Typed letter to +McQuaid from Dr. H. von Tritzschler informing him that a Memorial Mass for the late Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will take place on 25 April in the church in Donnybrook.

Typed letter from + P. Collier to + McQuaid seeking permission for two persons of his diocese to marry in Donnybrook.

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23 March 1941 - 14 February 1971 47 items
Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate; difficulties over an army contract, trade union and Labour Party involved; Project to establish Training Center for mentally handicapped.

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9 July 1942 - 15 July 1951 46 items
Routine matters of community life Question of amalgamation proposed by Newry resisted by Harold's Cross and archbishop Archbishop favourable to foundation of commercial college and admission of day-pupils to the national school in view of decline in numbers of orphans. Testamentary matters Change in colour of habit approved Unsigned undated memorandum of history of Irish Poor Clare's.

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2 July 1960 - 15 May 1971 44 items
Routine matters of community life Testamentary matters Archbishop cautious about Franciscan (OFM) interest in Harold's Cross convent Two cases of dispensation from vows, removed from this file 20 January 2023

Poor Clare's Newry
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14 September 1941 - 10 March 1969 59 items
Correspondence chronicles Newry's repeated attempts to establish a foundation in Dublin, each of which was rebuffed by archbishop and Council, with some involvement from Dr Dunne, Haddington Rd. Question of amalgamation with Harold's Cross firmly rejected by archbishop, see files of Poor Clare's, Harold's Cross. Under a new abbess, a foundation is permitted in Donnybrook (cf File `Convents in Ireland outside Archdiocese' for letter from Newry Poor Clare)

Five items relating to Fr. B. Barry, S.J., Donnybrook, meeting with Dermot O’Flynn in order to organize the opposition of the Pioneers to the proposal to extend Sunday drinking hours.

Donnybrook

Clonskeagh from Donnybrook

Letter from +McGrath to +McQuaid regarding the Poor Clare’s. He said Mass for them in Donnybrook and the Abbess later discussed a possible foundation in his diocese. He is hoping the Sisters would be able to establish a colony in Neath.

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18 August 1942 - 4 March 1969
Archbishop required letters in support of a sister travelling to England during wartime. Invitation to open a day secondary school in Donnycarney area, with a primary school to follow. House acquired in Donnybrook Sisters at Rockwell College, (see File St. Joseph of Chambrey No. 1)

Haddington Road from Irishtown, Ringsend, Donnybrook and Sandymount