Five copies of prospectus for seminarists coming to St Joseph’s. Undated, but after the opening of Glenart, Wicklow, in 1949. Includes clothing and books that need to be brought. Some copies have handwritten or typewritten suggested changes.
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.
Letter from Connolly to Father James Cahalan CM, bursar, enclosing cheque and informing him that he is giving up the job of collecting rents; he suggests someone called McLaughlin to take over the work.
Bound volumes with visitation ordinances, minutes of house meetings, student societies. student offices and book lists.
Bound volume of Visitation Ordinances of the Superior General or those he sent on his behalf. They are all in English except for one report which is in French. The first visitation report is by Marianus Maller, Commissary sent by the Superior General, for a visitation from 29 May to 3 June 1877. The last few visitations were by the Irish Provincial, James Bennett CM, to the Blackrock House.