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20 February 1941 - 22 December 1942 61 items
Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate Permission granted for Mass in Leeson St chapel on Bastille Day to honour French soldiers who died on active service since 1914. Arrangements made to have Mass in chapel. Question of slow movement on city shop-window displays; pressure from past-pupils Question of establishing a teacher training college in Dublin on the lines of one in Scotland at Craiglockhart. Extended correspondence with several Irish bishops and Dept Education.

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13 February 1943 - 16 December 1952 70 items
Correspondence re: routine aspects of community life and apostolate Catholic Women's Federation Archbishop urges correction of false report in Irish Times re secondary schools Approves prompt action by Loreto (their file 11/2/1944 and Dominicans Cabra of same date) Belgian minister's request for celebration of national day in Leeson Street Chapel Property acquired for schools in Monkstown, chapel blessed by archbishop, school begins.

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10 January 1946 - 20 February 1948 70 items
Routine aspects of community life and apostolate Archbishop blesses school at Monkstown Sodality of Our lady of the Angels Question of purchase of Greenbanks, Archbishop advises immediate purchase Sisters advise that they cannot undertake hostel Cause of M. Jaret Stuart

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4 January 1949 - 18 December 1952 69 items
Routine aspects of community life and apostolate Girls Athletics (cf Mercy Carysfort 9 March 1950) Correspondence from sisters re personal matter Cause of M. Josepha Menandez Series of Recollection Days for students of Trinity College Admission of students at Alexandra College to meetings for Children of Mary

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1 January 1953 - 16 December 1956 71 items
Routine aspects of community life and apostolate Centenary of Mount Anville Archbishop blesses Mount Anville primary school Question of Day Secondary school at Mount Anville

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10 January 1957 - 27 December 1961 71 items
Routine aspects of community life and apostolate Day Secondary school at Mount Anville Girls Club discontinued Night School at Leeson St discontinued Mission is Uganda is opened. Archbishop foresees possibility of vocations, hither to scarce among Sacred Heart Girls Archbishop approves request to bank for loan of 80,000 for Leeson St project

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15 January 1962 - 25 December 1967 75 items
Routine aspects of community life and apostolate Leeson St School has to close due to construction problems. Alternative sites not suitable, dismay of parents

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8 March 1968 - 23 June 1971 77 items
Routine aspects of community life and apostolate House at Greygates is purchased to serve as Provincialate Following the `Free Education Scheme" Monkstown will collaborate with Holy Child Sisters at Killiney and Sallynoggin Changes in internal administration of Institute Question of unsuitable punishment of student, archbishop's sympathy for student and parent Copy of Orientations ad experimentum October-December 1967, Special Chapter

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10 May 1940 - 29 October 1944 55 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate under wartime conditions - mostly with Superior General, foundation made in Foxrock. Archbishop approves of correction of report in Irish times, see File Dominican Sisters, Cabra 1.

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7 November 1944 - 6 February 1948 59 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate under wartime conditions - mostly with Superior General. Reference to difficulties for communities in Gibraltar and Mauritius Developments in Johannesburg and Zanzibar Mons. Augusto Fidecicchi, agent in Rome. Sanction re superiors appointed abroad due to wartime conditions. General Chapter pending Refugees from IBVM in Hungary seek hospitality with IBVM in Dublin See: English convents Loreto 2 June 1947 and Altringham (Bowden)) affairs. See: file Rescripts 8 July 1947.

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5 February1948 - 4 December 1951 67 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Archbishop inquire about hostel facilities for female university students. Purchase of house in Johannesburg General Chapter Reference to complaints of `Some Sisters of Loreto in Ireland.' Archbishop sanctions proposal to give hospitality to Hungarian IBVMs in Dublin

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21 May 1952 - 27 April 1956 63 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Loreto will join the Primary and Secondary Schools Conference of Religious Sisters, a reversal of their earlier decision Project of a hostel for female university students. Loreto declines an invitation to Afghanistan

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7 May 1956 - December 1959 67 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Problems re construction of school in Crumlin Letter from a sister in India raises question of federation aired previously

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2 January 1960 - 7 April 1962 64 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Minutes of General Chapter: revision of Constitutions Continuation of search for property for university hostel Centenary celebration for death of Mother Teresa Ball

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5 March 1963 - 29 December 1966 50 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate Archbishop may dispense from dower Loreto Hall to be sold, reprieved Belgian Jesuit not welcome to five biblical course Extension of term of office for Sr Pauline Dunne and counsellors Correspondence re distinction between lay and choir sisters Archbishop invites institute to undertake schools in Rathfarnham.

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5 January 1967 - 15 December 1971 66 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate Kenya and South Africa become separate provinces IBVM in Meath Diocese amalgamate with Rathfarnham General Chapter projected for July 1971 See File Augustinians No 2 re provision of a day school

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9 July 1959 - 15 November 1961 32 items
Contains rescripts only concerning: Financial transactions Bank Loans Sale of Property Renunciation of Personal Property of members of the Institute

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12 May 1962 - 19 March 1964 39 items
Contains rescripts only concerning: Bank Loans Renunciation of Personal Property of members of the Institute

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4 June 1964 - 11 September 1967 39 items
Contains rescripts only concerning: Financial transactions Bank Loans Sale of Property Making of a will

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10 July 1959 - 25 July 1964 92 items
Correspondence relating to rescripts contained in Files 9 and 10

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3 February 1964 - 15 September 1967 87 items
Correspondence relating to rescripts contained in Files 10 and 11.

