Blank card with the inscription ‘Hodie Christus Natus Est’, a cross and a crest of St Ignatius College, Galway on the front cover.

Invitation card to Díospóireacht (Debate) at Coláiste Iognáid, Galway: ‘Gur mó de contúirt ná a mhalairt tionchar ná tat aontaithe ar an tír seo’. Details those on the government side (An Rialtas) and the opposition (An Freasúra).

Invitation card, order of service and hymn sheet for the service of remembrance at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Remembrance Sunday, Armistice Day, 11 November 1928 (perhaps an Irish Jesuit attended the service).

Menu of a complimentary dinner given for Fr Thomas Finlay SJ ‘First Hon(ourary) Member of the Columbians’ at the Imperial Hotel, Dublin. Signed by Fr Finlay.

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.

Easter card from Prof. Jack Watt to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ containing domestic news. Encloses publisher’s notice for Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad’s book on Archbishop Richard FitzRalph, A Fourteenth-Century Scholar and Primate: Richard FitzRalph in Oxford, Avignon, and Armagh (1981).

Card published by the National Gallery of Ireland, of the Walter Osborne (1859-1903) portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’ (age 6). (Osborne was Fr Gwynn’s god-father). Portrait was presented to the Gallery in 1979 by Fr Gwynn’s sister.

Christmas cards from Prof. Ludwig and Eva Bieler; Prof. John and Yvonne Morrall and Prof. Geoffrey Hand.

Birthday cards for Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s 90th birthday. Includes card signed by 46 Jesuits in Milltown Park and card from Bishop Hanson and his wife (former Bishop of Clogher).

Christmas card from Fr Aubrey Gwynn sister-in-law, Alice Gwynn.

Invitation from Taoiseach Charles Haughey to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to a reception in the Irish Parliament House at the Bank of Ireland, College Green, to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Declaration of Independence by Grattan’s Parliament and the Convention of the Ulster Volunteers in Dungannon.

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.

Letters and cards of congratulation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the 50th anniversary of his ordination on 13 July 1974. Includes:
– letters from various Columban sisters invited to attend the Golden Jubilee celebrations (15 July -3 August 1964, 7 items);
– letter of congratulation from Fr General Pedro Arrupe SJ (2 July 1974, 1p.);
– letters from Alice Moore (Fr Gwynn’s sister-in-law) (22, 31 July 1974, 2 items) (see also J10/20; 21; 51);
– letter from Fr Thomas J. Fullerton (see J10/15) (27 July 1974, 2pp);
– letters from various Jesuits (including Frs Des O'Grady, E.J. Andrews, John Neary and Fergus Cronin) and letter from Prof. Geoffrey Hand (30 July 1974, 2pp).
See also J10/31; 49; 68; 256; 257.

A file of programmes for the Lower Line Debating Society at Clongowes wood College SJ, 1922-1923; 1923-1924; Easter 1956.

Graph in pen depicting Number of Boys in attendance - possibly at Masses at Clongowes Wood College SJ.

Invitation to Fr Provincial to attend a garden party at Xavier College, Kew, Melbourne, Australia to celebrate the jubilee of the Archbishop of Melbourne.

Christmas card from Fr Vincent Byrne SJ, Mungret College, Limerick to Fr Patrick Connolly SJ.

Programme of two plays performed at Clongowes Wood College SJ, Easter 1884, 'The Merchant of Venice' by William Shakespeare followed by 'Done on Both Sides' by John Maddison Morton, accompanied by Music.

"Place Card" 3rd place in Arithmetic for Patrick Governey, Poetry, Clongowes Wood College SJ.

A file of devotional cards for different sodalities at Clongowes Wood College SJ:

• Sodality of the Blessed Virgin - 1935-1936; 1936-1937 (2 items);
• Sodality of Our Lady - 1938-1939 (special issue in memory of St Andrew Bobola SJ, canonised 1938) and a regular card (2 items);
• Sodality of Or Lady of The Immaculate Conception - 1933-1934; 1934-1935; 1939-1940;
• Sodality of The Holy Angels (Lower Line) - 1933-1934; 1934-1935; 1935-1936; 1936-1937 (4 items).

