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A file concerning the opening of Canisius Preparatory School, Beechwood, Ranelagh. Includes a letter from Fr Charles O'Conor SJ discussing the different names for the school and the location. Remarks that he is arranging to see the house at Sandford owned by the Bewley family.

Survey of “Sandford Grove”, Ranelagh, Dublin

1. Basement
2. Ground Floor
3. First Floor
4. Section A-A
   Architects: Robinson, Keefe and Devane, 22 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin

Gonzaga College, Milltown, [Ranelagh] Dublin
Proposed Classroom Extension, Ground Floor Plan
Proposed Classroom Extension, Elevation and Section
Proposed Classroom Extension, Elevations
Proposed Classroom Extension, Foundation Plan
Proposed Classroom Extension, Roof Details

Architect: Robinson, Keefe and Devane, 59 Northumberland Road, Dublin 4

These plans are folded together with a letter from Brendan J Collins Quantity Surveyors to Architects Robinson, Keefe and Devane dated 30 June 1976, 4 pages.

Proposed Classroom Extension, Ground Floor Plan
Architect: Robinson, Keefe and Devane, 59 Northumberland Road, Dublin 4
Job: 522 B
Drawing: 1

With revisions 29 June 1976.

Gonzaga College, Milltown, [Ranelagh] Dublin
Architect: Robinson, Keefe and Devane, 59 Northumberland Road, Dublin 4
Revised: June 1976 Windows Altered
Job No: 522 B
Drawing No: 2

Gonzaga College, Sandford Road, [Ranelagh] Dublin.

Proposed Alterations to “Sandford Grove”, drainpipe plan and ‘Proposed Central Heating Scheme [Showing Radiators and Boiler Room]’.

Date: March 1953, Revised 20 April 1953, May 1953
Architects: Robinson, Keefe and Devane, 22 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin
Engineers: Maguire and Gatchell Ltd., Dawson Street, Dublin.

Proposal for increasing area of Stage and Store

1. Plan of Stage
2. Plan understage
   Architect: Robinson Keefe and Devane, 22 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin

Preliminary Sketch Plans, never materialised.
Architects: Robinson, Keefe and Devane, 22 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin

Negatives taken by Fr Richard Brenan SJ of:

1. Fr Frank Browne SJ at desk;
2. Mr Maurice Leahy SJ, Fr William White SJ and Fr Frank Browne SJ at breakfast at Gonzaga College;
3. students playing rugby at Gonzaga College.

Positive photograph of Mr Maurice Leahy SJ, Fr William White SJ and Fr Frank Browne SJ at breakfast.

The library at Gonzaga College, new college buildings, grounds and and exterior of Gonzaga taken by Fr Frank Browne SJ.

Material relating to admission of Edward Booth to the novitiate and Jesuit life including admission into the Society of Jesus, certificates, catalogue entries and correspondence.

Letters, in the main from architects, Robinson, Keefe and Devane, regarding Gonzaga College buildings, including references to: 'Specifications of work to be done and materials used in carrying out proposed alterations and renovations to Sandford Grove House, Gonzaga College, Ranelagh, Dublin...' (May 1953), gardener's cottage, alterations and additions (yard building, boiler house, classrooms and toilets) carpets, chapel, clock, electrical, extensions, flooring, hydrants, playground, seats, sound systems, stage, lighting, trees and water. Includes letters from quantity surveyors, Leonard and Williams, to Fr Charles O'Conor SJ, Gonzaga College, Dublin regarding works carried out at Gonzaga College (14 May 1952-14 September 1953); plan of Gardener's Cottage (4 July 1950), Outline specification by Brendan J Collins & Associates (30 June 1976) for work on eight classrooms and temporary electricity supply for Gonzaga College (17 December 1976).

File relating to Fr Redmond F Roche SJ, including application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, catalogue entries, memorial card and (57) photographs of Jesuits, on holiday, plays, and outdoor scenes (some of the same photographs are in the papers of Fr William R Prendergast SJ, IE IJA J/365).

