/1 Beaumont
17 November 1942 - 1971 72 items

Correspondence relating to details of community life and apostolate Letter from a sister re the status of lay sisters (cf. File Carysfort - Changes to Constitutions) Difficulty over sites and funding of new secondary school Correspondence Beaumont Convalescent Home Conveyancing of land from Sisters of Mercy to Sister of St John of Correspondence between +McQuaid's and official Solicitors Arthur O'Hagan re proposal to repossess Kilmore Lodge and impending court case. Correspondence + McQuaid and Arthur O'Hagan and Mrs Josephine Hughes re repossession of lodge (variously described as Front and Back Lodge) at Beaumont Convalescent Home, not to be confused with Kilmore Lodge above. Sale of land to ESB

/2 Cork Street
4 July 1941 - 17 December 1965 27 items
Correspondence relating to details of community life and apostolate, including fundraising

/3 Dun Laoghaire
5 March 1941 - 21 February 1967 32 items
Correspondence relating to details of community life and apostolate, including fundraising A Secondary Top at Glasthule

/5/1 Arklow and Rathdrum
21 February - 11 December 1941 12 items
Much undated material causes difficulties in filing Undated list of community members by seniority; list of post held in various communities Curate to continue as Manager at Rathdrum Beginning of long correspondence from Se M Laurence alleging anomalies in administration in Arklow; roots of problem in past.

/5/2 Arklow and Rathdrum
16 May - 6 July 1942 27 items
Letter of complaint from Arklow sister Dispute of farewell gift for priest Expulsion and reinstatement of student from Arklow school on intervention from Archbishop. Routine testamentary matter

/5/3 Arklow and Rathdrum
June - 2 August 1942 4 items
Visitation of Arklow and Rathdrum by archbishop in July 1942; extensive notes Financial statement re Arklow convent and boarding school Examination of each member of two communities Letters from 2 sisters clarifying their responses on occasion of visitation

/5/3/1 Arklow and Rathdrum
1 items
Large brown envelope in Chancellery Stationary marked `Secret', Sisters of Mercy, Archiepiscopal Visitation of the Convents at Rathnew and Arklow, July 1942. Three unbroken seals on back of envelope, slit indicates opening across top to envelope. The Contents of the above envelope (notes on the depositions of the individual sisters) constitutes the matter contained in File No. 3 above.

Large cream envelope `Relatio' contains archbishop's drafts and notes preparatory and actual summaries and recommendation to the Holy See. Rescript of the Congregation.

/5/4 Arklow and Rathdrum
23 August 1942 - 13 August 43 26 items
Correspondence between Arklow and Carysfort re Amalgamation Holy See has given approval for amalgamation Each community agrees to amalgamation: Arklow unanimously, Carysfort by large majority. Archbishop formally declares amalgamation

/5/5 Arklow and Rathdrum
14 August 1943 - 7 March 1946 43 items
Correspondence concerning implementation of amalgamation recommendations, closely supervised by archbishop Some minor Arklow property issues

/5/6 Arklow and Rathdrum
15 June 1946 - 20 April 1956 70 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate School staffing in Arklow Proposed property purchases Arklow and Rathdown Project of new secondary school in Arklow and question about one at Rathdrum Letter of complaint from Rathdrum resident

/5/7 Arklow and Rathdrum
13 September 1956 to 9 February 1972 73 items
Correspondence re routine details of community life and apostolate Complaint of Wicklow town resident against Rathdrum sister Memo re teenage morals in Arklow Possible withdrawal from The Rock NS Dispute with Rathdrum employee Internal dispute

