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A file of Consultor's letters from Fr Edward Masterson SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial concerning community matters.

Letter from Br James Donoghue SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial concerning the community and his own work within the community.

A file of letters from Fr Andrew MacArdle SJ (Fr Superior), St Ignatius College, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial concerning community matters and matters relating to the college. Includes a letter asking for permission to sell a portion of a field opposite the college to '…an important local man - Chairman of the Board of Guardians.' (4 October 1913, 8pp).

Pamphlet written by Fr James Rabbitte SJ entitled 'Good Facts About Galway - The Honorable Past; The Present: Achievements and resources. Some distinguished Galway men' produced by St Ignatius College, Galway.

Letters from Br William McCartney SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial concerning community matters with particular reference to the staff employed by the community.

Handwritten address book of pupils of St Ignatius College, Galway. Arranged alphabetically under the following headings: name; address; birth; parent/guardian; parents address. Earliest pupil born 1893-latest born 1912.

Photographs belonging to Fr Kyran Ward SJ which documents his life from 1912 until his death, 1972.

Galway:

1. Fr Kyran Ward SJ, [1960]-[1972]; 4 photographs
2. Group at shore front with Fr Kyran Ward SJ in the centre
3. [ ], Br Michael Crowe SJ, [1960]-[1972]; 2 photographs
4. Father of Fr Kyran Ward SJ, 27 June 1920; 2 photographs
5. Muiris Ó Séaghdha, 5 May 1945;
6. Villa house for Jesuits at Moville, 1913;
7. Group of Jesuits on villa [1910]-[1935];
8. Group of Jesuits on villa [1910]-[1935], James Whitaker;
9. Group of Jesuits on a boat, Cleggan extreme left John Sulllvian, Charles Byrne, John Neary;
10. Mortimer Glynn, Charles Byrne, A Morris, ,;
11. Gap of Dunloe, father of Fr Kyran Ward SJ, 26 August 1929;
12. Charles Byrne, Cleggan
13. Roundstone, County Galway;
14. Clongowes Wood College villa at Glengarriff [1928] - [1931] - Br O'Grady, Frs McGlade, C Barrett, Kieran Ward; M Kelly, James Whitaker, G Finucane, T Kelly; Frank Joy, M McCarthy and Donal Trant McCarthy.
15. Frs Robert Dillon-Kelly, Nolan and ?;

Photographic album includes:

• family photographs of himself and his parents (1923);
• cycling in Wicklow with G. Dunne and J Hurley, 1912;
• his time at Rathfarnham 1915 - 1916, with names;
• on villa at various locations;
• Jesuit contemporaries;
• Jersey 1916 - 1919;
• on villa Wicklow, while at Millltown Park, Dublin, 1919;
• postcards from Jersey; Donegal 1923;
• election of Pope Pius XI 1922;
• photographs of Clongowes Wood College (1919 -1923) including hurling, rugby, cricket, swimming, rugby, tennis;
• Clongowes union day activities, the Copper beech Winter 1920;
• tertianship at St. Beuno's, Wales 1927 - 1928;
• Frs Robert Dillon-Kelly, Nolan and Ward; Frs. Dick Butler and Paddy Cashman; later life of Fr Ward in Galway and time in France 1960’s;

A file relating to teaching through Irish. Includes a letter from Fr John Egan SJ, to editor of 'An Claidheamh Soluis', promoting the teaching of Irish [1912], naming the Irish teachers at St Ignatius College and that the 'Claidheamh' is mad throughout the school. Includes a detailed letter from Fr Francis McSwiggan SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran, SJ explaining why he thinks Irish is not suitable as a medium for teaching other subjects ([ ] May 1940, 4pp),

Status Temporalis (Province Account) book which contains accounts 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, Upper Gardiner Street, Irish Jesuit mission to Australia.

Handwritten notes by Fr John O'Brien SJ on subjects such as:

• Illuminated Manuscripts, including letters from Edward Sullivan (23 January 1917), Thomas William Lyster, Librarian, the National Library of Ireland (19 June 1917) and William Alexander Henderson, National Literary Society, 6 St Stephen's Green, Dublin (nd.).

