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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).

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.

Ministers’ Diaries with ‘Book of the Customs & Usages of the College of Tullabeg with notices of particular events’ (1831-1835, 22pp); Scholars’ Customs (n.d., 6pp) and Diary (9 June 1835-18 July 1838, 39pp).

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);

Newspaper cuttings relating to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Jesuit house at Tullabeg; Booklet for the anniversary mass concelebrated by Most Reverend John McCormack, Bishop of Meath.

Notebook relating to the history of the house at Tullabeg, containing account of alleged apparitions in the summer of 1922 at the grotto to Our Lady; Later recollection of the events by Fr Harold Craig SJ (1977).

Ordnance Survey map of county Offaly featuring St. Stanislaus College, Tullabeg.

Correspondence to Fr Brendan Murray SJ, Rector, Tullabeg, from Hoey and Denning solicitors, Tullamore, county Offaly, relating to payment of £100 for an entrance to the new cemetery at Rahan.

Philosophy course notes comprising:
– ‘Ontologia Codex, First year Philosophy, Fr Joseph O’Mara SJ’ (1955);
– Critica Codex, First Year, Fr Conn Lonergan SJ (1956);
– Cosmologia course notes, Second Year Philosophy, Fr Brendan Lawler SJ (1956);
– Psychologia class notes, Second Year Philosophy, Fr Thomas Byrne SJ (1956);
– Sociology Codex, Third Year Philosophy, Fr Michael Connolly SJ (1957);
– Ethica Specialis, Third Year Philosophy, Fr Michael Connolly SJ (1957);
– Ethica Generalis, Third Year Philosophy, Fr Michael Connolly SJ (1957);
– Anthropology, c1957, Fr Fleming’s codex (?) adopted by Fr Michael Connolly SJ.

Photodiary by Fr Kevin Laheen SJ, recounting a visit to the Old Cemetery in Rahan to look for the remains of Rev. Henry Lynch SJ.