Typed letter to +McQuaid from George Colley, Minister for Education, thanking him for his survey in relation to the proposed establishment of a number of secondary schools in the Archdiocese. The letter raises some matters of fundamental concern which he would like to discuss orally with the Archbishop.

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19 January 1941 - 28 November 1949

Correspondence to routine details of community life and apostolate. Permission to open a novitiate is refused. Permission to open a novitiate in Clondalkin is granted. Centenary commemorative booklet from Cork convent.
Irish Province to make a foundation at Holywell (Wales) in English Province; no objection from Archbishop. 78 items

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7 December 1950 - December 1959
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate. New house in Ballyfermot. Archbishop queries foundation in New Zealand made from Dublin without consulting him. Monsignor Boylan urges permission for sisters to use bicycles, granted by Archbishop.
100 items

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26 January 1960 - 25 November 1971
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate. Monsignor Glennon, PP, wants the sisters in Finglas; declined by Archbishop. Superiors proposed and insists on Visiting Sisters being professionally qualified. He recalls the Assumption was the only cong. ever to refuse "to assist me in providing amenities for the poor". But permission to Finglas is granted. A sister is dispensed from vows. Archbishop does not like proposed new habit- photograph included.
99 items

XLIV/2 Bon Secours Sisters

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10 March 1941 - 14 May 1963
Correspondence from superiors of various convents of the Institute in the Archdiocese relating to: routine details of their apostolate; sale of their convent in Lower Mount Street to Sisters of Neves as suggested by the Archbishop, filed as "Sisters of Charity of Nevers", dated 30/12/49; aspirations to establish a separate Irish province of the Institute, and Archbishop's advice on this, draft copy of suggested changes to Constitutions of the Institute; visitation by Mother General subsequent to establishment of the Irish Province, continuing tension between Irish Province and Paris Mother-House. Occasional references to development of convent and hospital at Glasnevin of "Hospitals" file.
43 items

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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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18 November 1940 - 14 October 1971 65 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, due to paucity of vocations Mt. Tallant Carmel closes, property is acquired by Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. (of file "convents within archdiocese" on these last 6/1/71+)

XLIV/11 Carmelites Nuns, Ranelagh

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3 June 1941 - 2 September 1970 97 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, Prioress lays before Archbishop her unease regarding deficient Carmelitems spirit in her own and other convents, suggests a common motivate, Archbishop points out impossibility of this, makes a suggestion. A proposal from Monsignor (Arvill?) to exchange with Ranelagh is declined, Reference in Cellar 8/X/49 to "unfortunate incident", file "Annales Ranelagh", letter 8 November 1961

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10 December 1941 - 6 December 1971 107 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, Archbishop does not favour building a new convent, Foundation Masses, sale of part of Roebuck property. Letter from AB to Msgr. Boylan returning letter from Roebuck Carmel re property

XLIV/13 Carmelites Nuns, Tranquilla

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8 December 1941 - 17 February 1971 39 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, a problem regarding papal enclosure, Tranquilla had been admitted to solemn vows in 1952, years before the other Carmelitems convents in the Archdiocese.

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25 August 1953 - 14 December 1957
Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate, Letter in French from Archbishop to Superior General in Paris asking for consideration of a foundation in Archdiocese to provide retreats for women and girls, his preference in this apostolate for French rather than an Irish English, or American foundation, his friend and agent in Paris is Ms. J.B. McCloskey, head of American Catholic Relief there, and her encouraging response. Correspondence relating to foundation undertaken. Lengthy correspondence with Father Fennelly C.S.Sp. regarding Stations of the Cross. Certificate of Archbishop's membership of the "Cenacle Crusade of Prayer".
52 items

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11 July 1958 - 11 August 1971
Correspondence relating to routine details of community and apostolate. Killiney superior's idea for a Regina Mundi type institute encounters reservations of Monsignor Boylan Convent Conference (Eccles Street) proper framework for such initiatives. Mother-General asks for Archbishop's suggestions regarding their renewal for apostolate of "rechristianisation". Archbishop's short reply- such thing not required in Ireland, and Cenacle must learn the Irish situation is not that of England or France. Dispensation from temporary vows of a sister.
74 items

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16 February 1948 - 18 December 1955 97 items
Correspondence chronicles history of their entry into Archdiocese until acquisition of "Beechpark"; copy of brochure on the Order; "Marefield" is acquired and becomes St. Gabriel's Hospital Cabinteely for boys with rheumatic heart conditions; "Beechpark" Stillorgan is purchased to serve as residential home for treatment of deaf-mute little boys. Covers chaplaincy and acquisition of altar and altar stone from Oblate Fathers.

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17 May 1956 - 1 November 1961 66 items
New foundation at "Beechpark" Stillorgan commences its work for deaf-mute little boys; progress and development of "Beechpark" and St. Gabriel's Hospital fundraising activities; problem arises with former employee who refuses to vacate premises, the problem is resolved.

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7 June 1954 - 23 April 1962 38 items
Correspondence regarding "Maria Assumpta" college of physical education on initiative of Miss Kathleen O'Rourke (sister and aunt to priests of the Archdiocese); Sion Hill agree to take on management of her institution, she is to remain as principal, Miss O'Rourke resigns; references to "Ling" physical training college under non-Catholic auspices- Fr. Con Lee provides information. Re. Archbishop declining to be patron of "Federation International Sportive", see Dominican Convent Belfast.

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27 July 1947 - 2 March 1967 10 items
Two refusals to grant permission for house in the Archdiocese of Dublin and for seeking of postulants. Correspondence re placing of advertisement in the press, concerns of family of a sister and property at 1 Winton Road.

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2 September 1941 - 21 January 1972 45 items
Correspondence with Good Shepherd Sisters (Limerick) leading to establishment of a hostel in Donnybrook (cf File `Convents in Ireland outside Archdiocese' for correspondence with Good Shepherd in New Ross and Cork)