Enquiries to: Congregational Archivist
Access: by appointment
Presentation Sisters Congregational Archives contains the records of three administrative bodies: the General Congregational Administrative records and the records of the Irish Provinces.
Description of main collections: Material relating to the founder and the first foundation, development and continued ministries of the Presentation Sisters dated from 1769 to the present.
– Records relevant to the Presentation Sisters foundations in Ireland, England, Canada, USA, India, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand, Africa (Zambia and Zimbabwe), Latin America (Chile, Ecuador and Peru), New Zealand and Slovakia.
– Publications such as pamphlets and souvenir brochures collected from
Presentation Sisters foundations and associated communities around the world.
– Documents relating to the administration of the Irish Provinces.
– Records from the Presentation Generalate in Ireland and material related to General Chapter meetings.
– Annals and photographs of Sisters and their ministries.
Address: Presentation Sisters Congregational Archives, Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork, T12 X70A.
Telephone: 021 419 3584
Email: congregationalarchives@pbvm.org
Author: Association for Church Archives of Ireland
Blackrock College
Enquiries to: The Archivist
Access: By appointment
Description of collections:
- Legal and administrative documents from the foundation of the college in 1860.
- Financial, farm and school records.
- Holy Ghost Fathers’ Community Records
- Private papers of deceased community members.
- Alfred O’Rahilly Papers
- Blackrock College Union records
- Catholic Headmasters’ Association records
- Blackrock College RFC records
Address: Rock Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin
Telephone: (01) 2752197
E-mail: archives@blackrockcollege.com
ACAI Calendar
The Association for Church Archives of Ireland has produced a calendar featuring twelve photographs from Irish religious archives. The calendar has been produced in order to raise much needed funds, so that the ACAI can continue to host workshops, information and training days, lectures, etc for church archivists in Ireland.
The calendar costs €5 to buy, and will be on sale at the ACAI’s AGM on Saturday 12th May, in All Hallows College, Dublin 9. If you would like to order a calendar, please contact us for an order form.
Irish Capuchin Conference
ACAI AGM 2015
The Association for Church Archives of Ireland will hold their AGM in the Margaret Aylward Centre, Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9 on Saturday, 9th May 2015.
Theme: Policies
10.30am – Arrival & registration (light refreshments will be served)
11.15am – Business Meeting:
- Elections – all of the committee are happy to stay on for another term of office as per the constitution. However, if any member wishes to put their name forward for a position on the committee, an election can be held. Please forward your names to Brian Kirby by 1 May.
- Annual Reports from the Secretary and Treasurer
- Website
- ‘The future of Church archives’ – seminar
12.00pm – Dr. Elizabeth Mullins, School of History & Archives, UCD
Creating a policy framework for an archives service: some key considerations.
1.00pm – Lunch (soup and sandwiches)
2.00pm – Damien Burke, Irish Jesuit Archives
Policies in the Irish Jesuit Archives: the proof is in the implementation.
Vera Orschel, Sisters of St. Louis Archives
Old Fashioned? The Jesuit project of a commemorative calendar and a fulltext publication.
3.30pm – Open Forum & Closing Prayer
AGM Fee: €20 (covers the cost of room hire & catering)
Annual Membership Fee payable on the day: €20.
Please send cheques in advance of the AGM, payable to the ACAI and sent to Clare Brophy, Provincial Archivist, Franciscan Friary, Merchant’s Quay, Dublin 8. (Those who wish to pay on the day may do so in cash or by cheque).
New members are always welcome.
Members and other interested parties should confirm their attendance at the AGM by e-mail at: capuchinarchives@gmail.com
Please see this document for more information: Notification ACAI AGM – 9 May 2015
REMINDER: ‘Future of Church Archives’ Seminar
The ACAI seminar, ‘Future of Church Archives: Opportunity or Crisis?’, is taking place next Saturday, 28th February in St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.
The full agenda for the day can be found here.
DATE: Saturday, 28th February 2015. Attendees should arrive by 10.45am for registration, at which tea and coffee will be served.
VENUE: Lecture Hall, New Library Building, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.
The New Library Building can be accessed by entering the St. Patrick’s College campus via the main college gate and turning right. There will be some parking available on the campus. Find directions to the venue below:
Registration now open for ACAI Seminar
Registration has now opened for our one-day seminar ‘The Future of Church Archives: Opportunity or Crisis’ which will be held in St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 on Saturday, 28 February, 2015.
Interested parties are encouraged to register for this event as places are limited and we expect significant demand for places.
ACAI Seminar – ‘The Future of Church Archives: Opportunity or Crisis’
The ACAI are delighted to announce that we will be hosting a one-day seminar entitled ‘The Future of Church Archives: Opportunity or Crisis’ on Saturday, 28 February, 2015 at St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.
It is hoped that this event will open up a discussion on the future of church archival collections in Ireland. Interested parties are encouraged to register for this event as places are limited and we expect significant demand for places.
Journal Article: Religious Archives in South Africa
The academic journal Verbum et Ecclesia recently published an article regarding religious archives in South Africa.
The article, entitled ‘Collection stewardship constrained by resources: The management of religious archives in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal region’, discusses the types of records held in South African religious archives and examines related issues such as preservation, archival storage, disaster prevention, environmental conditions, digitisation and security.
Interestingly, the author of the study, Francis Garaba, recommended the establishment of a religious archives group in order for the “voice of ecclesiastical archives to resonate across South Africa” and to foster “greater coordination and networking amongst the archival repositories”.
It can be read (free of charge) here: Verbum et Ecclesia.
‘Under the Influence: The Jesuits in Ireland’ Conference
The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland and the Irish Jesuit Province are hosting a two-day conference in Belvedere College, Dublin 1, on 19-20 September, to mark the bi-centenary of the Restoration of the Jesuits in Ireland (1814). Themes treated will include the Jesuits and: political violence; the Irish language; the Easter Rising; World War I; the labour movement; the sciences; art and architecture.
All are welcome, it is free to attend and the programme starts at 2pm, Friday, 19 September 2014. The second day of the conference, Saturday 20 September, the programme will begin at 09:30 and continue until 17:00.
Two archivists are speaking at the event on Saturday 20 September –
- Damien Burke of the Irish Jesuit Archives – Irish Jesuit chaplains in the First World War
- Vera Orschel of the Rome Archival Project – “Uniting the dispersed members”: Jesuit Communications and the Irish annual letters (1604-1675).
The book Irish Jesuit Chaplains in the First World War will be launched at the conference on Friday, 19 September 2014 by Roisin Duffy, RTÉ Producer, Fr Browne’s Forgotten War.
For further information contact: jcc@jesuit.ie or see the programme here: Jesuit_Restoration_Programme (link opens pdf)
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