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Material relating to Fr McGrath’s intended book on St Aloysius Gonzaga

Material on St. Aloysius Gonzaga. Includes:
– chronology of his life (n.d., 2pp);
– hand drawn map of northern Italy (no scale given) (n.d., 1p.);
– printer’s estimate for producing the book (4 October 1943, 1p.) and
– copies of a trial two pages (from chapter one) from the printers (Cahill & Co., Ltd.) (4 October 1943, 2 items).

McGrath, Michael P, 1872-1946, Jesuit priest and Irish language scholar

‘New Testament’

‘New Testament’ in Irish by Fr McGrath SJ. With brown paper which indicates that ‘Book Proofs' for final correction by Fr John Hyde SJ. This set of proofs contains many minor corrections as well as some important ones.

McGrath, Michael P, 1872-1946, Jesuit priest and Irish language scholar

Photocopies of lists of writings of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ

Photocopies of lists of writings of Fr Gwynn: ‘The Historical Writings of Reverend Professor Aubrey Gwynn SJ’ up to 1960, from Medieval Studies. Presented to Aubrey Gwynn SJ by J.A. Watt, J.B. Morrall and F.X. Martin, O.S.A. (eds.) (1961, 8pp.) and ‘Historical Writings of Aubrey Gwynn. Addendum’ listing publications up to 1978, from 'The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries' by Fr Gwynn (Gerard O'Brien (ed.) ) (1992, 2pp).

Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic

Letters from Peter Wait of Methuen & Co. Ltd., concerning their acceptance of a book on the history of the medieval Irish Church

  • IE IJA J/10/100
  • File
  • 12 January 1949 - 13 March 1962
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Peter Wait of Methuen & Co. Ltd., concerning their acceptance of his proposal to write a book on the history of the medieval Irish Church. Includes amended copy plan of chapters of the proposed book, sent to Methuen by Fr Gwynn entitled 'The Reform of the Medieval Irish Church' (n.d., 7pp). There is some disagreement about the type of book it should be. Fr Gwynn expressed his wish to gather his essays from the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' and rewrite them to make a single connected story, however Mr. Wait wants a similar book but ‘on a good deal less detailed scale’ (13 January 1953, 2pp). Includes letters from Françoise Henry, U.C.D., to Fr Gwynn, offering to speak to the publishers on Fr Gwynn’s behalf (5, 23 February 1962, 2 items, 2pp each) and the publisher’s letter to Fr Gwynn following (Prof.) Henry’s conversation with them, “I would like a book, and I don’t insist on a ‘text book.’ I would like something that the educated person without specialised knowledge of the subject can read and which would be useful to students as well.” (19 February 1962, 1p.)

Wait, Peter, publisher

Letters from publishers, the Clarendon Press, Oxford to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning his latest book which needs complete revision

  • IE IJA J/10/102
  • File
  • 2 September 1970 - 24 September 1974
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters from publishers, the Clarendon Press, Oxford to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning his latest book which their Delegates say needs complete revision – ‘the book is not strictly a unified history but a series of disconnected and overlapping studies, which have been published separately already except for chapters XIII and XIV. They have much interest for specialists in the subjects concerned, though not for the general reader or for undergraduates.’

Correspondence concerning Madame Regina Łukasiewicz’s accusations of the theft of her late husband’s papers

  • IE IJA J/10/111
  • File
  • 18 July 1956 - 30 December 1957
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Correspondence concerning Madame Regina Łukasiewicz’s accusations of the theft of her late husband’s papers by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Prof. E. O'Doherty of U.C.D. (her late husband was Jan Łukasiewicz, Professor of Mathematical Logic at the Royal Irish Academy (a special professorship) ). Madame Łukasiewicz was suffering from ‘paranoid psychosis with delusions of persecution’ and was admitted to St Vincent’s Private Mental Home for a number of weeks until Fr Gwynn helped to arrange her removal to the house of her nephew in England. The papers had in actual fact, been deposited by herself in the R.I.A. Library in 1956. Documents include:

