O’Mara, Thomas, 194 Upper Gracefield Road, Drumcondra. Complains about Graham Greene’s play ‘The Complaisant Lover’.

Correspondence mainly relating to the involvement with St. Joseph’s Asylum and school for the Blind, Drumcondra (see also Discalced Carmelites files). They initially seek a House of Studies. They then replace the Carmelite Brothers and Clonturk House is acquired for adult blind people. They are allowed a house for Rosminian Sisters at Drumcondra. Archbishop applies to government for help in a project to extend educational facilities for blind boys. A House of Formation is allowed in Drumcondra. (not to be confused with Brothers of Charity). Faculties of hear Confession. Society of St. Paul (Paulists) (S.S.P.)

Letter from +Farren to +McQuaid thanking him for his permission regarding the De Valera wedding and for the invitation to Drumcondra. 1 item

Letter from Edward Gallen, Corpus Christ Church, Drumcondra, to +McQuaid thanking him for his Decision that the Nihil Obstat and Imprimi Primas should be refused to Fr. Coventry’s article The Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Correspondence regarding routine community life and apostolate. A hostel for student-Brothers’ at Maynooth. Enquiry regarding possible Mater Dei course for Novice Masters/Mistresses. Project of All-Irish secondary school, Scoil Eoin, Stillorgan. Also mentions secondary schools at the O’Brien Institute (Marino). References to schools at Sutton, Kilmore Road and Ballygall. International Conference on Religious Education of the Deaf (at Drumcondra). New communities founded at Ballygall Road, Cabra and Ballyroan. Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd (L.B.G.S.)

Correspondence between Fr. Edward Gallen, Drumcondra and +McQuaid regarding ‘Ecumenical Studies: Baptism and Marriage’. These were the papers presented at the Ecumenical Congress, Glenstal.

Letter from +Collier to +McQuaid. He thanks +McQuaid for his stay in Drumcondra and commends the abilities of +McQuaid during their meetings.

Letter from Fr. Wm. J. Fitzpatrick to +McQuaid regarding the difficulties he saw in fitting in St. Joseph’s, Drumcondra, into a satisfactory scheme for Blind Welfare.

The collection relates to the Vincentian work done in All Hallows College (AHC) from 1892, when the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) took over the administration of the college, to 2016 when the Vincentians gave up the running of AHC. Contains financial, spiritual and architectural reports and considerations of the college as run by the Vincentians.