Ten-page report letter of the second Visitation of All Hallows since Vincentian Administration, from Thomas Morrissey CM, St Joseph's Blackrock, to 'my dear Lord Archbishop'. Morrissey gives the number of students, how many are studying which subject, and gives the rest of his report under the headings of 'discipline', 'health', 'studies', 'finance' and 'property'. There is also a typewritten transcription of the letter.
Morrissey CM, Thomas, 1834-1915, Provincial of Irish Vincentian Province
Irish Land Commission document fixing the rent-charge due on part of the lands of Newtown at Blackrock, held by the Vincentians. It is an order ‘Merging Rent-charge in lieu of Tithes in consideration of £47:0:3'.
Office copy power of attorney executed in Melbourne regarding property in Blackrock, Dublin, of Sydney [Sidney] Robert Burrowes. Also Declaration by James Andrew Christie Millar, living in Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, Australia. Alexander Burrowes of Ferensboro, County Longford, who was Sydney Robert's grandfather, left money and lands to his son, Thomas Robert Burrowes, father of Sydney Robert Burrowes. Now proceeds from the Blackrock property, also known as the Pilsworth Trust, is due. There is a lot of information on the role of the Burrowes family in relation to the Pilsworth Blackrock property.
'Fact sheet: Seminarians of the Sixties': Statistical results from a publication produced in the United States (Raymond H Potvin and Antanas Suziedelis. 'Seminarians of the Sixties: A National Survey'. September 1969, published by Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), based on a survey undertaken to ascertain views of seminarians on topics such as vocational decision, satisfaction with the choice to embark on the priesthood, celibacy, and role of the priest. The survey also examined statistics for family background and rate of withdrawal from the seminary.
