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Valuations of Mungret (buildings and land).

Documents for:

• Second Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Secundus);
• Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae);
• Catalogue of those apt for governing (Catalogus Aptorum ad Gubernandum);
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum) et arcarum Provinciae);
• Index of authors and books published by Ours(Index auctorem et librorum a Nostris editorum);
• Examples of Deeds (Exemplar Contractus Perpetui);
• Supplement to First and Second Catalogue (Supplementum Triennale ad Catalogum Personarum Primum & Secundum).

Documents for:

• First Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Primus)
• Second Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Secundus)
• Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae)
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum)
• Index of authors and books published by Ours (Index auctorem et librorum a Nostris editorum)
• Lists of admissions to the Novitiate, (Elenchi Triennales Admissorum in First and Final Vows, etc noviciatum, Admissorum ad Vota Prima et Ultima)
• Catalogue of journals , periodicals (Catalogus ephemeridum et and school annuals.libellorum periodicorum)
• Supplement to First and Second Catalogue (Supplementum Triennale ad Catalogum Personarum Primum & Secundum)

Documents for Ireland and Hong Kong.

• House Histories (Historia Domus);
• Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae);
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum);
• Province Accounts (Status temporalis trienalis domorum et arcarum Provinciae);
• Index of authors and books published by Ours (Index auctorem et librorum a Nostris editorum)
• Lists of admissions to the Novitiate, (Elenchi Triennales Admissorum in First and Final Vows, etc.noviciatum, Admissorum ad Vota Prima et Ultima)

Documents for Ireland and Hong Kong.

• House Histories (Historia Domus);
• Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae);
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum);
• Province Accounts (Status temporalis trienalis domorum et arcarum Provinciae);
• Index of authors and books published by Ours (Index auctorem et librorum a Nostris editorum).

Documents for Ireland:

• House Histories (Historia Domus);
• Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae);
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum);
• Index of authors and books published by Ours (Index auctorem et librorum a Nostris editorum);

Documents for Ireland (37 items):

• First Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Primus);
• Second Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Secundus);
• House Histories (Historia Domus);
• Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae);
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum);
• Province Accounts (Status temporalis trienalis domorum et arcarum Provinciae);
• Index of authors and books published by Ours (Index auctorem et librorum a Nostris editorum);

and for Australia (39 items):

• First Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Primus);
• Second Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Secundus);
• House Histories (Historia Domus);
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum);
• Province Accounts (Status temporalis trienalis domorum et arcarum Provinciae).

Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae) and House Histories (Historia Domus) for Ireland and Australia (2 versions).

1st edition Christmas 1897

Photocopies relating to the Golden Jubilee of Mungret College.

A file relating to the establishment of an Mungret College Apostolic School. Includes letters to Irish Fr Provincials James Tuite, Thomas Browne and Timothy Kenny concerning the matter.

Status Temporalis (Province Account) for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.

Status Temporalis (Province Account) for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.

Status Temporalis (Province Account) for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.

Status Temporalis (Province Account).for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.

Status Temporalis (Province Account) for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.

Status Temporalis (Province Account) for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.

A file relating to the stained glass windows and wooden benches for the chapel at Mungret College - stain glass from Duhamel-Marette, Évreux, Eure, France and benches from The Limerick Warehouse Compnay.

A file relating to the Secondary teacher's pension scheme drawn up by Fr Francis Joy SJ Mungret College, Limerick.

A file relating to the Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat Memorial Fund inaugurating by Rev. Mother Thunder in 1909. Includes a list of students in the Apostolic School who were assisted by this fund (1909-1974).

File containing Robert Thompson's admissionpapers and correspondence with irish Fr provincials covering his time in Zambia, at Rathfarnham Castle and Tullabeg and his parish work at Clane, County Kildare and Moycullen, County Galway.

Letters and circular letters concerning a circular letter from Fr General on economy measures and assisting the poor during the ‘severe economic crisis’. Includes draft of circular letter sent by Irish Fr Provincial to Jesuit houses on ways and means of economising in order to carry out the wishes expressed in Fr General’s letter and replies following House Consultations from Belvedere College; Milltown Park, 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street; St Ignatius’ College, Galway; S. Stanislaus’ College, Tullamore; Clongowes Wood College, Naas; Sacred Heart College and Mungret College, Limerick and St Mary’s, Emo Court. Also includes circular list of economy measures issued to all houses.

