Little Company of Mary
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25 November 1947 - 17 November 1971 29 items
Archbishop requests institute to consider a home for poor convalescent mothers and a private nursing home or hospital on south side of the city. Mt Carmel Hospital is begun, See Hospital File. Intimation of visitation by Visitor appointed by the Holy See, later cancelled in view of excellent reports received from Ordinaries in UK and Ireland. Refusal for sisters from outside Ireland to seek postulants in Dublin Letter from Lord Pakenham to AB explaining context of National Bank of Ireland's refusal to loan Pound300,000 for hospital in Rathgar.

Copy of a typed letter to Frank (Pakenham) from Sean MacBride, Minister for External Affairs, marked ‘Confidential.’ Deals with the question of partition.

• 8 February 1948 Correspondence from Brother Aidan Pakenham, Provincial, Highgate, to Fr. Mangan, requesting a meeting with + McQuaid.

• Typed letter to +McQuaid from [Pakenham], Ministry of Civil Aviation, London, inviting him to lunch.

Typed letter from Brother Aidan Pakenham to the Secretary seeking the permission of + McQuaid to insert notices in The Standard and The Irish Catholic to recruit subjects for their Congregation.

Copy of a typed letter to Sean (MacBride) from Frank Pakenham, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ariel House, Strand, London. He is filled with admiration for his lecture, as was Lord Moyne – a most persuasive and impressive performance. Feels he is proceeding along the right lines in treating the Partition issue as part of the problem of the Western World.