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Bound volumes with visitation ordinances, minutes of house meetings, student societies. student offices and book lists.

This series comprises a small collection of glass plate negative images of seventeenth century manuscripts and other original records pertaining to the lives, ministries, and writings of several early Irish Capuchins. These were acquired by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), another prominent Irish Capuchin historian, for research and publication purposes.

Memoir by a Vincentian, Father Tom Davitt CM, on his time as a seminarian at Saint Joseph's, Blackrock, from 1946 to 1947.
The memoir was published as an article in Colloque 50, Winter 2004, pp. 107-134, and is available on this page: http://www.diskon.ie/colloque.html

An account by Father Stanislaus Brindley CM, of UCD Studies for Blackrock seminarians in the 1940s. Also published online in Colloque 50, Winter 2004, pp. 135-140, available online at the same link as above.

Also an account by Father Davitt, who as part of his studies in Saint Joseph's, went to visit the Maison-Mere (Vincentian Mother House) in Paris in 1949.

Series consists of material related to the ministry of the Presentation Sisters in Listowel including education, the Family Centre, and the Laundry for the Elderly. The Family Centre and the Laundry for the Elderly were established in response to local needs in the Listowel area.

Series contains material which could not be included in any other series.

 Notes on the Kenmare Estate: 1885 – 1887.
 Letters to the Rev Mother mainly concerning the domestic staff in the convent.
 Letter from Sr Raphael Consedine to Sr Finbarr.
 Nano Nagle and T. J Walsh.
 Handwritten and typed history of the Convent.
 List of deceased Sisters whose remains were removed from the old convent cemetery in March 1994 to the new plot in Aghadoe.
 Correspondence from R.W. Oultan re the Trowel which was used in the foundation of the 1870s convent.
 Article on the Famine in Killarney and in Kerry.
 Archival Inventory carried out by the Community in c o- operation with Sr Sheila Kelly in 1995.
 Documents related to the Relics.
 Visitors Book.
 Documents concerning the amalgamation of the Presentation convents in the Kerry diocese in 1926.
 Documents concerning the establishment of the Union of the Presentation Sisters, 1976 – 1978.
 List of deceased Sisters.
 Framed drawing of Presentation Convent Killarney.
 Framed Certificate of Merit from Killarney Urban District Council – Bicentenary 0ctober 1993.
 Laminated page giving the history of the Presentation Sisters in Killarney since 1793.
 Take down Your Lantern - An Informal History of the Presentation Sisters in Dunedin, New Zealand, 1955 – 2005, by J Harris and D Peacock.
 Two vinyl records from New Zealand – Now is the Hour and Christmas Carols in Maori.

This series includes newspaper clippings mostly referring to significant religious events, commemorations and centenaries held at St. Mary of the Angels on Church Street in Dublin.

The series contains files of newspaper clippings of articles mainly connected with anniversaries and commemorations of Fr. Mathew and his temperance crusade.