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File relating to the founding of the Retreat House at Tullabeg. Includes letters from the bishops of Killaloe, Kildare and Leighin and Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in relation to the promotion of the work of the retreat house, letters from Bishop Kyne of Meath concerning its official opening and press cuttings.

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.

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.

Correspondence relating to the retreats held in August each year for Christian Brothers at the Retreat House in Tullabeg. Includes letters from the superiors of Christian Brothers’ houses at Tuam, county Galway, Kells and Trim, county Meath, Westport and Ballinrobe, county Mayo.

File relating to the work and future of the retreat house at Tullabeg. Includes series of reports on the house such as ‘The Midlands Apostolate’ by the Taskforce on Spiritual Exercises (1973); papers such as the White Paper on Retreats (1977); letters from Provincials to the community; reflections by Fr Liam McKenna SJ, Special Secretariat and correspondence between him and Fr Robert Thompson SJ, Superior of the house.

Cleaning and restoration of the stained glass windows by Evie Hone after their removal from the domestic chapel at Tullabeg. Negative prints. Printed out colour positives. 10 x 15cm each.

Correspondence between Fr Richard Coyne SJ, Librarian, Tullabeg, and Theo Snoddy, editor, Dictionary of 20th century Irish artists and S.B. Kennedy, Assistant Keeper, Department of Art, Ulster Museum, in relation to the three sculptures by Laurence Campbell in the Domestic Chapel at Tullabeg.

Extracts from Irish Province News concerning the Stations of the Cross by the French artist Robert de Villiers which were installed in the domestic chapel at Tullabeg.

The Irish Province News, Vol. V, No.3, July 1947, p.227, has the following:

'New Stations of the Cross have been installed in our Domestic Chapel. They are in terra cotta and were made by the French artist Roger de Villiers. Originally designed for a small church of Cardinal Verdier's in Paris, they came into the hands of Mr. Colquhoun, Protestant minister of St. John's, Sandymount, Dublin, and from there have finally come to rest in our chapel through the generosity of the father of one of Ours. They are noteworthy for their appeal and their simplicity, and indeed would seem to have been specially designed for our chapel.'

According to the benefactors book of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Offaly, Senator Joseph Brennan purchased the Stations, and gave them to Tullabeg. He had two sons in the Society of Jesus, Jack and Joseph. On the closure of Tullabeg in 1991, the stations went to University Hall, Hatch Street, Dublin. With its closure in 2004, they were put up for auction, whereupon they were bought by St John's. When the Jesuits realised the previous connection to St John's, they donated the Stations.

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Photographs of the sculptures, ‘Crucifix’, ‘Blessed Virgin and Child’ and ‘St. Joseph the Workman’ by Laurence Campbell which were displayed in the Domestic Chapel at Tullabeg. Black and white and colour. Various sizes. Note concerning the colour photographs by Fr Richard Coyne SJ.

Inventory of the works of art, period furniture and church plate at Tullabeg Retreat House by Richard J. Lattimore, Auctioneer and Valuer, Dublin.