Correspondence between Muintir na Tíre and Jerome Toner, regarding monies owed to contributors to The Landmark; includes Two Guilds I Know by The Journeyman.
Correspondence with the Revenue Commissioners regarding the charitable status of Muintir na Tíre and the community councils. Includes information on updating of the Muintir na Tíre constitution.
Black and white photograph featuring the Very Rev. T. Hogan PP blessing a new plant in Tubber, Co. Clare. The plant will manufacture and assemble a number of items of farm equipment including milking stalls, cubicles, silage barriers etc. Muintir na Tíre were a great help in the initial stages of setting up the plant.
Land and tenancy accounts and agreements involving properties owned by Rev. Solomon Richards (son-in-law of Col. Thomas Bermingham Sewell), whose representatives held 2,544 acres in County Galway.
Correspondence involving Reverend Seán Dehindberg, Waterford. Includes:
-Letter to Father Hayes from Father Dehindberg, writing from the Anchor Hotel, County Wicklow. He asks if Father Hayes would like him to send a short article on Muintir na Tíre to the French Catholic newspaper La Croix, and suggesting a guild-level prize scheme for the best gardens in order to generate interest in vegetable growing (1 October 1952, 2pp);
-Letter to Father Dehindberg from Frank Lyddy, Honorary National Secretary of Muintir na Tíre, writing the Father Hayes would be delighted to have him prepare an article for La Croix, and stating that many guilds have taken up similar ideas regarding better vegetable growing, particularly the Thurles Guild (2 October 1952, 1p).
Black and white photograph of Rev. Raymond Brady attending Rural Week.
Black and white photograph of Rev. Raymond Brady CC, National Chairman of Muintir na Tire, 1971=1973.
File of items relating to Fr. Paddy O'Mara, S.J. Paddy was uncle of Michael Rynne and Mary Rynne and son of Stephen O'Mara Snr. File includes a biographical essay on Paddy O'Mara, written in his 93rd year; a number of letters written by Paddy to Michael Rynne, 1967 - 1968; a pamphlet, possibly 1930s, about a 'First Army Pilgrimage to Lourdes'; MS letter from Paddy to Michael Rynne, 17 Oct 1918, referring to the wounded and dying, and talking about Michael's role in the IRA.
Also includes letters between Michael Rynne, May Rynne and Stephen Rynne, discussion plans to honour Fr. Paddy Rynne for his 90th birthday.
Correspondence involving American progressive Catholic scholar Reverend John A. O'Brien, University of Notre Dame. Includes:
-Letter to Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Company, from O'Brien and copied and forwarded to Canon Hayes. O'Brien writes that a Ford plant has been established in Northern Ireland and wonders if something comparable might be established in the Republic where the need for work 'would seem to be much more urgent' (16 October 1956), 1p);
-Letter to Monsignor Patrick J. Temple, New Rochelle, New York, from O'Brien and copied and forwarded to Canon Hayes. O'Brien expresses his delight at Temple's support for Canon Hayes and Muintir na Tíre (19 October 1956, 1p);
-3 letters to O'Brien from Michael J. O'Donoghue, lawyer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding Michael O'Malley's Electronics Company of Ireland and its attempts to start operations. O'Donoghue states that: the English have a monopoly on the electronics trade in Ireland; the 'English influence is still paramount in America through the Masonic order'; the Ford plant should be established in southern Ireland as 'They have already all the major industries in Northern Ireland'; and the letters he has written to Irish officials to obtain permission to issue stock for O'Malley's company in America have not been responded to. He also is working to write a history of the Kelly clan in honour of Seán T. O'Kelly. (17 February 1955, 1p; undated, 1p; 23 October 1956, 1p);
-2 letters to O'Brien from W.J. Burke, Stoke Newington, London, forwarded to Canon Hayes. Burke thanks O'Brien for his book, 'The Vanishing Irish', notes the 'propaganda' being given to places of refuge in London that are misleading destitute Irish emigrants into thinking that they will have a place of rest through the Christian Society, and writes about the serious effect of emigration on the church (28 September 1956, 4pp);
-Letter to O'Brien from Canon Hayes noting that he has returned from England where 'we now have an excellent Guild with the archbishop of Liverpool as Patron' and that he is trying with the government regarding the Electronics Company of Ireland. Canon Hayes wishes to establish a 'Folk school' in the Danish model at Bansha Castle ('It would be a real force against Communism... ...I believe a Folk School would save rural Ireland') and suggests the Ford Foundation purchase the castle on behalf of Muintir na Tíre (10 November 1956, 2pp).
-Airmail letter to Canon Hayes from O'Brien supporting Canon Hayes' Folk School idea and encouraging him to write to the Ford Foundation (15 November 1956, 1p)