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Typed copy of an unattributed tourism article documenting a sailing trip around Ireland and sights of the Irish coast.

Pages 802-805 of the 24 August 1935 issue of the Irish School Weekly containing the article 'An Appeal to Teachers: The Aims of Muinntir [sic] na Tíre' written by Father Hayes. In the article, Father Hayes appeals to the teachers of Ireland to assist in the Muintir na Tíre movement and help impart Christian principles, 'train the minds of children to realise the security and beauty of rural life' and 'become leaders of thought... ..from which will spring clear thinking and brave thinking in all the problems of the rural community'.

Point-form notes for a lecture on Muintir na Tíre written by Father Hayes on the fronts of envelopes from Jury's Hotel, Dublin.

Typed memorandum sent to Father Hayes on behalf of Father Edward Coyne regarding the memorandum Father Hayes will submit to the Commission on Vocational Organisation. Father Coyne advises Father Hayes: not to go into too much detail regarding Muintir na Tíre and list the movement's general principles only; to show how recognition can be afforded to voluntary parish guilds rather than statutory guild; to mention that guild would be open to every family in the parish; and to list the tasks that local voluntary guilds can do.

Short statement of the activities and achievements of the Killenaule Guild of Muintir na Tíre, County Tipperary, which was founded in August 1938. The statement notes that the local chairmen of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael sit on their council. The guild have received approval for a water supply scheme for their village, have purchased a location for a sports field, secured repairs for local cottages and road, facilitated a horticultural lecture, and paid for various hospital and funeral expenses, among other accomplishments.

2 copies (original and photocopy) of the opening address given by Canon Maurice Morrissey at Muintir na Tíre's 21st National Rural Week, Cistercian College, Mount St. Joseph's Abbey, Roscrea, August 1958.

Memorandum providing details on Muintir na Tíre event upcoming in 1945, including the 8th National Rural Week at De La Salle College in Waterford, and summer schools in Pallaskenry, Dundrum (Tipperary), and Murroe.

Photocopy of the notes written by Father Hayes for a lecture broadcast by Radio Éireann in which he talks about agricultural vocational organisations and the organisation of parochial guilds. He mentions that such a guild (of Muintir na Tíre) has now been founded in Tipperary.

3 copies of the lecture given by Father Hayes regarding the Commission on Vocational Organisation at the 7th Muintir na Tíre Rural Week, St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny. Father Hayes wishes to dispel the notion that vocational organisations are synonymous with totalitarian states. He describes the objects of vocational order, and then talks about the findings of the Commission. Includes 2 draft copies of the lecture with annotations and corrections, as well as a photocopy of the second draft.

Text written by Father Hayes for a lecture on the history and purpose of Muintir na Tíre. Father Hayes notes the beginning of Muintir na Tíre as a rural co-operative society in 1933 bringing together various agricultural groups before transitioning to a movement-based model looking to incorporate moral, social, and recreational work alongside economic work. He notes how Muintir na Tíre in its current form emerged at the first Rural Week in Ardmore, County Waterford in 1937, that it has been ten years since the first Muintir na Tíre guild was established in Tipperary, and that 100 guilds are now in action. He then describes the structure and mission of Muintir na Tíre. Includes the typed lecture transcript (7pp), 2 photocopies of the typed lecture transcript (7pp and 7pp), and Father Hayes' original notes (14pp).