Includes; letters from convents in Ireland responding to a circular requesting information about their foundations from Rev. Mother, South Presentation Convent, Douglas Street, Cork. Letters giving details of the beginnings of the foundations; who helped fund the foundations, the kindness of benefactors, social conditions and circumstances of the local people; the poverty which they encountered, how the material needs of the children were provided for, how the convent and school buildings began, sometimes the Sisters and classrooms were in temporary buildings until suitable buildings were built; at times Sisters moved from existing convents to establish new foundations, sometimes the Sisters remained in the new foundations and at other times these Sisters returned to the convents from which they originally came when a sufficient number of new Sisters were trained as many women from the local areas saw the needs and joined the Congregation; reports of how the Sisters travelled; the connection with the local bishops and clergy is mentioned; Sisters are aware of the need for a publication on the ‘Life of Nano Nagle’; they express interest in the Cause of Nano Nagle and their wishes for her beatification, they are enquiring about the cost of the book and considering how many copies they will be able to afford to purchase; Sisters send best wishes to the Sisters in South Presentation Convent, Cork, Sisters who have visited South Presentation Convent, Cork, express their gratitude for the hospitality which they experienced there, the number of Sisters in the Communities, mention of the lay Sisters and the number of students in schools are given.
Letters came from the following Presentation convents in Ireland; Bagenalstown, County Carlow, 23 February 1926, Ballingarry, County Tipperary, 19 November 1925, Baltinglass, County Wicklow, Cashel, County Tipperary, 14 December 1925, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, 19 November 1925, Castleisland, County Kerry, 20 November 1925, two letters from Carlow dated 20 November 1925 and 20 June 1926, Clonmel, County Tipperary, 23 October 1925, Clondalkin, County Dublin, 25 November 1925, Crosshaven, County Cork, two letters dated 16 November 1925 and December 1925, letter from Dingle, County Kerry, 21 December 1925, a photograph of the convent and the church, typed pages from the Annals from 1829 to 1866, Doneraile, County Cork, 16 November 1925, Drogheda, County Louth, 16 and 21 December 1925, photograph and note from the convent in Dundrum, County Tipperary, 23 November 1924, letter from Dungarvan, County Waterford, 28 November 1925, letter and notes from Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Fermoy, County Cork, 10 November 1925, also gives information on the foundations made in Tasmania and New Troy, New York, George’s Hill, Dublin, 16 November 1925, Galway, 28 January 1926, Kildare, 19 November 1925, notes on Kilcock, County Kildare and the missions which were founded from there, Killarney, County Kerry, 17 November 1925, Kilkenny, 12 January 1926 mentions Durrow and Kilmacow also, Limerick, 7 December 1925, Lismore, County Waterford on 16 November 1925 , mentions Sodalities, Evening Classes and opening of the Secondary School, lunches for pupils, Lixnaw, County Kerry, 19 November 1925, Maynooth, County Kildare, 25 November 1925, Maryboro’ Queen’s County, Midleton, County Cork, 19 November 1925 mentions Archdeacon Hutch and the secondary school, Millstreet, County Cork, , 5 December 1925 includes notes which mention music classes and the welfare of the poor children, Milltown, County Kerry, Mitchelstown, County Cork, 8 December 1925, includes notes on its foundation, music rooms and music lessons are mentioned, Mullingar, County Westmeath, 14 December 1925, Portadown, includes three letters dated 27 September 1925, November 1925 and November 1925 mentions that this convent was a transfer of the Sisters from Granard, mentions evening classes for the girls working in the factories and makes a request for suitable postulants. Rahan Tullamore, County Offaly, Rathmore, County Kerry, 29 November 1925, 22 November 1925, Gerald Griffin Street, North Presentation Convent, 19 November 1925, Tuam, County Galway, December 1925 includes an account of the foundation, Terenure, Dublin, 19 January 1926, Thurles, County Tipperary, 8 January 1926, Tralee, County Kerry, 1 December 1925, Waterford, 18 November 1925 , 8 July 1929 and 2 November 1929 mentions the photograph of the convent but no photograph is included, letter from Wexford including photographs of the convent, and letter from Youghal, County Cork dated 17 November 1925.

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19 May 1941 - 26 May 1971 36 items
Correspondence regarding routine details of community life and apostolate; controversy at Wicklow Urban District Council by Mr. J. Everett T.D, later a minister of government, by strictures on nuns' management of primary school; centenary is celebrated, brochure included.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

Wicklow County Manager regarding the maternity clinic Lady Wicklow started in Arklow. The County Manager is alleged to be attempting to close the clinic he argues that he is bound by the Mother and Child Service (1952).

Typed note on Mrs. Byrne. She is on the track of a narcotics distributor in Co. Wicklow who supplies “the younger set of the upper crust”. May ask the Minister to set up some kind of FBI group to apprehend the guilty.

Typed letter to Fr. Michael P. O’Connell from L. O Muirthe regarding the erection of a new school in Donard, Co. Wicklow.