Correspondence which chronicles their establishment in Dublin from first application for a foundation until their acquiring premises at D’Olier Street - a shrine for perpetual adoration. Archbishop’s unhappiness at their manner of dealing with him and with the public.

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1941-1972 97 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES: St Anne, Sisters of; Annonciade Nuns; Assumption, Oblates of Augustinian, Canonesses; Canonesses of the Mercy of Jesus (Burgess Hill, Liverpool, Grange-over-Sands) Canonesses of Perpetual Adoration, Sisters of Meaux, Sisters of the Precious Blood. Cf English Convents P (servants of the Poor) for reference to Sisters of St Anne, Wimbledon.

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1941 - 1972 48 items
Some correspondence concerning requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin but most concerns the affairs of Dame Monica Hague OSB Abbey of Haslemere INSTITUTES Benedictine: Abbey of Haslemere. Abbey of Münster, Abbery of Tyburn, Brigidine - Liverpool Bon Secours - Liverpool

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1941 - 1972 41 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Cabrini, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Canossa, Sisters of Charity; Carmelitems Nuns (Darlington; Birkenhead; Ware); Sisters of Charity Corpus Christi Sisters Cenacle, Sisters of the,

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1941 - 1972 81 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Charity, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge Charity, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Evron Charity, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of St Paul (Selly Park) Charity, Daughters of St Vincent de Paul Charité de Notre Dame, Soeurs de la (Filey) Charity under the protection of St V DePaul)

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1941 - 1972 54 items
Requests to quest for postulants INSTITUTES Cistercians (Bernadine (Muns) St Clotilde, Sisters of Little Company of Mary Compassion, Sisters of Our Lady of Conception, Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Lourdes Conception, Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Brionze

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1941 - 1972 49 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Consolation, Sisters of Our Lady of Counsel, Daughters of Our Lady of Good Cross, Daughters of the Cross, Teaching Sisters of the Holy, (cf file Irish Convents - Belfast)

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Domincan's Bushey Heath, Hants. UK
1941-1972 35 items
All correspondence in this file pertains to Sr Mary Magdalen (Stanford Campbell) and her return to Dublin from South Africa. Principal correspondents are P.H. Campbell, brother, and Superior-General or her secretary, Bushey Heath, Hants. UK

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1961 - 1958 27 items
Requests to quest for postulants INSTITUTES Notre Dame, Sisters of Dominican (Greenwich, London W.10, Hinckley) Christian Education

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1941 - 1972 63 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Holy Family, Sisters of the (Enfield; Tooting) Franciscan Sisters, (various and sometimes indeterminate congregation) Berkhamsted, Braintree, Littlehampton, Melton Mowbray, Milford-on-Sea, Eccleshall

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1941 - 1972 24 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Holy Ghost, Daughters of the (Bedford) - see also file Wales - Aberystwyth, Pontypool Holy Ghost, Servants of the (Stoke-on-Trent) St. Gilda's, Sisters of (London, Longport, Chard0

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1941 - 1972 74 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin Request to move operations from Castlepollard to Dublin declined by archbishop, memo of Monsignor C. Barrett VG INSTITUTES Handmaids of Jesus Christ, Hendon) Immaculate Heart of Mary (Billingshurst) Daughters of Hope, Sisters of Christian Instruction, Religious of (Sherbonne) Sacred Heart of Mary (Upminster) also file Dublin Convents - Sandymount, 30 January 1948 Sacred Heart (Whetstone) Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Chigwell) see Irish Convents, Castlepollard, 13 June 1942)
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1941 - 1972 35 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Sisters of St Joseph (Manchester) Sisters of St Joseph of the Appartition (Altricham) Sisters of St Joseph Bordeaux (Tamworth)* Sisters of St Joseph of Peace (Nottingham) Sisters of St Joseph of Newark (Rearsby) Daughters of Jesus (Welling) Loreto Sisters (Ascot; Manchester; Altricham). See Dublin Convents Loreto No. 2, 17 July 1947; 19 May 1947

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1941 - 1972 84 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Sisters of St Martin of Tours (a sister desires a Montmartre style basilica) Sisters of St Martha (Barnet) (cf File French Convents - A (Perigueux) Mary and Joseph (Baldock) Medical Mission Sisters (Osterly) Mercy: Brentwood, Abingdon, Burnley, Boston Spa, Barnsley, Bristol, Gravesend, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Tilbury, Weymouth. Mother of Mercy, Sisters of Charity of, (cf Dutch file 26 September 1946)

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1941 - 1972 30 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. Permission granted to Nazareth. INSTITUTES St Mary of Namur (Loweshoft) Nativity of Our Lord (Maidenhead) Our Lady, Sisters of (Hoddesdon)

