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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.
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 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.
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 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.
File relating to apostolic work at Tullabeg including reports on retreat work and on the church. Includes account of annual retreat numbers, correspondence relating to the continued viability of the retreat house and preliminary plans for the development of a Jesuit pastoral centre.
File relating to the Tullabeg pilot project on unemployment directed by Br Tom Phelan SJ. Includes information from comparative projects such as the Coodham Unemployment Project in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.