Includes; letters and cards thanking Sr. Rosario for prayer leaflets and relic cards; hospitality; for information on Nano Nagle; requesting booklets on Nano Nagle; from class groups who visited from North Presentation Primary School, Cork; for sharing her time and knowledge; letters from Presentation Associates; letters of thanks for forwarding the Cause of Nano Nagle; for helping with the Trasna Programme. File also includes letters to Rev. Mother, Sr. Patricia [O’ Shea], Sr. Anthony [Moloney], Sr de Sales [Gleeson]; thank you note from Geraldine Nagle and undated letter to Sr. Charles. All documents are in original order. Letters and cards are from many places in Ireland and abroad.

Includes; envelopes addressed to Sr. Rosario Allen and Sr. Peter O’ Driscoll, South Presentation Convent, Cork, Ireland, from J. L. Meyer, Box 2931, Mesa, Arizona 85204, U.S.A., outlining the plans for the architect to work to restore Nano Nagle’s tomb; letters expressing his disappointment that the proposed plan was changed and that due to dampness the coffin would deteriorate; and handwritten notes by Sr. Rosario describing the area around the tomb and Nano Nagel’s first convent which was built in 1777.

Includes; letters and cards to Sr. Rosario from many parts of Ireland and abroad expressing thanks for her kindness and hospitality and that of the Sisters in South Presentation Convent; requests for prayer cards and relic cards of Nano Nagle; requests for books about Nano Nagle; requests from Presentation Sisters in many Irish convents for literature in establishing the Presentation Associate movement; requests from academic researchers; requests from family history researchers; appreciation for helping in carol singing in Cork and thank you letters from school children who visited. Letters of appreciation from many Presentation Sisters in Ireland and abroad. Letters to Rev. Mother and Sisters. File is in original order.

Includes; DVD of Sister Rosario addressing Sisters on relics of Nano Nagle, close ups of relics, Papal Bull at 2.26.

Includes entries under the headings; "Historical background of the Presentation Order", "Nano Nagle - her apostolate and its subsequent development", "Presentation Sisters in California", "Trends in the apostolate since Vatican II", "General question time", "Causes for beatification", "Work of Presentation Sisters in India", "Presentation Sisters in Pakistan", "Presentation Sisters in Africa", "A challenge roll: the Catholic school in Ireland".

Includes; file includes an extract from the “Cork Examiner” 21 April 1951 entitled ‘Famous Cork Nun, Dr. O’ Rahilly to lecture on Nano Nagle; programme for Lecture by Dr. Alfred O’ Rahilly Nano Nagle pioneer of Catholic Education in Cork and Concert, Capitol; Cinema 22 April; two typed pages of extract from Nano Nagle’s life relating to her questing for alms in Cork; photocopy of a letter from Nano Nagle to Teresa Mullally 29 September 1776; letter from Sr. M. Ignatius, Presentation Convent, Carrick-on Suir (29 March 1930) concerning the copy of the Direction and the Revision of the Rules; letter from Maude McHardy, Bray ( 11 September 1932), she is claiming to be a descendant of Nano Nagle and she has a cousin who is very anxious to get the life of the foundress Nano Nagle; letter from M Holland, 8 North Mall (10 January 1933) where he mentions books and paintings referring to Nano Nagle and her family; letter from Arthur Leupold, Portrait Studios, 6a Patrick Street, Cork ( 26 January 1933) in connection with locating three paintings; letter from Sr. M. Joseph, South Presentation Convent, Cork ( 14 December 1944) in relation to an old account book; note with heading Bond for £2000 dated 18 September 1771; notes from “The Cork Journal”, December 1760 mentioning the house at Ballygriffin; handwritten notes on Apostolic Brief, concerning the Sisters taking Solemn vows dated 15 May 1804, Dublin; type written pages of the Annals from June 1801 to September 1803; article on ‘The Girls’ Apostolate of “The Grail”, from America, 21 July 1934 by John G. Rowe; letter from M.F. Tobin, Presentation Convent, 18 September 1803 to John detailing the financial circumstances of the Community after Nano Nagle’s death; notes on the establishment of the Ursulines in Cork; copy of Act of Profession of Mary Anne Collins, in Religion Mary Angela, 15 August 1793; notes in French in relation to the Infant Jesus Sisters – Rouen 1983; notes in relation to women joining enclosed orders; notes on Annonciades-First congregation dedicated to the Sacred Heart; notes on wills in the Nagle family dated 13 May 1812; letter from J.W.Skells, Map Room, British Museum, 21 January 1933 concerning Charles Turner’s painting of Nano Nagle; handwritten notes relating to Mr. Callanan [Fr. Laurence Callanan] and how he helped Nano Nagle to set up the rules which were necessary to establish the congregation; handwritten notes on the Charity Schools; empty brown envelopes addressed to Professor A. O’ Rahilly, University College, Cork, Ireland; notes on the missions Australia, India and England with foundation dates and names of the Sisters who were sent on these missions; Conspectus of the Presentation Order, from its foundation in 1777[1775] to the year 1875, including the date, convent, filiation, First Superior, Diocese, number in Community, 1874, average number of pupils for 1874 and remarks; and notes written in pencil on questions answered by Superiors of Institute professing Simple Vows in their Report to The Holy See (c 1923).

