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Letters relating to the kind of faculties granted to Fr John Gately SJ, of Tullabeg by Bishop Nulty. Includes letters to Fr Gately from Fr William Delaney SJ, and from Bishop Nulty himself.
Letters to the Fr James Murphy SJ, Rector of Tullabeg from Matthew Gaffney, Bishop of Meath, concerning issues such as the granting of ordinary faculties and visits to Tullabeg. In one letter Bishop Gaffney writes, ‘I hope you are not extinguished after all the light you shed on us. You strongly established your own fame, but you literally elevated your order, high as had been its station’ (4 August 1899).
Gaffney; Matthew (1839-1909); Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath
File relating to the establishment and maintenance of a guaranteed telegraph office at Rahan. Includes letters to Fr James Murphy SJ from the secretary of the General Post Office, Dublin and from D.E. Williams, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Barrack Street, Tullamore, county Offaly.
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 minimum wage that should be paid to agricultural workers at Tullabeg. Includes newspaper cuttings, various notes and calculations and a letter on the topic to Fr Michael Connolly SJ from Fr Edward J.Coyne SJ.
Letters to the Fr Michael Connolly SJ, Rector at Tullabeg concerning various issues relevant to the community. Includes letter from Fr Thomas Byrne SJ, Irish Provincial, relating to the reading of banned books by novices, from Fr James Naughton SJ, Secretary of the Society of Jesus relating to the sending of philosophical codices to Fr General and from T. Duffy, Honorary Secretary, Mullingar Golf Club, waiving green fees for members of the Society of Jesus.
– brief history of ‘The College of St. Stanislaus (formerly “Tullabeg”)’ in an unknown nineteenth century hand (1860s, 4pp) and – ‘Historia Collegii St.i. Stanislai Tulliolani in Hibernica per annos 1884 –5–6’ by Fr William Joseph Butler SJ (1 May 1886, 9pp).
Butler; William Joseph (1848-1907); Jesuit priest and teacher
File of letters to Fr Kieran Hanley SJ, Superior, Tullabeg, mainly from Provincials Brendan Barry and Cecil McGarry covering topics such as the sesquincentenary of the house, alterations to the altar space and possible renovation plans.
File relating to the Brothers’ Tertianship held at Tullabeg from February 15 to June 15 1966. Includes provisional timetables and letters from Fr Brendan Lawler SJ and Provincial Brendan Barry to Fr Kieran Hanley SJ, Superior of Tullabeg and Fr William Hogan SJ.