  • copies of letters sent by Madame Łukasiewicz to the Taoiseach and the Commissioner of the Gardai stating her case and seeking help with living expenses and the return of her husband’s manuscripts (15 and 18 July 1957, 2 items, 2pp each);
  • letter from the Slavic Assistant in Rome to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ (8 December 1957, 2pp);
  • statement of Fr Gwynn made for the Provincial explaining his ‘connection with the sad history of Madame Regina Łukasiewicz’ (11 December 1957, 4pp);
  • statements of Dr Mary Sullivan and Dr John Malone on the mental health Madame Lukasiewicza (13, 16 December 1957, 4pp);
  • statement by Dr Farrington, Librarian and Assistant Secretary, R.I.A. (13 December 1957, 1p.);
  • copy of statement made by solicitor Arthur Cox ‘acting as Madame Lukasiewicza’s legal advisor’ for the Provincial (16 December 1957, 1p.);
  • letter to Fr Gwynn from Fr Stanislaus Wawryn SJ (Polish Provincial) (23 December 1957, 1p.);
  • letter to the Provincial from the Society’s Curia in Rome (26 December 1957, 1p.);
  • copy of letter of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera to Fr Gwynn on the matter, in which he states ‘I know that since Prof. and Madame Lukasiewicz came here you have been one of their kindest friends…I regret very much that you should be subject to the annoyance which these charges cause you; and I would be glad to assist in any way in making it known, to any one who may be concerned, that I regard these charges as altogether without foundation and, indeed, in the circumstances, as outrageous’ (30 December 1957, 1p.).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ informing him of sources of information on the Irish in the West Indies in the seventeenth century

  • IE IJA J/10/115
  • File
  • [1928]-1932; 1966; 1975
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters from various academics and clergy to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ mainly informing him of additional sources of information concerning his research on the Irish in the West Indies in the seventeenth century. Includes:

  • letter from Fr Gwynn’s father, Stephen Lucius Gwynn ([c1929], 2pp);
  • letters from Fr John MacErlean SJ (12 October 1929 – 28 May 1931, 6 items);
  • correspondence between Fr John MacErlean SJ, Mr Ambrose A. Kelly and Fr Gwynn concerning a manuscript originally thought to be in the possession of ‘the late Mr. Reddin, who…had been employed by the Foreign Office for a number of years making searches and reports amongst the archives in Spain’ (9 - 25 June 1931, 4 items);
  • letters from James Alexander Williamson, author of 'English in Guiana' (3,14 March 1932, 2 items);
  • letter from Fr Michael McGrath SJ (5 December 1936, 1p.) and
  • ‘Montserrat: “The Most Distinctively Irish Settlement in the New World”, by John C. Messenger, 'Ethnicity 2', 281-303. (1975).

Letters from Fr Nicholas J. Tomkin SJ to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to Fr Gwynn’s articles

  • IE IJA J/10/117
  • File
  • 12 - 29 January 1932
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters from Fr Nicholas J. Tomkin SJ (Library Censor) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to Fr Gwynn’s articles ‘An Irish Settlement on the Amazon, 1612 – 1629’ in 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy', (xli, p.1 – 54) and ‘Documents relating to the Irish in the West Indies’ [1612 – 1752] in 'Analecta Hibernica', (iv, p.139 – 286), with censor’s suggestions.

Tomkin, Nicholas J, 1859-1942, Jesuit priest

Letters from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to the St Joseph’s Young Priests Society

  • IE IJA J/10/12
  • File
  • 30 November-8 December 1937
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Notes and letters from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to the St Joseph’s Young Priests Society, with regard to its income, expenditure and general policy. Fr Gwynn played an important part in the Society’s foundation and development (1927-49) and was Honorary Editor of its quarterly magazine Saint Joseph’s Sheaf.

Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Eric Colledge of the English Language Department, University of Liverpool, on his academic publications and research

  • IE IJA J/10/126
  • File
  • 16 December 1948 - 22 April 1958
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from John Eric Colledge of the English Language Department, University of Liverpool, on his academic publications and research, including his proposal to lecture in U.C.D. on St. Nicholas of Flüe, an ‘illiterate contemplative.’

Colledge, John Eric, 1910-1999, academic and Roman Catholic priest

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from John Durkan, Glasgow, and others associated with the 'Innes Review'

  • IE IJA J/10/127
  • File
  • 24 May 1952 - 2 October 1954
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from John Durkan, Glasgow, and others associated with the 'Innes Review', relating to Fr Gwynn’s 1940 article ‘Ireland and the English Nation at the Council of Constantine’ in 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy'; connections between the Scottish and Irish historical research communities; the 'Innes Review' (asking if Fr Gwynn would like to contribute any articles); Fr Gwynn’s research on Scottish Benedictines in Germany and his 1952 articles on the Irish at Wúrzburg in the Middle Ages.

Durkan, John, 1914-2006, historian

Notes and letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to the Irish Manuscripts Commission work

  • IE IJA J/10/128
  • File
  • 10 January 1953 - 26 September 1961
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Notes and letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various academics including Dr Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, Prof Jim Lydon (Professor of History, T.C.D.) and Dr Ludwig Bieler, relating to the [Irish Manuscripts Commission]. Includes: carbon copy of a ‘Report on Manuscripts of Irish Interest in Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg’ by Dr Ludwig Bieler (August 1957, 11pp).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ Gwynn from Monsignor Professor John Tracy Ellis

  • IE IJA J/10/129
  • File
  • 1 February 1954 - August 1964
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Monsignor Professor John Tracy Ellis (Secretary of the American Catholic Historical Association and Editor of the 'Catholic Historical Review'), on academic matters, including:
– the difficulties of gaining access to contemporary religious archives;
– ideas on academic exchanges between Ireland and the Unites States, ‘for scholarship, professors etc.’;
– the commemoration of the 1,500th anniversary of the death of St. Patrick;
– information on new American church historical publications;
– Fr Gwynn’s review of Mgr. Tracy Ellis’s 1952 'The Life of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore 1834 - 1921' in 'Studies';
– financial difficulties of the Catholic University of America;
– the Monsignor’s lecturing activities;
– a proposed three-volume history of the Church in Ireland;
– comments on ‘the prospect of a Catholic in the White House’ (10 November 1960, 1p.);
– a proposed series of lectures in Dublin as part of the Patrician centennial celebration and the acquisition of copies of several letters of Archbishop Carroll in the Jesuit Archives.

Ellis, John Tracy, 1905-1992, Roman Catholic priest, monsignor and historian

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning Fr Arthur Cox

  • IE IJA J/10/13
  • File
  • 21 December 1964-17 June 1966
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning Fr Arthur Cox, who died in Zambia on 11 June 1965 following a car crash. Includes: letter from Fr Cox to Fr Gwynn describing how Fr Cox is settling in to his new life in Monze and learning new languages (21 December 1964, 2pp);
– letter from Bishop James Corboy SJ with reference to Fr Cox (23 February 1965, 1p) (see also J10/18);
– letter from Fr Frank O'Neill SJ describing the circumstances of Fr Cox’s death (16 June 1965, 3pp);
– letter from Bishop Corboy following the first anniversary of Fr Cox’s death (17 June 1966, 1p.). Includes ordination and memorial card of Fr Cox.

Aubrey Gwynn and Arthur Cox at UCD together.

Cox, Arthur, 1891-1965, solicitor and priest

Letters and postcards to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Robert E. McNally SJ

  • IE IJA J/10/131
  • File
  • 29 April 1956 - 12 May 1969
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters and postcards to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Robert E. McNally SJ (Munich University, Woodstock College, Maryland and Fordham University, New York), mostly concerning Fr McNally’s research and publishing work, including ‘a new edition of the Pseudo-Isidore, Liber de numeris, which we suspect to be certainly a product of early Irish scholarship.’

