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St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Offaly Hurley; Joseph (1905-1984), Jesuit priest and Irish language scholar
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Copies of material lent, on the origins of Tullabeg

Copies of material lent to Fr Richard Coyne SJ by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, Province Archivist, on the origins of Tullabeg. Includes copies of the replies by Fr Joseph Hurley SJ, Tullabeg House Historian, to queries put to him in 1955, problems relating to Tullabeg 1815-1834, and biographical material relating to Fr Robert St Leger SJ, the founder of the college.

Material compiled by Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ on Tullabeg origins

Material compiled by Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ relating to the origins of Tullabeg as a school for boys and a novitiate. Includes:
– typescript copies of summaries of replies to queries sent by Fr Burke Savage SJ to Fr Joseph Hurley SJ, House Historian, Tullabeg, comments on those replies and comparisons of the early history of the community, as depicted in Fr John Grene’s ‘A Contribution towards a History of The Irish Province of the Society of Jesus’; the Memorials of the Irish Province and Fr William Molony’s ‘Brief Notices’ of 1831
– notes on Frs Robert and John St Leger and on the original builder at Tullabeg (1955, 23pp)
– letter from Fr Burke Savage SJ to Fr Jerome Mahony SJ (19 November 1955, 3pp) on the ‘strong local tradition that we built Tullabeg’, enclosing copies of early letters relevant to the subject (21 April 1815 – 29 April 1817, 7 items, 9pp).

Burke Savage; Roland (1912-1998); Jesuit priest and editor