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Letter to Canon Hayes from Margaret Clifford, Lisnagry, County Limerick. Mrs. Clifford writes on behalf of a friend whose oldest son (John Hassett, see P134/12/1/1/1/225) has just passed his Leaving Certificate. She asks Canon Hayes to help the son obtain a position as a trainee technician at the regional hospital so that he does not have to leave for England.

Letter to Canon Hayes from Liam Maher, Roscrea, updating Canon Hayes to attempts to implement the Parish Plan in the Roscrea area and stating his continued willingness to take on the job of syndicating articles for provincial newspapers.

Letter to Canon Hayes from James Murphy, Lisduff, Loughmorne, County Monaghan. Murphy states that he is willing to help organise guilds of Muintir na Tíre in every parish of Monaghan.

Letter to Canon Hayes from Mary B. Crossan, Honorary Secretary, Irish Countrywomen's Association (Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal Federation), Donegal, asking Canon Hayes on behalf of her ICA federation to attend their county meeting in Killybegs on 7 November. The federation believes that Muintir na Tíre guilds could achieve more in the county by cooperating with ICA branches, and that Muintir na Tíre would give the men of Donegal an organisation to belong to.

Letter to Canon Hayes from the Deputy County Manager of Limerick County Council, noting that Canon Hayes' letter of reference for John Hassett, Lisnagry, for the position of trainee technician at the Regional Hospital (see P134/12/1/1/1/222) has been received and will be given consideration.

Paper by Father Hayes outlining the Parish Plan for Agriculture, developed by the Muintir na Tíre National executive, and how the plan was implemented in Bansha, County Tipperary and Tydavnet, County Monaghan with the cooperation of the Department of Agriculture.

Transcript of a 11 September 1949 Radio Éireann broadcast by Father Hayes about Muintir na Tíre 's Plan for Agriculture and how it ties into the government's Parish Plan for Agriculture (copy of P134/12/1/2/2/26). Attached to the transcript is a leaflet, 'Muintir na Tíre: What It Is and What It Aims To Do' (4pp).

Transcript of a 11 September 1949 Radio Éireann broadcast by an unidentified Muintir na Tíre member about the organisation's Parish Plan for Agriculture, following up on Father Hayes' broadcast speech of the week prior (P134/12/1/2/4/24). The speaker states that 'You who live in towns in cities are more dependent on the farmers than are the farmers on you. From the surplus produced on the land you may hope to be fed.' The author writes of the Parish Plan: 'It is not a plan to enrich the farmer at the expense of the community; but a plan by which the property of the whole nation can be increased.' The speaker also notes that 'Muintir na Tíre does not pretend to have a specific remedy for all the ills of rural Ireland' but endeavours to encourage the people of a parish to plan and work together as a voluntary body in matters of common welfare.

Typed notes of a lecture by Father Hayes describing the implementation (commenced October 1948) of Muintir na Tíre's Parish Plan for Agriculture at Bansha with the cooperation of the Department of Agriculture. He speaks glowingly of the parish agent, E.J. Sheehy, sent by the department to oversee the implementation, and talks about the positive effects the plan has had in the community.

Uncorrected typed draft of 'Youth', the address made by Father Hayes at the closing of the 12th Annual Rural Week, Mungret College, Limerick, 21 August 1949. Father Hayes calls on the youth of Ireland to reject materialism, serve their community, and 'build in every Parish in Ireland a living Christianity.'