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13 March 1941 - 11 December 1953 83 items
Correspondence re Routine Aspects of community life Statement on George's Hill Orphanage and Secondary School Question of secondary school at Clondalkin convent, archbishop decides against it. Questions of secondary school at Terenure Renunciation of patrimony - one sister File on St. Teresa's Boarding school, St. Teresa's Orphanage and the Teresa Mulally Trust. Mentions Mary McCarthy bequest.

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31 March 1954 - 24 December 1955 62 items
Correspondence re Routine Aspects of community life Permissions re borrowing to extend convents and schools Confusion at Sacred Congregation for Religious between Presentation and Carmelites re Quinqunnial Report George's Street convent buys out holiday house at Delgany

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13 January 1956 - 27 February 1960 84 items
Extensive correspondence re assessments, purchase and borrowings re Rockford, a sites for a secondary school Archbishop not in favour of foundations abroad from Warrenmount.

(Seems that papers are missing for a three-year period after closing date of this file.)

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5 April 1963 - 24 December 1966 92 items
Correspondence re Routine Aspects of community life and apostolate Rockford: school opened and blessed Clondalkin: school to extend Proposal from Georges Hill re changes requires examination of the will of Teresa Mulally Amalgamation of convents in Dublin in view Notes re General Chapter, October 1966

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22 December 1966 - 28 January 1972 73 items
Correspondence re Routine Aspects of community life and apostolate Seven assessments statements, in Latin, from S. Cong. Rel. re Quinquennial report Correspondence, architects' reports, and permissions to borrow re extensions to school buildings Secondary schools planned for: Lucan, Warrenmount, Georges Hill, Clondalkin Summary of Chapter Reports, rec, 19 June 1968

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28 August 1942 - 5 April 1971 6 items
Letters relating to new procedures for dispensation from temporary vows (3 pages) One letter and response re means of return home of a sister from George's Hill convent

Material re dispensations, exclaustrations, permission to live outside the religious house removed to separate folder 20 January 2023

/7A Amalgamation
15 August 1954 - 17 May 1957 27 items
Correspondence involving archbishop, Msgr Boylan VH, Fr Sheehy (Chancellor) and Fr. A. McMahon, secretary on the subject of amalgamation of the existing six, later seven, Presentation convents in the diocese. Affected sisters vote overwhelmingly in favour. Rome is petitioned. Four copies of `Draft Statutes for the proposed amalgamation (Federation) of the Seven Religious houses of the Presentation Sisters in the Diocese of Dublin,' with changes to Constitutions (1927). Memorandum from Fr Fennelly C.S.Sp. Archbishop's suggested Draft of Constitutions

/7B Amalgamation
6 December 1955 - 3 June 1960 60 items
Amalgamation project moves forward: refinement of canonical points Holy See approves amalgamation in principle Several convents submit suggestions on Constitutions Nuncio transmits request of Cardinal Prefect for new Constitutions in order to be given final approval.

/7C Amalgamation
7 July 1965 - 24 October 1966 50 items
Documents relating to amalgamation project of 6 not now 7 (Stradbrook is not an independent house) Presentation Cork seeks involvement but are side-lined General Chapter for October 1966 Preparation for Chapter: election of delegates, drafts of revised Constitutions List of Chapter Members 25 October 1966

/7D Amalgamation
14 October 1966 - 11 June 1968 107 items
Material re General Chapter 25 October 1966 Archbishop announces formal establishment of diocesan federation and directs that a revision of the Constitutions be undertaken. Sr Carmel Greene elected superior-general
1 bound copy of 1927 Constitutions
Statutes of Federation come into force 13/5/1967 Local superiors are appointed.

/7F Amalgamation
1966
Working papers of the General Chapter re revised Constitutions One copy `Norms for the Implementation of the Vatican Council Decree, Perfectae Caritatis.' One copy, Constitutions of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Dublin).

/7G Amalgamation
28 October 1967 - 26 August 1968
Papers relating to Bishops Commission on Federation/New Constitutions for Irish Mercy and Presentation Archbishop's correspondence with some other bishops re concerns Tensions with Cork Minutes of Cork Meeting:Agreed Draft submitted to the Presentation Communities and their Bishops for Approval' (cf File Mercy-special General Chapter)

3 postcards sent from Juneau, Alaska, to the Presentation Sisters of Fermoy by Sister Immaculate [Margaret] McCarthy giving news and updates of her life in Alaska; postcard signed Sara sent to Sister Helena Fox in Fermoy containing well wishes and informing that she is missed.

photo of Sister Immaculate [Margaret] McCarthy with Archbishop Ryan and group of unnamed Sisters in Anchorage, Alaska; greeting card.

photos of Sister Margaret [Immaculate] McCarthy in Alaska with some scenery in background.

photos of the work and life of Sister Margaret McCarthy in Chone, Ecuador, and of the local people she worked with.

cut-out from a 1998 calendar with images of religious people of USA, page with images of Sister Margaret [Immaculate] McCarthy with accompanying informational on her work in Alaska.

proof of property deeds, extracts from [Irish?] House of Commons "… relating to charges brought against Bishop McCarthy and Joseph Nagle …", details of appeal made by Joseph Nagle against being dispossessed of some of their lands, map of Ballygriffin area, copies of Registry of Deeds documents concerning property transactions between Nagles and Harrold's, brief histories of individuals of the Nagle's, "The Rices of Ballymacdoyle", correspondence of Sister Pius O'Farrell, printouts from website from 2001 on the Nagle family,

Includes; biography of Nano Nagle and account of her work with the poor, "A sermon preached by the Right Rev[erend] Doctor McCarthy, Coadjutor Bishop of Cork, on the 1st Anniversary of our Venerated Mother Nagle's death" (written by Sister Mary Magdalen de Pazzi Leahy).

Includes; prayer card for the ‘Beatification of Nano Nagle’; negative of the map of the Ballygriffin area; ‘A Bookkeeper's Prayer’; Review of Nano Nagle’s life by Fr. O’ Carroll, CSSP; article from ‘The Fold’ magazine, ‘The Sisters of Mercy in Cork’; booklet ‘In the tradition of St. Finbarr’ by Rev. T. J. Walsh, [Canon T. .J. Walsh]; letter from A.M.O’ Sullivan, Subiaco, Roma, 1 March 1912 to Sister Mary Joseph; letter to Mr. Lynam, British Museum, London, W.C.1.on 18 January 1933 concerning C. Turner’s painting of Nano Nagle; Nano Nagle Ode for Presentation day written in 1911; A Funeral Sermon Preached at a Solemn High Mass Celebration in Cork 12 November for Marie Antoinette, Her Late Most Christian Majesty by the Rev. F. McCarthy, 1793; a Sermon preached on 8 August 1810 of the late Rt. Rev. Florence Mac Carthy by the Rev. John Ryan; and notes on the South Monastery and the use of the buildings over the years.

handwritten letter from Sister Margaret McCarthy to "Dear S[iste]r Eucharia & [and] friends" thanking them for all their support of her mission in Chone and referencing some enclosed photos showing the her life and work.