• Correspondence between Allen Nolan, Browne & Nolan, +McQuaid, and Fr. John McMackin, Maynooth, regarding the publication of the I.E.R. The Record has been incurring losses over the years, and in the year 23 June 1971 lost £1,408. Browne & Nolan could not afford to sustain such losses and reluctantly decided, on financial grounds, to cease publishing the Record. The final issue was the December 1968 one. 25 items The Marian Year 1968

File relating to parish property including 79, 83 & 98 The Rise, Mount Merrion, 3 Allen Park, Woodley Park, 1 Upper Kilmacud Road, 82 Lower Kilmacud Road and plot adjoining the church.

Letter from +Spellman to +McQuaid introducing Mr. Allen of the American Red Cross.

Typed letter to + McQuaid from H.P. Allen. Informs Archbishop that Wheatly was defeated by 65 votes to 40. About 30 of Wheatly’s votes came from Catholics.

Typed letter to Peter J. Huxley-Blyth from George V. Allen, Managing Director, Soul Magazine. Allen’s organisation, The Blue Army, is the largest international organisation promoting devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. Allen would now like to have an article on Huxley- Blyth’s “Operation Fatima” for Soul magazine. It might be a means of gaining support for his organisation and is vitally important to Blue Army members.

Letter from Fr. Patrick Hamell to +McQuaid regarding the forthcoming centenary of the I.E.R. He and Allen Nolan wish to commemorate the occasion fittingly.

Copy of letter from +McQuaid to Allen Nolan, Messrs Browne & Nolan, informing him that Prof. McMackin has been appointed Editor of the I.E.F.

Includes; letters from Sr Raphael Considine, in Australia to Sr. Rosario Allen, South Presentation Convent, Cork, dated 1980 to 1999. In her letters Sr. Raphael thanks Sr. Rosario for her hospitality each time she visits South Presentation Convent. Sr. Raphael gives updates on her progress of the books which she is writing on Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters. She gives details of her visits to the Presentation Sisters missions in India, Pakistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Philippines. Sr. Raphael makes arrangements for other Sisters and lay people to visit South Presentation Covent. File also includes a letter to Sr. Anthony Moloney, Sr. Lelia Kaar and Sr. Ambrose; Letter from Sr. Raphael to the Sisters requesting their help to enable her to write a short book on explaining the changes in apostolic religious life after Vatican11; Presentation Mission Link November 1994; and letter from Sr. Bernadette Keating,” Cove Lane”, St. James Parade, Elsternwick 3184, to Presentation Sisters, 21 Ashdene, South Douglas Road, Cork, Ireland, 12 May 2000, giving details of Sr. Raphael’s last illness and death and including the eulogy given at her funeral.

Includes; visiting old South Presentation school before redevelopment.

Includes; extract from unnamed newspaper containing interview with Sister Rosario Allen on her article for Reflections of Cork; photos of Sisters Rosario with Sister Lucy Lynch, Sister Brigid O'Grady, and in the Relics Room of South Presentation.