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Irish Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1830-
Irish Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1830-
Photographs regarding Jesuits in Australia, left behind by Fr Bernard Page SJ
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46 photographs regarding Jesuits in Australia, left behind by Fr Bernard Page SJ, some of the Jesuits spent the rest of their working lives in Ireland.
Page, Bernard F, 1877-1948, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Irish Jesuit Chaplains in the First World War
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Thirty-two Jesuit chaplains of the Irish Province served in the First World War. They served on the battlefields of France, Belgium, Egypt and Mesopotamia. Four Jesuits were killed: Frs John Gwynn (12 October 1915), William Doyle (17 August 1917), Michael Bergin (12 October 1917) and John Fitzgibbon (18 September 1918). Two Jesuits died from illness: Frs Austin Hartigan (16 July 1916) and Edward Sydes (15 November 1918).
Approximately eleven Irish-born Jesuit chaplains of the English Province served in in the First World War. They included Frs Timothy Carey (Cork) and Walter Montagu (Cromore, Portstewart, County Derry) who both died on active service. Fr William Keary SJ (Woodford, Galway) initially joined the Irish Province but transferred to the English Province.
The majority of letters are from individual chaplains to the Irish Jesuit Provincial Fr Thomas V. Nolan SJ, (1914-1919). There are some postcards, photographs and medals. Some are rich in details (Fr Daniel Roche SJ, 43 items) others have but an obituary. Includes letters to the Irish Jesuit Provincial from Archbishop’s House, Westminster, England concerning the nomination of various Irish Jesuits as chaplains to the forces and their demobilisation, letters on wages and expenditures of chaplains and the appeal for chaplains. Six Jesuits served with the Australian army.
Irish Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1830-
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Henry Gill SJ during his time as a chaplain to the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, 3rd Division, VII Brigade, B.E.F., France.
Gill, Henry V, 1872-1945, Jesuit priest, scientist and chaplain
Scrapbook belonging to Rev. Major Henry Gill SJ
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Scrapbook belonging to Rev. Major Henry Gill SJ. Includes letters from the War Office and memorabilia relating to his tasks as chaplain to the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles.
Gill, Henry V, 1872-1945, Jesuit priest, scientist and chaplain
Documents relating to Fr John Gwynn's service as a chaplain
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Documents relating to Fr John Gwynn's service as a chaplain attached to the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards, B.E.F., France. Includes:
Gwynn, John, 1866-1915, Jesuit priest and chaplain
License for Military Service ‘Royal Exchange Assurance
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License for Military Service ‘Royal Exchange Assurance, Policy No. 80925 for £500 on the Life of Revd. W.J. Doyle.’ and copy of details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (20 January 1999 & 27 November 2013).
Photocopies of obituary of Fr John Gwynn SJ
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Photocopies of obituary from the Sunday Freeman of Fr John Gwynn SJ and a photograph of him as published in a supplement given away with the Weekly Freeman. Includes photographs of Fr Gwynn’s Memorial Tablet and a transcript of the inscription and document relating to his death (obituaries and appreciation by Lord Desmond Fitzgerald).
Letters concerning Fr Thomas Maher’s poor health and a ‘bad Police report.’
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Letters concerning Fr Thomas Maher’s poor health and a ‘bad Police report.’ Fr Maher was chaplain at Halton Park, Tring, England.
Wright, John, 1864-1926, Jesuit priest
Certificate appointing Fr Joseph Wrafter SJ as Chaplain to the Forces
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Certificate appointing Fr Joseph Wrafter SJ as Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Land Forces (Temporary) from 20 November 1915.
Photograph of Fr Henry Gill SJ ‘Chaplain with the Forces at the Front’
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Photograph of Fr Henry Gill SJ ‘Chaplain with the Forces at the Front’ published in a supplement to the Weekly Freeman, 6 November 1915. Pasted on reverse, is details of the death of Fr John Firzgibbon SJ, from The Freeman's Journal, 25 September 1918.