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Richard Southern on various academic and personal matters

  • IE IJA J/10/132
  • File
  • 15 November 1959 - 4 November 1974
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Richard Southern (Balliol College, All Souls College and St. John’s College Oxford), on various academic and personal matters, including the arrangements for Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to lecture at Oxford in March 1962.

Southern, Sir, Richard William, 1912-2001, medieval historian

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Michael Browne, Bishop of Galway

  • IE IJA J/10/133
  • File
  • 1 January 1960 - 24 July 1976
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Michael Browne, Bishop of Galway. Refers to an unpublished paper by Fr Gwynn on ‘Galway and Kilmacduagh,’ the Canons Regular of St Augustine, the Church of St Nicholas and its wardenship and a proposal to confer an honorary degree on Neville Hadcock. Includes note by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Dr Browne correspondence (22 July 1976, 1p.)

Browne, Michael, 1895-1980, Roman Catholic Bishop of Galway

Documents relating to the series 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' published by the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies

  • IE IJA J/10/134
  • File
  • 10 August 1964 - 12 November 1977
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Documents relating to the series 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' published by the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. Includes:
– notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the background to the series (12 November 1977, 1p.);
– printed advertisement for the series including a list of volumes and prices (n.d., 4pp);
– memorandum by Prof Ludwig Bieler (Acting Editor of the series) on a new edition of the complete works of Scottus Erriugena (10 August 1964, 1p.);
– ‘Scriptores Latini Hiberniae Directions for Contributors’ (n.d., 8pp);
– memorandum on some of the publications produced in the series and the uncertain future of the series as a result of financial difficulties (n.d., 3pp);
– letter from Prof Bieler to Fr Synan (Director of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies) inquiring as to the possibility of financial assistance for the series (15 May 1976, 2pp).

Letters to Prof Ludwig Bieler from various critics and editors associated with the 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' series

  • IE IJA J/10/135
  • File
  • 17 March 1952 - 6 December 1976
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Prof Ludwig Bieler from various critics and editors associated with the 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' series and other academics, concerning the series and Prof. Bieler’s writings, especially the question of the publisher’s financial difficulties and the proposed collaboration between the Institute for Advanced Studies and the British Academy in the publishing of the series.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof Ludwig Bieler on academic and social matters

  • IE IJA J/10/136
  • File
  • 20 July 1974 - 25 June 1981
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof Ludwig Bieler on academic and social matters, including problems of Latin translations with regard to 'Dicta Patricii'; palaeographical studies of various manuscripts and references to Prof Bieler’s articles in various publications.

Bieler, Ludwig, 1906-1981, Hiberno-Latin scholar

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof F.X. Martin, O.S.A. (Department of Medieval History, U.C.D.) introducing Dr Michael Richter

  • IE IJA J/10/138
  • File
  • September 1969 - 1972
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof F.X. Martin, O.S.A. (Department of Medieval History, U.C.D.) introducing Dr Michael Richter, (Department of Welsh History, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth) and letter from Dr Richter to Fr Gwynn concerning his edition of the ‘Canterbury Professions.’ Includes:
– reprint from 'The Downside Review' of Richter’s article 'Archbishop Lanfranc and the Canterbury Primacy' – Some Suggestions (Vol. 90, No. 299, April 1972, p.110 – 118);
– photocopies of ‘the relevant pages’ of 'Canterbury Professions', (1973);
– partial draft of Dr Richter’s manuscript on Church Reform in Britain and Ireland after the Conquest ([1969], p.29 – 78 and appendices and footnotes).

Martin, F. X., 1922-2000, Augustinian, historian and activist

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning a seventeenth-century transcript of Robert Southwell’s 'Rule of Good Life' in Milltown Park

  • IE IJA J/10/139
  • File
  • 17 January 1967 - 6 June 1975
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof. Nancy Pollard Brown, (Professor of English, Trinity College, Washington) and Dr Peter Beal, concerning a seventeenth-century transcript of Robert Southwell’s 'Rule of Good Life' in Milltown Park, Dublin.

