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1846034 Bl. Charles Houben: Cures during his life-time: letter from Mrs. B Healy, 564 North Circular Road, Dublin: her mother cured of sleeplessness and she herself had growths on her hands cured by Fr. Charles. Her parents, Mr. & Mrs. William Tully, were friends of Fr. Paul Mary Paenham and both attended the first mass celebrated by him in the old farm-house monastery. Mrs. Byrne, who sold the old house to the Passionists, was a cousin of her mother's. Fr. Joseph Smith, C.P., in his life of Fr. Paul Mary mentions that only five people were present at that Mass, including the lay brother who served at the altar, Fr. Matthew Collier from Rathmines and the former owner, Mrs. Byrne. The above information supplies the names of the other two, Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Tully of 73 Harold's Cross. They also donated the stained glass window of St. Theresa of Avila.

1846034 Bl. Charles Houben - Life:- 2 copies of a typed MS entitled "The Boyhood Of Fr. Charles - His Vocation To The Passionist Life. The First Year Of His Priestly Life Before He Was Appointed To The Passionist Retreat, Mount Argus, Dublin" The envelope in which these copies are located states, in Herman Nolan's writing, that they are by Fr. Louis Mary, C.P., (Dermot Carroll, C.P.,).

1846034 Blessed Charles Houben, C.P., Writings: typescripts of 10 letters (probably translation from Dutch) written by Blessed Charles to relatives. It has not been possible to locate the originals. However, nos. 8 and 29 would seem to be translations of letters nos 7 and 29 in Dutch Transcript of letters located at 4/3/1/13.

1852009 Pakenham, Paul Mary: 1891058 Joseph Smith: Notes, probably by Joseph Smith, mad in in preparation for writng Paul Mary's biography. Extract from Gillow's Biographical Dictionary about a fellow officer of Pakeham's, one Plunket, who also became a Catholic and an outline of Pakenham's life together with details of some lives of him.

The Dublin Diocesan Archives is based at Archbishop’s House, Drumcondra, headquarters of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. It has always been the most important of Ireland’s twenty-six dioceses on account of its location, size, resources and history, and this is reflected in its archival holdings. The vast bulk of its holdings are confined to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the Archives possessing only a small amount of material covering the reigns of twelve Archbishops from 1600 to 1770.

The Diocesan Archives currently holds the papers of eleven successive archbishops of Dublin covering the period 1770 to 2004. Of these, the collections of eight Archbishops are available to be consulted by researchers, and the links at the bottom of this page will bring you to more information regarding each of these collections.

There are a number of other collections housed in the Archives. These include the combined surviving records of the Catholic Association, the New Catholic Association and the Loyal National Repeal Association, three vehicles for mass agitation in support of Catholic interest in the first half of the nineteenth century and all intimately linked to Daniel O’Connell; the Episcopal collections consist of the papers of four auxiliary Bishops of Dublin: Nicholas Donnelly (1880-1920), Patrick Dunne (1920-89), James Kavanagh (1940-98) and Bishop Desmond Williams (1983-97); the collection of priests and religious of the Archdiocese; and the colleges collection. The most notable of these relates to the records (mainly financial) of the diocesan seminary, Holy Cross College (1859-1956) and the papers of Bartholomew Woodlock (1860-1879), who succeeded John Henry Newman as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland.

The collection is of use to many disciplines including history, local history, sociology, law, architecture, genealogy, education, religion, to name but a few. It should also be noted that Parish Registers (Baptismal and Marriage) are still held by the local parish churches and are not housed at the Diocesan Archives.