A file relating to the Centenary celebration of Clongowes Wood College SJ:

• "Programme of Centenary Celebrations, Clongowes Wood College SJ - 31 May, 1 June, 2 June and 4 June 1914 (5 copies, 4pp each);
• "Luncheon Card" for Centenary Celebrations, Clongowes Wood College SJ - May 31st;
• invitation Card for dinner at Centenary Celebrations, Clongowes Wood College SJ - 31 May 1914. It included travel arrangements to and from Kingsbridge Station, Dublin (2 copies);
• programme for "Cricket Match, Band Performance" Centenary Celebrations, Clongowes Wood College SJ - 4 June 1914. Included is the programme of music for the day, performed by HM 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment (4pp);
• "Centenary Dinner" Menu, 31 May 1914. Includes the programme of music performed by The Band of the Queen's Own Hussars (2pp);
• accounts sheet showing a list of donors to the "Clongowes Wood College SJ Centenary Fund" (7pp);
• list which is prepared by students for students "The Clongowes Centenary" on how to prepare for this event (14 February 1914, 1p);
• Clongowes Wood College "School Song". Music by WH Grattan-Flood, Mus D, KSG. Woods by JEC (2 copies, 2p each);
• letter from Fr Nicholas J Tomkin SJ, Rector, Clongowes Wood College SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan outlining discussion and decisions to the Centenary planning committee, and inviting response. (16 February 1914, 2pp);
• letter from Michael F O'Dwyer, Government House, Lahore, Pakistan, a past pupil of St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, sending a donation to the Centenary Fund, and wising the committee well (24 Match 1914, 1p);
• formal invitation card from Fr Rector Nicholas J Tomkin SJ, Rector, Community of Clongowes Wood College SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ to the Centenary Celebrations 31 May 1914, beginning with Pontifical High Mass;
• photocopy an article in 'The Freeman's Journal' giving a full account of the Centenary celebrations, including the sermon of Fr Robert Kane SJ, and the other speeches of the day, including an address to and reply from Mr John E Redmond. It also includes a page of photographs from the event (1 June 1914, 3pp);
• original copy of a follow up article on the Centenary in the "Freeman's Journal" (6 June 2014, 4pp);
• copy of letter from Fr Rector Nicholas J Tomkin SJ to Mr John Redmond MP, inviting him to form a fundraising Committee for Clongowes Wood College SJ among other past pupils in London and throughout England and Scotland (19 June 2014, 2pp).

"In Almo Collegio Societatis Jesu Cluenensi" - ode written in Latin in honour of Clongowes (4 copies, 4pp each). Published by John Shuley and Company, Printers, Dublin.

Blank invitation card from St Mary's, Emo.

Invitation for dinner from the President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland to Dr Michael Cox.

‘Prayer to Guardian Angel & Certificate of Membership’ card from the Sodality of the “Holy Angels”, St Ignatius College, SJ, Galway.

Catalogue entry and ordination card for Fr Charles Heron SJ.

Card with a copy of a drawing by Fr Laurence Kearns SJ, on RTE. On reverse, pray by St Ignatius Loyola. Description of ‘A portrait of Christ made on Television’ by Fr Kearns taken from 'The Mungret Annual', 1964.

Handbook entitled 'Parish Sodalists Red Book' belonging to Fr John B Kerr SJ. Includes booklets, sample membership cards and sodality seals. The articles are aimed at a American audience. Includes 'An Introduction to the Sodalities of Our Lady' by Fr Douglas E. Daly SJ and 'Moderator's Manual for the St. Mary's Integrated Four-Year High School Sodality Program'.

Ticket for a film on the life of Fr John Sullivan SJ, 'Of whom the worlds knows least’, held at Columban Hall, Sea Road, Galway. Sponsored by the St Ignatius Past Pupils’ Union.