Includes; file includes small size photograph of the signatures of Srs. Nano Nagle, Elizabeth Bourke, Mary Ann Collins, Mary Fouhy, signed 29 September 1781 and also Laur [Laurence] Callanan’s signature; photographic negatives of original drawing by Grogan of South Gate Bridge and jail 1796 property of University College, the Exchange Cork 1793, and photographic negative of J. O’ Connell’s copy of the original drawing by West, 1770 View of Castle Street and The Exchange, Cork about 1770; two small black and white memorial cards of Alfred O’ Rahilly’s ordination to the priesthood on 18 December 1955 at Blackrock College, Dublin; black and white photograph of Community Room ( location unavailable); brown envelope addressed to Professor A. O’Rahilly, Director of the Library, University College, Cork, Eire dated 27 April 1951; handwritten notes of Nano Nagle’s will, giving detailed explanation of her wishes concerning both the Sisters and her relatives; notes on establishing the Sisters on a solid financial situation dated 27 October 1785, Dr. M. [Bishop Moylan] Killarney to [Father] Callanan; notes on Miss Nagle’ s Conduct in Life, written just after her death describing her helping the poor children and distressed widows for nearly forty years; handwritten page signed by Frances Doyle, South Presentation Convent, Cork, on 5 April 1832 concerning arrears of interest of the late Edmond John Harrold Esq., M.D., administrator and legate of the late Joseph Nagle Esq. of Calverleigh, to the late Margaret Tobin; letter from Sr. M. Columba of the Rosary, Presentation Convent, Galway, 21 January 1930 enclosing a picture of the convent and hoping to get the book on the life of the foundress soon; three copies of Reprint from IER, November 1932 ,’ A letter about Miss Mullaly and Nano Nagle’, edited by Professor Alfred O’ Rahilly, also includes handwritten notes on the extreme weather conditions and hardship for the people of Cork during the severe winter of 1739; two copies of Reprint from IER November 1932 including an article on Miss Mulally and Miss Nagle; and exercise book with the heading Rev Val Bodkin p118 and Luke Craner on the front cover, it outlines the draft of the Apostolic Brief and the Instructions and the history of Nano Nagle and the Sisters.

Includes; letters relating to foundations in the United States of America made in San Antonio, Texas, in 1952; Globe, Arizona in 1956; the booklet for the centenary of the arrival of the Sisters in California in May 1955; letters from Sr. M. Patrick Rupert Looney, Presentation Convent, 281 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco, California, to Rev. T.J. Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh] St. Finbarr’s South, Cork 23 November 1954 and in 1957 to Father Walsh, [Canon T.J. Walsh], Rev. Mother M. Ignatius [Hartnett], and Sr. M. Catherine[Condon]; notes on Outline of Studies – Presentation Convent Schools Saint Joseph High School, Berkeley, California; list dated 12 January 1912, Mother House, Presentation Convent, San Francisco, California giving details of the foundations in the Archdioceses; list of Presentation Convents and Institutions throughout the world, 25 March 1955; reports on schools; application form to enter novitiate from 281 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco, California; and newspaper cuttings with the headings: ’Presentation Sisters celebrate 100 Years in United States’, ’Presentation Nuns Mark Centennial’,’ In the Limelight’,’ Mule Train, ‘Shanty’ Living, Marked Early Presentation Days in America’ from The Monitor 5 November 1954 and ‘Nano Nagle Foundress of the Presentation Order’, from The Leader, San Francisco, 13 November 1954; extracts from letter from Presentation Convent, Fargo, North Dakota, 22 April 1957, typed noted on ‘The Presentation Order in North Dakota’; letters from Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1956 and 1957 and notes on ‘The Aberdeen Foundation of the Congregation of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary’; ‘ Sermon delivered by the Most Reverend William O’ Brady, Archbishop of St. Paul, on 19 September 1961, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the coming of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Aberdeen, South Dakota, on 4 October 1886; and letters to Sr. Catherine in 1956; letters from Mother M. Estelle, Dubuque, Iowa in 1936 and 1957 giving details of the Sisters, convents and schools.

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.

Includes; "The Munster & [and] Leinster Bank Limited" "Nano Nagle Account"; itemised bills from "Frank Murphy & [and] Partners, Architects and Consulting Engineers" for works on Nano Nagle Hostel; handwritten details of costs involved in Nano Nagle Hostel construction (Sister Agnes Daly); tender for construction of Nano Nagle Hostel from "S McD Murphy and Associates, Quantity Surveyors"; receipts from "The Munster & [and] Leinster Bank Limited" for money paid for works on Nano Nagle Hostel; handwritten "Funds of Convent 1974"; letters from University College Cork referencing Nano Nagle student hostel.