8 -18 October 1960 Correspondence relating to the request of Corporal P. McMahon, 32 Battalion, Congo, to return to Ireland due to his wife’s condition. Military Police Association
Handwritten letter to Fr. McMahon from P.W. Carroll, Dept. of Social Welfare. The Department has been asked by a British mail-marketing firm to provide for interview a number of women for temporary employment in door-to-door distribution of a booklet. Asks for his views.
Invitation to Fr. James McMahon to a reception in honour of the Most Rev. Donal J. Herlihy on the occasion of his Consecration as Bishop of Ferns.
Letter from Fr. John Moloney to Dr. McMahon informing him that John Feeney at no time asked for permission to use the Pro-Cathedral. They wanted to know if some groups of sodalities might be organising to resist them.
Letter from B. McMahon, Censorship Board to Peter Bailey regarding the following books and magazines; ‘Matador’; ‘To God unknown’ by John Steinbeck; ‘Peril magazine’; ‘The strange barriers’; ‘The seductive mirror’; ‘Every man a stranger’; ‘Mamba’; ‘On the waterfront’; ‘The daughter of the town’; ‘Men only and London opinion’; ‘Blighty, pin-up and cartoon annual’; ‘Esquire’; and ‘Roll back the sky’.
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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)
Letter from B. McMahon, Censorship Board to J.J. Murphy regarding ‘The dead, the dying and the Damned’ by D.J. Hollands.
Article entitled ‘Noted Dublin churchmen of penal times’ by J.K. Clarke giving biographical information on Archdeacon James McMahon who died in 1890.
Letter from John O’Regan to Fr. McMahon regarding the Archbishop’s Indult of Delegation of Faculties.
Letter from Fr. M.S. McMahon to Doctor informing him that he had re- interviewed two young men who had been given permission to attend Trinity College. They are most grateful and will abide by the conditions imposed by the Archbishop.