Documents relating to three shows organised in order to raise money for the Building Fund: 'A Royal Jester', an operetta produced by the past and present pupils of the Presentation Convent on 22-23 January 1953, 'An Tostal' charity concert on 19 April 1953; and a concert on 8 November 1953, featuring the singers Rita Dwan, Delia Murphy, Joseph McNally and Leo McGuire. Includes programmes, newspaper articles and ads, notices, andnother documents relevant to the performances.

Includes programmes, newspaper reviews and adverts, and correspondence in relation to individual events, as well as a ledger entitled 'Crescent Times'. 'Crescent Time' programmes detail the performances and format of the evening, which includes songs, theatricals, comedy routines, raffles, 'Question Time' etc; Personality Concert programmes display a photograph of the main attraction: singers and musicians, such as Michael Joyce, Patrick McManus, Francois d'Albert etc, and give details of the format of the evening. The ledger contains an alphabetical index and handwritten entries, as well as various insertions, some of which are glued onto pages, and some of which are loose. The index contains names and contact details of performers and other professionals associated with the theatre and performing. The main body of the ledger contains accounts in relation to individual shows, not only for the 'Crescent Time' and personality concerts, but also Centenary concerts. The insertions include programmes, notices, newspaper reviews, letters etc. Correspondence includes letters from performers in relation to arrangements, from the compere Conn Shanahan, from others involved in the productions, as well as from those to whom free tickets were sent.

Documents regarding the theatricals staged by the College's past pupils, who came to be known as the Old Crescent Players. Includes programmes and an undated newspaper review of 'The Strong Are Lonely', which was based on the experience of the Jesuit missionaries to Paraguay.

Programme for 'The Gondoliers' performed by the Cecilian Operatic Society, with local advertisements.

Programmes, ads, newspaper reviews and admission tickets for various shows performed in the Crescent Concert Hall. The entertainments include charity concerts, a piano recital, a Marian year pageant produced by the pupils of the Presentation Convent: 'Crown of Glory', a Feile Luimni prizewinners concert, and a recital by Bernadette Greevy, contralto, and Margaret MacKenzie, piano.

Programme for 'Readings' which occurred at Sacred Heart College, Crescent House. The drama 'Oliver Twist' occurred in part two.

Programmes, newspaper notices, invitations, tickets, and reviews relating to theatricals, including comedies, tragedies, operettas, librettos and pantomimes, staged by pupils of the Sacred Heart College. Includes a bound copy of a programme for the Crescent College pantomime of 1901, presented by 'Miss Claire Hanrahan in 1955' to the Crescent College. Also includes some correspondence, including a letter from Fr William Lockington SJ (16 February 1907; 1 page) a [draft] letter in Irish advising participation in a festival of Gaelic drama (nd.; 1 page), for which there is also a newspaper review from 10 March 1945. Reviews of the three pages staged in the years 1858, 1963 and 1964 are to be found respectively in three copies of 'Our Catholic Life', a quarterly magazine of the Diocese of Limerick. Some correspondence re. plays and performances is also included.

Programmes and notice for concerts on 17 March of 1952 and 1955. Both years' concerts feature singing and dancing - mostly with Irish themes - by various groups, and the 1952 concert begins with an historic pageant, performed by the girls of the Presentation Convent, Limerick: 'The Siege of Limerick, 1651'.

BA thesis by Joseph Donnellan on ‘The Cecilian Musical Society. A Social History’, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.

Programmes and advertisements for, and correspondence regarding the concerts. The programmes give details of the playlist of the concerts, which sometimes feature celebrity singers, such as Joseph McNally (tenor) and Michael O'Duffy (lyric tenor). The correspondence includes a letter from Michael O'Duffy in relation to the arrangements for his performance (13 September 1952, 1 page),