Includes; letters and cards from Sr. Carmel Kennefick, Presentation Sister from both Crosshaven, County Cork and Globe, Arizona, U.S.A. to Sr. Rosario Allen, South Presentation Convent, Douglas Street, Cork. Some letters were written while Sr. Carmel was on holidays in Ireland. Some letters and cards were written while Sr. Carmel was on mission in Globe. The letters and cards describe their great interest in Nano Nagle and their desire to have her canonised; the design of the new tomb; express concern of one another’s families; newspaper cutting entitled ‘Presentation Sister dies unexpectedly’ and death notice of Sr. Carmel on 10 September 1988. File has been arranged in chronological order.

Includes; letters from Sr Raphael Considine, in Australia to Sr. Rosario Allen, South Presentation Convent, Cork, dated 1980 to 1999. In her letters Sr. Raphael thanks Sr. Rosario for her hospitality each time she visits South Presentation Convent. Sr. Raphael gives updates on her progress of the books which she is writing on Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters. She gives details of her visits to the Presentation Sisters missions in India, Pakistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Philippines. Sr. Raphael makes arrangements for other Sisters and lay people to visit South Presentation Covent. File also includes a letter to Sr. Anthony Moloney, Sr. Lelia Kaar and Sr. Ambrose; Letter from Sr. Raphael to the Sisters requesting their help to enable her to write a short book on explaining the changes in apostolic religious life after Vatican11; Presentation Mission Link November 1994; and letter from Sr. Bernadette Keating,” Cove Lane”, St. James Parade, Elsternwick 3184, to Presentation Sisters, 21 Ashdene, South Douglas Road, Cork, Ireland, 12 May 2000, giving details of Sr. Raphael’s last illness and death and including the eulogy given at her funeral.

Includes; thank you letters and cards from the Ursuline Sisters from Blackrock, Cork, thanking Sr. Anthony [Moloney] and the Presentation Sisters in South Presentation Convent, Cork for their kindness and hospitality when they visited in May 1986; letters and cards to Sr. Rosario thanking her for the help which she has given and asking to have a copy of the picture of Nano Nagle for their convent; three copies of the booklet for prayer which was used when the Ursuline Sisters visited in May 1986; notes from the annals of the Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, established by Nano Nagle, in Douglas Street, Cork, transferred to Blackrock in 1825; letter from Sr. M. Sacred Heart, Ursuline Convent, Thurles, to Father Walsh, dated 25 September 1956, giving details of their foundation; booklet of the Bicentenary Mass of Thanksgiving of the Ursuline Convent, Thurles, 27 September 1987; letter from Mother M.J. Bernard, Ursuline Convent, St. Mary’s, Waterford, to Reverend Father, dated 10 October 1956, including notes from the annals from 1816 to 1956; a photocopied account of the Ursuline Sisters visit to South Presentation Convent, in May 1986; letter from Sr. M. Berchmans, Ursuline Convent, St. Joseph’s, Sligo, to Father Walsh, giving details of their foundation; and photographs of the visit of May 1986.

