Chronology of Fr Edward Sydes’ life
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- c.1995
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Chronology of Fr Edward Sydes’ life.
Chronology of Fr Edward Sydes’ life
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Chronology of Fr Edward Sydes’ life.
Biographical information on Fr Francis M. Browne SJ
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Biographical information on Fr Francis M. Browne SJ, M.C., Belgian Croix de Guerre.
O'Donoghue, Fergus, Jesuit priest
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Document entitled ‘Notes on Third Level Chaplains presently appointed to the Technological Colleges of the Dublin Vocational Education Committee’. Gives details of chaplains in various V.E.C. institutions, including Bolton Street and Kevin Street.
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Document entitled ‘What is your function, Father?’, produced by the Chaplains’ Office, Kevin Street College of Technology. Explores the roles of chaplains in the Colleges of Technology.
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Documents relating to ‘The Archbishop’s Planning Commission for Third Level Colleges under the City of Dublin Vocational Education Authority’, which was established to investigate the ‘religious, educational, emotional and intellectual needs of the students’ and to ‘determine the policy to be pursued and the measures to be taken for the adequate religious education of Catholic students attending Third Level Courses in the Colleges of the City of Dublin Vocational Education Group’. Includes a report of the Commission (4 May 1971, 11 pages).
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File of correspondence relating to the nominating of Jesuit priests as priest-teachers in the Vocational Schools (Bolton Street and Kevin Street). Includes letters from Monsignor John O'Regan (on behalf of the Archbishops of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid and Dermot Ryan) to the Irish Fr Provincials (Brendan Barry and Cecil McGarry), asking the latter to forward the names of their nominees, as well as the Provincials’ replies. These replies, as well as containing the names of nominees, often refer to the problems encountered by the priest-teachers in the Colleges in relations to their work-load, professional development, status within the Colleges etc. Also includes a letter from the Archbishop’s House to Irish Provincial Fr Patrick Doyle SJ, in relation to his nominations (22 June 1976, 1 page).
Two articles on ‘The Functions of a Chaplain in a College of Third Level Education’
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Two articles on ‘The Functions of a Chaplain in a College of Third Level Education’ by Fr [Peter] Dunne SJ. Deals with the role of the chaplain in third level institutions and the facilities required by him to fulfil this role.
Dunne, Peter G, 1917-1980, Jesuit priest
Jesuit Chaplains in the Vocational Educational Committee Colleges, Dublin
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Jesuit involvement as chaplains in VEC (Vocational Educational Committee) Colleges, Dublin can be traced to the early 1940’s when a number of Irish Jesuits taught religion in technical schools in Dublin. From 1951, when Fr John McAvoy SJ (1908-1983) was appointed Spiritual Director of the Centre of Technology in Bolton Street, Jesuits have worked as chaplains at the College of Commerce, Rathmines and at the Colleges of Technology, Bolton Street and Kevin Street.
The material consists of documents which outline the establishment of the College of Technology at Bolton Street; attempts to establish a student centre (1965); chaplains’ correspondence with Fr Provincial on the status and role of chaplains: problems and issues (1965-1973), ‘John Austin House’, 135 North Circular Road (1974) and a proposal to set up Jesuit house in Dominick Street (1976); Fr Provincial’s nominations for chaplains (1968-1976); Archbishop of Dublin’s Planning Commission for V.E.C. Colleges (1971-1972); Role of college chaplains ([ ]; 1973); reports (1973-1978); The V.E.C. and chaplains (1973; 1975).
Irish Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1830-
Memorandum entitled ‘Students’ Centre for Bolton Street Apprentices’
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Memorandum entitled ‘Students’ Centre for Bolton Street Apprentices’, giving an account of a meeting of the chaplains held in October 1965 to discuss the possible establishment of a students’ centre in the College.
Jesuit Chaplains to Irish emigrants in Britain
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In the late 1940s, Fr Leonard Sheil SJ (1897-1968) travelled to Britain in an effort to serve Irish emigrants. Fr Sheil was a familiar sight on his motorbike visiting building sites, construction camps, mines, steel works, oil refineries and industrial hostels. Frs Matthew Meade (1912-1992) and Kevin Laheen (1919-2019) also provided missions.
General papers on Irish Jesuit missions;
Irish Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1830-
Biographical information on Fr John Delaney SJ
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Biographical information on Fr John Delaney SJ, M.C. Includes memorial card and obituary.
Booklet entitled ‘Father Francis Woodlock S.J. 1871 - 1940’, published by Manresa Press
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Booklet entitled ‘Father Francis Woodlock S.J. 1871 - 1940’, published by Manresa Press, Roehampton, England.
'The priest among the soldiers' edited by Martin Dempsey
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'The priest among the soldiers' edited by Martin Dempsey, (London, 1947) which includes ‘At Belsen’ by Fr Michael Morrison SJ (pp188-194).
