• Correspondence between Mgr. P. Boylan and +McQuaid mainly regarding Fr. Brown and the issue of Librarian. 7 October 1959

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid thanking him for allowing Fr. Stephen Clancy leave the Clergy Retreat to accompany Fr. Moylan, former Vicar General to the Nuncio and from Atlanta, to Shannon Airport. Neither he nor Mgr. Alibrandi were available to accompany Fr. Boylan to Collinstown and hence he is very grateful to the Archbishop. He also discusses the merits of the complaints of Br. John O’Toole which will be sent to the Sacred Congregation for Religious and he has followed the advice and information provided by the Archbishop. He also mentions Professor H. Bruck who has been nominated for membership to the Pontifical Academy of Science. He mentions the new Nuncio who is leaving Cairo on 31 July and who plans on stopping in Rome before coming to Dublin.

Handwritten draft letter to Xavier Zaleski from the Secretary informing that Mgr. Boylan deals with matters of faith and morals.

Letter from Fr. P. Boylan to +McQuaid regarding the possible sale of a property on Eblana Avenue. The Christian Brothers might be interested.

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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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13 May 1940 - 24 September 1953
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, Letter from Msgr. Boylan to AB advising death of prioress and that legal problem no longer exists. a proposal to federate Irish Carmelitems convents, Delgany feels pressurized by the Definitor-General OCA, Archbishop will not intervene.
85 items

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3 November 1953 - 5 September 1969
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, an invitation from Port Elizabeth, South Africa to make a foundation there, Archbishop not in favour Correspondence re stipend paid to chaplain and other income
101 items

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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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19 March 1941 - 27 December 1953 66 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate: orphanage, retreat house, guest house. St. Joseph's orphanage, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire. Monsignor Boylan's unease regarding their please to build a chapel in his parish Correspondence re fundraising for the Orphanage by "friends". Referred by archbishop to Monsignor Walsh One booklet

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18 February 1954 - 24 February 1961 64 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate, particularly Difficulties over proposed new oratory Difficulties over desire to open a primary school, Monsignor. Boylan's opposition Fundraising for Orphanage

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18 February 1954 - 24 February 1961 64 items
Correspondence from lay Chair of Fundraising Committee re permission to hold such events Monsignor Boylan's assessment of personnel involved

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11 April 1941 - 29 July 1949 74 items
Correspondence on: holding sales of work. Canonical status of congregation Circumstances of sisters undertaking medical studies Edits the archbishop required in the film Visitation prior to giving permission for it to be shown in Dublin. Letter to Archbishop Dalton (Armagh) re same and Dalton's response.

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4 January 1950 - 21 November 1960 88 items
Extensive Correspondence re fundraising and development of property at Booterstown. Sisters replace Franciscan Brothers at Nunciature Archbishop supports their petition to be granted Pontifical status. Statistical and Historical Summary of Institute dated 10 May 1960

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7 April 1961 - 17 July 1962 64 items
Canonical Status of Institute Confirmed: Decretum Laudis brought personally from Rome by Cardinal Agaginian (Delegate to the Patrician Congress). Hostel at Booterstown, Rosemount, approved for lay and religious medical students, becomes a House of Formation (domus formata) Plans for International Fundraising for the Silver Jubilee Year of the Institute and the proposed initiatives of a Dublin Committee to make Mother Martin's Silver Jubilee result in extensive and testy responses from the archbishop.

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8 August 1962 to mid-1970 56 items
Correspondence re Sales of Work and location of annual retreats Mother M Martin to receive Honorary Fellowship of College of Surgeons New Superior-General elected 1969 - Mother Stella Phelan Archbishop directs Monsignor Boylan not to appoint as confessor any priest proposed by Mother Martin. A typescript Thoughts of a Sister, Covering Letter Sr Isabelle Smyth Collection of postcards of religious house in Rome without explanation of their presence in this collection

This file originally contained ACase of Conscience,' from a sister who was a patient in St Vincent's Hospital, Fairview. File was removed at unknown date.

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7 August 1964 - mid-1970 14 items
Papers relating to Special and Extraordinary General Chapter 1969-1970 Two Cases Exclaustration

XLIV/70 Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate
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22 October 1970 - 22 December 1970 3 items
Correspondence re presence of an unauthorised community in the diocese.