Brown, Nancy Pollard, 1921-2015, professor

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Edward Schofield on his publications about England and Basel, with references to ‘the difficult matter of the succession to Irish sees’

  • IE IJA J/10/140
  • File
  • 13 February - 7 March 1967
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Edward Schofield (Department of Manuscripts, British Museum) on his publications about England and Basel, with references to ‘the difficult matter of the succession to Irish sees’ and a proposed trip by Fr Gwynn to London.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various academics relating to aspects of the life of Honorius Augustodunensis

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various academics (including Valéria Flint) mostly relating to aspects of the life of Honorius Augustodunensis. Includes offprint ‘The Career of Honorius Augustodunensis’ by V.I.J. Flint, University of Auckland, New Zealand from Revue Bénédictine (Vol. 82, Nos. 1 – 2, 1972, p.63 – 86).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Patrick J. Dunning, C.M.

  • IE IJA J/10/142
  • File
  • 18 January 1973 - 23 January 1975
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Patrick J. Dunning, C.M. (President of St. Patrick’s College, Armagh). Includes:

  • letter seeking information on St Malachy for an article Fr Dunning wishes to write in the school magazine and expressing surprise at the apparent lack of interest, on the part of the Irish, in St Malachy (18 January 1973, 2pp);
  • letter seeking information for a lecture he is going to give to the London Medieval Society on ‘The attitude of the Irish Church to the Norman Invasion’ (13 November 1974, 3pp);
  • letter on his brother Tom’s ‘valuable collection on Old and Middle English Literature’ which has been offered to U.C.D.. Includes a memorial card of Prof. Thomas P. Dunning, C.M. who died in 4 May 1973.

Also includes references to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ ‘presenting to U.C.D.’ his ‘most valuable card-index on Irish Medieval History, together with your most valuable correspondence with distinguished scholars. I am sure the History Department will be delighted with this generous presentation’ (23 July 1975, 2pp). (Inquiries to the Archives Department, U.C.D. in February 1998 revealed that no such presentation was made, either to the Library, History or Archive Departments in U.C.D.)

Dunning, Patrick, Vincentian priest

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Gerald Simms with references to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s family research

  • IE IJA J/10/143
  • File
  • 13 May - 24 August 1976; 1979
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Gerald Simms (History Department, T.C.D.) with references to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s family research; Archbishop Thomas Jones and Bishop Lewis Jones. Includes photocopy of an appreciation of the late Dr Simms from the 'Irish Times', written by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (14 April 1979, 1p.).

Simms, John Gerald, 1904-1979, academic and writer

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof. Jack Watt with references to Watt’s family

  • IE IJA J/10/144
  • File
  • 30 May 1976 - 17 December 1979
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof. Jack Watt (History Department, University of Hull and University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) with references to Prof. Watt’s family; news of other academics; a proposed paper of his on ‘John Colton, colonial official and archbishop’; the current political situation in Northern Ireland; Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s publication of the Sermon Diary of Archbishop Richard FitzRalph; Prof. Watt’s research work on the fifteenth century and various volumes of the series 'New History of Ireland'.

Watt, Jack, historian

Correspondence between Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and the Royal Irish Academy concerning his paper ‘Brian Borúma and the Mass in Irish’

  • IE IJA J/10/146
  • File
  • 23 July 1979 - 16 March 1981
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Correspondence between Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and the Royal Irish Academy concerning his paper ‘Brian Borúma and the Mass in Irish’ and the deposition by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Prof. Ludwig Bieler of the editorial correspondence for the series 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' in the Library of the R.I.A..

Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dom Aelred Watkin, Downside School, Bath

  • IE IJA J/10/148
  • File
  • 2 March - 19 May 1950
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dom Aelred Watkin, Downside School, Bath, on:
– various documents, including: copy of extracts ‘from a fourteenth century list of the Glastonbury muniments (Marquis of Bath’s MS
f. 54)…they may be of interest to scholars of Irish medieval history’ (2 March 1950, 3pp);
– Irish connections with Glastonbury;
– a paper Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ suggested on the sermons of St Caesarius of Arles and the Monastic Tradition, for publication in the Downside Review (May 1950, 2 items).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dom Daniel Rees, Downside Abbey, Bath

  • IE IJA J/10/149
  • File
  • 29 June 1974 - February 1981
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dom Daniel Rees, novicemaster [and librarian] Downside Abbey, Bath, relating to various research queries from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and the exchange of books between Milltown Park Library and Downside, including a ‘complete bound set of the Downside Review’ (24 June 1975, 2pp).

Correspondence relating to Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s life-long friend Fr Thomas J. Fullerton

Correspondence relating to Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s life-long friend Fr Thomas J. Fullerton. Includes:
– letters from Fr Fullerton to Fr Gwynn (17 September 1971 – 1975, 3 items);
– note to Fr Gwynn from Gearoid Cr[ookes], Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, following Fr Fullerton’s death in 1976, enclosing four letters Fr Gwynn wrote to Fr Fullerton from 1916 and 1932. Includes references to Fr Gwynn’s brother Edward Lucius’ departure for Australia, his brother Denis (a soldier who had just been gazetted to the 5th Munsters at the Curragh) (18 November 1916, 4pp), political and social events at home and academic life in U.C.D. (16 April 1932, 2pp).

Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (mostly from St Hugh’s Charterhouse, Horsham, Sussex) concerning material of a Carthusian charterhouse in Ireland

  • IE IJA J/10/152
  • File
  • 18 April 1957 - 13 July 1961
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various priests and academics (mostly Fr Andrew Gray, St Hugh’s Charterhouse, Horsham, Sussex) concerning the discovery in the Public Record Office, of a foundation charter of a Carthusian charterhouse in Ireland at Kinaleghin (Kinalahan, Kinalekin or Kilnaleghin) by John de Cogan in 1267; and the publication of Fr Gray’s resultant article on Kinaleghin. Includes: colour photograph of Fr Gray (13 September 1957);

  • postcard of the Library at St Hugh’s Charterhouse;
  • postcard of an aerial view of St. Hugh’s Charterhouse and a letter to Fr Gwynn from Fr Bruno Sullivan of St Hugh’s, following Fr Gray’s death (5 February 1968, 2pp).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr B. Colmcille, O.C.S.O., Mellifont Abbey, County Louth, concerning his research work on the history of the Cistercians

  • IE IJA J/10/153
  • File
  • 28 May 1953 - 20 January 1965
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr B. Colmcille, O.C.S.O., Mellifont Abbey, County Louth, concerning his research work and various publications, such as his book on the history of Mellifont ('The Story of Mellifont') and the Cistercians ('The History of the Irish Cistercians'). Also includes discussions on the literary activities of the medieval Cistercians in Ireland; the history of the abbey, especially its origins and possible connections to a small community at Drogheda (St Mary’s); archaeological excavations at Mellifont; his paper on the lands of St Mary’s Abbey, Co. Dublin and the preparation of maps. (There is a copy of the book 'The Story of Mellifont' (M.H. Gill & Son, 1958) signed by Fr Colmcille for Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, in the house Library in Leeson Street)

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Gearóid MacNiocaill concerning their mutual academic interests

  • IE IJA J/10/154
  • File
  • 12 February 1954 - 11 June 1957
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr. Gearóid MacNiocaill concerning their mutual academic interests. Includes: - references to MacNiocaill’s proposed thesis on the history of the Cistercians in Ireland;

  • the reproduction of documents of the Citeaux Abbey preserved in Dijon;
  • Abbot Stephen of Lexington and copy of a note by MacNiocaill on the placename ‘Aranea’ (the site of a Cistercian Abbey in County Down) to be published in the 'Bulletin of the Ulster Place-Name Society' (1955, 3pp) and
  • list of dates attributed to Irish Cistercian houses (11 June 1957, 2 items).

