Monkstown (includes Church of the Most Holy Family, Kill O’The Grange) from Dun Laoghaire

File relating to St. Patrick’s Church and also the building of the new Church of the Most Holy Family in Kill O’The Grange.

Correspondence relating to parish boundary and new parish of Grange Park.

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Kilmacud

11 February 1944 - 29 July 1949 44 items

Routine matters of community life and apostolate Archbishop supports establishment of Kilmacud, sends generous financial contribution Correspondence with Department of Education re amendment to `Children's Act 1941.' Question of amalgamation of Dublin convents Kilmacud House to be purchased.

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3 January 1950 - 21 December 1955 61 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Disposal of land to parish for church/schools Approves project of a hostel, an initiative which would break out of the current model

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5 January 1956 - 15 November 1972 72 items

Routine matters of community life and apostolate Archbishop supports petition to Holy See to have superior serve a third consecutive term, granted for three years Sale of parcel of land at Kilmacud Archbishop peeved at necessity to employ a lay teacher when community has had ample time to prepare sisters

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1950 - 12 July 1971 92 items
Dispensations, file consisting of several dispensation cases

High Park
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22 January 1942 - 26 June 1952 70 items

Routine matters of community life and apostolate Foundation at Kilmacud - St Anne's followed by Kilmacud House St Anne's becomes independent house Archbishop intervenes to prevent High Park from discontinuing detection of remand cases at S Joseph's School, Whitehall.

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3 March 1953 - 10 December 1959 69 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Archbishop keen to see wider hostel provision Quinquennial Report (1949-1953) received and acknowledged by S. Congregation Exchange of correspondence over who should be involved in the presentation of the community's constitutions to the Sacred Congregation. Repudiates the offices of a third party.

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12 March 1960 - 15 December 1963 59 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Report or meeting in Rome of heads of the four federations of the Order (French, English, Irish, US) General Chapter in Dublin November 1960, correspondence re Constitutions Quinquennial Report (1949-1953) praised by S. Congregation, makes recommendation re silence Advice sought on problem of the filling of the vacancy on the General Council on the death of a member.

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1 February 1964 - 7 October 1969 113 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Permission from S. Congregation permits archbishop to allow lay-sisters the same habit as choir sisters S. Congregation grants permission for one category of sister, category of lay sisters abolished Rehabilitation hostel for teenage girls is opened.

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15 September 1969 - 15 January 1971 36 items
Routine matters of community life and apostolate Chapter of the Irish Federation in preparation for General Chapter of Order later in Rome. Text of the Experimental Statues of the Irish Federation dated 18 March 1970. Delegate meeting held in Wisconsin, USA Kill O'the Grange is to be an autonomous house

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Separate Folder entitles Patrick Belton Vs High Park Correspondence between plaintive and defendant and their respective solicitors, with letter from Mr. Belton to Archbishop McQuaid. No document relating to outcome of proposed litigation.

/8/1 Amalgamation
18 July 1945 - 10 July 1948 52 items
Correspondence and Memoranda re amalgamation of convents After consultation with Dublin convent, archbishop petitions S. Congregation for amalgamation Decree of Union issued by S. Congregation

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12 September 1948- 12 December 1948 18 items
Material consequent to amalgamation of Dublin convents Minutes of General Assembly of French convents with covering letter Archbishop of Cardiff presses for amalgamation of Cardiff convent with Dublin convents. Archbishop proposes delay which his counterpart in Cardiff accepts. First General Chapter in Dublin; election of Superior and Council

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12 December 1948 - 23 November 1954 18 items
Material relation to implementation of Decree of Union Dublin Union not keen to be involved with convents outside Ireland S. Congregation approves revised constitutions `Chronicle of Events' in process of amalgamation

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Gloucester Street
17 April 1941 - 22 November 1948 42 items
Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate incl. fundraising Amalgamation is mooted (cf file Refuge - Amalgamation) Delegates to General Chapter are election

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Gloucester Street
3 August 19491 - 19 May 1970 50 items
Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate incl. fundraising Acquisition of ground adjacent to monastery Privileged altars

