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CARDINAL CULLEN Section 42/1
File V : Letters of +Cullen to Kirby, 1865
No. Date (1865) Main Topics
1 3 Feb. Introducing Fr. Patk. McCabe, of Dublin diocese
2 10 Feb. Mrs. Grattan's opposition to her daughters joining Poor Clares
3 16 Feb. The Grattan case. Mr. Woodlock and bride have returned
Exhibits from Rome for great Dublin Exhibition in May
4 24 Feb. +Cullen was unfit to travel to Card. Wiseman's funeral.
Lavelle in Connaught Patriot states that Propaganda has
ruled that the Fenians are not to be disquieted.
Some writers in the Irish People are Protestants, some
apostates.
5 10 Mar. Dublin preparing for the Jubilee.
Critlcasm of +Nulty's pastoral. Government in Rome wants specimens of
marble, bricks, etc., returned.
6 17 Mar. Keep Fr, James Maher (just ordained) in Rome for a year
or two. Few Roman priests do post-graduate studies,
and so cannot compete with Maynooth men for higher
posts.
Great Mass for St. Patrick's Day.
7 24 Mar. Urgent request for prolongation of the Jubilee in Dub-
lin.
+Cullen encloses a letter from the Grattan sisters for
their mother.
8 9 Apr. Dispensation sought for son of Protestant Bishop of
Limerick.
Huge crowds at Jubilee Missions in Dublin.
Urge Mrs. Grattan to reply to her daughters without
delay.
9 21 Apr. Inadequate provision for spiritual welfare of soldiers.
The Grattan case.
Extravagant Exhibition in Dublin.
10 25 Apr. The Grattan sisters have gone to Drumshanbo convent.
Another note from +Cullen attached; also a letter to him from the two sisters.
11 30 Apr. More about the Grattans
12 2 May A Mr. McKenna of Belfast seeks a Papal knighthood;
+Cullen disapproves.
The great Exhibition will soon open.
Lincoln's assassination in a theatre on Good Friday.
Fr. James Cassin, a suspended priest from California,
seeking redress in Rome.
13 18 May Large statue of the Pope at the Exhibition; +Cullen thinks of buying it.
14 21 May Proposed Constitution for Catholic University
15 27 June Pope's statue being bought for £720; It will probably
stand in new Clonliffe church.