Retreat and sermon notes attributed to Fr William Flynn SJ in the main. One document refers to Easter Sunday, 1 April 1866, [Fr.] James Butler [SJ]. References to sermons at St Beuno's, Wales, Mungret, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Galway.

A file containing remarks by various members of the Irish Province on the proposed booklet to aid Scholastics about to begin their Magisterium.

Register of the Sodality of the Holy Angels, Mungret College, Limerick. The register details names and addresses of all boys who were in the Sodality on September 1914 until February 1962 and the date received into the Sodality. Includes a list of directors of the Sodality from the foundation in 1891 to 1956.

A series of questions drawn up by [Fr Charles McKenna SJ] concerning the lease for Mungret College.

A file relating to the purchase of additional farm land adjoining Mungret. Includes a letter from Fr General Franz Wernz SJ, Rome to Fr James Tomkin SJ (Rector), Mungret College granting permission for a farm adjoining Mungret to be bought. Includes copies of documents relating to the possibility of purchasing Purcell's farm

Province file for Fr Seán J McCarron SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

Prospectus (in brochure format) for Mungret College.

Prospectus for the Apostolic School of the Sacred Heart, University College, Mungret, Limerick and a prospectus of Mungret College (15 August 1882), including a covering letter written by Fr William Ronan SJ.

A file relating to various proposals over the years to extend and add to the existing buildings at Mungret College. Includes plans. Includes an extensive file relating to the building of the swimming pool (10 October 1963 - 17 February 1965, 60 items).

A file relating to a proposal to sell 70/80 acres of the Mungret property to the Department of Education for a proposed University.

Programmes invitations, tickets and reviews relating to theatricals, including comedies, tragedies, operettas, librettos and pantomimes, staged by pupils of the Mungret College and Apostolic School. Includes reference to New Years Holiday, Shrovetide, Shrove Tuesday, St Patrick’s Day, Feast of St Francis Xavier and Christmas Holidays.

A file of programmes for plays and concerts performed at Mungret College, Limerick.

A file relating to the preparation of a prospectus for Mungret Apostolic School, Limerick.

A file containing the Prefect's of Disipline Journal and loose pages from the Prefect's Journal at Mungret College, Limerick.

Postcards depicting exterior views of Mungret. Two of the postcards have notes attached.

Poems written by Frs John Redmond and Fr Frank McSwiggan SJ prompted by the closing of Mungret College.

Photographs of the Mungret players.

Black and white photographs of the choir at Mungret.

Photographs of students at Mungret College,Limerick (at least one photograph is of Apostolic students). Found in the papers of Fr Vincent Byrne SJ. Includes Jesuits Michael O'Reilly, Sean Hughes, Aidan Ennis, J T Kelly, Brian MacMahon, Liam McKenna

Photographs of rugby teams at Mungret College, Limerick.

Photographs of Mungret College, Limerick students out walking.

File of photographs of Mungret College past pupils.

• Michael O'Shea at Tullabeg, nd;
• John Moore, Michael O’ Shea, Tom Deasy [1948-1950];
• Tom Deasy Jim Moran, Michael O’ Shea [1948-1950];
• All Ireland Sports - Outside Barry’s Hotel, May 1949. ‘Solomee’, -?, Hogan and self (Jim Moran);
• Interpros? - Michael O'Shea, John Moore, Frank Moran [1949-1950];
• Rugby match between Belvedere College and Mungret College, including Michael O'Shea [1948-1950];
• Karl Mullen (captain of the British Isles Rugby touring team (Lions) 1950), outside Mungret College with Michael O'Shea, Tony O'Connor, Frank Moran, Jim Moran, Dick Parkinson, Joe Fahy and John Moore (Autumn 1950)
• Michael O'Shea running.

Photographs depicting views of Mungret.

