Qualla: St Stanislaus College https://qualla.com/st-stanislaus-college en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/st-stanislaus-college-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: St Stanislaus College https://qualla.com/st-stanislaus-college St Stanislaus College: Introduction https://qualla.com/st-stanislaus-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. They called it the Bog. The Jesuits running St Stanislaus College in Tullabeg, County Offaly, used the formal Latin title—Domus Probationis et Studiorum Tulliolana, the House of Formation and Studies at Tullamore—but everybody who lived there knew the place by its other name. The Bog. It was meant affectionately, more or less. The college stood on damp ground in Rahan, a Jesuit-shaped island in the central midlands where, between 1818 and 1991, young men prepared for the priesthood, gentry boys received a Catholic boarding-school education, and a remarkable cast of priests, poets, photographers, and dissenters passed through doors that have since been boarded up.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/st-stanislaus-college-wp/gc6p-st-stanislaus-college-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full St Stanislaus College: St Carthage's Eight Hundred Monks https://qualla.com/st-stanislaus-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Jesuits did not arrive in an empty field. In 595, St Carthage—Mochuda, the future founder of Lismore—is said to have established a monastery here with 800 monks before relocating south. The site was already sacred ground when the Jesuits returned to Ireland after the dissolut...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/st-stanislaus-college-wp/gc6p-st-stanislaus-college-st-carthages-eight-hundred-monks.mp3 0:06 2 full St Stanislaus College: Education and the Royal University https://qualla.com/st-stanislaus-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. Under William Delany's rectorship from 1870 to 1880, Tullabeg developed an unusual academic ambition. Like Carlow College and St Patrick's College, Thurles, it had its students matriculated and examined externally by the University of London for BA degrees—a workaround for Cathol...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/st-stanislaus-college-wp/gc6p-st-stanislaus-college-education-and-the-royal-university.mp3 0:06 3 full St Stanislaus College: The Novitiate and the Photographer https://qualla.com/st-stanislaus-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. From 1888, Tullabeg became a novitiate for Jesuit recruits—the place where men in their late teens or early twenties began the long formation that could last fifteen years. In 1918 it was formalised as a House of Probation and Studies. Among the novices who spent time at Tullabeg...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/st-stanislaus-college-wp/gc6p-st-stanislaus-college-the-novitiate-and-the-photographer.mp3 0:06 4 full St Stanislaus College: Hopkins on Retreat https://qualla.com/st-stanislaus-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. Gerard Manley Hopkins—the great Victorian Jesuit poet, then Professor of Classics at University College Dublin—came to Tullabeg in his final year, 1888–1889, for what would be his last retreat. His notes from those days are some of the bleakest writing in nineteenth-century Engli...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/st-stanislaus-college-wp/gc6p-st-stanislaus-college-hopkins-on-retreat.mp3 0:06 5 full St Stanislaus College: Stained Glass and Final Closure https://qualla.com/st-stanislaus-college/ Photo credit MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0. The chapel at Tullabeg held seven stained-glass windows by Evie Hone, one of the great Irish modernist artists of the twentieth century, commissioned by rector Donal O'Sullivan in the 1940s. The altar was designed by the architect Michael Scott with an altar front carved by Laure...

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