• June 1947 File relating to dispensation of banns.

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21 January 1942 - 18 June 1962 102 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life, A foundation in USA is considered and eventually declined Community votes to transfer from simple to solemn vows I case of dispensation from simple and solemn vows.

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3 January 1963 - 21 June 1971 101 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life, mainly enclosure matters Superior-general of Redemptorist Fathers become Apostolic Delegate to all Redemptorist nuns One sister volunteers to go to Vienna Attempt by Redemptorist Fathers to acquire portion of sisters' land for starting a retreat house. Project abandoned Lay sisters become choir sisters

• Correspondence concerning the foundation of a house in Dublin from Bodmin Abbey (Cornwall). Some begging letters. Abbot White granted permission for a hostel for his scholastics to attend Clonliffe College. They settle in Clontarf: but first batch of 3 seek dispensation from vows before commencing. A refocusing of the houses’ purpose ensures Canons Regular - Kilnacrott Abbey

One case of dispensation from vows in respect of Brother resident in Ireland but belonging to Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn (unclear whether these organically connected with Irish Franciscan Brothers). They seek a foundation in Dublin in context of depopulation of Connacht. Irish Christian Brothers

Heffernan, Michael R., Kilmurray, Kilmacanogue, Bray, seeking a dispensation from attending Mass on 29 June, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. Cardinal McRory had announced it as a day of National Thanksgiving to God for saving Ireland from war. He feels that it should be a day of humiliation and not thanksgiving as Ireland did not take part in a war on the side of good against evil.

Correspondence relating to Confirmations and a dispensation from reciting the Daily Office. 3 items

File relating to Dispensation of Banns fees. 19 items

on the subject of certain powers of Dispensation, and the delegating thereof. He says that the original Grant authorizing the delegation, was said by the late pr. Bray to be in the Cashel archives.

story of Nellie Organ, a young exceptionally pious girl from Cork that lived with the Good Shepherd Sisters of Sundays Well, Cork, special dispensation was given to her to be Confirmed, and receive Holy Communion, into the Catholic Church at an early age due to her ill-health.