Photographic album by Fr Stephen Bates SJ. The photographs depict Jesuits and outdoor scenes such as on villa at:

• Ballytrent, Wicklow (1929 and 1930);
• Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (1928);
• Gormanstown (1928);
• Clydagh, County Galway (1926, 1927);
• the play 'Pinafore', Mungret College, Limerick (1931);
• Lough Bray, Wicklow (1928);
• Aloysus Dando, Donald Roset and John Moran, Jersey (17 March 1929);
• Milltown (1928);
• Cliffs of Moher (1933);
• Ballydavid, Kerry (1935);
• Kilkee, Clare (1933);
• Killarney, Kerry (1932 and 1945);
• Waterville, Kerry (1931 and 1932);
• Caragh Lake, Kerry (1932);
• Clongowes Wood College, Kildare (1932);
• Clane, Kildare;
• Prosperous, Kildare;
• Maynooth, Kildare;
• Mount Brandon, Kerry;
• Killaloe, Clare (1943 and 1945);
• Keeper Hill, Tipperary (1944 and 1945);
• Quin Abbey, Clare (1944);
• Lough Derg;
• Sacred Heart Church, Limerick;
• Long Avenue, Limerick;
• Manister Abbey, Limerick;
• Junior Rugby Team, Crescent, Limerick (1944 and 1945);
• Dromore Lake, Limerick (1945);
• aeroplanes at Rineanna, Clare (1946);
• Tramore, Waterford (1946);
• new College extension at Crescent (January 1946);
• Crescent rugby City Cup winners (1946) and match at Mardyke, Cork (1947);

Photographic album (thirty photographs) belonging to Fr Joseph O'Connor SJ relating to his time as a scholastic in Mungret College c.1926, Rector of Mungret College (1936-1941) and later in Galway (1941-1972). Insert postcard from Irish Jesuit in Rome, Italy (1931).

Photographs of the Blake memorial tablet in the chapel at Mungret College.

A file relating to the ownership of Mungret College by the Society of Jesus. Includes

• a summary of the material by [Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ];
• copy of letter from Fr Redmond Roche SJ to Fr John Guiney SJ, with typed documents, describing documentary evidence concerning ownership of Mungret College (1895-1928, 8pp), Father Ronan's intentions (2pp), chief references to Apostolic School Funds in Fr Ronan's Correspondence (1p), A page in Fr Ronan's handwriting (1p) and The origin of the pre-Jesuit foundation in Mungret (9pp);
• bibliographic information on Father Jean-Baptist René SJ (1841-1916) (1p) and
• chronology of the history at Mungret College, taken from the Mungret Record, 1882-1963 (1p).

Outline of the nature and objectives of Mungret College, Limerick.

Handwritten notes (with typed copy) concerning a deed relating to the Free Burses for Mungret Apostolic School. A note by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ remarks that the deed does not appear to be extant. This deed does exist, see SC/MUNG/121.

A file of notes by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ on the various finances of Mungret College, 1882 - 1935.

Photocopies of newspaper cuttings reporting on past pupils of Mungret Apostolic School.

Catalogue of Lay and Apostolic Students, Mungret College.

File of mission material relating to Fr Patrick Grogan SJ. Includes photographs; announcement of death; personal record; and correspondence between Fr Grogan and Fr Thomas J. Martin, Mission Office, Dublin.

File of mission material relating to Fr Edmund Sullivan SJ. Includes passport; passport photographs; personal record; obituary; accounts of the trial of Canadian Sisters in Canton (2 December 1951); the Communists in Canton (1949); Fr Sullivan’s experiences 1942 - 1945 ; and correspondence between Fr Edmund Sullivan and Fr. Thomas J. Martin, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Menus from a reunion dinner of Mungret College alumni held in Mount Barker Convent in Australia.

Copy of a memorandum by Redmond Roche SJ concerning the possibility of merging the Apostolic and Lay students under the jurisdiction of the Rector of the College.

Memoirs written by John Bithrey of his time as a school boy in Mungret College, Limerick. A file relating to memoirs written by John Bithrey of his time as a school boy in Mungret College, Limerick. Includes a typed and handwritten manuscript entitled Memories of Mungret (1889 - 1893). The article was published in the Mungret Annual, 1966.

A file relating to the seismograph in Rathfarnham Castle. Includes letters from Fr William O'Leary SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ concerning the construction of the seismograph.

