Copy of typed letter to Desmond O’Malley, Minister for Justice, from +McQuaid informing him that Fr. G. Slattery is to go abroad for further studies and proposed Fr. R. Field as his successor.

Letter from Richard Ryan, solicitor to Fr. O’Connell regarding a field at the back of the church which is used as a cemetery.

The L.D.F. want to hold a Field Day in Swords.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Raymond Field. Feels that the new school in the Institution could be used for religious formation in the lives of the boys.

Letter from Richard Ryan, solicitor to Dr. O’Connell relating to a field owned by Mr. Dalgety at Leixlip.

Letters from Fr. W. Field to Fr. Mangan regarding a plan for the proposed new Burial Ground at Balgriffin. 2 items

Typed ‘memo’ regarding the replacement of Fr. Raymond Field at Whitehall Technical School.

Fathers, Kimmage, +McQuaid and +Levame in relation to the possibility of Irish priests going to South America to do missionary work. The Sacred Consistorial Congregation is in support of this but +McQuaid feels that the sending isolated priests to work there is not a good idea. He has actively discouraged Irish boys from going to the College in Louvain as neither the framework nor formation suits the Irish. He feels it would be better if the mission could be organised through the Columban Fathers or the Society of St. Patrick, both of whom have experience in the missionary field.

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12 February 1940 - 9 December 1949 92 items

Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; reference to troubles at Carysfort Training College (see Mercy-Carysfort file); questions of a home for unmarried mothers and babies at St. Gerard's, Merrion, premises subsequently became Children's Convalescence Home under new name (St. Anthony's); Archbishop indicates that sisters need not wear secular dress when undergoing training at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Archbishop approves projects in Glasgow and Gambia, makes suggestions regarding Africa, and recommends Cardinal Prefect de Propaganda Fide; letter from a sister not being admitted to final vows.

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9 March 1950 - 30 December 1954 91 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; Archbishop replies to Congregation regarding the dismissal of an unsuitable novice; provision of facilities for inoperable/incurable children; a new foundation in Los Angeles; correspondence regarding Quinquennial report to Congregation of Religious Orders (1947 to 1951); House on Merrion Road becomes available for babies whose mothers are in hospital.

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5 January 1955 - 9 January 1956 69 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; problems with Talbot Lodge (transferred to Linden file); project originating in Australia to amalgamate with Irish congregation which declines.

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9 January 1956 - 28 November 1957 93 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; project of a hostel for teenage girls coming from industrial schools, Rome meeting of Superiors General; correspondence regarding Dublin Corporation project of new road through property. Correspondence re new secondary school

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1 January 1958 - 3 December 1959 96 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; centenary of Mary Aikenhead; a conference of Major Superiors of Women Religious Orders to be set up; project of establishing school for the blind in Nigeria; new secondary school of Milltown and adjoining unit for mentally handicapped children.

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8 January 1960 - 25 June 1962 99 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; M. General declines to undertake training of new congregation in Southwark (Sister Garson) of Poor Servants (Dublin), see letter 25/1/1960; new novitiates to be established in England and California; news from African foundations, Rhodesia and Nigeria; congregation to divide into provinces.

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28 September 1962 - 22 December 1963 26 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; second Vatican council has begun-incidental references henceforth; enquiry from a Canadian academic seeking information about his Aikenhead forebears; Quinquennial report to the Congregation of Religious Orders-acknowledgement and comments transmitted by Archbishop.

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24 February 1964 - 25 October 1965 67 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; reports from foundations in Africa; Archbishop's displeasure at some activities of a Sister in the field of organizing charitable works, Sister is reprimanded; Archbishop advises in face of renewed Australian pressure for federation; Archbishop agrees to bless foundation stone of St. Vincent's new hospital at Elm Park, other references to progress on this hospital.

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18 January - 18 November 1966 48 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; stations of the cross designed by Glenstal Abbey unacceptable; conference of Major Superiors in Rome; African reports - Archbishop suggests Mercy, Athy could cooperate in teaching apostolate there; Athy decline; Rev. Professor E.J. Doherty's questionnaire as part of Vocations Research; Australia resumes pressure for federation, Archbishop stiffens Milltown resistance.

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16 January 1967 - 31 December 1971 57 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; ditto regarding substantial legacy (Little Sisters of the poor also benefit); M. General continues to foil Australian moves toward federation; a secondary school for Cappagh; tensions of post-council church impinge in various ways; Archbishop suggests another Hospice for the Dying on the North side of Dublin.

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5 May 1941 - 2 August 1944 62 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate including Convent to serve sisters teaching in Corpus Christi school, purchase of property/field in Clontarf, Haddington Road and Greystones. Litigation with Conaty, a former Collector for St Brigid's Orphanage.

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17 January 1945 - 18 November 1947 62 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate Refers to debts congregation incurred in purchase of property for the apostolate. Purchase of Weaver Hall in the Coombe and sites for Donnycarney Girls School. Exchange of correspondence re new foundation in Trinidad

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16 January 1948 - 12 November 1952 60 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. News of progress of foundation in Trinidad. Letter from Senator Miss Margaret Pearse dates 18 May 1949, wishing to see the AB to discuss ways of supporting the Trindad mission. Interview arranged. Permissions sought for improvements and extensions in various schools: opening a boarding school in Skerries; and purchase of additional property in Clontarf. Appointment of lay teachers in national schools

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5 January 1953 - 31 December 1955 75 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Project of primary school in Finglas New overseas foundations: Los Angeles and San Francisco in California, Christchurch, New Zealand. New secondary school St. Wolston's in Celbridge

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31 January 1956 - 29 December 1959 80 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate Letter re plans for school in Finglas East [no plans attached] Foundations in Auckland, New Zealand (Msgr. cautions against) and Canberra, Australia; secondary school in Finglas Mother Monica given permission to approach Maynooth for student priest to be chaplain at St Wolston's.

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19 January 1960 - 31 December 1964
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Archbishop writes to Archbishop of Pretoria re invitation for sisters to take over a school. Request for borrowing money for schools and convents. Says he is in favour of Brisbane, Australia on foot of his having persuaded the sisters to undertake other foundations in Australia and New Zealand.

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1 January 1965 - 19 June 1967 74 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Project of secondary school for Killester and Community school for Tallaght. Project of a foundation in Sydney, Australia

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1 January 1967 - 24 November 1971 76 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate Congregation to celebrate its centenary, archbishop presides Clarendon convent and schools to close Ordinary General Chapter

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28 January 1959 - 15 May 1970 37 items
Correspondence relating to General Chapters Ordinary General Chapter 1959: postulation to allow Mother Monica McSherry, a further term as superior-general Ordinary General Chapter 1965: changes to the Constitution re religious habit, tenure of office. Proposals re habit forwarded to Rome, reply two years later Extraordinary General Chapter in 1969, following Second Vatican Council

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9 August 1947 - 16 September 1961 72 items
Materials relating to dispensations and exclaustrations in respect of eight subjects.

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8 August 1961 - 9 March 1967 67 items
Materials relating to dispensations and exclaustrations in respect of seven subjects. Some continuation from File 10.

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9 January 1968 - 26 May 1972 87 items
Materials relating to dispensations and exclaustrations in respect of six subjects.

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8 March 1970 - 25 July 1972 70 items
Materials relating to dispensations and exclaustrations in respect of two subjects.

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26 August 1971 - 12 September 1972 75 items
Materials relating to dispensations and exclaustrations in respect of three subjects and transfer of one sister to the Augustinians of Meaux, London