Freeman's Journal, newspaper, 1763-1924
Letters to Fr Henry Gill SJ from Mary Maura Ostyn, O.S.B., Prioress of Ypres
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Letters to Fr Henry Gill SJ from Mary Maura Ostyn, O.S.B., Prioress of Ypres, 11 Harwood Avenue, London, England asking Fr Gill to salvage the contents of the Benedictine abbey at Ypres. Contains details of all the convent’s treasures and where they have been hidden. Includes letter from Baron H. Kervyn de Letterrhov[e] concerning the destroyed treasures.
Ostyn, Mary Maura, 1868-1940, Benedictine sister
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Letters from Fr Jerome O'Mahony SJ to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ written during his time as a chaplain in the 5th Canadian General Hospital Salonika, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, the 43rd General Hospital Salonika, H.M.H.S. “Egypt,” the 78th General Hospital Alexandra and P.L. of C., Haifa, Palestine, E.E.F.
O'Mahony, Jerome C, 1869-1930, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters to Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Joseph Wrafter SJ written while serving as chaplain
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Joseph Wrafter SJ written while serving as chaplain in France and Belgium with the 47th Irish (16th) Division, the 8th Royal Munster Fusiliers and the 7th Leinster Regiment.
Wrafter, Joseph, 1865-1934, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ mainly from Archbishop’s House, Westminster
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ mainly from Archbishop’s House, Westminster, London, England concerning the nomination of various Irish Jesuits as chaplains to the forces. Includes letters concerning Fr Joseph Wrafter’s nomination as chaplain to prisoners of war in Holland, a move contested by the Provincial who saw it in effect, as ‘putting him (Fr Wrafter) on the shelf’ (26 December 1917 – 15 January 1918, 3 items).
McClement, Fr Kerr
Letters from Fr Willie Doyle 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 Willie Doyle SJ written during his time as a chaplain attached to the 8th Brigade Irish Fusiliers, 49th Brigade, and the 8th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, B.E.F., France. Missing original letter 31 December 1915, but have photocopy.
Doyle, Willie, 1873-1917, Servant of God, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Documents relating to Fr John FitzGibbon SJ during his time serving as a chaplain
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Documents relating to Fr John FitzGibbon SJ during his time serving as a chaplain attached to 23rd and 16th Field Ambulance, B.E.F., France. Includes letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr FitzGibbon (14 March 1916 – [April 1918], 19 items) and documents relating to Fr FitzGibbon’s death in action on 18 September 1918, including official letters from General Headquarters, British Armies in France, solicitors’ letters and official certificate of death (20 September 1918 – 25 May 1919, 16 items).
FitzGibbon, John, 1882-1918, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Daniel Roche SJ written while Fr Roche was serving as chaplain with the 96th (C.P.) Field Ambulance, B.E.F., France and 18 K.L.R., B.E.F., France.
Roche, Daniel, 1882-1961, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters to Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Francis M Shaw SJ while serving as chaplain
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Francis M Shaw SJ written while serving as chaplain in France, India and Mesopotamia (3rd General Hospital, B.E.F., France; No. 37 and No. 17 Casualty Clearing Station, B.E.F., France; 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, B.E.F., France; 11th Field Ambulance, B.E.F., France; No. 16 Casualty Clearing Station, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force).
Shaw, Frank M, 1881-1924, Jesuit priest and chaplain
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Patrick Tighe SJ written while serving as chaplain with the 15th Battalion, A.I.F., B.E.F. and on his way to Australia. Named places have been cut out of a letter (24 January 1917).
