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.

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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

Newtownpark Avenue from Blackrock

Blackrock from Booterstown