Ordination card for Fr John McAvoy SJ.

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

Prayer card for the souls of deceased members of the Garda Síochána Sodality, based at St Francis Xavier's Church, and calendar of names of deceased members.

Membership card for the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street.

Material relating to Fr Frederick Paye SJ including correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, personal record, ordination card and application to join the Society.

Invitation card which admits John Bury to ‘A Course of Spiritual Exercises’ given to the members of the Society of St Vincent De Paul by the Jesuits from 26 March - 1 April 1860.

Mounted paper colour sketch by Miss Evie Hone, found in the room of Fr Daniel Shields SJ after his death.

Invitation to Mr Fergal McGrath SJ to attend the wedding of his sister, Mercedes.

A file of memorial cards and prayer cards belonging to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ.

• Clause O'Conor Mallins, 1914;
• Rev, John Healy D.D., 1918;
• Daniel Joseph McGrath, 1928;
• Matthias McDonnell Bodkin, 1933;
• Christina Cribbin, 1940;
• Francis Noel O'Brien, 1944;
• Mother Teresa Magdalen of the Holy Face (Mary Rose Bodkin), 1955;
• Mother M. Joseph O.P., 1957;
• Patrick Corcoran, 1970;
• Thomas Bodkin, 1961;

Prayer cards depicting the Shrine of Our Lady of Benada, Convent of the Sisters of Charity, Benada Abbey, County Sligo, with signature of Patrick Durcan written.

Two Christmas cards to Fr Daniel J Shields SJ from Mrs Clare Sheridan. Cards include photographs of Mr Sheridan with her religious sculptures, 'Conscious memories of Mrs Clare Sheridan from previous reincarnations'.

Card advertising a debate between the Cumann na Gaelige, Coláiste Mungairit and Cumann Gaelach Coláiste Iognáid, Gallimh, entitled ‘Gur tabhachtai d’ eirinn an talmhaiocht na aon tionscal eile’.

Index cards, arranged alphabetically, of former students of Mungret who later became Jesuits. Various information on cards which include names, date of entry and departure from Mungret, place of philosophy, date of ordination and mission. (Dates relate to late nineteenth and early twentieth century, for example, 91 - 95 is 1891 - 1895; 26-6-07 is 26/06/1907)

File of mission material relating to Fr Timothy Doody SJ. Includes passport photograph; identity papers; personal record; announcement of death; obituary; Ten Yuan Held Bank Note - The Bank of Ming Tung - Currency for the Other World (1941); ‘residence and identity card issued by puppet government in Shanghai’; invitations to weddings; and correspondence between Fr Doody and Frs Thomas J. Martin, Vincent Murphy and Thomas O'Brien, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Mortuary card for Fr Kenneth Flood SJ and sympathy card from Fr Flood's family.

Invitation card to Mrs O'Riordan to the Feast of St Ignatius at the Church of St Ignatius, Galway where high mass will be celebrated. Envelope with stamp attached.

Reply for sending of Christmas card by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

Assortment of invitation cards for Belvedere College plays: 'The Gondoliers' (1941), 'Ruddigore' (1945) and 'The Mikado' (1947).

Irish Film Society members card for season.

Documents regarding the academic achievements of Crescent pupils, including two members of the Doyle family - Daniel and Charles. Includes merit cards awarded to the latter, and a letter regarding a prize in books awarded to the former by the Intermediate Education Board. Also includes a certificate of excellence awarded to Bernard Begg in 1888.

Limerick Branch activity of Crescent Past Pupils's Union - relating to the annual dinners organised by the Union in Limerick. Includes invitations, tickets, menus, newspaper articles reporting on the nights' events, including elections of new presidents, and speeches made.

Lists under the headings 'Receipts', 'Payments', 'Lodgements' and 'Expenditure' relating to the income and
expenditure associated with the Crescent Carnival held at Belfield Park from 13-29 May 1949. Accompanied by thank you cards addressed to those who had supported the carnival, and signed by Fr Timothy Mulcahy SJ.