• notes on notable individuals born in Galway, statements on imports and exports and net tonnage of sailing and steam vessels to/from the Port of Galway (1906-10, with letter from the Superintendent of Statistics and Intelligence Branch, Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, Dublin (1 March 1912) to Fr John O'Brien SJ and pamphlet with the title ‘Good facts about Galway’ with information on ‘The Honourable Past; The Present: Achievements and resources; Some distinguished Galway men’ produced by St Ignatius College, Galway. Written by Fr James Rabbitte SJ. See SC/GALW/3

• Supplement entitled Galway as a Transatlantic Port’ reprinted from The Financial Times (16 February 1912).

Account book for the Jesuit community at St Ignatius College, Galway which details receipts and expenses, including reference to: Travel expenses, alms, draper, stationary, butcher, food, servant wages, books, organist, oil, dentist, watchmaker.

Handwritten account ledger of St Ignatius College, Galway. First entry is a balance sheet which includes: liabilities such as sundry creditors; loan; and assets such as sundry debtors, premises, church, furniture, schoolbooks, investments, and cash in bank. Entries are divided by month, ‘Fruit, Veg…Weekly Bills, Organ Blower, Choir Music, Mrs. Tierney, Books & Papers’(January 1921). Includes reference to school grants (1921 - 1925); electric light (1921 - 1927) dividends from investments (1922 - 1925); rates insurance and rent payable (1922 - 1925); visitors and their length of stay and payment (1921 - 1926), weekly bills (1919 - 1921); Personal (1921 - 1922) at rear of volume.

School group of St Ignatius College, Galway, 1911-1912, in five rows with Fr Henry Foley SJ, Fr John Egan SJ and Fr Andrew Macardle SJ, Rector, St Ignatius College, Galway. Taken outdoors by C.J. Leaper, Galway, with list of names

Estate map for the ‘Galway Estate of John Whaley Esq[ui]re’ which details the land held in Kilcorkey and Lenaboy, Galway. Outlines of 36 sites are marked by black borders and identified with numbers. The main concentration of sites is around Newcastle Road and Shantalla Road to the north, Sea Road and Shell Lane in the centre and Salt Hill to the south. The southern area is bordered by Galway Bay, indicated by the word ‘SAND’ and dots. Man made features include dwellings, roads and filed boundaries. Orientation is given by a compass. Surveyor: Allan MacDonald.

1 Ordnance Survey of Ireland map of Galway, Sheet 105 (1925). Includes key, scale of one inch to a statute mile, coordinates and distance to other towns.

Black and white photograph taken in the Sodality Room, St Ignatius, Galway with Fr Edward Masterson SJ and six other pupils seated
around a table. 17th century pictorial map of Galway City in background.

Postcard of the Science room, St Ignatius, Galway where the pupils are writing under the instruction of a Jesuit.

Record of all transactions involving St Ignatius Church and Jesuit community Galway. Describes transactions such as ‘Electric’, giving date and amount, (11 April 1910). Handwritten entries detail lodgements and expenses such as: choir, whiskey, stationary, clothing, electric light, rates, books, shoemaker, furniture, painting, plumber, printing, chemist etc…

Report book of a student (Gerald Kinneen), St Ignatius College, Galway.

Table of results and grants of the following Jesuit Colleges: Clongowes, Belvedere, Crescent, Mungret and Galway.

Group of senior students in three rows. Taken outdoors. The names of the boys are captioned.

Group of students in three rows sitting and standing. Taken outdoors. Includes handwritten list of students.

Jesuit villa group, Rossleague House, Letterfrack, Galway. Back row: Bernard Page, Frank Browne, James McCann, John Mary O'Connor and Robert Dillon-Kelly. Front row: Frs James Whittaker, Lambert McKenna and Frederick Gill;.

Lined notebooks and journals with handwritten entries for notices to be read out at Sunday Mass at St Ignatius, Galway. Each entry is headed with the relevant Sunday’s Title, such as the ‘Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost’, the ‘First Sunday of Lent’ etc, or the name of the relevant Feast, ‘Palm Sunday’. Each volume contains announcements in relation to rosaries, benedictions, devotions, novenas, confessions, Mass times, arrangements for Feast Days. There are also announcements in relation to recent deaths in the parish, and requests for prayers for the repose of the souls of those recently deceased and of those whose anniversaries occur. Insert letter, incomplete, in 1912-1914 journal, from an Ursuline nun [Sullivan], and referencing Fr Robert giving a mission in Queenstown (21 August 1862).

