Copy of letter from +McQuaid to Mgr. Boylan regarding ‘peace in the presbytery’.

Letter from Fr. P. Boylan to +McQuaid informing him that the Sisters want to begin work on their proposed hall and request his permission to hold a ‘Draw’ to help finance it.

• 14 March 1946 Letters from Fr. Boylan to +McQuaid regarding the proofs of a Parish Magazine in Meath Street. 2 items

Letter from Fr. P. Boylan to +McQuaid regarding Confirmation.

Letters from Fr. P. Boylan to +McQuaid inviting him to lunch after Confirmations.

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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 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

between Rome and Archbishop’s 30 November 1962 House, including the Chancellery, all during the first session. News from diocese and Rome including primary teachers, Mass and reception. Items for signature for example Andrew’s charity purchase of a house. Also Fr. Boylan, Vicar General to Rome.

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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

Copy of typed letter from Leon O Cuinnleain, Secretary, to Mgr. Boylan with requests to have Mass in the Chapel of Dublin Castle and altar stones. 1 item W.D. Hunter -Curragh Camp Dispute