Morrison, Michael, 1908-1973, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Telegrams and letters to the Provincial from various sources following the death of Fr John Hayes SJ
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Telegrams and letters to the Provincial from various sources following the death of Fr John Hayes SJ from typhus on 21 January 1945. Includes: telegram from the Rector of Crescent College Limerick to the Provincial (John McMahon SJ) informing him that the War Office had ‘wired Mrs. Hayes that Father John died of typhus Jan 21st’ (26 January 1945, 1p.);
– note of acknowledgement to the Provincial from Frank G. Hayes (Fr Hayes’ brother) (27 January 1945, 1p.);
– copy of letter sent to the Rector of Belvedere College (James Gubbins SJ) from Old Belvederian (1923-1931) and comrade of Fr Hayes, Captain W.A. Ward following the death of Fr Hayes (27 January 1945, 1p.);
– copy of letter sent by Joseph Gardner, S.C.F. (R.C.) (Senior Catholic Chaplain, Allied Land Forces, South East Asia) to Mgr. John Coghlan (Principal R.C. Chaplain, War Office, London) giving further details of Fr Hayes’ death (28 January 1945, 1p.);
– letter from Mgr. Coghlan to the Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ (29 January 1945; 2pp);
– letters from Rev. A. Clancy (Senior Catholic Chaplain, H.Q. 36th Division, South East Asia) and from Rev. J. Gardner, S.C.F. (R.C.) to Irish Fr Provincial John R McMahon SJ (29 January 1945, 2 items, 1p. each);
– copy of letter sent to Mrs. Hayes by her son’s Commanding Officer, Major-General Francis Festing, following his death (23 January 1945, 2pp);
– letter from Agnes Hayes to Irish Fr Provincial (13 February 1945, 1p.);
– letter to Irish Fr Provincial John R McMahon SJ from George Hickson, the chaplain who was with Fr Hayes before he died (15 February 1945, 3pp);
– copy of letter from Rev. J. Gardner to Fr D. Donnelly SJ (St. Stanislaus High School, Bandra, Bombay) listing the articles of ecclesiastical equipment of the late Fr Hayes, which Fr Gardner is sending to Fr Donnelly (17 March 1945, 1p.);
– copy of an Appreciation of Fr Hayes written by Rev. Terence M. Hogan, C.F. (R.C.)(Fr Hayes’ Senior Chaplain for six months) (19 March 1945, 1p.) and
– label tags ‘O.H.M.S. Deceased Officer’s Kit’ for Fr Hayes’ property (n.d., 3 items).
Coghlan, John, 1888-1963, Roman Catholic Monsignor and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Richard Kennedy SJ immediately after the Second World War
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Richard Kennedy SJ from the 5th Replacement Camp, Manila, Philippines, Military Hospital, Moira, County Down and the College of the Rhine Army, Göttingen, following his time as a Japanese POW. immediately
Kennedy, Richard J, 1906-1986, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial John McMahon SJ from Mgr J.M. Coghlan
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial John R McMahon SJ from Mgr John M. Coghlan (Principal Chaplain (R.C.) concerning the chaplains’ release from the Army; the War Office’s request to retain the services of a number of them and the urgent need for Jesuits to work on the Hong Kong Mission. Includes copy letter to Fr Edward J. Warner SJ (Staff Chaplain to Mgr. Coghlan) from the Irish Fr Provincial in reply to the War Office’s request to retain the services of Fr Conal Murphy SJ. ‘I am sorry to say that I am worse off than ever for men, having received the other day a cable from Fr Joy, the Superior of our Hong Kong Mission, asking me to send out twelve men. As he and his fellow-missioners have been through a very rough time, as you can well imagine, I am anxious to send this help as soon as possible…I regret very much, then, that I cannot spare Fr Murphy, as I know by experience what it means to have vacancies yawning wide around one and none to fill them!’ (1 October 1945, 2pp).
Also includes letters to Irish Fr Provincial concerning Fr Richard Kennedy ‘ex P.O.W. from (the) Far East’ (7 January 1946 – 17 January 1947, 5 items).
Coghlan, John, 1888-1963, Roman Catholic Monsignor and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Joseph McSweeney SJ written while serving as a chaplain
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Joseph McSweeney SJ written while serving as a chaplain in the R.A.F. at R.A.F. College, Cosford, Wolverhampton and at R.A.F. Station, Colerne, Chippenham, Wiltshire. Includes his first letter to the Irish Fr Provincial written from Cosford (June 1945, 1p.).
McSweeney, Joseph, 1909-1982, Jesuit priest, chaplian and missioner
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Anthony MacSeumais SJ written while serving as chaplain in the R.A.F. at R.A.F. Stations in Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffs. and Leuchars, Fife, Scotland; with the 5023 Airfield Construction Squadron in Holland and Germany and 124 Wing in Lübeck. Includes his first letter to the Irish Fr Provincial written from Belfast (March 1944, 2pp) and letter in which he lists all the places he has served since arriving in Belgium (1 June 1945, 4pp). This letter also contains Fr MacSeumais’s only reference to Belsen Concentration Camp. Also includes Fr MacSeumais’s memorial card (with photograph) (Fr MacSeumais died on 13 January 1989).
MacSeumais, J Anthony, 1910-1989, Jesuit priest
Biographical information and military documents concerning Fr Cyril Perrott SJ
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Biographical information, obituaries and memorial card of Fr Cyril Perrott SJ (4 items). Military file 3601/CH(RC) which contains various documents belonging to Fr Cyril Perrott taken from Irish Provincialate (2010). Includes:
Perrott, Cyril, 1904-1952, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Matthias Bodkin SJ written during his time as chaplain in the Royal Navy based at R.N. Base, Derry, Northern Ireland (refers to trips to the Arctic Circle and Western Australia) and serving on the battleship H.M.S. Anson in the East. Includes;
Bodkin, Matthias, 1896-1973, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Laurence Kearns SJ written during his time as a chaplain serving with various anti-aircraft units: 117 Z.A.A. Battery, 7 (M) Z.A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery: Stockton-on-Tees; 107 Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Surrey; 32 Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade: France; 52nd Lowland Scottish Infantry Division, 157 Infantry Brigade: Holland, Germany, Belsen and in Garrisson Catholic Church, Bordon, Hants. Includes:
Kearns, Laurence M, 1912-1986, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Documents relating to Fr Michael Pelly's time as a chaplain.
