Includes; brief account of the founding of the "Sisters of the Charitable Instruction, called the Sisters of the Scared Heart of Jesus [which became the Presentation]" by Nano Nagle under the authority and direction of Doctor John Butler, Bishop of Cork, names of first Sisters to join the Congregation.

Includes; biography of Nano Nagle and account of her work with the poor, "A sermon preached by the Right Rev[erend] Doctor McCarthy, Coadjutor Bishop of Cork, on the 1st Anniversary of our Venerated Mother Nagle's death" (written by Sister Mary Magdalen de Pazzi Leahy).

"Doctor James Butler's Catechism"; "The love of God by S[iste]r Francis de Sales"; "The seed must die" (Diarmaid O'Murchu); "Abridgement Christian doctrine"; "Doway Catechism in English + [and] Irish"; "Non-Catholic movements"; "Ursulines in France c1760"; "Review of literature of the Congregation"; "Annals of South Presentation Convent 1771 - 1989"; "Pere Barre"; "S[iste]r Pius' reading - articles"; "Courses, retreats, notes etc"; "Towards famine exhibition in Millstreet June 1997"; "Nano Nagle, undaunted daughter of desires: a study in sanctity (T.J. Walsh, October 1975).