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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 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.
Letter to Fr Michael Connolly SJ, Rector, Tullabeg, from J.P. Candy, Chief Engineer, Office of Public Works, Dublin, in relation to the water level of the stream entering the Grand Canal between Corcoran’s Bridge and Becan’s bridge.
Two notes from Fr Donal O'Sullivan SJ, Rector of St Mary's, Emo, Laois to Fr Brendan Lawler SJ, Rector of Tullabeg, concerning the 15th century Pieta left by ‘Mrs O’ Connell’ to Tullabeg in memory of Evie Hone.
O'Sullivan; Donal (1904-1977); Jesuit priest and arts administrator
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.