A file relating to the Educational Endowment (Ireland) Commission. Includes an abstract of the minutes of the Commission, minutes of evidence and appendices, memorandum of the Commissioners protest by the Assistant Commissioner. Includes a copy of a deed dated 13 March 1895 between the Trustees of the Limerick Endowment for Technical Education and Frs William Ronan SJ, Thomas Finlay SJ, Vincent Byrne SJ, Patrick Keating SJ and Henry Lynch SJ relating to the lands of Drumdarraig in the Barony of Pubblebrien, County Limerick (71 acres) sold by the Trustees to Frs Ronan SJ et .al.

A file relating to the 'Bruton Controversy/Debt'. In February 1884, Dr Bruton, a Dublin merchant transferred, to the Apostolic School, Mungret, a debt of £869.2.6 owed to him by Clongowes. According to Bruton's document of transfer, Clongowes was to pay the debt within a reasonable time, and, pending the payment of the principal sum was to pay, in addition, 3% yearly interest to the Apostolic School. Clongowes refused to pay the principal sum or the interest Includes a letter from Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Rector, Fr James Corboy SJ, Mungret College remarking that he has instructed Fr Nicholas J Tomkin SJ, Rector of Clongowes to pay £332.15.4 to Mungret. Remarks that Fr General decided that Clongowes should pay half the interest due on the debt and '…put an end finally to all disputes about the debt.' (25 June 1917, 2pp).

Material relating to Fr Patrick G Kennedy SJ including correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and memorandum of agreement for the publication of 'Birds of Ireland' by P.G. Kennedy SJ, Robert F. Ruttledge and C.F. Scroope.

A file relating to Fr Laurence O'Neill SJ, his entry into the Society of Jesus, his ill health, his four years in Australia as a scholastic and his death.

A file relating to Fr James Tomkin SJ and the 'Mungret Question'. Includes letters from Irish Fr Provincial urging Fr Tomkin SJ not to correspond with former Apostolics on the 'Mungret Question'.

Material relating to Fr Gregory Ffrench SJ which includes correspondence concerning his work for the Society throughout his life. Includes notes by Msgr Alfred O'Rahilly on the life of Fr Willie Doyle SJ sent to Fr Ffrench SJ (18 August 1964, 2pp). Includes a letter from Fr Ffrench SJ, Jesuit Retreat Centre, Tullamore, County Offaly to Irish Fr Provincial concerning the closure of Emo. Remarks 'But this dinner for Ours on the 11th? Apart from considerations of poverty, I cannot see that the closing of Emo is any occasion for festivity. After all, Emo is being closed because God does not see fit to bless the Province as at present being run with sufficient vocations to justify keeping it open.' (27 August 1969, 3pp). Includes correspondence concerning his work for the Crusaders of the Blessed Sacrament (1974-1982).

File of material relating to Fr Edmund Sullivan SJ includes identity card, catalogue entry, correspondence between Fr Sullivan and Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran, and Frs Lawrence Andrew, Joseph Garland and Robert Tyndall, and Selvaraju Selvam.

Material related to a past pupil of Mungret College Fr T.M. Long, (left school in 1921), who worked for many years in Sri Lanka as a teacher. A stamp enclosed, bearing image of Fr T.M. Long.

Map depicting the lands at Mungret.

A file of loose pages from diaries and Journals of Prefects and Captains at Mungret College, Limerick.

Lists of Mungret priests of the Lay School, Mungret College, Limerick (1882 - 1964), and supplement to the Mungret Record (1882 - 1967).

Lists of lay pupils of Mungret College, Limerick and their addresses.

Two documents in typescript form which catalogue the Rectors of Mungret from 1882 - 1962, Superiors of the Apostolic School 1882 - 1959 and a list of developments at Mungret from 1858 - 1963.

List of Mungret men ordained for Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

List of masses said for (with No.) and priests who said mass at St Francis Xavier Community, Upper Gardiner Street. Includes an insert (1898) discussing the location of a novitiate at Mungret and having a noviceship at Tullabeg.

List of deceased members of the Limerick community (Crescent and Mungret) with date of death and place of death and burial.