Includes; letters from Fr. T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], 3 October 1954 to Miss O’ Rahilly concerning a nineteenth century poet – Diarmuid O Longaigh; letter to Mother Catherine on 20 February; letter of 17 February 1960 to the Holy Father in French and in English giving the history of the congregation; letter to Mother Benignus relating to the printing of the book; letter to Mother de Sales from Fr. T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], Parochial House, Durrus , County Cork, 29 October 1968, concerning the use of the buildings on Douglas Street; letter to Sr. Catherine, 16 September 1971, including a map of Ballygriffin; letters to Father Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], from Finbarr Ryan, Arch. P.S. Port of Spain, 31 December 1959, paying tribute to him for his work on the life of ‘Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sister’s; letter from James Canon Bastible, University College, Cork, 12 December 1959, to Rev. Mother congratulating her on Fr. T.J. Walsh’s [Canon T.J. Walsh], book, ‘ Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters’, letter from S. Perosazz, Department of Education, Dublin, 28 June 1956 to Fr. T.J. Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], concerning access to reports made by inspectors on the Presentation schools during the nineteenth century; letter from M. Gregory, O.S.B., Benedictine Abbey, Kylemore, Clifden, County Galway, 15 July 1955, stating that due to fire in their archives two years previously any information which they had on Nano Nagle was burnt; letter from D. Joseph Dowdall O.S. B., Glenstal Priory School, Murroe, County Limerick, 22 May 1955 to Father Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], relating to the microfilming of documents; letter from Fr. F.X. Marin, St. Patrick’s , Via Piemonte, 60 Rome (125) to Fr. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], concerning the examination of the Prop. Documents; letter to Father Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], from Patricia O’ Connell, Evening Press, 6 April 1955 in relation to the death notice of Joseph Nagle; letters from Browne and Nolan Limited, Publishers, 41 -42 Nassau Street, Dublin, to Rev. Mother on 10 September 1958 concerning the publishing of Fr. T.J. Walsh’s, [Canon T.J. Walsh], book; letters from M.H. Gill and Son, 50 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin to Fr. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], Mother Benignus, Mother Ignatius concerning the publication of the book and its cost; two copies of 1775 – 1975 Sermon on the occasion of the Bi- centenary Celebrations of the Presentation Sisters, St. Finbarr’s Church Cork 24 December 1975, T.J. Walsh [Canon T.J. Walsh], December 1975; Nano Nagle, Undaunted Daughter of Desires A Study in Sanctity, T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], October 1975; letter from T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J.Walsh], Parochial House, Blackrock, Cork, 18 September 1980 to Sister Lucy, Presentation Generalate, Monasterevan, County Kildare; letter from T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], Parochial House, Blackrock, Cork to Sister Rosario [Allen] concerning the plans for the Nano Nagle tomb; letter from Carol Nagle Fish, 54 Prairie Avenue, Buffalo, New York, 14207, 25 January 1985, requesting information on her ancestors and claiming that she is related to the Nagles; newspaper article, ‘ Canon Walsh: The Final Respects’; leaflet, ‘ Office for the Dead and Funeral Mass’, Very Rev. Canon T. J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], 27 June 1984; and notes on layout of chapters for the book, ‘ Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters’.

Map of Douglas Street property drawn up by W. H. M. Brady with original letter.

Correspondence between South Presentation Convent, Presentation Brothers and W. Marsh & Sons negotiating the sale of Nano Nagle House, Douglas Street, to the Presentation Sisters.

Includes; file includes black and white photographs of convents in Ireland from Doneraile, Galway, Carlow, Maryborough, Tralee, Thurles, Rahan, and Dungarvan; letters from Sr. M. Ignatius, Carrick-on -Suir (12 February 1930 ) to Rev. Mother South Presentation Convent, Douglas Street Cork regarding the difficulty of getting a photograph of the convent; letter from Sr. Mary Imelda, Presentation Convent, Carrick-on-Suir to Rev. Mother in relation to obtaining a photograph of the convent, letter from Carlow dated 22 January 1930; letter from Sr. Gertrude, Presentation Convent, Thurles dated 22 June 1930, and letter from Sr. M. de Sales, Presentation Convent Dungarvan dated 28 January 1930. Many of the letters are addressed to Mother Joseph; empty brown envelope addressed to Director of the Library, Registers Office, University College, Cork, Eire; booklet entitled ‘ An Ursuline writer of Irish History’ by Professor Alfred O’ Rahilly, Reprinted from Journal of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Vol. XLII (1942); type written copies of Nano Nagle’s letters numbers 1 to 13; and documents in Latin entitled ( ARCHIVIO DI PROPGANDA – ACTA S.C.DE ANNO 1790 -FOL.577 -AD CONGREG) 1789- 1805.

Includes; classroom plans.

Correspondence between solicitors John Stanton & Sons and South Presentation Convent regarding purchase of Sunview, South Douglas Road. Approval of Building Plans,

Includes; receipts of money received from the South Presentation Convent by Barry McMullen for building work on the Almshouse on Douglas Street, Cork.