it is 'primarily a moral, education & clean entertainment venture.' Includes annotations and corrections, including some not written in Father Hayes' hand.

Page 2 through 8 of a draft of a standard address on Muintir na Tíre made by Canon Hayes at Dublin. Canon Hayes posits Muintir na Tíre as 'the positive answer to Atheistic Communism' and invites Dubliners to visit the countryside to see the difference in living standards. Includes annotations and corrections.

Speech delivered by Father Hayes on behalf of Muintir na Tíre praising the United States as 'the teacher and preacher of a living Christian Charity'. Father Hayes notes the assistance that the United States has provided via the Marshall Plan and the Economic Co-operation Administration (ECA), and by taking in Irish diaspora. He also mentions the hospitality he and Father Joseph Bergin received when they attended the National Catholic Rural Life Congress in the United States in November 1949.

3 pages of point-form speech headings and short notes for an address on Muintir na Tíre given by Father Hayes to an unidentified meeting at Wexford.

3 pages of point-form speech notes for an address given by Father Hayes at Tuam on Muintir na Tíre and organisation focused on the parish unit.

3 pages of point-form speech notes for an address given by Father Hayes at Muine Bheag on Muintir na Tíre and projects accomplished by various Muintir na Tíre guilds.

5 pages of point-form speech notes for an address given by Father Hayes to a Muintir na Tíre guild in Kilkenny. Father Hayes break his speech into 18 major talking points, including the reconstruction of the social order according to Pope Pius XI's 1931 encyclical 'Quadragesimo anno'.

Text written by Father Hayes for an unspecified address during Catholic Social Week.

2 pages of handwritten speech notes written by Father Hayes. The text laments that 'Whilst we have all admitted the necessity of a social reconstruction based on Christian Charity & social justice few of us have attempted to put these principles into practice' and states that Muintir na Tíre is an attempt to do so.