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Kill O' the Grange Correspondence re routine aspects of community life and apostolate incl. fundraising New foundation at Kill O' the Grange is proposed and property leased from Espinasse Estate Clarification that property will be purchased as freehold and used as House of Preservation and Training school for young girls. Canonical issue re age and length of period of profession of desired sister-in-charge is resolved by designating the Grange as a filial house. Residential home is opened - press cutting

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1941-1972 97 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES: St Anne, Sisters of; Annonciade Nuns; Assumption, Oblates of Augustinian, Canonesses; Canonesses of the Mercy of Jesus (Burgess Hill, Liverpool, Grange-over-Sands) Canonesses of Perpetual Adoration, Sisters of Meaux, Sisters of the Precious Blood. Cf English Convents P (servants of the Poor) for reference to Sisters of St Anne, Wimbledon.

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1941 - 1972 48 items
Some correspondence concerning requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin but most concerns the affairs of Dame Monica Hague OSB Abbey of Haslemere INSTITUTES Benedictine: Abbey of Haslemere. Abbey of Münster, Abbery of Tyburn, Brigidine - Liverpool Bon Secours - Liverpool

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1941 - 1972 41 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Cabrini, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Canossa, Sisters of Charity; Carmelitems Nuns (Darlington; Birkenhead; Ware); Sisters of Charity Corpus Christi Sisters Cenacle, Sisters of the,

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1941 - 1972 81 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Charity, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge Charity, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Evron Charity, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of St Paul (Selly Park) Charity, Daughters of St Vincent de Paul Charité de Notre Dame, Soeurs de la (Filey) Charity under the protection of St V DePaul)

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1941 - 1972 54 items
Requests to quest for postulants INSTITUTES Cistercians (Bernadine (Muns) St Clotilde, Sisters of Little Company of Mary Compassion, Sisters of Our Lady of Conception, Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Lourdes Conception, Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Brionze

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1941 - 1972 49 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Consolation, Sisters of Our Lady of Counsel, Daughters of Our Lady of Good Cross, Daughters of the Cross, Teaching Sisters of the Holy, (cf file Irish Convents - Belfast)

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Domincan's Bushey Heath, Hants. UK
1941-1972 35 items
All correspondence in this file pertains to Sr Mary Magdalen (Stanford Campbell) and her return to Dublin from South Africa. Principal correspondents are P.H. Campbell, brother, and Superior-General or her secretary, Bushey Heath, Hants. UK

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1961 - 1958 27 items
Requests to quest for postulants INSTITUTES Notre Dame, Sisters of Dominican (Greenwich, London W.10, Hinckley) Christian Education

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1941 - 1972 63 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Holy Family, Sisters of the (Enfield; Tooting) Franciscan Sisters, (various and sometimes indeterminate congregation) Berkhamsted, Braintree, Littlehampton, Melton Mowbray, Milford-on-Sea, Eccleshall

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1941 - 1972 24 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Holy Ghost, Daughters of the (Bedford) - see also file Wales - Aberystwyth, Pontypool Holy Ghost, Servants of the (Stoke-on-Trent) St. Gilda's, Sisters of (London, Longport, Chard0

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1941 - 1972 74 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin Request to move operations from Castlepollard to Dublin declined by archbishop, memo of Monsignor C. Barrett VG INSTITUTES Handmaids of Jesus Christ, Hendon) Immaculate Heart of Mary (Billingshurst) Daughters of Hope, Sisters of Christian Instruction, Religious of (Sherbonne) Sacred Heart of Mary (Upminster) also file Dublin Convents - Sandymount, 30 January 1948 Sacred Heart (Whetstone) Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Chigwell) see Irish Convents, Castlepollard, 13 June 1942)
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1941 - 1972 35 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Sisters of St Joseph (Manchester) Sisters of St Joseph of the Appartition (Altricham) Sisters of St Joseph Bordeaux (Tamworth)* Sisters of St Joseph of Peace (Nottingham) Sisters of St Joseph of Newark (Rearsby) Daughters of Jesus (Welling) Loreto Sisters (Ascot; Manchester; Altricham). See Dublin Convents Loreto No. 2, 17 July 1947; 19 May 1947

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1941 - 1972 84 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Sisters of St Martin of Tours (a sister desires a Montmartre style basilica) Sisters of St Martha (Barnet) (cf File French Convents - A (Perigueux) Mary and Joseph (Baldock) Medical Mission Sisters (Osterly) Mercy: Brentwood, Abingdon, Burnley, Boston Spa, Barnsley, Bristol, Gravesend, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Tilbury, Weymouth. Mother of Mercy, Sisters of Charity of, (cf Dutch file 26 September 1946)