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial on various matters. Includes letters concerning:
– the creation of a new entrance to Manresa House in Dollymount and the sale of the old gate lodge to the developer of the site (see also ADMN/3/43);
– various Consultors’ opinions with regard to Fr. General’s Letters on The Social Apostolate;
– the Irish Hierarchy’s opinion of the Health Bill of 1952;
– ‘the dangers there is for Catholics to go to Trinity College’ (see also ADMN/3/38);
– copy of a ‘Report of the Jesuit Schools in the Archdiocese of Dublin on the Programme for Religious Instruction in the Primary Schools’ (see also ADMN/3/57);
– a lectureship in mathematical-physics in U.C.D.;
– the requirements for the post of lecturer in Cosmology in U.C.D.;
– the death of Fr James Magan SJ and
– letter and memorandum to the Provincial concerning Latin study in the Novitiate.
Also includes letters from President Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh (see also ADMN/3/59) concerning his audience with the Pope and sending Christmas greetings and copy of Irish Fr Provincial’s reply.

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from various Jesuits in response to Fr Provincial’s letter (16 April 1941, 1p.) seeking volunteers to serve as chaplains: ‘Mgr. Coghlan (an Irishman from the diocese of Meath) who is in charge of the military chaplains has called upon me and informed me that the need of chaplains is acute and urgent, in some areas Catholic soldiers have no priests to look after them’. Includes responses from: John Hayes SJ (See CHP2/18); John Burden SJ (See CHP2/13); Thomas O'Donnell SJ; Cyril Perrott SJ (See CHP2/35); Conal Murphy SJ (See CHP2/30); Thomas P. Kelly SJ; Brendan Lawler SJ; John McCarron SJ; Brian MacMahon SJ; Daniel Shields SJ (See CHP2/37); Maurice Dowling SJ (See CHP2/16); Frank O'Riordan SJ and Joseph Garland SJ.

A file of letters to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Brown SJ (term 7 May 1883 - 2 February 1888). Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.

Letters to Irish Fr Provincial from newly appointed chaplains; Frs Michael G. Morrison SJ, Cyril E. Perrott SJ, Conor Naughton SJ and Gerard Guinane SJ, concerning their arrangements for departure.

A file of letters to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ (term 31 July 1880 - 6 May 1883). Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.

Letters to Fr Vincent Byrne SJ from various individuals including: note from Fr Kenny SJ, Clongowes Wood College, with instructions regarding a Mungret College villa (holiday) (June 1893, 2 items) and letter from Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kiernan SJ congratulating Fr Byrne on the occasion of his being seventy-five years in the Society of Jesus (2 items).

Letters to Fr Finlay from various individuals. Includes:
– letter from Lord Cadogan, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, asking Fr Thomas Finlay SJ to become a member of the Board of Intermediate Education (14 November 1900, 1p.);
– letter from Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ regarding finance, University Hall, Rathfarnham Castle and Kennedy case (7 July 1913, 2 items);
– letters from Augustine Birrell, Chief-Secretary of Ireland, concerning grants for the National Library (21 February, 5 March 1915, 2 items);
– letter of congratulation from Timothy Healy, Glenaulin, Chapelizod, County Dublin [following Fr Finlay’s retirement from University College?] (19 December 1930, 2pp);
– letter from John Stafford Johnson, Carrickmines House, Carrickmines, County Dublin informing Fr Finlay that Dr Lea Wilson requested that (John Stafford Johnson) call on you with updates regarding the hospital situation, and childrens hospitals (19 January 1935, 2pp);
– letters from Fr Edward Dillon SJ regarding the progress of Rory O'Connor (payment of his fees) at Mungret College, and Mungret College results of public examinations 1934 and 1935 (4 March, 12- 13 September 1935, 5 items).

A file of copies of letters relating to the training of priests for Latin and South America, prepared by Fr Michael Hurley SJ, with responses by Frs Dan McDoanld, Francis Joy and John T Kelly.

Letters relating to Mungret National Schools, County Limerick and the question of overhanging branches from the Mungret College property.

A file of letters relating to [money bequeathed to Mungret] by Miss Sutton (a nun in the Ursuline Convent, Avranches, France).

Letters in response to Irish Fr Provincial following his letter (10 July) seeking volunteers to serve as chaplains in the forces. Includes;
– Copy of Irish Fr Provincial’s letter (10 July 1941, 1p.);
– Responses from; Frs Gerard Guinane SJ (See CHP2/17), Joseph Kelly SJ, Conal Murphy SJ (CHP2/30), Sydney Lennon SJ (See CHP2/25), Robert Stephenson SJ, Henry Croasdaile SJ, William Prendergast SJ, Fergus Cronin SJ (See CHP2/14), Frank O'Riordan SJ and Richard O'Mahony SJ

A file of letters from the Superiors, Frs John T Kelly SJ and Redmond Roche SJ, of the Apostolic School, Mungret College, Limerick to Irish Fr Provincial concerning the administration of the Apostolic School, its finances and students.

