Christmas card from the Jesuit Retreat House at Tullabeg.

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.

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 laying down of a new water pipe and pump at Tullabeg and to (4 November 1960) fire prevention plans. Includes correspondence between the Fr Michael Connolly SJ, Rector, Fr Tom Scully SJ and Fr Patrick Cunningham SJ and various suppliers and a series of letters to the Rector from O’Gorman Quinn and Company, Fire Protection Engineers, Dublin relating to fire engines and extinguishers.

File relating to the rewiring of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, for supply by the Electrical Supply Board. Includes correspondence between Fr Brendan Lawler SJ, Rector of the College and J.V.Tierney, Consulting Engineers, Duke Street, Dublin, Bective Electrical Company, Dawson Street, Dublin and the superiors of other Jesuit colleges such as Fr Redmond Roche SJ of Belvedere College and Fr Francis Joy SJ of Mungret College.

Letters to Fr Brendan Lawler SJ, Rector of Tullabeg from Fr B. Judge, Parish Priest, St Carthage’s Church, Killina, concerning a slight encroachment on college grounds due to improvements to St Carthage’s Hall; Later correspondence between Fr Sean Heaney and Father Provincial Patrick Doyle SJ concerning the building of a new hall on this site and from Hoey and Denning Solicitors, Tullamore, to Rector Fr Donal Mulcahy SJ relating to the title of the Hall lands.

Letters to Fr Kieran Hanley SJ, Rector, Tullabeg, from J.V. Tierney, Consulting Engineers, Duke street, Dublin, in relation to the purchase of a new circulating pump.

File of correspondence between the Rectors of Tullabeg including Fr Kieran Hanley SJ and Fr Donal Mulcahy SJ, and solicitors, such as J.G. O’Connor and Company, Dublin and Hoey and Denning, Tullamore, relating to the titles to various plots of land owned by the Jesuits at Tullabeg, the payment of rates, and the letting of the pasture lands to various tenants.

Correspondence relating to the sale of the greater part of the farm at Tullabeg. Includes letters between Provincial Cecil McGarry SJ and Tom Bacon of J.G. O’Connor, Solicitors, Clare Street, Dublin, and Fr Michael O. Gallagher SJ, Superior, Tullabeg.