2 July 1905 - 12 May 1907;
31 May 1908 - 13 February 1910;
4 August 1912 - 13 December 1914;
20 December 1914 - 16 July 1916;
23 July 1916 - 6 May 1917;
13 May 1917 - 9 February 1919;
16 February 1919 - 2 March 1922;
26 March 1922 - 15 August 1924;
7 September 1924 - 8 January 1928;

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from possible candidates and various parish priests seeking information on and interviews to discuss, the possibility of entrance into the Society of Jesus. Also includes applications to join the Society; letters from those who have been accepted and letters concerning financial support from novices’ families.

Letter from Philip Brady SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial expressing his willingness to go to Malta.

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).

A file concerning doubts over the suitability of Mr Lambert McKenna SJ and Mr John Casey SJ for ordination. The letters express doubts over the health of both priests and their ability to say the office each day and mass.

Brief handwritten precis to archival items on St Ignatius College, Galway (1869-1904, 12 items) by Fr James Rabbitte SJ. Reference to Sacred Heart College, Crescent , Limerick on reverse.

Copy of estimate for proposed changes to Galway Presbytery and Church prepared by Michael Tighe.

Parties:
Louisa Whaley, widow, Olive Meade and John Whaley, all of Robertstown, Naas, County Kildare and Martin Hernon, William Street, West Galway, farmer.

Property:
Plot of ground marked number nineteen on the map or plans of Sherwood Fields, in the parish of Rahoon and West Liberties in the town of Galway containing one rood and twenty-two perches Irish Plantation measure.

Terms and Conditions:
To hold from 29 September 1894 for aterm of 999 years subject to a rent of £5.10.0

Parties:
Martin Hernon, William Street, West Galway, farmer and Frs John Hughes, James Forristal and Dominick Kelly all of St Ignatius College, Galway.

Property:
Plot of ground marked number nineteen on the map or plans of Sherwood Fields, in the parish of Rahoon and West Liberties, in the town of Galway containing one rood and twenty-two perches Irish Plantation measure.

Terms & Conditions:
999 years from 29 September 1894 at a yearly rent of £5.10.0.

Parties:
Rev. Eugene Browne SJ, Milltown Park, Rev. John Hughes SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway.

Property:
Land between the Sea Road and Shell Lane in Galway adjacent to Ely Place.

Terms & Conditions:
Browne assigns unto John Hughes et al ground containing 11 perches being a portion of the premises comprised in and demised by a lease of 10 October 1845 to hold for the residue of the unexpired term of 99 years. Assigns two plots of land at the premises demised by a lease of 29 April 1853 to hold for the unexpired residue of 99 years. Assigns a plot of land demised by the lease of 20 May 1853 for the residue of the unexpired term.

Other:
Signed and witnessed.

Parties:
Fr Eugene Browne SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin and Fr Edward Kelly SJ, Upper Gardiner Street on the one part, Fr John Hughes SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway and Dominick Kelly, Mungret College, Limerick, Fr Edward Dillon, Clongowes Wood College, Sallins, County Kildare and James Forristal, Milltown Park, Dublin of the other part.

Property:
Plot of ground marked number twenty on the map or plans of Sherwood Fields, in the parish of Rahoon and West Liberties, Galway containing 38 perches and a quarter Irish Plantation measure.

Terms and Conditions:
Residue of the term of 999 years

List of works and costs proposed for the Church and College of St Ignatius, Galway by Michael Tighe.

Circular letter from Fr John Hughes SJ, Rector, St Ignatius College, Galway seeking donations towards the renovation and redecoration of the Church.

Responsa ad Epistolae R.P. Provincialis, die 20 December 1902 - St Ignatius Galway.

Photograph of ‘Most Holy Father’, (Pope Pius X ) with the inscription ‘The community + Pupils of St. Ignatius College, Galway, Ireland humbly prostate at the feet of Your Holiness beg you to grant them the Apostolic Benediction and plenary Indulgence in ‘Articulo Mortis’’. Papal embossment seal.

Bound handwritten volume of pupil names that entered Coláiste Iognáid SJ, Gallimh, 1903 - 1939.