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1941 - 1972 30 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. Permission granted to Nazareth. INSTITUTES St Mary of Namur (Loweshoft) Nativity of Our Lord (Maidenhead) Our Lady, Sisters of (Hoddesdon)

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1941 - 1972 96 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Pallotrie (Rochdale) Poor Servants of the (New Cross) Poor Child Jesus (Rugby) Poor Clares (Manchester; Ellesmere; Southhampton; Todcastle Presentation (Bicester; Manchester; Matlock; Northwich; Buxton, S. Kirkby; Exeter; Swindon) Providence (Woking, Baldock) (cf Religious Orders - Female (within archdiocese) Religious of Christian Education for letter 5/3/1954 re Poor Servants of the)

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1941 - 1972 57 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Marie Reparatrice (Liverpool, Chelsea) this correspondence extending over 17 years is exclusively with one questing sisters, except for one brief matter of vestment supplies. Christian Retreat (Molesley: Cannock) Rosminians (Wisbech)

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1941 - 1972 87 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Blessed Sacrament Sisters La Sagesse Sisters Salvatorian Sisters Saviour and BVM, Sisters of the, (Steptor Mallet)

Good Shepherd Nuns (Finchly, Staplehurst) Christian Schools, Sisters of the (Reading, Worcester) Holy Sepulchre Sisters (Chelmsford) Servitemss (Bogor Regis; Kings lynn; London) Our Lady of Sion Sisters (London) Hold Souls Helpers (London)

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1941 - 1972 40 items
Requests to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Trinitarian Sisters (Kidderminster) Ursulines of Jesus (Blundellsands; London) Ursulines of Roman Union (Forest State; Kettering; Westgate-on-Sea, Wimbledon (one sister only)

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1941 - 1972 54 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Verona, Missionary Sisters of, `Comboniane' (Dorking; London). Faithful Virgin, Daughters of the (Folkestone) Visitation (harrow; Deal' Bridport) Whitems Sisters (Heston; Liverpool)

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1941 - 1972 83 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. Financial Assistance Sought INSTITUTES Dominican (Chirk) (cf file Africa at Salisbury, Rhodesia) St Joseph of Annecy (LLantarnam Mercy (Fishguard; Bangor) Bon Sauveur (Holyhead) Good Shepherd (Monmouth) Holy Spirit, Daughters of the (Aberystwyth; Pontypool)

• 7 July 1962 File relating to Abbey View, near Grange Cross.

File relating to the building of churches in Raheny and Grange Park.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to Fr. George Finnegan regarding Grange Park parish.

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11 January1941 - 18 December 1942 53 items
Due to wartime conditions, novices cannot be sent to France, hence permission for temporary novitiate at Clonsilla is requested and granted. Changed to Roebuck with condition that a home for the Aged Poor will be established on the site. The Hermitage, Roebuck, is acquired.

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22 April 1943 - December 1945 60 items
The Hermitage, Roebuck, opens as a home for Aged Men. The Grange at Clonsilla is sold to the Daughters of Charity (cf Daughters of Charity, File No.1, letters 27 June 1943 and 29 August 1943.) Roebuck Castle is acquired and received the residents of the Hermitage leaving that property exclusively for use as a novitiate. Permission for permanent novitiate at Roebuck Castle is granted with the condition of its use as a home for the aged.

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10 January 1946 - 15 December 1955 60 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Holy See sanctions permanent novitiate at Roebuck. New wing at Roebuck is blessed.

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24 March 1956 - 15 December 1964 74 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Archbishop suggests another home for the aged; a sites is purchased in Raheny. Appropriate accommodation for chaplain on foot of fire in furnished house (cf File Refuge, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, letters 9 - 10 December 1959.)

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23 June 1965 - 1 February 1972 81 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Archbishop suggests another home for the aged. Development of plans for home in Raheny. Correspondence re setting up of committee of lay people to raise funds without prior permission of the archbishop who forbids advertising, and fund raising in connection with same without previous sanction of the Vicar-General.

Grange Park from Raheny