Letter from + H. O’Connor to + McQuaid commending Mgr. Michael Enright who is retiring from active ministry and coming to live in Our Lady’s Manor, Dalkey. St. Petersburg, Florida

Letters regarding the annual school Mass at Rockford Manor.

File relating to the presbytery at Manor Kilbride. 18 items

Typed report on CPI and KO activities, stamped ‘confidential’. The following items are mentioned in the report: the statements from George Jeffares on the international situation and Sam Nolan on the national situation. Nolan laid stress on inadequate social services alleging that no Government in the last 30 years had tried to solve the problem. The following topics were reported on: the “Geneva Fiasco” the Manor House, Dunkineely Dr. Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Peadar O’Donnell addressing the inaugural meeting of the Dublin Typographical Debating Society the Peace Campaign’s meeting on the 16th December 1955.

Copy of handwritten letter to Mr. Justice Maguire. He appreciates the calm and firm manor in which he handled the matter. The attitude of towards the Red Cross is truly painful. He is doing a fine work by grasping the nettle.

File relating to the purchase of Landscape Manor, Churchtown. Land can be used for new church and schools. 30 items

Letter from +E. Butler, Kimmage Manor to +McQuaid introducing himself as Bishop-elect of Zanzibar. He is to be consecrated in the Cathedral in Belfast and wishes to meet with the Archbishop to discuss this. 1 item

Typed letter to + McQuaid from Patrick O’Carroll, Provincial, Holy Ghost Missionary College, Kimmage Manor. He is arranging to have the statement issued.

Copy of a chapter of Fr. Myles V. Ronan’s history of Dublin parishes, entitled Shankill: Church and Manor Church, sent to +McQuaid by Fr. Ronan, P.P.

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12 December 1946 - 28 September 1963 71 items
Congregation seeks entry to Diocese. Archbishop refuses request to open university hostel but permits hostel for their own Indian sisters attending university. Asks a sister to prepare a Church History text for use in secondary schools' project. Property in Roebuck purchased. Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Memoranda re Roebuck Grove. Letter from solicitor to AB re difficulty in acquiring a middle interest in this property

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28 January 1964 - 10 January 1971 69 items
New school at Our Lady's Manor develops, Novitiate transferred to Roebuck. Property acquisition, lease hold matters, sales of Dublin property tax concerns. Sharp letter from archbishop to Principal of Our Lady's Grove re proposed action on Departments refusal to recognise two teachers.

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30 June 1955 - 27 September 1959 20 items
Correspondence between M. Del Rosario and archbishop. Concerns; post Visitation observations, needs of her Congregation to which archbishop does not feel obliged to satisfy. She submits a Directoire de l'Education which receives archbishop's praise.

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12 October 1959 - 21 November 1971 96 items
Continuing correspondence between M. Del Rosario and archbishop. More Visitation news from outside Ireland. Question of school in Blessington briefly revived and then abandoned.