Material relating to Kyran Fitzgerald's admission to the Society; his final illness and some subsequent correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials.

Details of Cycle Racks and Corrugated Asbestos Sheeting [Cycle Shelter].

1. End Elevation
2. Part Front Elevation
3. Part Plan
   Engineer: J and C McGloughlin Ltd. Includes letter from Stephen McGloughlin to Fr Charles O'Conor SJ (25 April 1952).

Correspondence with Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin (mostly holograph letters from the Archbishop and copies of Fr. Provincial’s replies) on various matters. Includes letters concerning:

• the purchase of additional land from Mr Bewley adjoining Milltown Park, on which to build a secondary school (See also 1940s correspondence with Archbishop McQuaid);
• the question of the payment of workers for work on parochial and ecclesiastical buildings on Holy Days of Obligation;
• the Statement issued on behalf of the Hierarchy with regard to ‘the raising of military forces and the waging of war’ (persuading ‘young men not to join the new I.R.A. and kindred groups, or if they have joined, to disassociate themselves from such groups’);
• the proposed acquisition of new buildings on Eglinton Road (now the Province Curia, No. 87 Eglinton Road) for the Society to ‘relieve a certain congestion we are experiencing at present in our Dublin Houses’;
• the appointment of Jesuits to various ecclesiastical offices;
• the Commission considering the question of Licensing Laws;
• Jesuit Missions to the Irish in Britain (see also ADMN/3/62);
• the Technical Schools – ‘It is not in any sense an exaggeration to say that the assistance of the Society has made possible the establishment of a firm system of Religious Instruction, for the first time, in the Vocational and Technical Schools’ (letter of Archbishop McQuaid to Fr Provincial, 8 June 1959, 1p.) (see also ADMN/3/61);
• the formation of a committee to select candidates for beatification among the Irish martyrs (see also ADMN/3/24; 43; 48 and 49);
• the publication of spiritual books in Irish by the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary attached to Gardiner Street Church (see also ADMN/3/59 and 65);
• the appointment of Jesuit lecturers in University College Dublin;
• the proposal to establish a federation of the Sodalities of Our Lady in the Dublin Diocese.
  Also includes covering letter and copy of the minutes of the General Meeting of the Irish Actors’ Equity Association held on 27 April 1958.

6 no. Classrooms, each 23.0ft by 25.25ft = 535sq ft.
Date: March 1976 [uses drawing from April 1964].
Architect: Robinson, Keefe and Devane, 22 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2

Classrooms, Oratory, Toilets
Classroom Extension – Alternative No. 4 and 3 (a)
Architect: Robinson, Keefe and Devane, 22 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2.
Date: April 1964, various revisions noted. Revised March 1976
Drawing No: 522 / 12
Paper: Black on white with blue additions

[Gonzaga College] Sandford Hill, Ranelagh, Milltown, Dublin [Jesuit Community House]
Central Heating Installation

1. Basement
2. Ground Floor
3. Mezzanine
4. First Floor
   Architect: Robinson, Keefe and Devane, 59 Northumberland Road, Dublin 4
   Engineer: Delap and Waller [Dublin]

Architects plan for a new assembly hall for Gonzaga College SJ, Dublin. Includes a note from Fr Charles O'Conor SJ commenting on the hall.

Annual letters for Gonzaga College. Various topics are discussed under the headings 'The Beginnings of Gonzaga College', 'Studies Etc.', 'Games Etc.','Religious Matters', 'Ministeria', 'Temporal Matters'.

Admission, early life in the Society of Jesus and correspondence of Fr William Lee SJ,with his Irish Fr Provincials from time in Zambia concerning his work at Gonzaga College, Dublin and in the Milltown Institute.

A Short History of Gonzaga College, 1950-2000 by Christopher Finlay, Eneclann, Dublin.