Power, Arthur, 28 Elgin Road, Ballsbridge. Relatively speaking Ireland is stacked with food, while Europeans are on the verge of death from hunger and disease. This is our opportunity to show we are a noble race.

Russell, Angela, 85 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge. She will do anything to help in the work of the Maternity Welfare Centre. S

18 -22 May 1959 Healy, Mairin, 73 Wilfield Road, Ballsbridge. Something has to be done about the conduct of young couples, especially that of the lower classes.

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.

-4 November 1960 Crowley, Laurence, 16 Shrewsbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin. Correspondence with Fr. J.A. MacMahon regarding the formation of a junior committee of the Castleknock College Union, and the request for a copy of + McQuaid’s letter to superiors of schools regarding Brancardiers at Lourdes.

Snoddy, Oliver, Raglan Hall, Clyde Road, Ballsbridge. He is distressed by the prospect of the Government subjecting him to fluoride poisoning.

Westby, Joseph P., 166 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge. Asks the Archbishop for his opinion on the Rosary being broadcast on Radio Eireann.

Handwritten letter to Dr. O’Connell from Andy, Wellfield Road, Ballsbridge, to inform him of the state of affairs at North Wall.

Lauer, R.M., Eglington Road, Ballsbridge. As a foreigner he seeks an interview to ask for help and advice. The internees are being sent back to Germany.

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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.