A file relating to the controversy between Dr Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick and Mungret College concerning the admission of lay boys to the College. The file contains manuscript material written by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ. In a summary he remarks that the Bishop saw the presence of lay students at Mungret 'as a threat to his seminary' (nd, 1p). Includes correspondence, and prospectus for Mungret College, 1882, Annual reports of the Irish Apostolic School, Mungret, 1889 and 1895.

A file relating to correspondence of bequests made to Irish Fr Provincial regarding the Hong Kong and China missions.

• Perpetual burse in memory of Fr WM. Doyle SJ in the new seminary in Hong Kong (1936);
• Perpetual burse in memory of Fr Walsh SJ in Hong Kong (1936);
• Memorial burse in memory of Fr Fegan SJ in China (1936);
• List of burse money for the education of Chinese Jesuits (13 September 1940);
• Statement of accounts for quarter the Ricci Mission Unit (1 July - 30 September 1943).

Letters, mostly to Irish Fr Provincial discussing the declining circulation 'An Timire', the Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart and proposals to issue the magazine on a quarterly, rather than monthly basis.

Documents relating to a report prepared by the Irish Fr Provincial for Fr General on the activities of the Irish Province for ‘the promotion of Catholic Action’. Includes covering letter and questionnaire sent out by the Irish Fr Provincial to Jesuit houses and individuals with detailed replies from: St Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street; Milltown Park, Dublin; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullamore; St Mary’s, Emo Court; University Hall, Hatch Street; Belvedere College; Clongowes Wood College; St Ignatius’ College, Galway; Sacred Heart College, Limerick; the editors of the following periodicals: 'Madonna', 'The Messenger of the Sacred Heart', 'An Timire' (The Gaelic Messenger), and 'Studies'. Also includes handwritten draft report entitled ‘The Society of Jesus in Ireland and Catholic Action’ (Summer 1936) and final printed Latin version 'De Actione Catholica in Hibernia'.

Pamphlets relating to 'University Education, Ireland 1849 - 1918', with a catalogue compiled by Brendan Woods SJ, May 1989, (4pp). Includes:

• Address of the Catholic University Committee to the people of Ireland, 1850, (12pp, 2 items), (Ir.082.4158/T32B);
• Catholic University, Dublin. School of Engineering, 1855-56, 2 items, (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Rules and Regulation of the University (Catholic University), 1856, (34pp), (Ir.082.4158/LI55);
• Scheme of Rules and Regulations, afterwards to be adapted to University use. 9 May 1856, (55pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• The Rector's Report, Catholic University, for the year 1856-1857, 1858, (35pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Calendar of the Catholic University for the year 1854-58, 1860, 1860, (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• The Rambler, Vol. III New Series, May 1860, Part VII. The Catholic University of Ireland, (10pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• The Catholic University Charter, 1862, (33pp, 2 copies), (Ir.082.4158/T42A);
• Report of the Dean and Faculty of Science of the Catholic University of Ireland, Session 1857-1858, 1858, (40pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Report of the Catholic University, 1863, (6pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• The financial exigencies of Ireland before and after the legislative union, 1864, (26pp), (Ir.082.4158/L179);
• Notes on "University Education in Ireland", 1865, (45pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Catholic University of Ireland. Instruction for students desirous to enter as interns or externs resident in Dublin, 1865, (11pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• A free inquiry into the Education Question by John McEvoy, 1866, (45pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Constitution and statutes of the Catholic University of Ireland, 1869, (79pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Catholicity and Progress: An essay which obtained the prize offered by the Solicitor-General of Ireland to the Literary, Historical, and Aesthetical Society of the Catholic University written by Charles Dawson, 1869, (21pp), (Ir.082.4158/L195);
• Academical course and examinations of the Catholic University of Ireland in the faculty of Philosophy and Letters, 1873, (30pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Report on the present condition of the Catholic University, 1873, (26pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Intellectual Resources of Ireland. Supply and Demand for and enlarged system of Irish University Education. by Robert D. Lyons, London, 1873, (84pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Report on the Catholic University, 1875, (28pp), (Ir.082.4158/T59B);
• A National university for Ireland. A speech. by Isaac Butt, 1876, (24pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Catholic University of Ireland. Academical Course. Programme of Examinations. Examination Papers 1875, 1876, (75pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• On the study of mental philosophy by Catholic students in the Royal University of Ireland by Rev. James Kavanagh, 1885, (28pp), (Ir.378.415/T130);
• Address given by the J.F. Whittington Howley, auditor of the Literary and Historical Society, University College Dublin, on Prussian Education: A history and a lesson, 15 November 1889, (23pp), (Ir.082.4158/T121A);
• Prize Essay on Love of Nature in English Poetry by Patrick Morgan MacSweeney, M.A., winner of the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English prose composition, Royal University of Ireland, 1896, (52pp), (Ir.082.4158/T74B);
• Irish University Education: An academic study by J.P. Pye, 1897, (41pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Catholic Higher Education in Ireland by Thomas Arnold, 1897, (17pp), (Ir.082.4158/T130);
• A University for Catholics in relation to the material interests of Ireland by Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick, 1898, (72pp), (Ir.082.4158/T130);
• University College, Dublin. Rules and Ordinances. [1903], (14pp), (Ir.082.4159/T30B);
• Statement of Proceedings in reference to the Disorder on Degree Day, 27th October 1905, The Royal University of Ireland, 1906, (30pp), (Ir.082.4159/T30B);
• University College, Dublin. Prospectus [1908], (4pp), (Ir.082.4159/T30B);

Reports on Jesuit Studies in the Irish Province.