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13 December 1965 - 2 July 1958 58 items
General Chapter Correspondence Mother Pauline Dunne, Archbishop, Fr Sheehy, Holy See re Canonical question of position of temporary-professed sisters Canonical questions re-election of delegates to General Chapter Mother Pauline Dunne wished to relinquish office, granted

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8 July 1968 - 31 December 1968 10 items
General Chapter Names of Superior General and Consultors elected at General Chapter Other general-chapter material including Decrees and Report

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Material relates to General Chapter Power necessary for Interim Period Resolution of Special General Chapter Draft Faculties Voted to Superior General for Interim Period Extension of Terms of Office for Provincial of Australian Province

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15 August 1944 - 5 November 1971
Dispensations from Vows.

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Typescript of a sisters who died in the odour of sanctity at Rathfarnham. Letter from the author, a Discalced Carmelite friar.

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20 August 1943 - 23 October 1947 75 items
A foundation is granted and a secondary school in Sandymount following protracted correspondence Roslyn Park is acquired, opened and blessed A small difficulty concerning a novice is explained.

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10 December 1947 - 4 July 1962 59 items
Correspondence re purchase of Roslyn Park, reference to agents, solicitors and architemscts. Archbishop objects to Paris based sisters of the Congregation recruiting in the diocese. Letter to superior-general to that effect. States in a letter his view that hockey is physically unsuitable for girls but he cannot ban it.

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27 March 1963 - 17 January 1972 46 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate Extension of Roslyn park Permission for loan to build secondary school at Stormonstown House, Ballymun granted. Sisters unable to pursue project. Permission for ecumenical prayer service refused.

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14 June 1940 - 22 November 1971 93 items
Correspondence regarding the succession of Chapters- General, Special, Regional; war conditions cause problems for holding Chapter- South African members unable to travel; question of sisters attending university to prepare for secondary teaching, and a hostel for these sisters (see also Cabra file); regional chapters for South Africa (see also Cabra file); increased representation for 1967 chapter, some irregularities are removed regarding membership; Congregation Religious resolves doubts regarding resignation of M. General; interim directives of chapter- a summary forwarded to Rome; a letter indicates tensions within the community.

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17 January 1941 to 1 October 1945 60 items
Schools to be provided by Dominicans at new Cabra housing development; questions regarding teaching sisters- their attendance of Carysfort training college and their recognition by the State is trained in NI; (also see "Chapters" file regarding a university hostel for sisters); a new South Africa branch is mooted by native sisters; a reference to amalgamation expected in South Africa in 1938 involving various Dominican congregations and the consequent necessity for changes to constitutions; also see file "Loreto 1" letter 11/2/1944 regarding Irish Times offence.

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8 January 1946 - 12 June 1950 46 items
Deaf institute celebrates centenary, includes copy of booklet and program; Archbishop offers suggestions on modification to Constitutions; list of Dominican congregations in South Africa, Archbishop is not enthusiastic about Irish girls joining German congregations; M. Prioress visits deaf schools in Britain, includes her report; question of secondary school for Clondalkin, and of a university hostel; an undated typescript history of the foundation of Cabra deaf institute.

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25 January 1951 - 31 December 1956 91 items
Oral training of deaf-mutes; Archbishop wished well for his visit to antipodes, list of convents there founded from Dominicans in Dublin; Dominicans petition the Holy See for habit uniformity of choir and lay sisters, do this without reference to the Archbishop, his resulting displeasure, their apology; question of home for the aged female deaf is discussed; a sister seeks to transfer to Drogheda (contemplative) convent; Archbishop notes "formally" that strict enclosure of Dominican sisters is unsuitable for a congregation engaged in active apostolate, recommends youth clubs on their premises; correspondence regarding routine details of community life; Lisbon to join Irish congregation, also includes letter from South Africa.

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3 January 1957 - 31 December 1962 78 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; attendance at a congress of religious orders in Rome, a problem is resolved regarding a sodality and its relationship to the parish of Cabra, Quinquennial reports acknowledged by Rome, a family dispute regarding children in Cabra; definitive permission from Rome regarding lay sisters habits, renewed question of a university hostel, a new Prioress-General is elected.

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13 January 1963 - 26 October 1971 146 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; a foundation in Mississippi is considered and declined; a university hostel at Merrion Avenue (Rosaryville) is begun; suggestion to undertake secondary school at Stormanstown received with caution; a residential home for the aged deaf opened and was blessed at Stillorgan; unable to undertake foundation at Santry; M. Jordana- her importance for Catholic Education requires her exemption from election to other post- later, Archbishop's annoyance at proposal to transfer her to Belfast in view of her crucial appointment regarding education in Dublin; novitiate transfers from Kerdiffstown to St. Dominic's , Merrion Ave.; a sister transfers to contemplative convent in Drogheda; Taylor's Hill convent in Galway seeks to join Cabra congregation.

Typed letter to Fr. Glennon from the Office of the City Manager and Town Clerk, regarding the site of the proposed Food Centre for the Catholic Social Service Conference at Cabra.

• 1959 Correspondence regarding routine community life and apostolate. Belcamp found unsuitable, a property is found at Balheary for Novitiate. Archbishop emphasises wish for secondary education for ‘ordinary people’, such as at Cabra; finding it increasingly difficult ‘interesting’ religious orders in this. Walkinstown C.B.S. blessed by Archbishop. Copy of Cardinal Logue’s ‘Normae…’ (may not belong here). Souvenir of renovation of Westland Row C.B.S.

Handwritten letter to + McQuaid from S. P. Jordana, O.P., Dominican Convent, Cabra, seeking an interview with him before meeting Mrs. MacNamara.

Moran, Gerald, 15 Cabra Drive, Cabra. Asks if he may use the Archbishop’s name in obtaining a place in the Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook.

Kearney, James J., 100 Cabra Road, Dublin. Letter to Fr. Dunne informing him that the Archbishop’s authorisation was needed to broadcast Annual Appeals.