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Cistercians and the Annals

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Cistercians and the Annals:

  • ‘Cistercian Entries in Annals of Boyle’ (1p);
  • ‘Cistercian Entries in Annals of Loch Cé’ (1p);
  • ‘Breakdown of discipline in Irish Cistercian abbeys c.1215 – 30’ (2pp);
  • ‘The Career of Stephen of Lexinton’ (1p);
  • ‘Cistercian abbeys in Ireland’ lists of dates of foundations (1p);
  • ‘The Irish Cistercian abbeys after Visitation of 1228’ (1p);
  • ‘The Abbey of Boyle before and after the Visitation of 1228’ (1p);
  • ‘Visitation by Abbot Stephen of Lexinton, abbot of Stanley’ (1p).

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on various Annals

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on various Annals:
– ‘Annals of Loch Cé (Annals of Kilronan)’ (1p.);
– ‘Annals of Connacht’ (1p.);
– ‘Annals of Boyle (Annals of Loch Cé after c.1228’;
– ‘The Annals of Connacht and the abbey of Cong’, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vo. XXVII, 1-9 (1956).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Liam Ó Buachalla, Cork, relating to the history of the diocese of Cork and Cloyne

  • IE IJA J/10/166
  • File
  • 29 December 1965 - 7 March 1966
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Liam Ó Buachalla, Cork, relating to the history of the diocese of Cork and Cloyne; - the Uí Toirdhealbhaigh ‘the subsept to which Brian Ború, the Ua hEnna’s and Ua hAailgenis belonged’;

  • the O Sealbhaig family and numerous other points with regard to Fr Gwynn’s article ‘Bishop of Cork in the Twelfth Century’ in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record (July 1950);
    his work helping ‘to edit a voluminous…(manuscript)…History of Diocese of Cork left by the late Canon Cahalane’;
  • the history of Cloyne from the ninth to the eleventh centuries;
  • Nehemias, Bishop of Cloyne who died in 1149;
  • the Arrouaisians in Cork (see also J10/153; 195; 227; 228).
    Encloses typescript notes by Ó Buachalla entitled ‘Diocese of Cloyne’ (n.d., 4pp).

Typescript notes with references to various Calendars

Typescript notes with references to various Calendars (e.g. Calendar of Patent Letters, Calendar of Documents: Ireland) on:

  • the Archdiocese of Tuam (1150 - 1260) (7pp);
  • the diocese of Elphin (1174 - 1306) (11pp);
  • the diocese of Clonfert (1171 - 1306) (12pp);
  • the diocese of Killala (1151 - 1309) (6pp) and
  • Achonry (1220 – 1312) (5pp).

Letters and cards of congratulation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the 50th anniversary of his ordination

  • IE IJA J/10/17
  • File
  • 15 July - 8 August 1974
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters and cards of congratulation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the 50th anniversary of his ordination on 13 July 1974. Includes:
– letters from various Columban sisters invited to attend the Golden Jubilee celebrations (15 July -3 August 1964, 7 items);
– letter of congratulation from Fr General Pedro Arrupe SJ (2 July 1974, 1p.);
– letters from Alice Moore (Fr Gwynn’s sister-in-law) (22, 31 July 1974, 2 items) (see also J10/20; 21; 51);
– letter from Fr Thomas J. Fullerton (see J10/15) (27 July 1974, 2pp);
– letters from various Jesuits (including Frs Des O'Grady, E.J. Andrews, John Neary and Fergus Cronin) and letter from Prof. Geoffrey Hand (30 July 1974, 2pp).
See also J10/31; 49; 68; 256; 257.

