Typed letter to Chris. Gives list of twenty-two persons representing Ireland in Paris. A big proportion are ‘Trinity, Protestants, and Africans.’
April - October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the Commission on Higher Education and Marymount School, Paris. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to Liturgy and the interchange of teachers from abroad. Finances of Maynooth College and the state of its buildings discussed by Maynooth Trustees. 1962
Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Pierre Michon. He wishes to see the Archbishop regarding the Irish College, Paris.
Letter from Mgr. Banaszak to +McQuaid wishing him a Happy Easter. He is thankful for the concern of the Archbishop not only about the Catholic Church in Poland but also the Polish Seminary in Paris. 1 item Portugal
Letter from ill. to + McQuaid informing him that M. Morgan, a late vocation, wishes to become a priest to serve in Paris. His file does not contain a reference from a priest in Ireland.
Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid regarding newspaper article on the Marian Year and the enthusiasm with which it has been inaugurated in Ireland. He mentions he has spent time with Mgr. Marella and staff of the Paris Nunciature. He describes it as a ‘…dark and gloomy place’.
Typed note saying Mr. Walshe telephoned to say that the French Government assented to the appointment of Fr. Casey as Rector, Irish College, Paris.
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19 January 1941 - 28 November 1949
Correspondence to routine details of community life and apostolate. Permission to open a novitiate is refused. Permission to open a novitiate in Clondalkin is granted. Centenary commemorative booklet from Cork convent.
Irish Province to make a foundation at Holywell (Wales) in English Province; no objection from Archbishop. 78 items
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7 December 1950 - December 1959
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate. New house in Ballyfermot. Archbishop queries foundation in New Zealand made from Dublin without consulting him. Monsignor Boylan urges permission for sisters to use bicycles, granted by Archbishop.
100 items
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26 January 1960 - 25 November 1971
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate. Monsignor Glennon, PP, wants the sisters in Finglas; declined by Archbishop. Superiors proposed and insists on Visiting Sisters being professionally qualified. He recalls the Assumption was the only cong. ever to refuse "to assist me in providing amenities for the poor". But permission to Finglas is granted. A sister is dispensed from vows. Archbishop does not like proposed new habit- photograph included.
99 items
XLIV/2 Bon Secours Sisters
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10 March 1941 - 14 May 1963
Correspondence from superiors of various convents of the Institute in the Archdiocese relating to: routine details of their apostolate; sale of their convent in Lower Mount Street to Sisters of Neves as suggested by the Archbishop, filed as "Sisters of Charity of Nevers", dated 30/12/49; aspirations to establish a separate Irish province of the Institute, and Archbishop's advice on this, draft copy of suggested changes to Constitutions of the Institute; visitation by Mother General subsequent to establishment of the Irish Province, continuing tension between Irish Province and Paris Mother-House. Occasional references to development of convent and hospital at Glasnevin of "Hospitals" file.
43 items
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25 August 1953 - 14 December 1957
Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate, Letter in French from Archbishop to Superior General in Paris asking for consideration of a foundation in Archdiocese to provide retreats for women and girls, his preference in this apostolate for French rather than an Irish English, or American foundation, his friend and agent in Paris is Ms. J.B. McCloskey, head of American Catholic Relief there, and her encouraging response. Correspondence relating to foundation undertaken. Lengthy correspondence with Father Fennelly C.S.Sp. regarding Stations of the Cross. Certificate of Archbishop's membership of the "Cenacle Crusade of Prayer".
52 items
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11 July 1958 - 11 August 1971
Correspondence relating to routine details of community and apostolate. Killiney superior's idea for a Regina Mundi type institute encounters reservations of Monsignor Boylan Convent Conference (Eccles Street) proper framework for such initiatives. Mother-General asks for Archbishop's suggestions regarding their renewal for apostolate of "rechristianisation". Archbishop's short reply- such thing not required in Ireland, and Cenacle must learn the Irish situation is not that of England or France. Dispensation from temporary vows of a sister.
74 items
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1947 - 1970 45 items
Questing for postulants and permission to make a foundation Irish hierarchy not well disposed to Irish girls making novitiate outside Ireland.
Convents in Angers, Bordeaux, Le Bouscet, Le Dorat, Lourdess, Lyon, Le Mans Little Sisters of Jesus (Charles de Foucauld) made foundation in Dublin, see convent in Dublin
For Lyon see file Convents USA, letters 16/6/1948 and Irish convents letter 19/1/1948. For Le Mans, see file Convents USA, letter 13/6/1949
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1947 - 1970 44 items
Questing for postulants and permission to make a foundation Irish hierarchy not well disposed to Irish girls making novitiate outside Ireland.
Convents in Meaux, Paris, Pau, Perigeaux, Le Puy, Roanne, St Sauveur-le Vicomte, St Germain - en-Laye, Troyes, Valence