Ireland Papers
Map of Localities where SHCJ Sisters have visited schools in Ireland
c1940
This map marks towns and cities where the SHCJ had spoken to girls about vocations to join the SHCJ and to potentially be sent to the SHCJ's mission in Nigeria and later, Ghana. One of the key reasons the convent at Stedalt, Stamullen was established was to ensure the SHCJ had enough sisters to provide personnel for these various ministries.
Plan of Harcout Street Chapel
1948
Five years after 70 Harcourt Street was founded as a hostel, an increase in the number of young women seeking accommodation with the sisters and the community themselves, required a Chapel on the premisis in order to maintain a faith centred 'home from home' for the girls. Once the work was done, to mark the completion of the Chapel a paper with the names of Clerics and SHCJ sisters present was placed within the altar.
Killiney School Magazine
1959
This magazine was the first produced by Kiliney School and includes both a history of the local area and the house named Killacoona - 'the Chapel in the Bay' - in which this first Holy Child School in Ireland began. It goes on to give news of the current school including the trip made by sisters and the girls of Killiney to Rome where they had an audience with Pope Pius XII.
Sallynoggin Opening Scrapbook
1973
This scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographs was created to mark the official opening of Sallynoggin on 14th May 1973. The articles comment on the fact that Sallynoggin was a the forefront of a new kind of education in Ireland. It was first fully comprehensive school in Ireland and also the first post primary school under management of a religious community that had a lay principle and lay vice principal.
St Kieran's Annual Report
1971
This report describes the mission of St Kieran's School to offer children from Traveller families the chance to 'acquire the social and academic education necessary to lift them from the underprivileged life they now lead.' It pays tribute to the 'eagerness, application and sacrifce made by many of the pupils' as well as the dedication of the school's teachers.
The report also descibes how St Kieran's was linked to the Holy child School Killiney as Killiney students both took part in charity walks to raise money for St Kieran's and organised a dance to which they invited 20 St Kieran's girls. One girl commented 'for once we were treated as if we really mattered'.
Report on the Clondalkin Apostolate
December 1984
This report gives a detailed account of the experiences of Sisters Mary McManus, Helena Brennan and Mary Taylor living within the Traveller Community at St Oliver's Park, Clondalkin.
They faced opposition from those intolerant of travellers, hostility from some of the people living within St Oliver's Park and, in Sr Helena's case, arrest after protesting the enforced removal of Caravans during the opening of the Tallaght by-pass. However, they also witnessed the courage, appreciation and thoughtfulness of the people they lived alongside such as the ‘articulate, humourous and deeply spiritual’ Mary O’Donohue who, as well as caring for a family of 10, was a member of the executive of the National Committee for Travelling People.
