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Information on the school. Includes: – notes on staff and statistics (n.d., 2pp); – printed advertisement for College (n.d., 1p.); – printed advertisement for the College, with lithograph of the College exterior and grounds (n.d., 6 copies); – results of Easter examinations at the College (1869, 3pp); – printed circular from Fr George C. Kelly SJ informing parents of the amalgamation of St. Stanislaus College, Tullabeg with Clongowes Wood College, county Kildare (26 June 1886, 1p.)
– 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
Letters to Father Provincial from Frs. Aloysius Sturzo (1 item, first page missing), William Delany, (on financial and administrative matters relating to the College) (2 items) and Thomas Molloy, on relations between the College and the local clergy and the question of land and farms in the vicinity (1 item).
Letters from David Sherlock, Rahan Lodge, to Fr James Murphy SJ, Rector of Tullabeg, concerning the purchase of Tullabeg lands from Sherlock by the Society in the Land Commission Court.
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.
Correspondence dealing with the Jesuits’ purchase of Tullabeg lands in the Land Commission Court and the clearing of all claim for the Young Mortgage. Letters have been folded and their date and contents summarised on the outside of each folded packet. Some folded packets contain more than one letter.
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