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Letters concerning retreat work sent to Fr Kieran Hanley SJ, Superior, Tullabeg, by Father General Pedro Arrupe SJ, Assistant General. Fr John Swain SJ and Fr Matthew Meade SJ, Director of the Retreat centre at Rathfarnham Castle.
Copy of, and draft of part of, letter from Fr Patrick Bracken SJ to John O’Brien. Refers to recent correspondence between the two in relation to the property at Tullabeg left by O’Brien’s sister Maria to the Society of Jesus. Responds to a number of assertions make by O’Brien with regard to rents and Poor Law rates, and contends that the takeover of the property by the Jesuits has actually benefited O’Brien’s estate.
Letter by Fr Hugh Kelly SJ, Rector of Rathfarnham Castle, to Fr Daniel O’Sullivan SJ, Rector at Tullabeg, asking for the loan of an astronomical clock.
File relating to the laying down of a new water pipe and pump at Tullabeg and to (4 November 1960) fire prevention plans. Includes correspondence between the Fr Michael Connolly SJ, Rector, Fr Tom Scully SJ and Fr Patrick Cunningham SJ and various suppliers and a series of letters to the Rector from O’Gorman Quinn and Company, Fire Protection Engineers, Dublin relating to fire engines and extinguishers.
File relating to the work of the Jesuit Retreat Association. Includes initial promotional material and rules, lists of promoters, minutes of annual general meetings and permits for fundraising activities such as whist drives and flag days.
Interior of the domestic chapel, Tullabeg. Includes photographs of the sculptures ‘Crucifix’; ‘Blessed Virgin and Child’ and ‘St. Joseph the Workman’ by Laurence Campbell. Black and White. Various sizes.
Information on the school. Includes: – notes on staff and statistics (n.d., 2pp); – printed advertisement for College (n.d., 1p.); – printed advertisement for the College, with lithograph of the College exterior and grounds (n.d., 6 copies); – results of Easter examinations at the College (1869, 3pp); – printed circular from Fr George C. Kelly SJ informing parents of the amalgamation of St. Stanislaus College, Tullabeg with Clongowes Wood College, county Kildare (26 June 1886, 1p.)