Correspondence relating to the rumour of the establishment of a novitiate in Roebuck

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10 December 1941 - 6 December 1971 107 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, Archbishop does not favour building a new convent, Foundation Masses, sale of part of Roebuck property. Letter from AB to Msgr. Boylan returning letter from Roebuck Carmel re property

XLIV/13 Carmelites Nuns, Tranquilla

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8 December 1941 - 17 February 1971 39 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life, a problem regarding papal enclosure, Tranquilla had been admitted to solemn vows in 1952, years before the other Carmelitems convents in the Archdiocese.

Lennon, Patrick, 36 Larchfield Road, Roebuck Park. Writes in relation to the erection of a statue to Blessed Mary in the Port of Dublin.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Sean Mac Bride, Roebuck House, Clonskeagh, informing him of a letter he is sending to the newspapers regarding unsuitable films fed to children and the youth. Copy of the letter enclosed.

Letter from Fr. John J. Gaffney to +McQuaid regarding the transfer of Fr. Kennelly to Roebuck.

Daly, Maeve, Wickersley, Nr. Rotherham, thanking him for arranging for Michael to live in Roebuck.

Lovatt-Dolan, J.H.D., 1 Louvain, Roebuck Road. Asks permission for a visiting priest of the Oriental Rite to give a talk to the nuns and students of Mount Anvil preparatory to celebrating Mass in the Oriental Rite. Draft reply to say that it is the practice for a foreign priest to present his letters in advance.

Redwood, Maire, 39 Kimmage Road West, Terenure. She is seeking permission to assist at Midnight Mass at Roebuck.

Typed letter from Maud Gonne MacBride, Roebuck House, to + McQuaid. She wonders if a Pilgrimage to the site of the burial place of St. Patrick, St. Brigid and St. Colmcille in Downpatrick could be arranged during the Holy Year. Patrick Kavanagh

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12 December 1946 - 28 September 1963 71 items
Congregation seeks entry to Diocese. Archbishop refuses request to open university hostel but permits hostel for their own Indian sisters attending university. Asks a sister to prepare a Church History text for use in secondary schools' project. Property in Roebuck purchased. Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate. Memoranda re Roebuck Grove. Letter from solicitor to AB re difficulty in acquiring a middle interest in this property

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28 January 1964 - 10 January 1971 69 items
New school at Our Lady's Manor develops, Novitiate transferred to Roebuck. Property acquisition, lease hold matters, sales of Dublin property tax concerns. Sharp letter from archbishop to Principal of Our Lady's Grove re proposed action on Departments refusal to recognise two teachers.

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30 June 1955 - 27 September 1959 20 items
Correspondence between M. Del Rosario and archbishop. Concerns; post Visitation observations, needs of her Congregation to which archbishop does not feel obliged to satisfy. She submits a Directoire de l'Education which receives archbishop's praise.

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12 October 1959 - 21 November 1971 96 items
Continuing correspondence between M. Del Rosario and archbishop. More Visitation news from outside Ireland. Question of school in Blessington briefly revived and then abandoned.