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Documents relating to Fr Michael Pelly's time as a chaplain. Includes Fr Pelly's ‘British Military Identity Document’ with photograph (December 1943, 1 item) and photocopy from a newspaper [Irish Independent?] of an article on the ‘Mass of Reparation said in Monte Cassino Ruins’ by Fr Pelly (1944, 1p).
Pelly, Michael C, 1907-1990, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Biographical information on Fr Joseph Flinn SJ
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Memorial card and obituary for Fr Joseph Flinn SJ.
Flinn, Daniel Joseph, 1877-1943, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters to Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Alan Birmingham SJ written during his time as a chaplain
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Letters to Irish Fr Provincial John MacMahon SJ from Fr Alan Birmingham SJ written during his time as a chaplain attached to the 2nd Battalion, The Loyal Regiment in Sussex and Northern Ireland; 32 Casualty Clearing Station in England and France; 4 Army Group Royal Artillery, B.L.A. in France and Germany; 150th Infantry Brigade in Southern India and the Indian Artillery Centre, Kamaredi. Includes description of his role in the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 (16 November 1944, 4pp) and his last letter written on his way home (29 September 1946, 2pp).
Birmingham, Alan, 1911-1991, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Obituaries of Fr Patrick Barrett SJ
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Obituaries of Fr Patrick Barrett SJ.
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Michael O'Meara SJ written during his time as a chaplain
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Michael O'Meara SJ written during his time as a chaplain in Squire’s Gate Camp, Lytham St Annes, Blackpool; Abbots Lea, Woolton, Liverpool; Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire; Park Lea, Park Lane, Salford; Upper Chine School, Shanklin, Isle of Wight; with the 44th Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade, B.L.A. in France and Holland; 8th Infantry Brigade, B.A.O.R. in Egypt and I.S. Lan. R., M.E.F. in Egypt.
O'Meara, Michael F, 1909-1998, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Michael Pelly SJ written while serving as a chaplain
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Michael Pelly SJ written while serving as a chaplain with 11th York and Lancaster Regiment (218th Infantry Brigade); in Otley, West Yorkshire; The Military Hospital, York; with the British North Africa Force in North Africa; 1st Battalion, The Buffs, C.M.F. in Italy; in 93rd British General Hospital, C.M.F. and in the School of Infantry, Warminster, Wiltshire. Includes Fr Pelly’s first letter to the Provincial written from Bridlington (23 April 1942, 1p.) and letters describing the monastery of Cassino following the battle of Monte Cassino (30 May 1944, 2pp), being in Rome on the day it was taken by the Allies and his ‘semi-private audience with the Pope’ (30 June, 29 July 1944, 2 items).
Pelly, Michael C, 1907-1990, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Thomas J Martin SJ written while serving as chaplain with the 4th King’s Own Scottish Borders in Alloa, Clackmannonshire and Buckie, Banff, Scotland; with the 155th Infantry Brigade in Scotland; the 12th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment in Essex, France and Holland and while based in Palace Barracks, Holywood, Northern Ireland. Fr Martin was sent home from Holland as a result of an eye infection and was released from the Army on health grounds at the end of 1945/beginning of 1946.
Martin, Thomas, 1907-1978, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Fergus Cronin SJ
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Fergus Cronin SJ written during his time as a chaplain while serving in the Royal Artillery Service Corps in Barry, South Wales; the Faeroe Islands; 101 Military Convalescent Depot, Grange Camp, Bedford and with Paiforce in Iraq. Includes:
Cronin, Fergus, 1909-1990, Jesuit priest
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Maurice Dowling SJ
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Maurice Dowling SJ written during his time serving as a chaplain in the 11th General Hospital in Peebles; Military Hospital, Drymen, Scotland; with the Shetland Defence Forces in Lerwick; in North Africa with the 58th [Heavy Anti-Aircraft] Regiment, Royal Artillery, B.N.A.F.; 3 L.C.U.; with the 167th Field Ambulance, C.M.F. and 2nd A.G.R.A., C.M.F.; with the 4th Battalion, Oxford and Bucks. in Norfolk and 2nd Army and 21st Army Group in Germany. Includes his first letter written to the Provincial from the 11th General Hospital (1 January 1942, 2pp), Fr Dowling’s memorial card (with photograph), and airgraphs from North Africa.
Dowling, Maurice, 1896-1965, Jesuit priest, chaplain and missioner
Biographical information on Fr John Hayes SJ
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Biographical information by Fr John Hayes SJ from the 1942 ‘Catalogus personum primus.’
Hayes, John, 1909-1945, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Documents relating to Fr Richard Kennedy SJ as a Japanese prisoner of war in Taiwan
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Documents relating to Fr Richard Kennedy SJ as a Japanese prisoner of war in Taiwan. Includes:
– cutting from The Times listing Fr Richard Kennedy SJ as a POW (1 December 1942, 1p.);
– postcard from Fr Richard Kennedy SJ in a POW camp in Taiwan to Fr Provincial (1943);
– letters from Fr Kennedy’s brother, Denis P. Kennedy SJ to Irish Fr Provincial, informing him of letters received by Fr Kennedy’s family (13 July, 30 September 1944, 2 items).