Includes image of the Sacred Heart, and an explanation of the object of the Association, viz. 'to keep a Lamp perpetually burning before the Statue of the Sacred Heart [in the Church of the Sacred Heart]'. Also includes a prayer to the Sacred Heart.

Menu cards for Irish Club annual re-union on St Patrick's Day in Limerick.

A file relating to the Clongowes Union 1897-1947 :

1. "Programme of Music" for the Clongowes Union Inaugural Dinner, (The Shelbourne Hotel, 16 November 1897, 4pp);
2. Alphabetical List of attendees at the Clongowes Union Inaugural Dinner, (The Shelbourne Hotel, 16 November 1897, 10pp);
3. A list of Officers of the Clongowes Union appointed to carry on the work of the Union until the General Meeting of 5 June 1898 (1p);
   4 . A "Draft Rules of The Clongowes Union" for consideration at the General Meeting in Clongowes on 5 June 1898 (4pp);
4. Menu card and Programme of Music for the Clongowes Union (4 June 1905);
5. Menu card and Programme of Music for the Clongowes Union (no date);
6. A page taken from the 1908, 'The Clongownian' (pp 73 & 74), with a photograph of Union Day in front of the Castle, and the first part of a report on The Clongowes Union Annual Meeting (2pp);
7. The Clongowes Union "Rules and List of Members 1913" Printed by Browne & Nolan Limited, Printers, Nassau Street Dublin (22pp);
8. Photocopy of a newspaper photographs in the Irish Independent entitled "Clongowes Union" (7 June 1926, 1p & 3 photographs);
9. Photocopy of a newspaper article entitled "Union Day at Clongowes" (26 June 1926, 1p);
10. Booklet of The Clongowes Union Rules 1934 (7pp) published by Brindleys Limited, Printers, Eustace Street, Dublin (8pp);
11. Booklet "The Clongowes Union 1897-1947. A Review of the Union's History and Annual Report" published by Brindleys Limited, Printers, Eustace Street, Dublin (Golden Jubilee Year, 2 copies, 22pp);
12. Two wide angle photographs pasted on a single card depicting the gathering of The Clongowes Union (top) and those gathered for Union Day (bottom). Cardinal Logue is seated in the centre of the top photograph and John Redmond in the centre of bottom photograph. The photographs were produced by Keogh Brothers, Photographers, Dorset Street, Dublin for the centenary celebration of Clongowes Wood College, 1914. For names see: SC/CLON/168 - Commemorative booklet of the Sesquicentenary of Clongowes Wood College SJ.

Records of both Religious and Private Retreats held at Milltown Park, Dublin which includes names, addresses and payments. Reference to retreats for Priests, Catholic Commercial Club, Clongowes Recent Past, Belvedere Recent Past, Mungret College Past Pupils, Old IRA, Department of Finance, Drapers, Irish Speakers…

15 August 1892 - 20 November 1911;
15 September 1913 - 18 April 1921;
1921-1929;
20 January 1930 - 19 February 1938;
5 March 1938 - 23 December 1949;
7 January 1950 - 16 October 1959;
May 1959 - March 1968;

• includes souvenir of Retreat at Milltown Park, Dublin;
• list of retreats at Milltown Park, Dublin (1881; 1953; 1954; 8 January - 30 April 1968);
• revised order of time for three-day retreat, school retreat and Belvedere College retreat;
• admittance card for retreats at Milltown Park, Dublin with Order of exercises on the reverse;
• call for funds for Milltown Park House of Retreat - renovation and decoration of chapel (23 July 1926).

Electricity Ration Card for James O'Brien, 30 Pearse Street, Nenagh, County Tipperary.

