Letter from T. O Raifeartaigh, Ballsbridge to +McQuaid enclosing an article he wrote on St. Patrick (not here). Annotated by +McQuaid.

Copy of a typed letter to T. O Deirg from +McQuaid regarding an ‘exclusive’ Secondary School for girls in Ballsbridge. He has been searching for a solution to the exodus of Catholic girls to English convents. The school would be run by the Holy Child Jesus Sisters, an American order, and they would maintain a definite Irish outlook.

Correspondence, involving Mrs Teresa Connolly, Oaklands, Ballsbridge, +McQuaid, T. Deirg, and Seamus O Neill, relating to the proposal to open a Juvenile Detention Home at Marlborough House, Glasnevin.

Letter from Arthur Larkin, Ballsbridge to +McQuaid thanking him for getting their swimming back for them. The boys seem to have gotten into difficulties with the nuns who own the pool.

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17 March 1946 - 27 March 1971 68 items
Correspondence which chronicles their recruiting campaigns in Dublin and their eventual foundation in Sandymount.

XLIV/52 Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood
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15 January 1944 - 18 September 1957 8 items
Correspondence detailing unsuccessful attempt to have permission for a foundation in Dublin; reference to Irish Guild of Catholic Nurses; a copy of "Forum" review. (This institute made a foundation in Dublin in later times).

/2 25 June 1956 - 10 May 1962
Correspondence re Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, marked Secret.

XLIV/53 Franciscan Missionaries of Mary
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19 November 1941 - 25 December 1971 74 items
Correspondence chronicles institute's attempts to have a foundation in Dublin. Eventually this is granted- a hostel for their sisters in Ballsbridge, copy of letter from the Postulator of the Cause in their Founders; they seek to transfer to convent in Mt. Tallant being vacated by the Carmelites, see Mt. Tallant Carmelites file for more.

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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