[Copy] letter from +McQuaid to +Sensi stating it will not be possible to send a choir to the Pueri Cantores Congress.

File relating to the church organ and choir.

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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.

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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.

XLIV/64 Sacred Heart of Mary, Sisters of the
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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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Kilmacud

11 February 1944 - 29 July 1949 44 items

Routine matters of community life and apostolate Archbishop supports establishment of Kilmacud, sends generous financial contribution Correspondence with Department of Education re amendment to `Children's Act 1941.' Question of amalgamation of Dublin convents Kilmacud House to be purchased.

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3 January 1950 - 21 December 1955 61 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Disposal of land to parish for church/schools Approves project of a hostel, an initiative which would break out of the current model

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5 January 1956 - 15 November 1972 72 items

Routine matters of community life and apostolate Archbishop supports petition to Holy See to have superior serve a third consecutive term, granted for three years Sale of parcel of land at Kilmacud Archbishop peeved at necessity to employ a lay teacher when community has had ample time to prepare sisters

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1950 - 12 July 1971 92 items
Dispensations, file consisting of several dispensation cases

High Park
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22 January 1942 - 26 June 1952 70 items

Routine matters of community life and apostolate Foundation at Kilmacud - St Anne's followed by Kilmacud House St Anne's becomes independent house Archbishop intervenes to prevent High Park from discontinuing detection of remand cases at S Joseph's School, Whitehall.

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3 March 1953 - 10 December 1959 69 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Archbishop keen to see wider hostel provision Quinquennial Report (1949-1953) received and acknowledged by S. Congregation Exchange of correspondence over who should be involved in the presentation of the community's constitutions to the Sacred Congregation. Repudiates the offices of a third party.

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12 March 1960 - 15 December 1963 59 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Report or meeting in Rome of heads of the four federations of the Order (French, English, Irish, US) General Chapter in Dublin November 1960, correspondence re Constitutions Quinquennial Report (1949-1953) praised by S. Congregation, makes recommendation re silence Advice sought on problem of the filling of the vacancy on the General Council on the death of a member.

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1 February 1964 - 7 October 1969 113 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Permission from S. Congregation permits archbishop to allow lay-sisters the same habit as choir sisters S. Congregation grants permission for one category of sister, category of lay sisters abolished Rehabilitation hostel for teenage girls is opened.

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15 September 1969 - 15 January 1971 36 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Chapter of the Irish Federation in preparation for General Chapter of Order later in Rome. Text of the Experimental Statues of the Irish Federation dated 18 March 1970. Delegate meeting held in Wisconsin, USA Kill O'the Grange is to be an autonomous house

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Separate Folder entitles Patrick Belton Vs High Park Correspondence between plaintive and defendant and their respective solicitors, with letter from Mr. Belton to Archbishop McQuaid. No document relating to outcome of proposed litigation.

/8/1 Amalgamation
18 July 1945 - 10 July 1948 52 items
Correspondence and Memoranda re amalgamation of convents After consultation with Dublin convent, archbishop petitions S. Congregation for amalgamation Decree of Union issued by S. Congregation

/8/2 Amalgamation
12 September 1948- 12 December 1948 18 items
Material consequent to amalgamation of Dublin convents Minutes of General Assembly of French convents with covering letter Archbishop of Cardiff presses for amalgamation of Cardiff convent with Dublin convents. Archbishop proposes delay which his counterpart in Cardiff accepts. First General Chapter in Dublin; election of Superior and Council

/8/3 Amalgamation
12 December 1948 - 23 November 1954 18 items
Material relation to implementation of Decree of Union Dublin Union not keen to be involved with convents outside Ireland S. Congregation approves revised constitutions `Chronicle of Events' in process of amalgamation

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Gloucester Street
17 April 1941 - 22 November 1948 42 items
Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate incl. fundraising Amalgamation is mooted (cf file Refuge - Amalgamation) Delegates to General Chapter are election

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Gloucester Street
3 August 19491 - 19 May 1970 50 items
Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate incl. fundraising Acquisition of ground adjacent to monastery Privileged altars

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Kill O' the Grange Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate incl. fundraising New foundation at Kill O' the Grange is proposed and property leased from Espinasse Estate Clarification that property will be purchased as freehold and used as House of Preservation and Training school for young girls. Canonical issue re age and length of period of profession of desired sister-in-charge is resolved by designating the Grange as a filial house. Residential home is opened - press cutting

Correspondence regarding the Indian Choir singing in the Pro-Cathedral.

Masses, the cancellation of the Anniversary of the Coronation Mass of Pope Pius XII as a protest against the verdict of the civil court against the Bishop of Prato, replies from Sean Lemass, Eamon de Valera and John Lynch, the choir and John Piert, and lists of those invited.

Five Paris press cuttings referring to Our Lady’s Choir.

Letter from +Sensi to +McQuaid regarding Ireland’s representation at the International Congress of the Pueri Cantores in Rome in July. He is now enclosing documentation he has received from the organisers. The Archbishop had mentioned the possibility of forming a choir for the occasion and he wants to know how those efforts are coming. Annotated by +McQuaid stating that he has not done anything and at such short notice does not feel that they will have a worthy participation in the event.

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5 January 1941 - 18 August 1954
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, a lay-sister's dismay at proposal for her to become a choir-nun, a proposal to transfer jurisdiction to the (Discalced Fuis?) Superior - General is rejected by the archbishop, extended correspondence regarding two bequests.
74 items

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23 August 1954 - 23 January 1971 65 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, correspondence regarding a bequest continued from first file.