Includes; "Golden Jubilee of the Sisters of the Order of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, Archdiocese of San Francisco" (1904); pages from "The Tidings" newspaper giving Catholic news from U.S.A. (11 January 1957 - 25 January 1957); "1854 Centenary of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the United States"; anniversary of the Presentation in Dubuque, Iowa; "The Presentation [in San Francisco] 1958"; Diamond jubilee, Aberdeen, South Dakota (1961); "Sisters of the Presentation, Fargo, a centennial history" (1982).

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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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8 September 1941 - 21 December 1948 77 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; Columban sisters request permission to have a hostel in Dublin for their student sisters- granted; sisters cast around for another property in Archdiocese to which their Generalate and Novitiate, this granted in principle but Archbishop communicates some unease to Killaloe; also includes booklet in French on St. Columban.

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1 January 1949 - 31 December 1957 80 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; two copies of a petition to the Holy See from Archbishop of Besançon for inclusion of St. Columban in Universal Calendar; renewed attempts to find property to accommodate Mother House hitherto at Ennis, Magheramore becomes available, is acquired. Request per Msgr. Boylan to establish cemetery in Magheramore

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4 January 1958 - 5 July 1965 102 items

Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; Archbishop reluctantly allows showing of a film; Cahiracon is relinquished.

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19 August 1942 49 items
Correspondence concerning desire to open foundation the in Archdiocese. Archbishop suggests a secondary school in Malahide; a property is acquired; a pre-existing lay educational interest is safeguarded. Sisters take up residence.

Letter from Mgr. Levame to +McQuaid thanking him for the cheque for £6.14.4 which represents the taxes due on forms recently sent to him for the Religious Institutes in the Archdiocese.

Letter from +Levame to +McQuaid stating that a group of distinguished ladies as well as representatives of the Catholic Organisation of Women in Rome, have formed a committee in order to pay homage to Our Lady. The committee intends to build a church in Rome dedicated to the ‘Queenship of Our Lady’. In order to do this, the ‘Opera Regalita Maria’ has been founded to gather offering throughout the world and he hopes that the appeal will find ‘…wide answering by the women of…’ the Archdiocese.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Levame acknowledging the correspondence of Most Reverend Dr. O’Hara. This is in relation to a proposed adoption by a Mrs. Jennings. +McQuaid states that by arrangement with American Catholic Charities and the Irish Government, the Archdiocese has adopted ‘…of necessity, a very strict procedure in the matter of legal adoption’.

Letter from +Levame to +McQuaid stating that the Sacred Congregation of Religious is thinking about co-operation of religious nurses with Catholic Associations working in the sector of nursing assistance on an international plane. This should be done through the Comite International Catholique des Infirmieres et Assistants Medico-Sociales. Issues such as Natural Law and Catholic Moral Law are extremely delicate and inclusion in the CICIAMS allows access to the World Health Organisation where they have an advisory vote. The nursing profession to date has been represented at the W.H.O. by the International Council of Nurses which has been declared neutral and non-denominational. Stronger assertion is needed and more tenacious defence of Natural Law and Catholic Moral Law is needed. He hopes a plan of action can be put in place for the Archdiocese.

Application from the Nunciature to the Archdiocesan Curia, seeking an application for dispensation from the Eucharistic fast which has been received from Catherine M. Sheeley, who lives in the Archdiocese.

Handwritten letter from + James Staunton to Dr. Dunne seeking permission to have a mixed marriage ceremony performed in the Archdiocese of Dublin.