Letters from Irish Fr Provincial to Fr Edward Dillon SJ (Rector of the Lay School, Mungret College) and Fr Jeremiah Kelly SJ (Superior of the Apostolic School, Mungret College) urging them to establish a harmonious working relationship between the two schools.

A file of letters from Fr William Ronan SJ to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ concerning Mungret. Includes a letter written from St Mary's, Athlone remarking that if the Society of Jesus do not take Mungret then it will be offered to the Holy Ghost Fathers (nd, 11pp). Includes a letter written from the College of the Sacred Heart, Crescent, Limerick concerning a meeting with the Bishop (Dr Butler). Remarks that the Bishop did not know that the Society was interested in taking Mungret '…otherwise he would not have consented to Lord Emly's request to invite the Fathers of the H. Ghost' (29 December 1881, 13pp). Includes a letter written from the College of the Sacred Heart, Crescent, Limerick concerning a system of studies for Mungret. Remarks that the trustees have made a condition that agriculture must be taught but have agreed that the teaching of chemistry and botany would fulfil this condition. Refers to the Holy Ghost fathers efforts to get Mungret. (9 January 1882, 8pp). Includes letters relating to Fr Bourke's surrender of Mungret to the Bishop of Limerick (15 January 1882 - 10 February 1882, 4 items). Includes letters relating to the Bishop's acceptance of the Society's terms and conditions for Mungret. Asks Fr Provincial for a subscription to the Apostolic School. Refers to the clear distinction between the Lay school and Apostolic School. (24 February 1882- 6 March 1882, 3 items). Includes letters relating to the decision to follow the University rather than the Intermediate programme of studies at Mungret. (26 March 1882 - 31 March 1882, 4 items). Includes letters relating to the dedication of Mungret to the Sacred Heart. (15 August 1882 - 9 September 1882, 3 items).

A file of letters from Fr William Ronan SJ to Fr Jean-Baptist René SJ concerning Mungret. The letters were written following Fr Ronan's discovery that Fr Jean-Baptist René SJ was leaving Mungret.

A file of letters from Fr William Ronan SJ from various locations (convents mainly) to Fr Jean-Baptist René SJ concerning Mungret prior to Fr Ronan's departure for America.

A file of letters from Fr William Ronan SJ to Fr Jean-Baptist René SJ concerning Mungret after Fr Ronan's return from America.

A file of letters from Fr William Ronan SJ to Fr Jean-Baptist René SJ concerning his fund-raising trip to and around America. Includes typescript copies of the letters by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ.

A file of letters from Fr William Ronan SJ to members of the community and the Apostolic students at Mungret concerning his fund-raising trip to America.

Letters from Fr Robert Fulton SJ to the Rector, Fr Jean-Baptist René SJ concerning Mungret College. Refers to Dr Molloy and his attitude to the college. Remarks that Lord Emly is very well disposed towards Mungret. Fr Fulton SJ was a Visitor appointed by Fr General. Dr Molloy was a member of the Educational Endowments Commission.

Letters from Fr Rector of Mungret College, Limerick to the Irish Fr Provincial including Thomas V. Nolan SJ; Edward Cahill SJ; James Corboy SJ; Edward Dillon SJ; John T Kelly SJ; Brian MacMahon SJ and Gerard Perrott SJ.

A file of letters from French Fr Provincial Henri Chambellan SJ, Paris, France to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ granting permission to Fr Jean-Baptist René SJ and other French Jesuits to work in the Apostolic School, Mungret College.

A file of letters (including a summary) from Fr General Peter Beckx SJ, Fiesole, Italy to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ concerning the establishment of Mungret College as a Jesuit College and his approval for the project.

A file of letters concerning Mungret, Fr Joseph Bourke's decision to quit Mungret and the possibility of the Holy Ghost Fathers taking over the premises. Includes letters from Fr Timothy O'Keeffe SJ, College of the Sacred Heart, Crescent, Limerick to Fr William Ronan SJ on the matter and a letter from Fr Ronan SJ to [ ] .