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.
(a) the rules of various minor offices in the seminaire, (b) letters sent to and received from seminarists in other provinces of the cm, and (c) a few prayer leaflets, plus miscellaneous documents.
[Explanatory note: soin=care in French. So ‘the soin of…’ means the confrere (student) ‘in charge of...’.]
Documents Relating to an Appeal against Income Tax Claims, based on St Joseph’s, Blackrock, being a Charitable Trust
An undated typewritten sheet headed ‘Vincentian Fathers Property’. There are gaps that were never filled in. Property named is ‘Newtown Castle Byrne’, ‘Ash Tree field’ and unspecified land in the Barony of Rathdown.