Typed letter from Phil Donohoe to +McQuaid asking asking him to use his good offices to support his application for the post of manager in the new Abbey Theatre.

Copy of letter from +McQuaid to Phil Donohoe asking him to understand that The Abbey Theatre ‘would have s scant consideration for his intervention.’

Typed letter to Mr. O’Reilly, Catholic Truth Society, Abbey Street, from W. Kinsella, North Crumlin & Drimnagh Tenants’ Association, writing to deny that his organisation is attached to the communist party. The Committee does not accept responsibility for the political opinions of individual members. The writer is not a member of any political party.

Information on prizes for significant writing in Irish from The Irish American Cultural Institute, to be distributed in the Abbey Theatre.

Correspondence relating to routine community life and apostolate. They have permission to remove their theology scholastics to Shelton Abbey, Arklow. Director of French Sisters of Charity (Daughters of Charity) firmly declines to leave Sisters in difficult conditions at Glencree. (see Oblates of Mary files). A beginning of secondary school at Sybil Hill, Raheny. Proposal from laity to have Vincentian secondary school at Arklow. Sisters will undertake new school at Ballyfermot. (see French Sisters of Charity file, also known as Daughters of Charity).

Letter from Moira Lysaght to +McQuaid regarding the plays, ‘Tarry Flynn’ and ‘The Loves of Cass Maguire’ being staged at the Abbey Theatre. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from +Wall to +McQuaid mentioning an order illegible who is seeking another house in the Diocese. He mentions the ‘Abbey’, Loreto, Glencree and Shelton Abbey.

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1941-1972 97 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES: St Anne, Sisters of; Annonciade Nuns; Assumption, Oblates of Augustinian, Canonesses; Canonesses of the Mercy of Jesus (Burgess Hill, Liverpool, Grange-over-Sands) Canonesses of Perpetual Adoration, Sisters of Meaux, Sisters of the Precious Blood. Cf English Convents P (servants of the Poor) for reference to Sisters of St Anne, Wimbledon.

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1941 - 1972 48 items
Some correspondence concerning requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin but most concerns the affairs of Dame Monica Hague OSB Abbey of Haslemere INSTITUTES Benedictine: Abbey of Haslemere. Abbey of Münster, Abbery of Tyburn, Brigidine - Liverpool Bon Secours - Liverpool

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1941 - 1972 41 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Cabrini, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Canossa, Sisters of Charity; Carmelitems Nuns (Darlington; Birkenhead; Ware); Sisters of Charity Corpus Christi Sisters Cenacle, Sisters of the,

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1941 - 1972 81 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Charity, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge Charity, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Evron Charity, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of St Paul (Selly Park) Charity, Daughters of St Vincent de Paul Charité de Notre Dame, Soeurs de la (Filey) Charity under the protection of St V DePaul)

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1941 - 1972 54 items
Requests to quest for postulants INSTITUTES Cistercians (Bernadine (Muns) St Clotilde, Sisters of Little Company of Mary Compassion, Sisters of Our Lady of Conception, Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Lourdes Conception, Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Brionze

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1941 - 1972 49 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Consolation, Sisters of Our Lady of Counsel, Daughters of Our Lady of Good Cross, Daughters of the Cross, Teaching Sisters of the Holy, (cf file Irish Convents - Belfast)

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Domincan's Bushey Heath, Hants. UK
1941-1972 35 items
All correspondence in this file pertains to Sr Mary Magdalen (Stanford Campbell) and her return to Dublin from South Africa. Principal correspondents are P.H. Campbell, brother, and Superior-General or her secretary, Bushey Heath, Hants. UK

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1961 - 1958 27 items
Requests to quest for postulants INSTITUTES Notre Dame, Sisters of Dominican (Greenwich, London W.10, Hinckley) Christian Education

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1941 - 1972 63 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Holy Family, Sisters of the (Enfield; Tooting) Franciscan Sisters, (various and sometimes indeterminate congregation) Berkhamsted, Braintree, Littlehampton, Melton Mowbray, Milford-on-Sea, Eccleshall

