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9 July 1942 - 15 July 1951 46 items
Routine matters of community life Question of amalgamation proposed by Newry resisted by Harold's Cross and archbishop Archbishop favourable to foundation of commercial college and admission of day-pupils to the national school in view of decline in numbers of orphans. Testamentary matters Change in colour of habit approved Unsigned undated memorandum of history of Irish Poor Clare's.

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2 July 1960 - 15 May 1971 44 items
Routine matters of community life Testamentary matters Archbishop cautious about Franciscan (OFM) interest in Harold's Cross convent Two cases of dispensation from vows, removed from this file 20 January 2023

Poor Clare's Newry
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14 September 1941 - 10 March 1969 59 items
Correspondence chronicles Newry's repeated attempts to establish a foundation in Dublin, each of which was rebuffed by archbishop and Council, with some involvement from Dr Dunne, Haddington Rd. Question of amalgamation with Harold's Cross firmly rejected by archbishop, see files of Poor Clare's, Harold's Cross. Under a new abbess, a foundation is permitted in Donnybrook (cf File `Convents in Ireland outside Archdiocese' for letter from Newry Poor Clare)

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5 November 1945 - 23 December 1957 68 items
Correspondence re attempts to establish a foundation in the archdiocese Hostel for girls considered and abandoned Permission granted to open a house for retreat, property acquired in Finglas One cope booklet on Foundress, Blessed Raphaela Mary of the Sacred Heart One copy of booklet on Congregation

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21 January 1958 - 31 May 1963 56 items
Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate Question of a commercial college is assessed and permission granted. One copy of booklet on Congregation One spiritual bouquet presented to archbishop

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20 July 1963 - 4 August 1971 74 items
Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate Permission granted to open a university hostel for sisters and lay-students in Ballsbridge, property acquired in Blackrock Undertake primary and secondary schools in Kilmacud hitherto under French Sisters of Charity (St Philomena's) One case of dispensation of vows in separate folder

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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)

• Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate. Order donates land to Archdiocese for a new church at Templeogue. They provide chaplaincy at Dublin Castle - Holy Trinity. Terenure College celebrated centenary.

Letter from Mgr. Paro to +McQuaid stating that the Holy Father is appointing Fr. Richard Glennon, Chancellor of the Archdiocese, a Domestic Prelate.

Letter from Mgr. Benelli to +McQuaid enclosing forms for the report on the situation of seminaries in the Archdiocese from 1949 to 1951. Some suggestions on the completion of the forms are also enclosed.

Letter from Mgr. Alibrandi to Mgr. Glennon stating that the Annual Report forms, which need to be completed by the Religious Institutes in the Archdiocese, have not yet come from Rome.

Letter from +Collier to +McQuaid. He encloses a cheque for the extension of Clonliffe and writes of Fr Seán Collier who will be taking up a position in the Archdiocese of Dublin soon.

Letter from +Doorly to +McQuaid regarding Fr. Dominic Conway, a recent graduate of Elphin. Mgr. McDaid of the Irish College Rome suggests Fr. Conway should be allowed pursue a postgraduate course in Biblical Studies. A burse exists for this course but priority is given to students from the Archdiocese. He seeks permission for Fr. Conway to avail of the burse. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1 item

Letter from +Keogh to +McQuaid offering him his sympathies for the tragic events of the previous night in his archdiocese.