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Holy Faith, Sisters of the
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XLIV/XLIV/57/ · Sub-series · 1941-1972
Part of Dublin Diocesan Archives

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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

Convents in USA (A-I)
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XLIV/XLVI/115/ · Sub-series · 1941-1971
Part of Dublin Diocesan Archives

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1941 - 1971 79 items
Questing for postulants. Most refused due to volume of requests Institutes Benedictines, Alabama - permission granted only for Archbishop Toolan's sake Daughters of Charity, New York: sister students Holy Cross, Indiana Dominicans, Seattle, Washington, New Orleans, advertisements only, New Jersey. Franciscans: Syracuse, Buffalo Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe, Steubenville.

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1941 - 1971 39 items
Questing for postulants and permission to make a foundation Institutes St Joseph (New York, Wichita, Orange County) Marianites of the Holy Cross (New Orleans, New York) and two brochures Mercy (Phoenix, Chicago, Bethseda, Springfield Omaha)

(cf also Carysfort Superior General File for correspondence re beatification of Catherine Mcauley)

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1941 - 1971 99 items
Questing for postulants and permission to make a foundation Institutes Providence (Kentucky) Presentation (New York, North Dakota) Charity of Refuge (Dallas, Little Rock, San Antonio) Reparation (New York) S. Heart Mission Helpers (Trenton N.J) Incarnate Word (Cleveland, Corpus Christi, Houston)

(cf Files in Ireland for Missionary Recruitment) Other American Papers difficult to classify

(By Institute)
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XLIV/XLVI/104/ · Sub-series · 1941-1972
Part of Dublin Diocesan Archives

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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)

5 November 1941
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XV./2/2/100 · Item · 5 November 1941
Part of Dublin Diocesan Archives

Letter from +Wall to +McQuaid regarding a Mr. Shepherd who has misled him in some way. He will not be involved with the planned address he has been asked to give and will keep his pre-arranged appointment at Corpus Christi.

21 July 1961
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XVIII./27/52/84/4 · Item · 21 July 1961
Part of Dublin Diocesan Archives

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Sister M. Concepta for Mother Patricia, Superior General, 86 Hollybank Road, requesting his permission to take Margaret Close, 66 Botanic Ave., to the U.S.A. for her Secondary Education in their school in Corpus Christi. She hopes eventually to join their Order.

1968 14-17 May
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XVIII./22/42/1 · Item · 1968 14-17 May
Part of Dublin Diocesan Archives

Correspondence involving S. O’Sullivan, Dept. of Transport and Fr. J.A. McMahon, Secretary. The 27th Session of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport is being held in Dublin Castle. Delegates will complete their working sessions on the Wednesday, and on Thursday take an excursion by train to Killary. Thursday is the Feast of Corpus Christi. It may be difficult for some delegates to hear Mass and a dispensation is sought for them.

16 June 1953
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XV./1/28/184/1 · Item · 16 June 1953
Part of Dublin Diocesan Archives

Letter from +James Duhig to +McQuaid delighted that he has reached Ireland safely. He is sorry he did not attend the Corpus Christi procession in Brsibane. He mentions the pilgrimage to Rome, Lourdes and Ireland in 1954.

13 January
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XVIII./3/4/31/10 · Item · 13 January
Part of Dublin Diocesan Archives

Handwritten note to +McQuaid from Shan O Cuiv, Corpus Christi Presbytery, Drumcondra. He trusts that the enclosed translation is deemed satisfactory.

10-15 May
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XVIII./19/38/149 · Item · 10-15 May
Part of Dublin Diocesan Archives

Correspondence regarding the appointment of a trustee for Corpus Christi Convent school.