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1941 - 1972 24 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Holy Ghost, Daughters of the (Bedford) - see also file Wales - Aberystwyth, Pontypool Holy Ghost, Servants of the (Stoke-on-Trent) St. Gilda's, Sisters of (London, Longport, Chard0

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1941 - 1972 74 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin Request to move operations from Castlepollard to Dublin declined by archbishop, memo of Monsignor C. Barrett VG INSTITUTES Handmaids of Jesus Christ, Hendon) Immaculate Heart of Mary (Billingshurst) Daughters of Hope, Sisters of Christian Instruction, Religious of (Sherbonne) Sacred Heart of Mary (Upminster) also file Dublin Convents - Sandymount, 30 January 1948 Sacred Heart (Whetstone) Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Chigwell) see Irish Convents, Castlepollard, 13 June 1942)
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1941 - 1972 35 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Sisters of St Joseph (Manchester) Sisters of St Joseph of the Appartition (Altricham) Sisters of St Joseph Bordeaux (Tamworth)* Sisters of St Joseph of Peace (Nottingham) Sisters of St Joseph of Newark (Rearsby) Daughters of Jesus (Welling) Loreto Sisters (Ascot; Manchester; Altricham). See Dublin Convents Loreto No. 2, 17 July 1947; 19 May 1947

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1941 - 1972 84 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Sisters of St Martin of Tours (a sister desires a Montmartre style basilica) Sisters of St Martha (Barnet) (cf File French Convents - A (Perigueux) Mary and Joseph (Baldock) Medical Mission Sisters (Osterly) Mercy: Brentwood, Abingdon, Burnley, Boston Spa, Barnsley, Bristol, Gravesend, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Tilbury, Weymouth. Mother of Mercy, Sisters of Charity of, (cf Dutch file 26 September 1946)

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1941 - 1972 30 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. Permission granted to Nazareth. INSTITUTES St Mary of Namur (Loweshoft) Nativity of Our Lord (Maidenhead) Our Lady, Sisters of (Hoddesdon)

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1941 - 1972 96 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Pallotrie (Rochdale) Poor Servants of the (New Cross) Poor Child Jesus (Rugby) Poor Clares (Manchester; Ellesmere; Southhampton; Todcastle Presentation (Bicester; Manchester; Matlock; Northwich; Buxton, S. Kirkby; Exeter; Swindon) Providence (Woking, Baldock) (cf Religious Orders - Female (within archdiocese) Religious of Christian Education for letter 5/3/1954 re Poor Servants of the)

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1941 - 1972 57 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Marie Reparatrice (Liverpool, Chelsea) this correspondence extending over 17 years is exclusively with one questing sisters, except for one brief matter of vestment supplies. Christian Retreat (Molesley: Cannock) Rosminians (Wisbech)

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1941 - 1972 87 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Blessed Sacrament Sisters La Sagesse Sisters Salvatorian Sisters Saviour and BVM, Sisters of the, (Steptor Mallet)

Good Shepherd Nuns (Finchly, Staplehurst) Christian Schools, Sisters of the (Reading, Worcester) Holy Sepulchre Sisters (Chelmsford) Servitemss (Bogor Regis; Kings lynn; London) Our Lady of Sion Sisters (London) Hold Souls Helpers (London)

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1941 - 1972 40 items
Requests to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Trinitarian Sisters (Kidderminster) Ursulines of Jesus (Blundellsands; London) Ursulines of Roman Union (Forest State; Kettering; Westgate-on-Sea, Wimbledon (one sister only)

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1941 - 1972 54 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Verona, Missionary Sisters of, `Comboniane' (Dorking; London). Faithful Virgin, Daughters of the (Folkestone) Visitation (harrow; Deal' Bridport) Whitems Sisters (Heston; Liverpool)