Photograph of ‘Most Holy Father’, (Pope Pius X) with the inscription ‘The community + Pupils of St Ignatius College, Galway, Ireland humbly prostate at the feet of Your Holiness beg you to grant them the Apostolic Benediction and plenary Indulgence in ‘Articulo Mortis’’. Papal embossment seal.

A school journal edited by the students of St Ignatius College SJ, Galway. Two copies for for Xmas 1903. Vol. 1, No. 1; Four copies for Easter, 1904. Vol. 1, No. ii. Contains news from the College, including sporting achievements, theatrical productions, academic prizes, debates, outings etc. Also includes a tongue in cheek ‘Letters to the Editor’, from students at St Ignatius College. Includes photographs of theatrical groups and sporting activities.

Details of expenditure by the Jesuit community at St Ignatius, Galway. Includes reference to:
Michael Cloherty, 36 Shop Street;
E Fahy, Dominick St;
F McDonagh, Williams Gate;
J Gallagher, Butcher;
B Hynes, Timber and Coal.

Plan depicting St Ignatius College and Church, Sea Road, Galway.

Mounted photographic print of the death scene of St Stanislaus Kostka at Sant’ Andrea al Quirinale, Rome, Italy. Pasted on the rear of the print, Fr F. O’ Connor OSF refers to ‘according to the faculties given to me, I Fr[iar] O’ Connor, vicar of the cross, with annexedindulgences, created in orders of St. Ignatius according to the rules and regulations 10 [May] 1742. Signed by Fr F. O’ Connor OSF, The Abbey, Galway.

Page from publication with a black and white group photograph of the Jesuit community at St Ignatius, Galway, at the turn of the century. Taken outside in two rows.

Back: Br William Canty SJ, Fr Stanislaus MacLoughlin SJ, Fr William Byrne SJ, Br James O'Grady SJ.

Front: Fr Richard Rochford SJ, Fr Patrick O'Reilly SJ, Fr Henry Foley SJ, Fr Edmund Donovan SJ.

Letter from Dr. John Healy, Bishop of Clonfert, to Irish Fr Provincial. Hopes that the latter can provide him with one of his priests to conduct the annual clerical retreat at St Joseph's College, Ballinasloe.

Receipts for purchase of grave space at Galway cemetery and the burial of Fr Patrick O'Reilly SJ (1902); reply to Fr John MacSheahan SJ from B. Tierney regarding his offer to purchase grave space (19 December 1922) cost of three grave at Bohermore (£6 each) (29 May 1934); quotation from James Stewart, Building Contractor for kerbing to Jesuit graves and surround (21 June 1938-15 March 1956); plan of graves in Jesuit plot, Galway taken from maps and records in Corporation Office which details the graves wand who is buried there (2 October 1968).

Lined notebooks with handwritten entries. Each journal covers a period of between 7 and 15 years.
(1) 1902 - 05; 1920 - 1924; 1932 - 1933
(2) 13 November 1904 - 28 December 1906 (Includes in same volume handwritten accounts from 2 January 1907-30 September 1911)
(3) September 1933 - March 1959
(4) July 1959 - April 1965
(5) 1 May 1965 - 31 December 1969
(6) January 1970 - 1983

The entries relate to Church, community and school matters and events. The comings and goings of various members of the community are recorded, as is their state of health. Visits by bishops, the Father Provincial and other guests are also reported. Arrangements regarding meals and the consumption of alcohol (wine and punch) are dealt with extensively, and references to the ‘Long Table’ appear often. There are also references to the cost of provisions, including food and cigarettes and the weather. Building work, maintenance and repairs are recorded. Monies received for masses and donations are recorded. Many entries relate to feast days and special periods in the Church calendar, e.g. Holy Week and Christmas, and include information such as arrangements made for Masses, other ceremonies and confessions for the public and the community. In relation to the school, entries cover term dates, timetables, holidays, half days, examinations and results, retreats, school tours, sports fixtures and results, sports days theatricals, concerts, debates, sodalities etc. Of the many insertions in these journals, some are glued in and some are loose, and they relate to, amongst other subjects, distribution of holy communion, timetables for the celebration of Mass, novenas, Holy Week arrangements, concert programmes etc. Contemporary national and worldwide events are sometimes reported, e.g., ‘assassination of President Kennedy at about 6.30 p.m Irish time. World stunned’ and ‘British soldiers shot thirteen people at Civil Rights march in Derry. Sharp reaction’. Includes list of students 1919 - 1920; 1920 - 1921

Administration (intestate) in the High Court of Justice, Ireland, Kings Bench behalf of Henry Alexander Donovan, The Square, Listowel, County Kerryh Division (Probate) deceased bachelor assigning his estate to his brother and only next of kin, Edmund William Donovan SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway. Two pendant wafer seals attached.

