Blackrock from Booterstown

Newtownpark Avenue from Blackrock

• 29 December 1944 Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate. Includes mention of the Association of the Holy Childhood. Mentions St. Michael’s, Ailesbury Road. Problems over proposal to have a rugby pavilion in Blackrock. Archbishop interest in several pupils of Rockwell College.

-26 June 1956 McGuinness, Michael N., Legion of Mary, University College Praesidia, seeking approval for a function for non-Christians in Blackrock College.

Maguire, Conor, Ashurst, Blackrock. He is deeply grateful for the congratulations of the Archbishop on his elevation to the position of Chief Justice.

• 4 November 1948 McCann, Dermot, 3 Wilfrid Terrace, Kenilworth Park, Dublin. He is a past pupil of Blackrock College and is destitute. Asks the Archbishop for a loan.

Correspondence between L. O Muirthe and +McQuaid regarding the extension for three years of the ‘Junior College’ adjacent to Our Lady of Mercy Training College, Blackrock, as a temporary additional facility for training women teachers.

Handwritten letter to Fr. MacMahon from Seamus Grace, 11, Ardagh Park, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, reporting on the Nigerian Students’ Conference. The High Commissioner, Alhaji Abdul Maliki, gave the students a lot of encouragement and at the same time expressed the view that the Union was occupying itself too much with politics to the neglect of other things.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to Vivion de Valera, Blackrock, regarding a statement in the ‘Evening Press’ of the previous day. He asks that he looks into the matter. Article attached. Irish Times

Mullen, Thomas, Linden Convalescent Home, Blackrock. He needs help to buy a raincoat, shirts and socks.