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1941 - 1972 96 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Pallotrie (Rochdale) Poor Servants of the (New Cross) Poor Child Jesus (Rugby) Poor Clares (Manchester; Ellesmere; Southhampton; Todcastle Presentation (Bicester; Manchester; Matlock; Northwich; Buxton, S. Kirkby; Exeter; Swindon) Providence (Woking, Baldock) (cf Religious Orders - Female (within archdiocese) Religious of Christian Education for letter 5/3/1954 re Poor Servants of the)

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1941 - 1972 57 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Marie Reparatrice (Liverpool, Chelsea) this correspondence extending over 17 years is exclusively with one questing sisters, except for one brief matter of vestment supplies. Christian Retreat (Molesley: Cannock) Rosminians (Wisbech)

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1941 - 1972 87 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Blessed Sacrament Sisters La Sagesse Sisters Salvatorian Sisters Saviour and BVM, Sisters of the, (Steptor Mallet)

Good Shepherd Nuns (Finchly, Staplehurst) Christian Schools, Sisters of the (Reading, Worcester) Holy Sepulchre Sisters (Chelmsford) Servitemss (Bogor Regis; Kings lynn; London) Our Lady of Sion Sisters (London) Hold Souls Helpers (London)

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1941 - 1972 40 items
Requests to make foundations in Dublin INSTITUTES Trinitarian Sisters (Kidderminster) Ursulines of Jesus (Blundellsands; London) Ursulines of Roman Union (Forest State; Kettering; Westgate-on-Sea, Wimbledon (one sister only)

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1941 - 1972 54 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. INSTITUTES Verona, Missionary Sisters of, `Comboniane' (Dorking; London). Faithful Virgin, Daughters of the (Folkestone) Visitation (harrow; Deal' Bridport) Whitems Sisters (Heston; Liverpool)

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1941 - 1972 83 items
Requests to quest for postulants and/or to make foundations in Dublin. Financial Assistance Sought INSTITUTES Dominican (Chirk) (cf file Africa at Salisbury, Rhodesia) St Joseph of Annecy (LLantarnam Mercy (Fishguard; Bangor) Bon Sauveur (Holyhead) Good Shepherd (Monmouth) Holy Spirit, Daughters of the (Aberystwyth; Pontypool)

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1941-1971 50 items
Apostles, O.L of; Augustinian; Brigidine; Carmelitems; Charity; Cluny; Columban; Cross and Passion Correspondence frequently covers Requests for interviews with archbishop Requests for foundations in Dublin Kylemore (OSB) devastated by fire; reconstruction aided by archbishop, see separate folder.

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7 February 1941 - 24 January 1966 59 items
Benedictines Kylemore Blessing of first abbess in Ireland since 12th century Project of Benedictine foundation in Dublin leads to correspondence between archbishops of Dublin, Tuam, Prior of Chevtogne (Belgium), Fr. Cathal McCarthy, Abbess of Pradines (Loire, France), Archbishop Isidores is cause of friction in Kylemore when five community seek Dublin and a more authentic Benedictine life Abbot of Pradines initially willing to help but desists. Project flounders Fire, archbishop generous in help.

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1 January 1941 - 10 November 1969 31 items
All the correspondence concerns a disturbed nun of Drogheda Dominican convent who is a patient in St Vincent's Fairview. Letters re Federation International Sportive de l'Enseignement Catholique from a sister in Belfast.

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27 September 1942 - 21 September 1970 62 items
Evron ND de (Lisdoonvarna); Franciscan (Cork, Castleblayney); Holy Ghost (Glaslough); SJOG (Waterford); St Joseph of Annecy (Piltown); St Joseph of Bordeaux (Virginia); St Louis (Middletown); Loreto (Cavan). Greater part of correspondence relates to requests to seek postulants by press advertisement or school visits.

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1941 - 1971 76 items
Several Mercy convents in all four provinces; O. L. of Missions (Limavady); Nazareth (Belfast, Sligo). Greater part of correspondence relates to requests for financial assistance and questing for postulants.

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1941-1971 99 items
Perpetual Adoration (Wexford); Poor Clare x3); Presentation X 8); Holy Rosary (Killeshandra); Christian Retreat (Tuam); Rosminian Wexford). Correspondence re various matter of routine nature.

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1941-1971 60 items
B. Sacrament (Tullamore); O.L Sacred Heart (Ballybay); S.H. (Castlepollard, Youghal); Salesian (Birr); Christian Schools (Roscrea); Bon Secours (Kerry, Tuam); Good Shepherd (Cork, New Ross); Ursuline (Thurles); Visitation ( Stamullen) Correspondence re various matter of routine nature.

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5 January 1941 - 2 December 1970 72 items
Extensive correspondence between archbishop, mother superior and Major McCrory concerning a scheme of his to raise money for the reduction of debt on the convent chapel by means of donations for Mass offerings. Donors are inscribed in Book of Love. Archbishop instructs McCrory to desist forthwith. Correspondence re night adoration, perpetual adoration is introduced An Irish province is established A Case of Dispensation