File of letters to Irish Fr Provincial James Murphy SJ. Includes an index/précis to the letters.

Incidental accounts for Frs Philip O'Connell, William MacCormack, William Hayden and James Rabbitte at St Ignatius, Galway.

Group of several classes from the school, arranged in 5 rows and taken outdoors with a statute of [St Aloysius Gonzaga] in the centre. (Accompanied by an incomplete handwritten note which identifies Gerald Keary and Fr Henry Foley SJ). Scribbled caption for Fr Henry Foley SJ.

Handwritten register of the Boy’s Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Ignatius, Galway. Details that ‘there is no record…of the date or circumstance of its establishment’ however ‘there is in existence a recording of the Sodality during 1887-1888 and subsequent years’. Includes member’s names and signatures and notes from meetings.

Notes on Galway Diocese.

Architectural drawings for St. Ignatius Church, Galway which detail alterations to the Sacristy etc. Includes drawings for front elevation, sectional, details of skylight and plan. Scale: 1/8 inch = 1 ft. Notes on the rear that ‘Sacristy and Sodality Room etc. about 1900. Obviously whilst general idea carried out, This plan was not carried out in detail'.

Photographs of students in class at St Ignatius College, Galway. The doors interconnecting the classrooms are open therefore you can view different classes. A Jesuit is standing in both photographs.

Admission ticket to a lecture held in coordination with St Ignatius College by Fr John Gwynn SJ, entitled 'Glimpses of the Irish Brigade from Limerick to Fontenoy', at the Town Hall, Galway. Proceeds of the lecture to be given to the Committee for the Relief of Distress in Galway.

Notes on the O'Flahertys by Fr James Rabbitte SJ. Includes notes on the Lynchs and Richard Martin.

List of names of priests imprisoned on Boffin Island by Fr James Rabbitte SJ. Includes some notes.

Notes by Fr Patrick Connolly SJ entitled 'The Formation of Character by Ernest R. Hull SJ'.

Typed prospectus for St Ignatius College, Galway day school under the charge of the Jesuit fathers.

Invitation card, ‘With the Compliments of the Jesuit Fathers of St. Ignatius’ College’ to ‘A Lecture on Some Facts about Electricity, with special reference to the X-rays. (Illustrated by Experiments and Lantern Slides)’ by Fr Henry Gill SJ.

Notes by Fr James Rabbitte SJ on the religious houses in the Archdiocese of Tuam.

Black and white photographs of the exterior and interior of St Ignatius Church, Galway. Includes:

• the altar by W. Dowler, Presentation Road, Galway;
• interior by the Connacht Tribune;
• copies of a photograph of exterior by Robert French;
• postcards of exterior by 'Yann', Galway c.[1965];
• interior by R. Simmons, Galway - on reverse indicates that the old stations of the Cross went to Hatch Street, Dublin, the pulpit is inside altar rails, the old lights and statues of the Sacred Heart and St Joseph.

School group of St. Ignatius College, Galway. With two Jesuit priests (possibly Fr Henry Foley SJ). In four rows, taken outdoors. Includes two pupils who became Jesuit priests, Daniel Reidy and Gerald Keary. Photographs are taken seconds apart. One has handwritten names.

Typed leaflet entitled ‘Rules of St Ignatius Union’ which were adopted at the first general meeting of the Union, held at St Ignatius College. Printed by Philip O'Gorman, Galway.

