Manuscript notes for suggested changes in regime in Blackrock.
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 a confrere at Loos, France, thanking the Superior at Blackrock for the kindness shown him there, and enclosing a letter for the students.