Posted by For over 70 years Irish-British Province has served local Church in Ireland and United Kingdom. Here are the key dates from its history:
| 1931 | Minor seminary opened in Hadzor House Droitwich; Named St Richards College. |
| 1936 | First issue of The Word, monthly family magazine; publishing suspended in 1940, reappeared in 1946 as a quarterly; in 1953 the magazine began to be edited in Ireland as a monthly pictorial |
| 1939 | St Patrick’s Noviciate house opened at Donamon Castle, Co Roscommon |
| April 1947 | Independent British-Irish Province (until then part of the Lower German Province) |
| 1948 | St David’s College in Carrog, Wales, opened as centre for late vocations |
| 1957 | Printing began in Donamon |
| 1965 | First SVD students sent to National Seminary in Maynooth for theological studies |
| July 1965 | British-Irish Province divides into two independent British and Irish provinces |
| 1968 | SVDs and six other missionary congregations founded Missionary Institute London as a training centre for students for missionary priesthood |
| 1969 | Divine Word Mission House opened in Maynooth |
| 1973 | First issue of KAIROS catechetical and aducational magazine |
| 1980 | Philosophy students move from Donamon to Maynooth |
| 1991 | Divine Word Schood of English opened in Maynooth |
| 1992 | last issuse of KAIROS magazine; Kairos moves towards audio/video, TV production and training courses |
| 1999 | Irish and British provinces united again and formed Irish-British Province |
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