Kennedy, Richard J, 1906-1986, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Responses to Irish Fr Provincial's letter seeking volunteers to serve as chaplains
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Responses to Irish Fr Provincial's letter seeking volunteers to serve as chaplains. Includes;
Memoranda and notes, lists relating to chaplains in the Second World War
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Memoranda and notes relating to chaplains and lists of those serving as chaplains. Includes:
– Memorandum on 'Emergency Arrangement for Irish Army Chaplains', Clongowes Wood College, 1939;
– Draft of letter sent by Irish Fr Provincial to Frs Thomas O'Donnell, James Bates, [James] Stephenson and Leo Donnelly; inquiring if they would be willing to ‘work for God as a military chaplain’ (n.d., 1p.);
– Note listing names of first two ‘batches’ of chaplains and the dates of their departures from Dublin (n.d., 1p.)
– Lists of ‘Volunteers for post of Army Chaplain’ (17 February 1942, 2pp, n.d., 1p.).
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Leo Donnelly SJ
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Leo Donnelly SJ written while serving as chaplain in Great Yarmouth and Stalham, Norfolk with the 11th York and Lancasters; in 35th Casualty Clearing Station; 73rd General Hospital, Hatfield; with 5th Kings Regiment in Scotland; 10th Beach Group in France; 9 [Lines of Communications] Unit in France and 2nd Battalion of the Irish Guards.
Donnelly, Leo, 1903-1999, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Gerard Guinane SJ
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Gerard Guinane SJ written while serving as chaplain with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Fusiliers in various locations throughout England, in Hawick, Scotland and in Catterick Camp, Yorkshire.
Guinane, Gerard, 1900-1971, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Conal Murphy SJ, written while serving as a chaplain with the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers in Christchurch and Aldershot, Hants., Langholm, Dumfriesshire and The Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire; 587 Field Company, [Royal Engineers], Estate Camp, Inverkip, Scotland and in North Africa; 78th Division, British North Africa Force in Tunisia and 78th Division, Central Mediterranean Force (C.M.F.) in Sicily and Italy; 67 Garrison, B.N.A.F. in Tunisia and No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Italy, C.M.F., and Austria. Includes his first letter to the Irish Fr Provincial written from Salisbury (4 September 1941, 2pp); letter from Ursula Murphy [Fr Murphy’s sister] to Fr Coyne stating she had received word that Fr Murphy had gone overseas (1 December 1941, 1p.); letter to Fr Michael O’Meara (See CHP2/32) (13 October 1943, 1p.) and letter to Fr Provincial from Fr Murphy written on ‘a memorable day, the end of the war in Italy’ (2 May 1945, 2pp). Includes leaflets for the Service of Remembrance and Dedication at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in which Fr Conal Murphy SJ contributed to (1976; 1978), and photograph of Fr Conal Murphy SJ in military chaplains uniform, with military ribbon rack underneath.
Murphy, Conal K, 1902-1979, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Conor Naughton SJ written during his time as a chaplain with the 10th Rifle Brigade in Saffron Walden, Essex; in Hadleigh Militia Camp, Chapel Lane, Hadleigh (an Anti-Aircraft unit); in Stoke Military Hospital, North Bovey, Devon; based in St Michael’s House, Stanhope Lines, Aldershot, Hants.; Richmond Arms Hotel, Goodwood, Sussex; 47th General Hospital, Mhow, Central India; with 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment in India; in No. 3 Indian British General Hospital, Poona, India; Combined Military Hospital, Wāltair R.S. and with 14th Battalion, [Durham Light Infantry] in Drake West Camp, Dorset. Fr Naughton took his final vows in Manresa House (England) on 4 February 1942. Includes letter to Irish Fr Provincial from T. Naughton (Fr Naughton’s [father]) (27 July 1942, 1p.) and numerous references to Fr John Hayes SJ (See CHP2/18).
Naughton, Conor I, 1907-1992, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Identification tag for Rev. John Hayes C.F.
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Identification tag (dog tag) for Rev. John Hayes C.F. RC, 199879.
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Correspondence between the Air Ministry and Chaplains Branch,R.A.F. H.Q., Northern Ireland, mainly from Monsignor H. Beauchamp, (Principal Chaplain (R.C.) R.A.F.) and the Irish Fr Provincial (Laurence J. Kieran SJ, then from 8 September 1941, John MacMahon SJ) concerning the R.A.F.’s request for Catholic chaplains; Fr Tony MacSeumais’ acceptance of a post with the R.A.F. in July 1943 and Fr Joseph McSweeney’s acceptance in 1945. Includes;
Beauchamp, Henry, 1883-1948, Roman Catholic Monsignor and chaplain
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Letters to Irish Fr Provincial from newly appointed chaplains; Frs Michael G. Morrison SJ, Cyril E. Perrott SJ, Conor Naughton SJ and Gerard Guinane SJ, concerning their arrangements for departure.
Letters and notes to Irish Fr Provincial from various Jesuits during the Second World War
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Letters and notes to the Irish Fr Provincial from various Jesuits (former Irish Fr Provincial Kieran) and others, including letters from A. Parisoth (H.Q. Northern Command, York), T.F. Duggan (H.Q. Northern Ireland District, Lisburn) and T.D. Roberts, Archbishop of Bombay. Includes references to chaplains Frs Thomas Martin SJ, Fergus Cronin SJ, Michael O'Meara SJ Michael Pelly SJ and John Hayes SJ, and doctor's bill for examining eight chaplains.
Parisoth, A.
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial to Fr Michael Morrison SJ written while serving as a chaplain with 2/5th Bn. Welch Regiment in Sussex; M.E.F. (in a Convalescent Depot, unknown location); No. 13 General Hospital, M.E.F.; 2/8 Lancashire Fusiliers in Derry; 1/4th The South Lancashire Regiment in Castlewellan, County Down; 32 (Br.) Casualty Clearing Station, B.L.A. ; 121 (Br.) General Hospital, B.L.A.; 601 Regiment, Royal Artillery, B.A.O.R. and 113 Light Anti-Aircraft, R.A., B.A.O.R.. Includes letters describing Belsen Concentration Camp (18 April, 31 May 1945, 5pp) and letters concerning an article on Belsen written by Fr Morrison (Fr Morrison was one of the first priests to enter the camp) (17 July - 16 August 1945, 3 items).
Morrison, Michael, 1908-1973, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Daniel Shields SJ written during his time as a chaplain with the Royal Artillery in Larkhill, Wiltshire; in the Imperial Hospital, Natal, South Africa; in Oribi Military Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, Natal; with the 8th Sherwood Foresters in Wrotham, Kent; on the hospital ship Atlantis; in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and in the Army Technical School, Arborfield, Reading, Berks.
Shields, Daniel J, 1898-1986, Jesuit priest, chaplain and missioner
Portrait photograph of Fr Daniel Shields SJ
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Portrait photograph of Fr Daniel Shields SJ in full military chaplain’s uniform, taken by Dorothy Wilding, London.
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Letters to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence J. Kieran SJ from Fr Richard L. Guilly SJ (Senior Catholic Chaplain, British Troops, Northern Ireland) concerning his proposed visit to Dublin, news of the Jesuit chaplains under his care and arrangements for chaplains regarding banking in England (encloses a list of the ‘ordinary emoluments due to chaplains’ (17 May 1941, 3pp and 1p.).
Guilly, Richard Lester, 1905-1996, Jesuit priest, bishop and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John Burden SJ
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John Burden SJ written while serving as chaplain in Catterick Camp, Yorkshire and with the 6th King’s Own Scottish Borders in Northumberland; in Nottingham (where he was promoted to Senior Chaplain (S.C.F. (R.C.) ); in India, South Africa and Iraq with Paiforce (Persian and Iraq Forces); 114th Rest/Transit Camp; 162nd Transit Camp in Damascus and Palestine. Some letters in the form of airgraphs. Includes his last letter written on 28 March 1946 concerning his release from the Army in May.
Burden, John, 1907-1974, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Sydney Lennon SJ written while serving as a chaplain attached to 4th King’s Own Scottish Borders at Ford, Midlothian and Alloa, Clackmannonshir in Anti-Aircraft Unit; in various locations around Scotland; in Nottingham and on the hospital ship Dorsetshire. Includes his first letter written to Irish Fr Provincial from Scotland (5 September 1941, 4pp).
Lennon, Sydney C, 1906-1979, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Cyril Perrott SJ written while serving as a chaplain with the R.M.P. (Royal Military Police), Broomfield Park, Palmer’s Green, London; in Crofton House, Titchfield, Fareham, Hants.; with an Anti-Aircraft unit in Avendale, Bathford, Bath, Somerset; and in Hockley Sole, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent; with the 14th Army Group, South East Asia Command in India; 1st (W.A.) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, S.E.A.C. and in a Rangoon hospital. Includes copy of part of letter sent by Fr Perrott to his brother Fr Gerard Perrott SJ concerning a meeting with Frs Charles Day and Edward Sullivan in Calcutta (25 October 1944, 1p.). Fr Perrott was promoted to Senior Chaplain (S. C.F. (R.C.) ) in April 1945.
Perrott, Cyril, 1904-1952, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Miscellaneous items belonging to Fr Michael Morrison SJ
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Miscellaneous items belonging to Fr Michael Morrison SJ. Includes:
Morrison, Michael, 1908-1973, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial and others seeking chaplains
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Letters and telegrams to Irish Fr Provincial Fr Laurence J. Kieran SJ (and from 8 September 1941, Fr John MacMahon SJ) from Monsignor J.M. Coghlan (Principal Chaplain (Roman Catholic) and Vicar General, British Army, War Office) and Fr Edward J. Warner SJ (Staff Chaplain to Mgr. Coghlan), seeking chaplains to serve in the forces and thanking Irish Fr Provincial for those he has offered.
Coghlan, John, 1888-1963, Roman Catholic Monsignor and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Jesuits in response to call to serve as chaplains
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from various Jesuits in response to Fr Provincial’s letter (16 April 1941, 1p.) seeking volunteers to serve as chaplains: ‘Mgr. Coghlan (an Irishman from the diocese of Meath) who is in charge of the military chaplains has called upon me and informed me that the need of chaplains is acute and urgent, in some areas Catholic soldiers have no priests to look after them’. Includes responses from: John Hayes SJ (See CHP2/18); John Burden SJ (See CHP2/13); Thomas O'Donnell SJ; Cyril Perrott SJ (See CHP2/35); Conal Murphy SJ (See CHP2/30); Thomas P. Kelly SJ; Brendan Lawler SJ; John McCarron SJ; Brian MacMahon SJ; Daniel Shields SJ (See CHP2/37); Maurice Dowling SJ (See CHP2/16); Frank O'Riordan SJ and Joseph Garland SJ.
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Letters in response to Irish Fr Provincial following his letter (10 July) seeking volunteers to serve as chaplains in the forces. Includes;
– Copy of Irish Fr Provincial’s letter (10 July 1941, 1p.);
– Responses from; Frs Gerard Guinane SJ (See CHP2/17), Joseph Kelly SJ, Conal Murphy SJ (CHP2/30), Sydney Lennon SJ (See CHP2/25), Robert Stephenson SJ, Henry Croasdaile SJ, William Prendergast SJ, Fergus Cronin SJ (See CHP2/14), Frank O'Riordan SJ and Richard O'Mahony SJ
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John Hayes SJ written while serving as chaplain
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Letters and airgraphs to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John Hayes SJ written while serving as chaplain attached to 393 Battery, 99th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire; with 144 Regiment, R.A.C. in Rufford Abbey, Ollerton, Notts., Aldburn Camp, Herts., Minstead and Malwood, Lyndhurst, Hants., Risborough Barracks, Folkestone, Kent; with the 6th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Rye, Sussex and 36th Indian Division in India and Northern Burma. Fr Hayes was made Senior Chaplain (S.C.F. (R.C.) in his division in January 1944. His last communication is a New Years note for 1945 (28 November 1944, 1p.).
Hayes, John, 1909-1945, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Badge, buttons and pips for British Royal Army Chaplains Department
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British Royal Army Chaplains Department - K.C unit cap badge, bronzed metal, 2 fold over flat prong fitting, mint; shoulder and breast buttons; pips; metal chaplain badges.
British Army, 1660-
Letters from Jesuits volunteering to serve as chaplains
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Laurence J. Kieran SJ from various Jesuits volunteering to become military chaplains following the outbreak of the Second World War. Includes letters from: Frs Michael J. Morrison SJ (See CHP2/29), Arthur Little SJ, Fr Edward J. Coyne SJ, Joseph Garland SJ, Thomas Shuley SJ, Richard Kennedy SJ (See CHP2/23), Leonard Sheil SJ, James McCann SJ and Michael Pelly SJ (See CHP2/33).
Obituary for Fr Frederick Peal SJ
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Obituary for Fr Frederick Peal SJ taken from 'Letters and Notices'. Fr Frederick Peal SJ (sometimes spelt, Peel). Born in India, 1864, he belonged to the Belgian Province and later worked and died in India, 1934...he was in the Irish Catalogue in 1917, 1st Connaught Rangers, Lahore Div. He wrote 3 books called 'War Jottings' published in 1916 by the Catholic Orphan Press Calcutta. Book 3 is Mesopotamia.
Letters and Notices, 1863-
Second draft of unpublished manuscript by Fr Henry Gill SJ recording his time as a chaplain
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Unpublished manuscript by Fr Henry Gill SJ recording his time as a chaplain, entitled ‘1914 – 1918 As seen by a Chaplain with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles’. Completed in 1933. Includes newspaper and journal articles and fifteen pages of original photographs. Manuscript appears to be an amended version of CHP1/27.
Gill, Henry V, 1872-1945, Jesuit priest, scientist and chaplain
Signed postcard addressed to Fr Hugh Mulhall SJ, from Mar Ivanos, India
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Signed portrait postcard addressed to Fr Hugh Mulhall SJ, from Mar Ivanos, India, a visitor to Rathfarnham Castle during the Eucharistic Congress of 1932.
Ivanios, Aboon Geevarghese, 1882-1953, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Partial biographical information on Fr William Gwynn SJ from the Catalogus personarum primus
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Partial biographical information on Fr William Gwynn SJ from the Catalogus personarum primus.
Gwynn, William, 1865-1950, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Biographical information and obituary on Fr Stanislaus McLoughlin SJ
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Biographical information and obituary on Fr Stanislaus McLoughlin SJ.
MacLoughlin, Stanislaus, 1863-1956, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Partial biographical information on Fr John Elliott SJ
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Partial biographical information on Fr John Elliott SJ from the Catalogus personarum primus.
Elliott, John J, 1857-1942, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Biographical information and obituary of Fr John MacSheahan SJ
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Biographical information and obituary of Fr John MacSheahan SJ, M.C.
MacSheahan, John, 1885-1956, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Biographical information on Fr Daniel Roche SJ
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Biographical information on Fr Daniel Roche SJ from the Catalogus personarum primus and newspaper obituary.
Roche, Daniel, 1882-1961, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Biographical information on Fr Joseph Wrafter SJ
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Biographical information on Fr Joseph Wrafter SJ, M.C., from the Catalogus personarum primus.
Biographical information and obituary of Fr James McCann SJ
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Partial biographical information from the Catalogus personarum and newspaper obituary of Fr James McCann SJ.
McCann, James, 1875-1951, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Biographical information on Fr Hugh Mulhall SJ
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Biographical information on Fr Hugh Mulhall SJ from the Catalogus personarum primus.
Mulhall, Hugh, 1871-1948, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Biographical information on Fr Henry Potter SJ
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Biographical information on Fr Henry Potter SJ from the Catalogus personarum primus.
Potter, Henry, 1866-1932, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Invitation card, order of service and hymn sheet for the service of remembrance
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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).
Documents and letters relating to Fr John Hayes’ career before becoming a military chaplain
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Documents and letters relating to Fr John Hayes’ career before becoming a military chaplain. Includes:
Hayes, John, 1909-1945, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Irish Jesuit Chaplains in the Second World War
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Twenty-one Irish Jesuit chaplains served as chaplains in the Second World War in the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Fr John Hayes SJ, who died of typhus on 28th December 1944, was the single casualty to the Irish Jesuit Province.
The papers of the Irish Jesuit Chaplains in the Second World War consist mainly of letters and telegrams from individual chaplains to the Irish Jesuit Provincial - Fr Laurence J. Kieran SJ was the Irish Provincial at the outbreak of the War and on 8 September 1941, Fr John R MacMahon SJ became Provincial. Also includes letters to Irish Father Provincial Laurence J. Kieran SJ from various Jesuits volunteering to become military chaplains (1 September 1939-7 April 1941); letters and telegrams from Monsignor John M. Coghlan (Principal Chaplain (R.C.) and Vicar General, British Army, War Office) seeking chaplains to serve in the forces and thanking Father Provincial for those he has offered (1941-1944); memoranda and lists (1942); volunteers’ letters (April 1941-July 1942); correspondence with the Royal Air Force (1941-1945); letters from newly appointed chaplains (1941); miscellaneous letters to Provincial (1941-1945).
1st four left Dublin, 26 May 1941: Richard Kennedy (Tertian); Michael Morrison (Tertian); Conor Naughton (Tertian); Cyril Perrott.
2nd batch, left 1 September 1941: John Burden; Leo Donnelly; John Hayes; Sydney Lennon; Conal Murphy.
9 September 1941: Fr Gerard Guinane.
29 December 1941: Fr Maurice Dowling.
Michael O’Mahoney (1905-1981), County Tipperary, part of the Australian province of the Society of Jesus, served as chaplain in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
Irish Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1830-
Unpublished manuscript by Fr Henry Gill SJ of his memoirs as a chaplain
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Unpublished manuscript by Fr Henry Gill SJ of his memoirs as a chaplain, entitled ‘1914 – 1918 Four years a Chaplain with The 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.’ Belvedere College stamp.
Gill, Henry V, 1872-1945, Jesuit priest, scientist and chaplain
Article by Fr Bernard Page SJ entitled ‘Army Chaplain, S.J., in Russia’
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Article by Fr Bernard Page SJ entitled ‘Army Chaplain, S.J., in Russia’ from 'Letters and Notices'.
Page, Bernard F, 1877-1948, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Draft obituary of Fr Patrick Tighe SJ
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Draft obituary of Fr Patrick Tighe SJ.
Obituaries of Frs Edward Sydes SJ
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Obituary of Fr Edward Sydes SJ, who died 15 November 1918, taken from 'Letters and Notices', Vol.35, January 1919 and Fr Bernard Page SJ, born in India, raised in Australia.
Letters and Notices, 1863-
Portrait photograph of Fr Patrick Barrett SJ in his chaplains’ uniform
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Portrait photograph of Fr Patrick Barrett SJ in his chaplains’ uniform at Bettisfield Camp, Salop (Shropshire), England.
Barrett, Patrick, 1866-1942, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Obituary of Fr Walter Montagu SJ
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Obituary of Fr Walter Montagu SJ (English Province) who was killed 31 October 1918, taken from 'Letters and Notices', Vol.35, January 1919, pp28 - 30.
Letters and Notices, 1863-
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Obituaries from 'Letters and Notices' of Irishmen who joined the English Province and served as chaplains. Obituaries collected are highlighted in bold (Fr Bernard Page SJ, born in India, but Australian has an obituary, see CHP1/71). This list in not exhaustive (consult document British Jesuit Chaplains in World War I). See CHP1/72 for the obituary of Fr Walter Montagu SJ (English Province) who was killed 31 October 1918, taken from Letters and Notices, Vol. 35., pp28 - 30,
Carey, Timothy, Letters and Notices 35 (1919)
Duffy, John, Letters and Notices 66 (1961)
Fleming, Francis (1876-1939), no entry in Letters and Notices
Gallagher, George, Our Dead, III (1944-45)
Gallagher, James, Letters and Notices 66 (1961)
Irwin, Francis, Letters and Notices 52 (1957), 53 (1938)
Keary, William, Letters and Notices 63 (1958)
Wolfe, Patrick, Our Dead, II (1941-43)
Woodlock, Francis, Our Dead, I (1939-40); BH/4*
Woodlock, Joseph, Letters and Notices 57 (1949)
Letters and Notices, 1863-
Photocopy of obituary of Fr Edward Sydes SJ
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Photocopy of an extract from 'Letters and Notices', January 1919, of an obituary of Fr Edward Sydes SJ.
Letters and Notices, 1863-
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Letters and postcards to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr William Gwynn SJ written during his time serving as a chaplain attached to the 8th Australian Infantry Brigade, A.I.F.
Gwynn, William, 1865-1950, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from the Senior Chaplain (R.C.), Australian Imperial Force, [Fr Thomas King] and Frs William Feran and John H Wright, Farm Street, London concerning Fr Sydes’ death in London on 15 November 1918 as a result of bronchitis and thrombosis.
Feran, William, 1869-1942, Jesuit priest
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Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ, the War Office and T. Stratton, Staff Officer to Principal Chaplain (R.C.), concerning the demobilisation of various Irish Jesuits and the need for chaplains for transport ships to Australia.
Nolan, Thomas V, 1867-1941, Jesuit priest
Miscellaneous letters and notes to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ
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Miscellaneous letters and notes to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ. Includes rough notes of wages and expenditure of various Jesuit chaplains (n.d., 3pp),and replies from the Senior Chaplain, Australian Imperial Force on transport to Australia for acting chaplain. Includes a note from Fr William Feran SJ, that he has commissioned him (Fr Henry Gill SJ) to discover and exterminate the influenza microbe' (18 December 1918).
Feran, William, 1869-1942, Jesuit priest
Letters and postcards to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr John Elliott SJ
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Letters and postcards to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr John Elliott SJ, written during his time serving as a military chaplain in Catterick Camp, Yorkshire and at the Officer's Hospital, Burley on the Hill, Oakham, Rutland, England.
Postcard of Burley on the Hill, Oakham, Rutlandshire - ‘This is a gorgeous place inside + outside. It is the finest house I have ever seen. Charles and I stayed here when it belonged to the Duke of Buckingham’, (28 October 1918) where Fr Elliott convalesced from a bout of double pneumonia (‘I am only 8st 7lbs with my clothes on’).
Elliott, John J, 1857-1942, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Copy of birth certificate and photocopy of obituary of Fr John FitzGibbon SJ
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Copy of birth certificate and photocopy of obituary of Fr John FitzGibbon SJ, M.C., from 'The Freeman’s Journal', and copy of details Commonwealth War Graves Commission (20 January 1999 & 27 November 2013).
Carte Postale with portrait photograph of Fr James Magan SJ in chaplain military uniform
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Carte postale with portrait photograph of Fr James Magan SJ in chaplain military uniform on one side and written note to Fr Farley on the other, ‘I have said the 15 masses for which I sent you the two P. Orders…any news always welcome’.
Magan, James W, 1881-1959, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Field diary of one of the chaplains (not known which one)
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Field diary of one of the chaplains (not known which one).
Letters from Fr Patrick Barrett SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Patrick Barrett SJ written during his time as a military chaplain in Bettisfield Camp, Salop (Shropshire). Letter, July 31st '17 from Milltown Park, Dublin, perhaps should read July 31st 1916.
Barrett, Patrick, 1866-1942, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ following Fr Willie Doyle’s death
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ following Fr Willie Doyle’s death in action on 17 August 1917, from Fr Kerr McClement, Archbishop’s House, Westminster, Fr William Feran SJ, English Province, Farm Street, London and Fr M. O'Connell, Senior Chaplain (R.C.), H.Q., 16th Division, B.E.F..
Feran, William, 1869-1942, Jesuit priest
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Stanislaus McLoughlin SJ written while serving as a chaplain attached 12th (2nd Reserve) Battalion and the 58th T.R. Battalion, The Welsh Regiment, Rhyl and 53rd S.W.B., Rhyl.
MacLoughlin, Stanislaus, 1863-1956, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and postcards to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Patrick O'Mara SJ written while serving as a chaplain in Nos. 54, 58 and 33 Casualty Clearing Stations, France.
O'Mara, Patrick, 1875-1969, Jesuit priest, chaplain and missioner
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr James McCann SJ written during his time as chaplain
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr James McCann SJ written during his time as chaplain to the 4th Reserve Battery, R.G.A., Winchester and Sialkot C.F.A. 4th Cavalry Division, Supply Column, B.E.F., France. Also includes items relating to the ill health (The Prince of Wales', Hospital for Officers), renewal of Fr McCann’s contract as chaplain and his demobilisation. (See also CHP1/10/1 which is a letter from Fr McCann to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ 12 June [1917]).
McCann, James, 1875-1951, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters and postcards from Fr James Magan SJ to Irish Fr Provincial
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Letters and postcards from Fr James Magan SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ written during his time as chaplain to the 6th York and Lancaster Regiment, B.E.F., France.
Magan, James W, 1881-1959, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters and postcards from Fr Francis X O'Brien SJ to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ written while a chaplain attached to the No. 5 Prisoners of War Company, B.E.F., France and the 30th General Hospital, B.E.F., France.
O'Brien, Francis X, 1881-1974, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters and postcards from Fr Frank Browne SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ
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Letters and postcards to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Francis M. Browne SJ, written during his time serving as a chaplain to the forces – 1st and 2nd Battalions, Irish Guards, British Expeditionary Force, France and 2nd Battalions, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 16th Division.
Browne, Francis M, 1880-1960, Jesuit priest, photographer and chaplain
Letters from Fr John Delaney SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr John Delaney SJ written during his time as chaplain to the Artillery of the 50th Division.
Delaney, John J, 1883-1956, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Documents relating to Fr Joseph Flinn’s during his time serving as a chaplain
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Documents relating to Fr Joseph Flinn’s time as a chaplain attached to VI Corps Rest Station North, 10th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the Munster Fusiliers, the 60th and 88th Brigade, R.G.A., B.E.F., France. Includes: certificate appointing Fr Flinn Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Land Forces (Temporary) (22 March 1917, 1p.);
– letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Flinn written from the Front (31 January 1917 – 10 October 1918, 21 items).
Flinn, Daniel Joseph, 1877-1943, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters from Fr Gerald Corr SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Gerald Corr SJ written during his time as a chaplain to the troops in and around Dunkirk (his address was A.P.O. S.10, B.E.F., France).
Corr, Gerald F, 1875-1941, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letter from the War Office to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ, enclosing the official certificate of death of Fr Doyle.
Letters written to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John MacSheahan SJ during his time as chaplain
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Letters written to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr John MacSheahan SJ during his time as chaplain attached to the 6th Royal Irish Regiment, B.E.F., France.
MacSheahan, John, 1885-1956, Jesuit priest and chaplain