Tighe, Patrick, 1866-1920, Jesuit, priest, chaplain and missionary
Pamphlets issued by the War Office
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Pamphlets issued by the War Office on ‘The Abolition of flies in camps, billets and hospital. Circular Memorandum No.8.’, 24 June 1916, (7pp) and ‘Roman Catholic Chaplains. Information and Hints. British Armies in France. January 1917’, (21pp), possibly in the possession of Fr Henry Gill SJ. A section of ‘Roman Catholic Chaplains’ is underlined, where the chaplain should live, p.11, ‘with the Transport when the Battalion is in the trenches, unless by arrangement with the Senior Chaplain, it is decided that he shall be in the trenches’. Material hand in by Margaret Doyle, Archivist, Clongowes Wood College, 9 January 2017.
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Letters and postcards from Fr Hugh Mulhall SJ to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ written during his time as a chaplain to the 3/1st East Lancashire Division, Codford, Wiltshire and 5th East Lancashire Regiment, Witley Camp, Surrey and in Park Hall Camp, Oswestry.
Mulhall, Hugh, 1871-1948, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Various memoranda sent to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ
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Various memoranda sent to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ. Includes lists of Irish Jesuit chaplains and their addresses; estimates for chaplain’s uniform; memoranda concerning the appeal for military chaplains serving at home and abroad and their origins and ‘Memorial to the Irish Hierarchy re Shortage of Catholic Chaplains.’ Includes:
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Bernard Page SJ written during his time as a chaplain with the No. 2 Cavalry Field Ambulance, B.E.F., France. Includes letter of complaint to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ (12 April 1917, 6pp) re Fr Page and Fr Page’s replies (22 – 30 April 1917, 3 items).
Page, Bernard F, 1877-1948, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letter of Fr Willie Doyle SJ, 8th Royal Irish Fusiliers, to a relative of a casualty
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Letter from Fr Willie Doyle SJ, 8th Royal Irish Fusiliers, to a relative of a casualty. Donated to the Irish Province in 1968 by Miss Brigid Duffy, 237 Lisburn Road, Belfast.
Doyle, Willie, 1873-1917, Servant of God, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Documents relating to Fr Austin Hartigan's service as military chaplain
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Documents relating to Fr Austin Hartigan's service as military chaplain. Includes:
– certificate appointing Fr Hartigan chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Land Forces (Temporary) (12 January 1916, 1p.);
– letters written to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ by Fr Hartigan while serving in Mesopotamia with the Connaught Rangers (20 March 1916 – n.d., 5 items);
– documents relating to Fr Hartigan's death in Amara on 16 July 1916 (from jaundice) (27 July 1916 - 15 August 1918, 12 items).
Hartigan, Jeremiah Austin, 1882-1916, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letter and postcard to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Joseph Hearn SJ
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Letter and postcard to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Joseph Hearn SJ, written during his time serving as chaplain attached to the Australian Expeditionary Force, Dardanelles and the 7th Infantry Battalion, II Infantry Brigade, A.I.F., Mediterranean.
Hearn, Joseph, 1854-1941, Jesuit priest
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Letters and postcards from Fr Patrick Morris SJ to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ written while serving as chaplain to 2/8 Battalion, L.F., Sobraon Barracks, Colchester and also in France, before being sent back to England in November 1917 with ‘clinical dysentery.’
Morris, Patrick J, 1882-1966, 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
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Henry Potter SJ written during his time as military chaplain in Chelmsford, Essex, Lowestoft, Suffolk and Norfolk Military Hospital, Norwich.
Potter, Henry, 1866-1932, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Edward Sydes SJ
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Sydes written just before and during his appointment as chaplain serving with the 2nd Australian Division, A.I.F, in France.
Sydes, Edward J, 1863-1918, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Typewritten copy of ‘The Chaplains’ Weekly’ No. 114 - 118
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Typewritten copy of ‘The Chaplains’ Weekly’ No. 114 - 118, which relates to Irish Jesuits serving as military chaplains in the First World War.
Angliae Province of the Society of Jesus, 1622-
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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
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-
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.
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
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-
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).
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
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
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
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-
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).
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
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