File relating to 56 Bushy Park.

File relating to parochial property. Includes 39 Fortfield Grove, 22 Bushy Park, 61 Fortfield Road, site at Wainsfort Grove for E.S.B. sub-station and building development on the Firhouse Road.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Margaret Gavan Duffy, 81, Bushy Park Road, Terenure. ‘The bomb in this morning’s paper was a great joy.’

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23 June 1952 - 3 December 1958
Correspondence relation to setting up hostel for students. Archbishop will allow if sisters can fund and staff it, and submit two proposals re sites. Further correspondence re suitable sites. Bushy Park secured. Correspondence re Bloomfield, Merrion Rd. Archbishop advises to establish school as well as hostel. Boarding school at Clermont, Rathnew; novitiate is transferred there but later to St. Maur Our Lady's, Terenure

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9 January 1959 - 22 December 1971
Routine matters of community life and apostolate, including sodalities Correspondence re property extensions and acquisitions Archbishop's view foundation in New Zealand Question re permission to drive

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28 May 1943 - 10 January 48 64 items
Correspondence from 1925 to 1940 relates to the introduction of the Sisters of St Peter Claver by members of the Sodality of St Peter Claver for the African Missions. Their presence, post factum, was not sanctioned by Archbishop Byrne. Archbishop McQuaid orders them to leave the diocese Correspondence is paused before they are eventually allowed to have a foundation at North Great George's Street
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28 February 1948 - 9 June 1956 70 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate Move from North Great George's Street to Bushy Park, Terenure Notification of death of Superior General in Rome in whose tenure the congregation entered Dublin

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23 April 1957 - 25 May 1971 64 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate