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).

Pages from a diary by an unidentified student in Mungret College, Limerick.

Pages from the [ ] diary concerning a show put on by students in Mungret College, Limerick.

Loose pages from the Captain's book at Mungret College, Limerick.

Pages from the Sacristy diary of Mungret College. Includes the first page depicting a line drawing of the interior of the chapel. Lists the first three sacristans.

Loose pages from the Senior Apostolic Prefect's Diary, Mungret Apostolic School, Limerick.

Philosophy Exam Results (1st & 2nd years).

Philosophy Exam Results (1st & 2nd years).

Photograph of ‘3rd Clubbers Walk Mungret 1940’, Limerick.

Photograph of a sketch of the exterior of Mungret College. The sketch appeared on the cover of the 1975 Jesuit Yearbook.

Photograph of Frs Aidan Ennis and Sean Hughes by Dr J Gerstenberg, 25 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, possibly at Mungret College, Limerick.

Photograph of the M. Abbe l'Heritier (standing), sitting l-r: Frs William Ronan, William Sutton and Thomas Head. 4 members of the orginal staff of Mungret. Taken by Dominic Kelly SJ.

Photograph of members of the Jesuit community at Mungret.

Photograph of past Mungret men on Jesuit mission in Hong Kong. Names are back row: left to right, Thomas Cooney, George McCaul, Richard Harris, Edmund Sullivan, mise (Patrick Walsh). Front row: Frs Eddie Bourke, Richard Gallagher and George Byrne.

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

Photograph of the exterior of Mungret College, Limerick.

Photograph of the school orchestra at Mungret College, Limerick.

Photograph of the senior cricket team at Mungret College, Limerick by R. T. Ford, successor to T O'Connor, Limerick.

Photograph of the Third Club at Mungret College, with Fr Francis X. O'Sullivan SJ, taken by C & L Walsh.

Includes back row, l-r: Eric Guiry, Maurice Leahy, Paddy Kelly, Eric Cantillon, Aidan Ennis, Bro. James Kavanagh, John Purcell, Paddy Meagher, John Paul Leonard.
Middle row, l-r: Bro. George Fallon, John Redmond, Paddy Coffey, Michael O'Meara, Kieran Fitzgerald, Gerry McLaughlin, Paddy Crowe, Bro. Paddy Brady, Brendan Murray.
Front row: Bro. Thomas Murphy, Jack Brennan, Cyril Perrott, Rev. Fr John J. MacMahon, Redmond Roche, Tom Kelly, John Deevy.

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).

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);

Photographs depicting views of Mungret.

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 of Mungret College, Limerick students out walking.

Photographs of rugby teams at Mungret College, Limerick.

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

Black and white photographs of the choir at Mungret.

Photographs of the Mungret players.

Plaque to commemorate the association of the past students of Mungret, and the building of this hall.

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

Postcard showing the exterior view of Mungret College, Limerick.

Postcard showing the interior of the chapel at Mungret College.

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

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

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

Printed letter from Fr Joseph Bourke, Mungret College to the Lord Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese of Limerick concerning the establishment of the Crescent School in Limerick, his involvement with it and the subsequent opening of Mungret College under his direction.

Programme for a conference for major and minor Seminarians, and Lay students to be given by the Spiritual Father or Superior once a week by Fr John J McMahon SJ (Visitor).

Programme of studies for the Junior Classes at Mungret College, Limerick, (Rudiments, III. Grammar, II. Grammar, I. Grammar) referencing books used for Book-Keeping, English, French, Greek, History and Geography, Irish, Latin, Mathematics in Xmas, Easter and Summer Terms

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

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

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).

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.

Prospectus (in brochure format) for Mungret College.

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.

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

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

Raffle ticket and notice seeking support for the new ball alleys at Mungret College.

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

Report of the Apostolic School of Mungret, Limerick

Annual report of the Irish Apostolic School, Mungret, 1895. Missing covers, and first few pages. Printed by O'Connor, Printer, 20, George Street, Limerick.

Report on Mungret College, Limerick.

