Handwritten letter from Fr. Cathal MacCarthy, Holy Cross College, Clonliffe to +McQuaid regarding the arrangements for the reception of the new Nuncio at Maynooth.
Maynooth
137 Archival description results for Maynooth
January - November Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the Irish Association of Catechists & Statuata Conferentiae Episcoporum Hiberniae. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to the position of Rector of the Irish College, Rome, Irish Nurses Organisation, Catholic Headmasters Association, Catholic Boy Scouts, the Hierarchy University Fund, vernacular in the Liturgy and the Marriages Bill. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as the formation of priests, the Liturgy, first Mass for newly ordained priests, CERT and faculty business. 1966
Correspondence from + McQuaid and the other Vicars to Dr. Browne, Maynooth College, regarding his request for permission to apply for the post of President of University College, Galway. 6 items
- October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the Veterinary College, U.C.D. and youth organisations. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to Trinity College funding appeals in the U.S.A., National Council of Adoption Societies and the opening of casinos in Ireland. Finances of Maynooth College and the state of its buildings discussed by Maynooth Trustees. Information on the Nicholas Callan Society. 1960
Copy of ‘Hibernia’ dealing with censorship. Includes a response by Fr. Peter R. Connolly, Maynooth on Lennon’s ‘Turbulent priests’ article.
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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
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11 March 1979 - 19 April 1970 3 items
Correspondence relating to request to establish a postulancy and novitiate in Maynooth, refused (Subsequent foundation within the diocese, not in these papers)
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25 April 1960 - 16 June 1971 65 items
Correspondence related to attempts to enter the diocese. Permission granted to have a hostel in Maynooth for their own sisters - not a religious foundation. Letter from Matron of Richmond Hospital re training of the sisters and religious dress 9 cross reference to HOSPITALS file. A sister is ordered by the archbishop to return to the convent. Foundation refused, subsequently one was made in the Dublin
- Notices of meetings of Hierarchy and Education Standingand agendas. Includes memorandum on the teaching of Medical Ethics in University College Cork. Letter from T.J. O’Connell of the INTO to Bishop Kinane re the appointment of supernumerary teachers. General information on the work of the Maynooth Trustees. 1945- Notices of meetings of Hierarchy and Education Standing
Maynooth Synod: photostat of copy in Highgate Archives of letter from Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, summoning all provincials of Religious Orders to attend the Maynooth Synod