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Includes; account of the Ursuline foundation in Ennis, County Clare, names and brief biography of the two Ursuline Sisters buried at Old Lifford Convent Cemetery in Ennis.

A newspaper article taken from The Irish Examiner covering a vandalism attack on Educate Together School in Ennis County Clare.

extract from Kilkenny annals describing return of Sister Augustin Hayes from La Trappe [Abbey France ?]; "A copy of letter written by Mother Clare Callaghan S[outh] P[resentation] C[onvent] on 3 Feb 1814 to Mother Joseph MacLoughlin of the Presentation Convent Kilkenny. The letter treats of the death of Dean Robert MacCarthy, last superior of the Irish College at Toulouse ...".

Includes; photos of students and Presentation Sisters of Sacramento with Sisters Clare Buckley, Vianney Buckley, Deirdre O'Sullivan, and Mother Kieran Harnett identified.

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9 July 1942 - 15 July 1951 46 items
Routine matters of community life Question of amalgamation proposed by Newry resisted by Harold's Cross and archbishop Archbishop favourable to foundation of commercial college and admission of day-pupils to the national school in view of decline in numbers of orphans. Testamentary matters Change in colour of habit approved Unsigned undated memorandum of history of Irish Poor Clare's.

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2 July 1960 - 15 May 1971 44 items
Routine matters of community life Testamentary matters Archbishop cautious about Franciscan (OFM) interest in Harold's Cross convent Two cases of dispensation from vows, removed from this file 20 January 2023

Poor Clare's Newry
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14 September 1941 - 10 March 1969 59 items
Correspondence chronicles Newry's repeated attempts to establish a foundation in Dublin, each of which was rebuffed by archbishop and Council, with some involvement from Dr Dunne, Haddington Rd. Question of amalgamation with Harold's Cross firmly rejected by archbishop, see files of Poor Clare's, Harold's Cross. Under a new abbess, a foundation is permitted in Donnybrook (cf File `Convents in Ireland outside Archdiocese' for letter from Newry Poor Clare)

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17 July 1941 - 27 April 1955 52 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life. Proposed building development adjacent to convent would be detrimental to community life Archbishop agrees to a modified plan in accord with opinion of Monsignor. Fitzpatrick VG Community votes in favour of taking solemn rather than simple vows (cf Carmelites Convent Ranelagh, letter 8 October 1949 for reference to incident at Colettine Covent)

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23 November 1954 - 16 December 1971 50 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life. Small errors in Congregations's Quinquennial Report (1947-1953) to the Holy See Letter from Poor Clare in Tanzania re safeguarding of enclosure Malawi. Requests archbishop to sign petition to Holy See. He refuses on grounds of verbosity, repetition and irrelevance. Ernest Cronin OFM appointed Visitor of Pool Clares, official appointment in Latin enclosed, replaced by Fr. Alexis King Building modifications to Simmonscourt Rd monastery Correspondence re proposed transfer of sisters from Newry to Dublin and another from Dublin to England Former Poor Clare wrote to Secretariat of State, Vatican, asking permission to establish a secular institute. Letter forwarded to Archbishop McQuaid, no response in file. Two requests for dispensation, granted, documents removed to separate file.

Includes; programme of events for official opening of "Rice College" in Ennis, County Clare.

brief history of the Staten Island foundation, photocopy of newspaper article entitled "Saint Clare's Church and school are dedicated", extract from "Centenary Booklet", newspaper cutting entitled "Mother Berchmans' Golden Jubilee: 'Faith, Love and Trust'"

"… letter was written in reply to the Bishop's [Coppinger] request for further information especially regarding her [Nano Nagle] 'saintly life'. Canon T.J. Walsh attributed this letter to S[iste]r Clare Callaghan, written under the supervision of S[iste]r Angela Collins"; letter from Father John Hanly to Bishop of Cork and Ross Michael Murphy making a formal request to institute an Enquiry into the Cause of Nano Nagle (7 August 1984); letter from Bishop Murphy to Pope John Paul II requesting a beginning to the Cause of the Canonization of Nano Nagle (8 March 1985).

Includes; letters addressed from Presentation Convents in Bandon County Cork, Mitchelstown County Cork, Carrick-on-Suir County Tipperary, Lismore County Waterford, Clonmel County Tipperary, Youghal County Cork, Crosshaven County Cork, Midleton County Cork, Doneraile County Cork, Fermoy County Cork, Limerick City, Thurles County Tipperary, Waterford City, Dungarvan County Waterford, Drogheda County Louth, Spanish Point County Clare, Mooncoin County Waterford, Mullingar County Westmeath, all giving opinions on the proposed "House of Formation and Studies" in University College Cork.