Group photograph of students of Coláiste Iognáid, Galway, on stage during a play. Students are dressed as woman, a gardai, a prisoner and an archbishop - ‘This troupe, having won the Schools Competition in Connaught, went on to win the National Competition in Dublin’. Names are printed on mounted photograph. Includes Peader Feeney, later to become a Jesuit. Taken by photographer, Dowler, Presentation Road, Galway.

Programmes of dramas and concerts performed by Jesuit Juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Christmas 1932 ‘Ambrose Applejohn’s Adventure’
Christmas 1935 ‘The man from Buenos Aires’ (An fear as Buenos Aires)
26 November 1936 Feast of St. John Berchmans
Christmas 1936 Rathfarnham Castle Debating Society
Christmas 1937 ‘Lord Babs’
Christmas 1938 ‘Professor Tim’
Christmas 1938 Rathfarnham Castle Debating Society
Christmas 1938 An Cumann Gaedhealach
Christmas 1949 ‘The Grandmother clock’
Christmas 1950 Christmas plays
Christmas 1950 ‘Jack Strauss and the Seven Dwarfs’
26 November 1950 Feast of St. John Berchmans
Christmas 1951 ‘The Terror’
Christmas 1951 ‘An Ruincleireach’
26 November 1951 Feast of St. John Berchmans
Christmas 1952 ‘Tons of Money’
Christmas 1952 ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’
Christmas 1953 ‘X = 0’ & ‘Brother Wolf’
Christmas 1953 Pantomime & Concert
Christmas 1953 ‘Cuirm Ceoil’
March 1954 ‘The Singer’ & ‘Cuirm Ceoil’
Christmas 1954 ‘Riders to the Sea’ & ‘The Bespoke Overcoat’
Christmas 1955 ‘They got what they wanted’ & ‘An Dochtuir Breige’
Christmas 1955 ‘Aladdin and his lame’
1955 ‘Rock and Rome’
Christmas 1956 ‘Professor Tim’ & ‘Cruit agus Dhá Cruit’
Christmas 1957 ‘Labhartar Bearla Annseo’ & ‘The Devil a Saint would be’
Christmas 1958 ‘An chuis dli’ & ‘Is the priest at home’
Christmas 1959 ‘The Winslow Boy’
Christmas 1959 Rathfarnham Castle Debating Society
Christmas 1960 ‘The Ringer’ & ‘An rod seo romham’

Programmes of dramas and concerts performed by Jesuit Juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Includes:

• Christmas 1927 Lapa an Apa
• Christmas 1929 An Bunnán Buidhe
• [.1941] The Blue Dodder
• [1911-1939] Lyrics to short songs

Includes notes by Patrick Hume SJ (2019) on both plays and participants. Material taken from the Jesuit library, Milltown Park, before the transfer to DCU (2019).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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),

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.

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

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

Photograph of scenes and cast member groups from various school theatrical productions. Includes scenes from 'Captain X' (1931) and 'Les Cloches de Corneville', (1952), as well as groups of cast members.

Album of photographs of scenes and groups of cast members from various OCP productions including 'The First Legion' (March 1956), 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' (November 1958), 'The Strong are Lonely' (February 1959), as well as several photos of a group of the Old Crescent Players and Associates (accompanied by a handwritten list identifying the subjects). Also includes prints of members of the cast of, and scenes from a play about St Bernadette of Lourdes.

A file relating to the Performing Right Society Ltd, 4 Clare Street, Dublin. Includes letters to Fr John R MacMahon SJ, Rector, Milltown Park, Dublin concerning the obtaining of the Performing Right Society's permission before copyright musical works it controls can be performed. Refers specifically to plays performed at Milltown Park, Dublin.

Scrapbook entitled ‘Crescent College Theatricals’ containing reviews of annual school musical. Insertions consist of correspondence and accounts relating to the productions in the 1950s.

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.

Photograph of the cast of the Belvedere College Dramatic Society in 'Vice Versa'. Reproduced on p71, 'The Belvederian', 1924.

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).

Programmes of dramas and concerts performed by Jesuits at Milltown Park, Dublin;

October 1925, ‘Cuirm Ceol’
Christmas 1925, ‘The Gondoliers, The King of Barataria’
Christmas 1925, ‘The Lord Mayor’
10 February 1926, Concert
Christmas 1926, ‘The Private Secretary’
Christmas 1926, ‘The Yeoman of the Guard’
Nd., ‘The Clonskeagh Cocktail and Milltown General Adventure’

Programmes of dramas and concerts performed by Jesuits at Milltown Park. Material collected by Fr Stephen Brown SJ (J54). Includes:

Christmas 1927 ‘She stoops to conquer’
Christmas 1928 ‘The Rivals’
December 1931 ‘The fourth wall’
Christmas 1934 ‘The Mikado of Japan’
Christmas 1935 ‘The Gondoliers’
Christmas 1936 ‘Iolanthe’
Christmas 1937 ‘The Yeoman of the Guard’
Christmas 1939 ‘Cox and Box’ and ‘HMS Pinafore’
Christmas 1941 ‘Na Scamaill’
Christmas 1941 ‘The Pirates of Penzance’
Christmas 1942 ‘The Triumph of Paul Jones’
Christmas 1943 ‘The Bells’

Programme for theologians play at Milltown Park, Dublin [1928]-[1929].
Christmas 1936, ‘Greeks go home’ & ‘Good night, Mr. O'Donnell’
Christmas 1936, ‘Iolanthe’’
Christmas 1937, ‘The Yeoman of the Guard’
Christmas 1937, ‘Na Cruitheachain’ (The Hunchbacks)
26 November 1937, Feast of St. John Berchmans
26 November 1938, Feast of St. John Berchmans
Christmas 1945, Concert
Christmas 1945, ‘The Yeoman of the Guard’
Christmas 1946, ‘An Fod Mona’
1947, ‘Cuirm Ceoil’