Lined notebook 'COLL S. IGNATII, HIST. DOM.' (House history for St. Ignatius College, Galway) Historia Domus, with handwritten entries which record important dates in the history of the church, college and community in Galway. At the start, it lists the instructions for the ‘Scriptores Historiae Domus’. Reports on number of confessions for each year, the Men’s Sodality and the Apostleship of Prayer. Lists the members of the community for each academic year and records the arrival of new members and the departure of the old, as well as last vows, illnesses, deaths and funerals. Details building work carried out to the buildings and new sport pitches and includes a photograph of such work in 1939. The renovations to the roof and the boiler are described as are the cost of work done, the craftsmen and architects involved etc. Relevant references are made to weather conditions and current affairs, including the reopening of the school ‘which had been suspended for 3 years (1929), ‘War declared. Invasion of Poland’ (1939), fourth centenary of the Society of Jesus (1941), ‘Around this time, the presence of a strange cat was felt (“perceived is better word”) in various parts of the house... she was caught, but escaped, + continued her evil way’ (1942), Taoiseach broadcast to the Nation on the conclusion of the War in Europe’ (16 May 1945), ‘Spiddal priest released by Communists’ (7 June 1952). Other entries refer to feast days, special Masses, novenas and processions, as well as to special periods within the Church calendar, such as Lent and Christmas. Provincials’ visitations are also recorded, as are the visits of other important guests. School events, such as the beginning and end of terms, examinations and prize-giving, operettas, theatricals, Féis Cheoil, debates, sports fixtures, excursions etc. also feature in the house history.

Also contains several insertions, some loose and some pasted onto notebook pages including; newspaper cuttings of special ceremonies, debates, school tours, reviews of theatricals, prize days, obituaries for Jesuits such as Fr Edmund Downing SJ, Jesuit educated pupils and past pupils, articles by Jesuits for example, ‘Why is not more Irish spoken?’ by Fr John J. Mac Sheahan SJ., articles of Jesuit interest in Galway, ‘Attacked by Beetle: Work to Save Church Roof’ (1939), ‘Past Pupils’ union for St Ignatius College’ (December 1946); numbers and finances of the Jesuits in Galway from 1862- 1877 (In Latin); leaflets; Lenten lectures & devotions; musical and theatricals programmes such as Concert & Dramatic Entertainment (4 January 1899); ‘The Rale True Doctor’ and ‘The Cuckoo’ (1936), ‘Sinbad the Sailor’ (1945); copy of report in the Galway Pilot of private theatricals at the College of St Ignatius (5 March 1892); copy of excavation plan done by Mr Edwards, Clerk of Works; holograph letter from Fr John MacErlean SJ to Fr Andrew O'Reilly SJ concerning the early history of the Jesuits in Galway (29 March 1947). Includes copy book which contains correspondence and articles in Galway newspapers about Scoil Fursa, a school which educates through Irish (December 1945 - January 1946).

A file relating to a case Daniel Ryan deceased, Kenny versus Ryan. Includes a letter from [ ], Solicitor, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial Patrick Keating SJ concerning '...Delahunt's affair.' Continues 'The parties I got the money from are now pressing for payment.' (22 September 1897, 1p).

File of photographs belonging/taken by Fr Bernard Page SJ:

• Boys at Clongowes
• Jesuit villa house, Rossdhu, Moyard, Connemara, Galway (1906)
• Celtic Cross and Round Tower, Monasterboice, Louth
• Cong Abbey, Mayo
• Murrisk Abbey, Mayo
• Achill Head, Mayo
• Burrishoole Abbey, Mayo
• Lord Ardilaun’s seat, Ashford, Cong, Mayo
• Ashford Castle, Cong, Mayo
• Milltown Villa group (1909)
• Distant view of Muilrea, Mayo
• Distant view of Croagh Patrick, Mayo
• Jesuits Matthew Davitt, Thomas Wheeler and Joseph Wrafter
• Jesuit on horseback, ready to climb to Crucachan, [Roscommon or Kerry]
• Jesuit on top of Crucachan, [Roscommon or Kerry] - Back row: Mr William Hackett, Mr Frank Browne, Mr Patrick Connolly. Front row: Mr John O'Connor, Fr Vincent Byrne, Mr John Byrne and Fr McCormack.
• Cromwell’s Fort, Inisboffin
• Connemara cattle, Galway
• Connemara school, Galway
• Connemara landscapes, Galway
• Diamond Mountain, Connemara, Galway
• Killary bay, Mayo & Galway
• Glendalough, Mayo
• Ballinakill bay and Kylemore Pass
• Salruck and Little Killary, Galway
• View from Rossleague, Letterfrack, Galway
• Villa House, Rossleague, Letterfrack, Galway (1907)
• Jesuit villa group, Rossleague House, Letterfrack, Galway (1907). Back row: Bernard Page, Frank Browne, John O'Connor and James Dillon-Kelly. Front row: Frs James Whittaker, Lambert McKenna and Frederick Gill.
• Ordinations at Milltown Park (31 July 1907)
• Letterfrack, Galway
• Lough Fee, Galway
• Lough Fee and Lough Muck, Galway
• Kylemore Castle, Galway
• St Kevin’s Bed, Glendalough, Wicklow
• Fr Vincent Byrne and Mr Flynn and Barraghy next to the Old oratory on Croagh Patrick, Mayo
• Mr James McCann SJ driving a car
• Front of Belvedere House, Belvedere College SJ, Dublin
• Interior of Belvedere House, Belvedere College SJ, Dublin
• Belvedere College cycling club trip with Mr Frank Browne to Mellifont Abbey, Louth
• Bellerive, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Botanical gardens, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Schoolboys with Archbishop of Melbourne, Thomas Carr Taken in 1/45 of second while archbishop was speaking to boys by same BFP