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1941 - 1972 83 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. Financial Assistance Sought INSTITUTES Dominican (Chirk) (cf file Africa at Salisbury, Rhodesia) St Joseph of Annecy (LLantarnam Mercy (Fishguard; Bangor) Bon Sauveur (Holyhead) Good Shepherd (Monmouth) Holy Spirit, Daughters of the (Aberystwyth; Pontypool)

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12 February 1940 - 9 December 1949 92 items

Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; reference to troubles at Carysfort Training College (see Mercy-Carysfort file); questions of a home for unmarried mothers and babies at St. Gerard's, Merrion, premises subsequently became Children's Convalescence Home under new name (St. Anthony's); Archbishop indicates that sisters need not wear secular dress when undergoing training at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Archbishop approves projects in Glasgow and Gambia, makes suggestions regarding Africa, and recommends Cardinal Prefect de Propaganda Fide; letter from a sister not being admitted to final vows.

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9 March 1950 - 30 December 1954 91 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; Archbishop replies to Congregation regarding the dismissal of an unsuitable novice; provision of facilities for inoperable/incurable children; a new foundation in Los Angeles; correspondence regarding Quinquennial report to Congregation of Religious Orders (1947 to 1951); House on Merrion Road becomes available for babies whose mothers are in hospital.

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5 January 1955 - 9 January 1956 69 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; problems with Talbot Lodge (transferred to Linden file); project originating in Australia to amalgamate with Irish congregation which declines.

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9 January 1956 - 28 November 1957 93 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; project of a hostel for teenage girls coming from industrial schools, Rome meeting of Superiors General; correspondence regarding Dublin Corporation project of new road through property. Correspondence re new secondary school

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1 January 1958 - 3 December 1959 96 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; centenary of Mary Aikenhead; a conference of Major Superiors of Women Religious Orders to be set up; project of establishing school for the blind in Nigeria; new secondary school of Milltown and adjoining unit for mentally handicapped children.

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8 January 1960 - 25 June 1962 99 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; M. General declines to undertake training of new congregation in Southwark (Sister Garson) of Poor Servants (Dublin), see letter 25/1/1960; new novitiates to be established in England and California; news from African foundations, Rhodesia and Nigeria; congregation to divide into provinces.

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28 September 1962 - 22 December 1963 26 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; second Vatican council has begun-incidental references henceforth; enquiry from a Canadian academic seeking information about his Aikenhead forebears; Quinquennial report to the Congregation of Religious Orders-acknowledgement and comments transmitted by Archbishop.

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24 February 1964 - 25 October 1965 67 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; reports from foundations in Africa; Archbishop's displeasure at some activities of a Sister in the field of organizing charitable works, Sister is reprimanded; Archbishop advises in face of renewed Australian pressure for federation; Archbishop agrees to bless foundation stone of St. Vincent's new hospital at Elm Park, other references to progress on this hospital.

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18 January - 18 November 1966 48 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; stations of the cross designed by Glenstal Abbey unacceptable; conference of Major Superiors in Rome; African reports - Archbishop suggests Mercy, Athy could cooperate in teaching apostolate there; Athy decline; Rev. Professor E.J. Doherty's questionnaire as part of Vocations Research; Australia resumes pressure for federation, Archbishop stiffens Milltown resistance.

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16 January 1967 - 31 December 1971 57 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; ditto regarding substantial legacy (Little Sisters of the poor also benefit); M. General continues to foil Australian moves toward federation; a secondary school for Cappagh; tensions of post-council church impinge in various ways; Archbishop suggests another Hospice for the Dying on the North side of Dublin.

Copy of typed letter to the Secretary, St. Vincent de Paul Society, 64 Grafton Street from Maire Ní Gabann, Ard Runaidte, Sinn Fein, 3 Lower Abbey Street. Sinn Fein understands that the Society has invited Mr. Richard O’Sullivan Q.C. to lecture in the Aberdeen Hall on 9th January 1955. He was the Crown Prosecutor when Barnes and McCormack were sentenced to death in Birmingham in 1939. A large number of people will object to his public appearance.