BLACKROCK COLLEGE, DUBLIN

New Zealand Tablet, 27 April 1911, Page 763

BLACKROCK COLLEGE, DUBLIN

** * GOLDEN JUBILEE MEMORIAL We have been requested to publish the following circular letter: — Committee Rooms, Gresham Hotel, Dublin, January, 1911. The Golden Jubilee of Blackrock College will be solemnly celebrated next June. It is proposed by the friends and admirers of the college to signalise the occasion by the erection of a Memorial Hall, which will supply a long felt want to the College equipment, and, at the same time, perpetuate the memory of the Golden Jubilee. and of all those who take part in it. There is no need to emphasise the claims of Blackrock, first of all, on her own past men, and, further, on all who take an interest in Irish educational work. She has taken no small part in the progress and achievements of Irish Catholics during the past fifty years ; she has contributed in no inconsiderable manner to put Irish Catholic, names in prominence in every field of both Secondary and University education; she has supplied leaders and workers to every walk, of life at home, and she has burst open for many an Irish youth the gates of the most coveted alien preserves. All this she has done at immense sacrifice and through the untiring, broadminded zeal of the community of devoted men to whom she owes her foundation and the direction of her movements on the rough road of forward educational progress. It is fitting, then, that not only her own sons but all who bless sterling work done for faith and country should gather round Blackrock on the occasion of hpr Golden Jubilee, and present her with- a substantial memorial of their gratitude and esteem. Lists of subscriptions will be published from time to time between now and next June, and a permanent record of all subscriptions will be set up in the proposed Memorial Hall. The undersigned committee have been duly appointed to receive subscriptions for this purpose. They appeal confidently to all past Blackrockians, as well as to all those who have ever been brought into touch, with the goodly fruits of the work accomplished by the college, to contribute generously to the Memorial fund. James O’Connor, K.C. (chairman); James Hickev, P.P and E. P. McLoughlin, M.D. (hon. secretaries); John P Butler J.P., J. M. Farrelly, and P. Hayden, C.C. (hon. treasurers),