Group of students in three rows, with 2 Jesuits and another man standing with a statute in the background. Taken outdoors by Mitavsky & Brooke, Dublin.

Cards for Mass calendars, Ladies Retreat and Retreat for Gentleman at the Church of St Ignatius, Sea Road, Galway.

List of recent results for St Ignatius College SJ, Sea Road, Galway, for examinations at the Royal University Matriculation, South Kensington, Intermediate, Junior and Preparatory Grade.

Account ledger of receipts and expenses for St Ignatius, Galway. Receipts include church collections, intentions, pensions (record of the payment of school fees entered as paid, in instalments). Expenses include travel, food (butter, bread, vegetables, meat, fish, and fowl) stamps, milk, oil, candles, wages, printing and clothing repairs. Also includes handwritten inserts of expenses such as Gas (January 1892).

A file containing information compiled by Fr James Rabbitte SJ on the following parishes in the Diocese of Tuam, County Galway:
Abbeyknockmoy;
Addregoole/Liskeevy;
Annaghdown;
Athenry;
Ballynakill;
Boyounagh/Glennamaddy;
Donaghpatrick/Kilcoona/Ballycolgan;
Dunmore;
Inisboffin;
Kilbannon;
Kilbride;
Kilkerrin/Clonberne;
Killanin;
Killascobe;
Killeen;
Killererin;
Killursa & Killower (Headford);
Kilmacrenan/Kilmoylan/Cummer/Belclare;
Kilmeen;
Lackagh;
Moylagh/Mountbellew;
Moyrus;
Omey/Ballindoon;
Ross/Clonbur;
Rosserly;
Roundstone/Ballinafad;
Spiddal;
Templetoher and
Tuam.

and the following parishes in county Roscommon: Kiltullagh and Moone/Clarinborean.

Letter from Dr John Healy, Archbishop of Tuam to Fr William Ronan SJ. Asks the latter to organise a retreat for clergy in Loughrea, and to send him two priests to conduct a retreat for the people of Portumna.

Life and Annual members of the St Ignatius College Past Pupils. Alphabetical list of past pupils with address. Includes list of Gold Medal recipients for Christian Doctrine and list of Old Boys (1890-1909), who became President 1950-1958.

Minutes of council meetings of the Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Ignatius, Galway. Refers to retreats and retreat directions, details members present and those proposed for membership.

28 September 1890-1 December 1912;
13 December 1912 - September 1937;
April 1946 - November 1951;
14 May 1961-14 January 1974;

Notes and newspaper clippings on distinguished Ecclesiastics in the Tuam Diocese, compiled by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.

Bound register of payment of fees by pupils of St Ignatius College, Galway, (1888 - 1904; 1903 - 1940). Contains handwritten information under the following typewritten headings; name; class; birth date; address; remarks and rate of payment of fees. Arranged chronologically and alphabetically.

A file of letters relating to Fr Denis Murphy's work on behalf of the cause of the Irish Martyrs. Includes Fr Ryan, Reginlad Walsh O.P., Fr John Morris SJ, Percy Barron (Cistercian Priest), Sr Benedict Maria, Gilbert Dolan (Benedictine monk), J Clement Fowler (Benedictine monk),

A file of letters from Thomas W. Allies, 82 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, England, Inishbofin, County Galway, Ireland and 3 Lodge Place, St Hohn's Wood, London, England to Fr Matthew Russell SJ.