Documents relating to the events organised in 1959 to celebrate the centenary of the return of the Jesuits to Limerick. Includes invitations to a 'Triduum of Thanksgiving' in the Sacred Heart Church, of which the Pontifical High Mass was celebrated by Dr Henry Murphy, Bishop of Limerick, on Sunday 8 March. Correspondence includes telegrams and letters, and comprises of congratulations from other Jesuit houses, the Fr General and the Vatican, as well as from lay organisations, such as the National Bank and An Garda Siochana, and replies to invitations to attend the ceremonies. Also includes the typed transcript of a sermon preached at one of the centenary ceremonies, as well as souvenir programmes for the play 'The Strong are Lonely' by Frtitz Hochwaelder, staged by the Old Crescent Players in February 1959 as part of the centenary celebrations, newspaper reports, and souvenir cards. There is also a handwritten document with the heading 'Centenary', which lists the names and addresses of subscribers and amounts pledged.

Includes correspondence between Fr Frank Finegan SJ. and Irish Fr Provincial Michael A. O'Grady SJ and a copy of a newspaper article by Fr Finegan about the ‘Limerick Jesuit Centenary Record’.

Souvenir card for the centenary of the re-establishment of the Society of Jesus in Limerick.

Invitation cards to cultural events in Belvedere College SJ being used for a spiritual talk given by an unknown Jesuit.

Hardcover card sized booklet for 1923-1924 Debating Society, Belvedere College SJ, listing Officers, dates and topics of debates, and a list of Members.

Invitation card for the Annual General Meeting of the Belvedere Newsboys Club.

Material collected by Fr Stephen Brown SJ. Includes:

• programmes for plays and theatricals at Belvedere College (La Grammaire and Martiana, 1927; Ruddigore, 1928; Iolanthe, 1929; Patience, 1931; Princess Ida, 1932; The Yeoman of the Guard, 1933; The Sorcerer, 1934, Ruddigore, 1935; Iolanthe, 1936; The Pirates of Penzance, 1937; Patience, 1938; The Mikado, 1939; The Yeoman of the Guard, 1940);
• programme for Old Belvedere Dramatic Society play, The Upper Room, 1928;
• programme for distribution of prizes and musical entertainment (June 1930) and
• ticket to plays (1947).

Documents relating to examination results and prize-giving ceremonies at the school. Includes printed leaflets containing 'Prize and Distinction' lists: the names of all those who distinguished themselves in particular examinations, including the various subjects of the Leaving and Intermediate certificates. Leaflets also contain information regarding the award of prizes to those pupils who obtained high marks in public examinations, and medals to those who had achieved excellence in debating. Information relating to the theatrical and concert programmes and special debates which often accompanied the ceremonies is also given on some years' leaflets, and occasionally on a separate sheet. Other information given on these documents includes the academic and career successes of past pupils, as well as reminders of term dates. Includes two very early lists of examination results (from 1859 and 1860), when the school was known as St Munchin's College. Also includes invitations to some prize-giving ceremonies.

Card inviting parents of College pupils to a meeting in the College Hall on Wednesday 9 December 1964 at 8pm.

Card for Clongowes Wood College Union Day with programme of music and menu.

Two newspaper articles, one from 1909 and one from 1929, relating to the fiftieth and seventieth anniversaries (respectively) of the return of the Jesuits to Limerick, and the establishment of the College. Also includes an invitation to a Mass of Thanksgiving in the Sacred Heart Church on 30 June 2006, to 'mark the service given to Limerick City and County by the Jesuit Community...', and text of homily.

Includes souvenir card of the golden jubilee of the Society of Jesus in Limerick [1909].

Material relating to Fr William Hogan SJ, including admission details, catalogue entry, and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincial.

Photographs of Innsbruck, Austria; of Fr Brendan Lawler’s ordination and first Mass there; and of Tullabeg, Rahan, Tullamore, County Offaly. The ordination photos are accompanied two souvenir cards issued to commemorate the occasion (17 July 1938). The Tullabeg photos consist of groups of members of the community, and a view of the handball alley.