Results of students attending Mungret College, Limerick.

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.

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.

Revised Custom Book for Apostolic students following the integration of the Apostolic School and Lay School.

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.

Rough plan depicting the extent of the Mungret property.

Rules for lay boys at 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).

Scheme for Mungret College approved by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, with pencil annotations.

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

Short biography of Fr William Ronan SJ by Rev. James F. Cassidy, BA entitled 'A Saintly Irish Jesuit'.

Some Jesuit Contributions to Irish Education: A Study of the Work of Irish Members of the Society of Jesus in connection with the Irish College, Salamanca (1592-1610); Mungret College, Limerick (1881 to 1889): St. Stanislaus College. Tullabeg 1818 to 1886): and University College, Dublin (1883 to 1909)

Two Volumes

Thomas J. Morrissey, M.A.

Ph.D Degree N-U.I.
Faculty of Arts, University Collge, Cork.
Department of education: Professor V.A. McClelland.

1975

Some Jesuit Contributions to Irish Education: A Study of the Work of Irish Members of the Society of Jesus in connection with the Irish College, Salamanca (1592-1610); Mungret College, Limerick (1881 to 1889): St. Stanislaus College. Tullabeg 1818 to 1886): and University College, Dublin (1883 to 1909)

Two Volumes

Thomas J. Morrissey, M.A.

Ph.D Degree N-U.I.
Faculty of Arts, University Collge, Cork.
Department of education: Professor V.A. McClelland.

1975

Souvenir entitled ‘The Ignatian Album: reminiscences of St. Ignatius at Manresa and Barcelona. Souvenir de S. Ignace en Espagna’ dedicated to Fr Patrick Keating SJ, Provincial. Dedication by Fr Francis H Daly SJ, Mungret College, 20 January 1895. Printed and published by Guy & Co. Ltd, Limerick.

Speculations of Fr John Fahy SJ concerning the possible (or impossible) ways of dealing with the complaints that had been made about the way the Apostolic School and its funds and pupils had been treated. This seems to have been written prior to the Decree of Propaganda in June 1921.

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.

Comparative numbers of Priests, Scholastics and Brothers in the five colleges - Clongowes, Belvedere, Galway, Crescent and Mungret.

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.

Status Temporalis for Mungret College.

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.

Suggestions, submitted by the Trustees, Lord Emly and others for a new scheme for Mungret.

Summary by [ ] of the facts concerning the transfer of Mungret from the Trustees firstly to Fr Joseph Bourke and subsequently to the Society of Jesus in the name of Frs William Ronan SJ and Thomas Finlay SJ.

Summary written by [ ] of Rev. Fr Director's opening speech at the Sodality Conference concerning the Apostolic Students.

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

Text of a speech by Irish Fr Provincial delivered at a meeting of the Mungret Union.

Text of a play by Fr Edward Cahill SJ entitled 'The Abbot of Mungret: a drama in four acts', published by the Office of the Irish Messenger.

The Apostolic Record, Mungret College:

Vol. 1, No.2 - January 1912;
Vol. 1, No.3 - 1915;

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.

Photocopies relating to the Golden Jubilee of Mungret College.

Manuscript by Fr Francis Finegan SJ entitled 'The Jesuit Community of Mungret College 1882-1974'.

• 1st edition Christmas 1897
• 1907 (2 editions in 1907; 25th anniversary of founding of college)
• No annuals were published between 1969 and 1973; http://www.mungret.com/category/annuals-archive/

1st edition Christmas 1897

Copy of the Mungret Eagle, Vol. 1, No. 2 which details past pupils activities, news and the annual union dinner.

Book by L. H. Lehmann, S.T.L. entitled 'The Soul of a Priest. My Conversion to the Pauline Succession'. Includes a chapter entitled 'My
Duel with the Jesuits in which he discusses the Mungret Case and his involvement in the case (pp74 - 89), and on his days at Mungret College (pp24 - 33).

Tracing of the Mungret College crest.

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

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).

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 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 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:

• 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)