Ledger style notebooks with printed headings and tables and handwritten entries for Mass Intentions, St Ignatius, Galway. Divided by month. The tables detail those for whom the Masses are said; the priest who said the Masses in each case, the amount of money received, and remarks.

Parties:
Rev. Nicholas Walsh SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Rev. Robert Carbery SJ, Milltown, Dublin and Rev. William Keon, Parish Priest, Fairview Strand, County Dublin and Archibold Harman Montfort, Solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin.

Property:
Lands of Coolacorkey, Barony of Athenry, County Galway.

Terms & Conditions:
Sum of £4000 for 21 years from 1 May 1873

Scrapbook belonging to Brother William Glanville SJ. Includes postcards to Brother Glanville, newspaper cuttings, Clongowes Wood College sesquicentenary and photographs (Loughrea Parish Church 1886, Jesuit brothers and Clongowes Wood College ).

List of results for the Inter-Collegiate Competition in Religious Instruction for the academic year 1885-86.

Annual letter from Patrick Corcoran SJ for St Ignatius Galway, 1883-1886.

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.

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 status temporalis and account sheets for the North Shore Mission, Sydney.

Handwritten roll book of pupils at St Ignatius College, Galway. Entries are arranged under headings by pupil names, dates of attendance and remarks which details pupil, addresses, term dates, school notices and dates of birth. Includes pasted insert of results of Collegiate Easter examinations (1900). Front and back cover of volume are detached.

Handwritten school register which lists pupils and teachers at Coláiste Iognáid (as Gaelige), giving attendance and marks.

From [ ], writing from St Ignatius College, Galway, to Fr Patrick Hughes SJ. Presents accounts, including amounts due to Mrs Meagher and Mrs Butler. (Incomplete).

An Rolla’. Bound official school roll for Coláiste Iognáid S.J., Gallimh. Typed names with addresses. In Irish and English.

Letter from Fr John J O'Carroll SJ to Fr Curtis SJ. Asks for money for an altar for the Sacred Heart in Galway. Also writes in relation to a work by Mr Gallery, intended to be published by the Jesuits, and advises against its publication.

Letter from Fr John Curtis SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Aloysius Sturzo SJ. Refers to a reply he received from Fr John J O'Carroll SJ, and states that the arrangement of the matter in question remains with Fr Sturzo.

‘Status Temporalis Coll. S. Ignatii Galviensis’. Receipt and expenses account book for St Ignatius Community, Galway. Gives cost of items such as for clothes, food and books. (In Latin).

Photographic album mainly related to the events organised in 1963 to celebrate the centenary of the St Ignatius Church and College in Galway. Includes photographs of: Jesuit residences; the President of Ireland, Eamon de Valera with members of the Jesuit community; photocopies of photograph of the Hurling team and Irish Speakers in 1904 taken from ‘The Ignatian’; Fr Patrick O'Kelly SJ; pasted inserts of receipts from 1879 to 1895 for cleaning, stained glass windows of 2 lights and tracery and missal stand; group photograph of the St Ignatius Gaelic Football team of 1935-1936.

House history of St Ignatius, Galway.

Letters from Father General to the Rector of the Jesuit community at St Ignatius College, Galway.

Handwritten financial booklet which contains the names and address of individuals whom sent money in response to collecting cards for a Marble Altar, St Ignatius Church, Galway. Includes the date the circular was sent and the amount received.

Bronze prize medal for Athletic Sports at St Ignatius College, Galway. The description of the medal is as follows. On obverse: ‘View in perspective of church. Above, COLLEGIUM S. IGNATI SOC. JESU GALVIENSE. In exergue A.M.D.G. Signed, J. WOODHOUSE A R H A.’; Reverse: ‘Across, PRIZE MEDAL enclosed in sprays of oak-leaves and acorns, ends crossed and tied. Above, Imperial crown. Around, a circle of egg and ornament. Diam. 2.55”. Bronze. By John Woodhouse. Serrated rim.’ Includes letters and shadings of medal by Ruth Dromgoole, Department of Education, National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin to Fr Andrew O'Reilly SJ (26 March 1946) and Fr McGrath SJ (6 February 1950) as she was preparing a catalogue of a collection of medals in the museum.