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CARDINAL CULLEN Section 42/1
File: letters of +Cullen to Kirby, 1864
No. Date(1864) Main Topics
1 20 Jan. Introducing Mr. and Mrs. White
2 22 Jan. Adoration of Bl. Sacrament in Jesuit church, Dublin;
young ladies in bridal dress
3 12 Feb. Lavelle's retractation does not amount to much
4 13 Feb. Cuttings from Tuam "Patriot": Lavelles'homecoming.
Fr. Wm. P. McDonough of Toronto, native of Co. Galway. Two
lapsed Achill Islanders return to the Church
5 16 Feb. Introducing Mr, Corballis and his two sisters
6 19 Feb. Huge crowd at Dr. Yore's funeral.
News of some Irish Bishops: +Flannery, +Cantwell,
+McNally and +Denvir.
Lavelle's retractation unsatisfactory.
+MacHale and the Fenians
7 3 Mar. Introducing Mrs. Scully and her daughter
8 3 Mar. Introducing Mr. O'Callaghan, of Dublin
9 4 Mar. Problems re dioceses of Killaloe, Clogher and Meath
owing to ill-health of their Bishops.
Strong criticism of Connaught Patriot and Irish People.
10 8 Mar. Lavelle has published "a most wicked document" in
the Patriot.
11 13 Mar. (From Liverpool) Lavelle's "memorial" to the Pope
attributes "all possible offences" to +Cullen. +Cullen has
succeeded in settling a very difficult case in Liverpool (among
his relatives ?)
12 15 Mar. Lavelle encourages the Fenians; +MacHale seems to be
identified with Lavelle
13 1 Apr. +Flannery of Killaloe is going to Rome. This should
do him good
14 5 Apr. Garibaldi being honoured in England.
The Danes (anti-Catholic) deserve to be humbled. +Cantwell very ill;
a Coadjutor to be appointed; Dr. Nulty is first choice of P . P . ' s Fr.
Lavelle may be getting payment from the Fenians
15 15 Apr. Rumour that +MacHale had suspended Lavelle for beat-
ing a man. +MacHale's support for Fenians in Chicago Lavelle's
defence of the Fenians
16 8 May The Pope's "very beautiful letter" to +MacHale.
What will Lavelle do now ?
Terrible distress in Ireland; mass emigration.
Fenian papers dying out
17 13 May Has +MacHale really suspended Lavelle