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Group photograph on Visitation at Tullabeg. Features, Frs. Jack Brennan SJ, John Hyde SJ, Brendan Lawler SJ, John O’Mara SJ and John McMahon SJ (Visitor). Black and white. 8½ x 14cm.
Historia Domus and annual letters for Tullabeg College and Residence by Frs John Curtis, Hugh Mulhall, Burke, Mathew Seaver, John Grene, William Delany and Carton (In Latin and English).
Documents by Fr Kevin Laheen, SJ which describe the burial details of Jesuits and pupils of Tullabeg who were buried in the Old Rahan Graveyard (c.1855 onwards) and the College cemetery (c.1874 onwards); the plaque erected in their honour and blessing of this stone; details of copyright permission for Fr Laheen’s book in relation to the 5 Evie Hone stained glass windows originally located at Tullabeg and relocated to the Jesuit Retreat House, Dollymount (1 August 2010). Includes chronologically list of Jesuits who died in Tullabeg (1870-1906) and a photographic album of the Jesuit graveyard at Tullabeg, Rahan Lodge and Irish Jesuits at this blessing (9 September 2004).
Programme for ‘The Gondoliers’ (Christmas 1949) and ‘The Gypsy Baron’ (Christmas 1950) details Jesuits who performed at St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg.
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
Title deeds and legal documents relating to the foundation of Tullabeg, and the selling of its lands by the Land Commission. Deeds returned to St. Stanislaus College in 1977 by John J. McDonald & Co., Solicitors. Includes schedule of deeds and documents. Item 1 and 12 on the schedule are missing. Deeds arranged in chronological order according to original (not copy) date.
Documents, mostly rental receipts concerning the lands of Murrough and Ballykeenaghan, county Offaly. (Ballykeenaghan and Murrough were farms purchased by the Jesuits from W.R. Molloy in 1902).
Includes: – list of Jesuits buried in the old Rahan cemetery (n.d., 2pp); – letter to [the Rector] from John Molloy (building contractor) concerning the laying out of the grounds (29 January 1818, 1p.); – ‘Rules for a Confraternity of the Sacred Heart. formed for the Scholars at Tullabeg, by the late Fr Patrick Meagher SJ, uncle to Thomas Francis Meagher - March 19 1833 written out by Hugh Gartlan of Dundalk’ (1833, 11pp); _ Note on the Christmas plays of Tullabeg College, 1853 (2pp); – printed copy of ‘Centennial Ode. St. Stanislaus College, 1918’ by Fr William Fortescue Power SJ (1918, 6pp) and letter from Fr William Delany SJ to Mr Breen concerning a fire in a shoe store in Tullabeg (11 January [ ] ), 3pp);
