Includes; letters to Mrs M.C Callaghan, Presentation Convent, Cove Street, Cork, from St. Mary’s College, dated 10 June 1813; letter to Mrs Clare Callaghan, Presentation Convent, Cork from her niece Mary Callaghan, dated 8 April 1824, giving news of her family; photocopy of a letter addressed to Mrs McLoughlin, Presentation Convent, Kilkenny, dated 12 August 1835; typed copy of letter of Mother Aloysius Moylan to Mother Joseph McLoughlin, P.C. Kilkenny, 12 August 1835; photocopy of a letter addressed to Mrs Austen, Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, dated 23 March 1835, mentions rent for property, the Presentation Sisters, Joseph Nagle, and Right Rev Francis Moylan, (Bishop Moylan), 31 August 1801; letter to Mrs. R. Doyle, S. Presentation Convent, Cork, from Presentation Convent, George’s Hill, dated 17 January 1839, mentions the veiling material, the dreadful storm, the effects of the storm on the Sisters in Drogheda, Galway, Mullingar, Richmond and Rahan, where the buildings were damaged, Sr. Clare Callaghan’s health, details of the foundations in James Street, Richmond, Drogheda, Richmond, Maynooth, Mullingar, and the success of the foundation in Limerick; letter to Mrs M de Pazzi Leahy, South Presentation Convent, Cork, from M. Magdalen from Presentation Convent, Manchester, dated 1 April 1839, mentions Sr. Clare, the health of the Sisters, the six hundred students in the school, the Sunday school and hundreds of adults for instruction, many Protestant children are anxious to become Catholic; letter to Mrs. Shea, dated 10 January 1807, concerning the donation for the building of the vestry rooms of the chapel; letter to Mrs. Francis Doyle, South Presentation Convent, Cork dated 27 April 1847, from Presentation Convent, George’s Hill, this letter has been overwritten and difficult to read; letter addressed to Mrs. Francis Doyle, South Presentation Convent, Cork, from George’s Hill, Dublin, dated 21 October 1845, mentions Mother Clare; letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew to Mrs Cronin, dated 24 July 1846, concerning a new altar stone; typed copy of the same letter; letter from Theobald Mathew to Mrs. Bernard Hogan, dated 18 March 1857, enquiring about her family; letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew, New Orleans, Louisiana to Mrs de Pazzi Leahy, South Presentation Convent, Douglas Street, Cork, Ireland, dated 13 May 1850, mentions Sr. Mary Clare, that the schools are crowded; letter from Presentation Convent, Marlborough, 54; an account of the life of Mother Ignatius Verling, dated October 1869, she was one of the foundresses the convent in Fermoy; letter from Ursuline Convent, to Mother Mary Joseph, South Convent, Cork dated 14 March 1876, concerning religious books for novices; letter to Mrs. Leahy, SP Convent, Douglas Street, relating to Mrs. Donovan and the change in valuation of the farm; letter from P.C. Cullen, 59 Eccles Street, Dublin, to Vey Rev Dean Neville, dated 29 September 1877, concerning indulgences in Ireland and abroad; letter from the Ursuline Convent, Cork, dated 20 November 78, concerning books for the novices; letter from Fr. Benson to Rev. Mother; letter to Sister Elizabeth, from Calverleigh Court, Tiverton, North Devon, about 1915, mentions the photo and how the property was inherited; and two copies of a letter to Mother Joseph, Presentation Convent, Douglas Street, Cork, from Louis C. Nolan, O.P. Rome, dated 28 May 1925, expressing an interest in the cause of Nano Nagle; booklet entitled "Pioneer Total Abstinence Association ... International Seminar Cork" (1988).

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)

Rev. Wm. Bvrne to L. Offers his apelogies for the conduct of an irreligious multitude on Sunday last at L.'s residence; will accept any punishment L. cares to impose on him, and will take himself to any remote part of the diocese which L. may care te send him. Witnessed by Rev. dohn Meagher. (2 pp.) Ballingarry, 10 Oet. Rev. Edmd. Prendergas The parish priest ef Ballingarry objects to the P.P. of the neighbourinq parish of killenaule, holding a Station in a townland belonginq to the former parish; the case arose out of this townland being in the Protestant parish ef Kilcooly, but the Catholic and Protestant parishes are not exactly co-extensive; asks t.. te have the P.p. in question restrained from holding the station; in former days this townland was famous for its hurling green, and whenever abuses arose it was the P.p. Ballingarry who acted. (3 Bp.) Dominick 5t., tork, 11 Oet. Fr. Jobn Albert Ruan tob. The Prior of the Dominicans in Cork sends L. a document, appo. :.ng t. Conservator of the Dominican Order in Ireland. (Letter in English, document in Latin) (2 pp.) List of the students who formed the Class who terminated their studies in the year 1632. (In Maynooth?)

Includes; booklet on ‘The Pudapet Convent School of Commerce’, Marshall Road, Egmore, Madras, Prospectus, (14th Edition) 1935 -1936; Rules for Lady Students’ Hostel, Marshall Road, Egmore; newspaper cuttings, ‘Presentation Nuns, Activities of the Order in Kashmir’, ‘First Catholic School’; ’The Presentation Order Branch House Opened at Srinagar, Kashmir’, ‘Maynooth Link With India’, from Standard 24 June 1955; details of the foundations in the south of India; titular's of convents and schools in Southern Rhodesia, North India and Pakistan; developments in Southern India 1936; letter from M. Augustine, Presentation Convent, Pudapet, Madras, 2 April 1936 including an account of Presentation Convent, Pudapet; note stating that Pudapet and Egmore are the same place; lists of the convents and schools in India dated 1951 , includes a map of India; diagram of the foundations made from Georgetown, Madras, 1842; and newspaper cutting from ‘The Examiner’, 13 August 1938 giving accounts of Sr. Columba O’ Sullivan, in Quetta, India.

Includes; letters written between 1955 to 1959, to Rev. Mother, Sr. Catherine, and Father Walsh, [Canon T. J. Walsh], from Presentation Convents in Ireland including Bagenalstown, Baltinglass, Bailieboro’, Portadown, Doneraile, George’s Hill, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Killarney, Killina, Lismore, Maynooth, Oranmore, Rahan, Terenure, Tuam and Waterford; black and white photos of the convent in Waterford; lists of the foundations in Ireland and worldwide; information on the convents in County Kerry; information concerning the South Presentation Convent, Cork, the students, the school and the subjects and extras which were taught; lists giving details of the Presentation Schools in Ireland; and Conspectus of the Presentation Order from its foundation in 1777(1775) to the year 1875.

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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