Handwritten treatise, which attempts to ‘lay down a few principles, from which inferences may be afterwards drawn…’ in relation to the running of a successful college.

Statement (in Latin) issued by the Vatican to Religious Orders concerning the Sacred Congregation for Seminaries and University Studies.

Minutes of School Attendance Committee meetings in Galway City, which references parents served with notices for failure to send children to school. Includes list of members of the board - no Jesuit involved. Note on front 'Has nothing to do with house but came to us probably through Fr A. O'Reilly. His uncle Canon Nestor was chairman at the end'. Index at rear of volume, and two inserts from parents outlining reasons for failure to send to school (1926).

Sample questions on education from the University of London - in preparation for the Clongowes Cert.

File of material related to the primary school and secondary school in Galway and school policies. Includes details of lectures, lecture notes and reports entitled 'Developing Education in the Seventies'; 'Risking a Lost Culture'; 'Church and State in Secondary Education' (Autumn 1968); the Jesuits and education in Galway; statement of policy for Coláiste Iognáid; 'Scoil Naisiunta'; 'Problems of a minority language in Education (31 October 1971). In Irish and English.

Outline, written by Timothy Corcoran, S.J., of a plan for systematic training and qualification of teachers in the Province.

A file of examination papers for the Clongowes Cert. Includes an outline.

A file relating to the establishment of a foreign mission to China and the foundation of a school for higher studies in Hong Kong.

Document written by Fr Patrick Bracken SJ regarding rules for Jesuit boarding schools. Quotes Frs Roothaan and Beckx. (In Latin).

Document outlining the domestic duties of two Jesuit brothers: [Br.] Pat McGennis and Br. Farrell, in an unidentified boarding school.

A file of correspondence relating to general education issues in Ireland and more specific education issues relating to Jesuit colleges. Includes correspondence relating to the establishment of a colleges/schools commission including draft terms of reference (14 December 1930 - 18 January 1931, 5 items).

[Draft] ‘Resolutions of the Committee of Catholic Masters’. Adopted at a meeting held at Maynooth on 29 September and submitted to the Assistant Commissioners of Intermediate Education for their consideration. Relate to syllabi, exams, exhibitions etc.

‘Regulations concerning the Provincial's prizes in the Irish Colleges, S.J.’ Relate to the prize money, examiners, papers etc.