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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)

Includes; address from Cardinal Valerio Valeri of the Scared Congregation of Religious, addresses from Popes to Bishops of Cork, Rules and Constitutions of the Presentation Congregation.

Includes; "Spirit and aim of the Congregation", Rules of the Congregation, duties of the Superiors within the Congregation, "The Constitutions".

Includes; details of "The special General Chapter of the Union of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary …", names and addresses of first leadership team.

photocopy of "Rules and Constitutions of the Institute of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary"; "Presentation Roots" parts 1 and 2.

"Novices Directory compiled by Rev[erend] Mother De Chantal (Mercy Sisters) 1861", with black and white printed image of Mother de Chantal; "Directives, Union of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary".

programme of the "Fourth Biennial Meeting of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary".

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.

The formula of Identity of the Institute of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

"A brief history of the Sacred Heart Presentation Convent Wagga Wagga …" (1881), "Centenary Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary" (1974); writings on Nano Nagle, anniversary and centenary celebrations, newspaper articles, histories.