File relating to the national schools, Clonsilla.

• 31 March 1967 File relating to Clonsilla Hall. 14 items

Typed letter to Fr. C. Mangan regarding the opening of the new home for mental defectives at Clonsilla. The Parliamentary Secretary would be pleased to perform the opening ceremony.

Letter from +Brown to +McQuaid regarding a novitiate of the Little Sisters of the Poor which has been opened at Clonsilla. Annotated by +McQuaid.

File relating to Blanchardstown national school. Also mentions schools in Clonsilla, Castleknock and Lower Road. 3 items

File relating to Coolmine & Clonsilla, with special reference to the church and 39 Broadway Estate. 11 items

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20 February 1941 - 21 December 1949 76 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate, "The Grange" Clonsilla is acquired after evacuation by Little Sisters of the Poor, a sister seeks help in a matter of conscience, permission is granted to have a hostel for domestic service students, sisters at Glencree regarding Polish children, of file "Little Sisters of the Poor" no. 2 for letters

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9 March 1950 - 17 December 1956 71 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate, several cases of adoption are proposed and examined, see "Hospitals" file for matters regarding St. Ann's Hospital, and the Holy Angels Glenmaroon, and Our Lady's Hospital, Crumlin, and TB Hospital, Ringsend.

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16 January 1957 - 14 November 1961 87 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate. Archbishop agrees that Sacred Heart Home may seek to become a registered adoption charity, Princess Grace of Monaco who has been a benefactor is expected to visit Sacred Heart Home.

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3 January 1962 - 17 December 1964 56 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostate, Sisters' new primary school is blessed by Archbishop, a course is approved for sisters on relating to adolescent girls, Archbishop regrets change of habit and abandonment of the characteristic "cornette", Archbishop suggests undertaking a secondary day school at Kilmacud.

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7 January 1965 - 20 October 1971 80 items
Correspondence regarding the routine details of community life and apostolate, sisters suggest opening a home for the Elderly at Phibsboro, sisters withdraw from Stillorgan.

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16 November 1945 - 12 August 1967 84 items
Correspondence relating Sacred Home Drumcondra concerning financial records, property evaluations, extensions to property and maintenance of property. Accompanied by audited accounts for years: 1941-1953; 1954; 1959. Includes information on old slaughterhouse at rere Lower Drumcondra Road.

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11 January1941 - 18 December 1942 53 items
Due to wartime conditions, novices cannot be sent to France, hence permission for temporary novitiate at Clonsilla is requested and granted. Changed to Roebuck with condition that a home for the Aged Poor will be established on the site. The Hermitage, Roebuck, is acquired.

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22 April 1943 - December 1945 60 items
The Hermitage, Roebuck, opens as a home for Aged Men. The Grange at Clonsilla is sold to the Daughters of Charity (cf Daughters of Charity, File No.1, letters 27 June 1943 and 29 August 1943.) Roebuck Castle is acquired and received the residents of the Hermitage leaving that property exclusively for use as a novitiate. Permission for permanent novitiate at Roebuck Castle is granted with the condition of its use as a home for the aged.

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10 January 1946 - 15 December 1955 60 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Holy See sanctions permanent novitiate at Roebuck. New wing at Roebuck is blessed.

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24 March 1956 - 15 December 1964 74 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Archbishop suggests another home for the aged; a sites is purchased in Raheny. Appropriate accommodation for chaplain on foot of fire in furnished house (cf File Refuge, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, letters 9 - 10 December 1959.)

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23 June 1965 - 1 February 1972 81 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Archbishop suggests another home for the aged. Development of plans for home in Raheny. Correspondence re setting up of committee of lay people to raise funds without prior permission of the archbishop who forbids advertising, and fund raising in connection with same without previous sanction of the Vicar-General.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

31 [January] 1941 - 30 November 1945 Correspondence relating to routine community life and apostolate. Inauguration of Perpetual Miraculous Medal Novena at Phibsborough. Migration of part of St. Vincent’s Residential School for Mental Defectives, Cabra to Clonsilla. (see also Daughters of Charity and Little Sisters of the Poor files). Project of new secondary school in Clontarf but difficulties arise. (see also Clontarf Parish file, September 1943 regarding property). [name of school appears as is in the documents]. 70 items