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5 November 1945 - 23 December 1957 68 items
Correspondence re attempts to establish a foundation in the archdiocese Hostel for girls considered and abandoned Permission granted to open a house for retreat, property acquired in Finglas One cope booklet on Foundress, Blessed Raphaela Mary of the Sacred Heart One copy of booklet on Congregation

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21 January 1958 - 31 May 1963 56 items
Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate Question of a commercial college is assessed and permission granted. One copy of booklet on Congregation One spiritual bouquet presented to archbishop

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20 July 1963 - 4 August 1971 74 items
Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate Permission granted to open a university hostel for sisters and lay-students in Ballsbridge, property acquired in Blackrock Undertake primary and secondary schools in Kilmacud hitherto under French Sisters of Charity (St Philomena's) One case of dispensation of vows in separate folder

Correspondence from the Diocese of Sacramento to South Presentation Convent urging Sisters to come to Sacramento to teach, dispensation from the law of the cloister, building of convent and school in Sacramento, school registration and the immigration of four Irish Sisters into Sacramento to teach among other matters.

File relating to special collections taken up in the parish. Includes mention of dispensation of bann fees. 35items

Correspondence regarding routine community life and apostolate from the first invitation from the Archbishop to undertake a day secondary school either at Finglas or Lucan, to their eventual establishment at Finglas. Their regretful inability to accept invitation due to shortage of personnel leads to later acceptance. Various sites are considered, including an offer from Sisters of Charity, Cappagh. Finally, a foundation is made and a school opens. A case of dispensation from vows.

Letter from +Collier to Most Rev. John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop-Elect. He thanks McQuaid for his letter and writes that it is a pleasure to act as junior co-consecrator. He reminds McQuaid that the day of his consecration is a Friday and suggests it would be appreciated if he issued a dispensation as his first act.

Handwritten letter from D. Enrici to Fr. Glennon thanking him For the cheque in respect of the fee for a dispensation.

Letter from +Dunne to +McQuaid regarding a dispensation from the Eucharistic Fast for Countess O’Byrne due to age and a request from the Holy Faith Sisters to buy a property on Haddington Road, adjacent to their current building. End of letter torn.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Charles J. Haughey, Minister for Finance, thanking him for granting dispensation from Friday abstinence on the occasion of a State Reception in Dublin Castle.

Draft letter from +McQuaid to +Gerald O’Hara apologising for the delay in relation to the matter of the Eucharistic Fast dispensation for Catherine Shuley. He explains that ‘…in the unbroken tradition of this Curia, no request to the parochial clergy is ever permitted to be made without explicit reference to the authority seeking information’.

• 10 September 1949 Notifications regarding dispensation of Banns. 4 items