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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.

Includes; details of what Union would mean for the Presentation.

– 23 November 1960 Correspondence between +McQuaid, Nuncio Riberi and Monsignor Giovanni Fallani regarding sacred art. Msgr. Fallani is part of the Commission for Sacred Art in the Holy See.

Copy of letter from +McQuaid to +Keogh. He grants Rev. Thomas Hayden the faculty of saying Mass in his sister’s house per modum actus but notes that if requires the permanent faculty he ought to apply to the Holy See since +Keogh thinks Fr. Hayden will have to live permanently with his sister.

Letter from +Keogh to +McQuaid. He thanks him for giving faculties to Fr. Hayden and will tell him that he must apply to the Holy See for permanent faculties.

January - December Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on primary and post primary education and changes to the Leaving Certificate. File also includes communications from the Holy See, information on ‘Humanae Vitae’, World Communications Day, sodalities, Justice & Peace, Apostolate of the Laity and annual reports from Universities. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as college and faculty business. 1969

Letter from to Mgr. Paro sending the enclosed particulars of Roman Rescripts received from the Holy See in respect of Dispensations already granted.

Letter from +Gerald O’Hara to +McQuaid regarding the appointment of priests to form part of an International Secretariat for the ‘Apostolate of the Sea’ by the Sacred Consistorial Congregation. Their duty will be to maintain contact with the various branches of the Apostolate of the Sea. The Irish Hierarchy are asked to appoint a priest and a brief biography is to be sent to the Holy See.

correspondence received from the Secretariat of State. The Bishop of Autun in France has written to the Nunciature in Parish seeking the transfer of a certain sum that is on deposit in Cork and which is alleged to be destined for the Holy See. The Nuncio seeks advice on the case, its history and the legal difficulties in transferring the monies to any city outside the sterling area. Some letters in French.

Letter from +O’Hara to Cardinal D’Alton regarding Catholic principles and policies in relation to UNESCO. He states the Holy See is concerned with the activities of the programme and policies of OMEP as they deal with the education of children of pre-school age. This is a delicate matter ‘…since there is considerable Masonic influence at work in OMEP, which is tinged with communism’. The Holy Father wants Ireland to bring its influence to bear at the Congress in Rome in August. He also asks that a competent ‘layman’ to establish contact with the International Catholic Co-ordinating Centre for UNESCO in Paris. He also suggests that the Irish Hierarchy establish a National OMEP Committee in Ireland.