Arrupe, Pedro, 1907-1991, Jesuit priest and Father General

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Irish Dioceses after the Synod of Kells

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with the following headings:

  • ‘The Irish Dioceses after the Synod of Kells: The Province of Armagh’ (pp.1 – 47) (47pp, 1p. editing notes & 8pp footnotes);
  • ‘The Province of Tuam’ (pp.48 – 61) (14pp & 1p. editing notes);
  • ‘The Province of Cashel’ (pp.62 – 138) (77pp & 6pp footnotes) and
  • ‘The Province of Dublin’ (pp.139 – 195) (57pp & 8pp footnotes).

Part of a draft typescript ‘Dowdall Deeds: Indentures of Apprentices etc...'

Part of a draft typescript ‘Dowdall Deeds: Indentures of Apprentices etc.’ (p.23 – 30) (typescript on Archbishop Richard FitzRalph and his sermons). 8pp (Part of an article ‘The Sermon-diary of Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, published in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, (xliv, section C, p.1 – 57); Annotated bound copy of Studies articles by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh.

Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad

  • IE IJA J/10/191
  • File
  • 27 June 1974 - 1 February 1981
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad, relating to her research on Archbishop FitzRalph. Includes typed notes on Otto III. Also includes Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s wedding invitation to Katherine’s marriage to Dr Alfred Strnad at University Church in July 1976.

Walsh-Strnad, Katherine, -2011, historian

Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of notes on Archbishop Lanfranc

Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of notes on Archbishop Lanfranc (mostly extracts from various sources):
– ‘Lanfranc and the Primacy of Canterbury’ (Latin and English) (1p.);
– ‘Lanfranc and the See of Dublin’ (Latin) (1p.);
– ‘Professiones Episcoporum Hibernie’ (Latin) (2pp);
– ‘Lanfranc to Gothric King of Dublin’ (Latin) (2pp);
– ‘Lanfranc to Turlough O Brien King of Ireland’ (Latin) (2pp);
– ‘Pope Gregory VII to the Irish People’ (Latin) (1p.) and
– ‘Lanfranc and Columbanus at Canterbury’ (pp.18 – 22).

(In 1941 Fr Gwynn wrote ‘Lanfranc and the Irish Church’ for the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (lvii, pp.481 – 500; lviii, pp. 1 – 15) and ‘Pope Gregory VII and the Irish Church’ also for the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (lviii, pp.97 – 100) ).

Letters and notes from Derek H. Turner to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ

  • IE IJA J/10/198
  • File
  • 3 July 1958 - 30 January 1980
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters and notes from Derek H. Turner (Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, The British Museum) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning:

  • the Corpus Christi Missal (Corpus Christi College, Oxford);
  • the ‘Irish Gradual, Rawlinson (c.892)’;
  • the Leofric Missal and the Drummond and Roslyn Missals.

Turner, Derek Howard, 1931-1985, museum curator and art historian

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Christopher Hohler

  • IE IJA J/10/199
  • File
  • 7 February 1965 - 11 February 1981
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters (some incomplete) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Christopher Hohler (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and Oslo) on a wide range of topics including:

  • the Corpus (Christi) Missal; Drummond Missal, Winchester Troper and the Trim Breviary;
  • Arrouasian books in England and abroad;
  • Hadcock and Gwynn’s Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland;
  • Victorine liturgical books;
  • the Roslyn Missal;
  • the ‘Pet[rine]’ and ‘Ephe[sine]’ liturgies;
  • the Sarum Missal;
  • Gilbert of Limerick’s ‘Prologue’ and the Synod of Cashel;
  • Roman and ‘Gallican’ rites;
  • his views on Sts. Patrick and Palladius;

Includes offprint of chapter by Dr Hohler entitled ‘Some Service Books of the Later Saxon Church’ from David Parsons (ed.) Tenth Century Studies (1975), pp.60 – 83 (24pp) with notes, pp.217 – 227 (11pp). Also includes notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Hohler correspondence (3pp & 3 envelopes).

Article entitled ‘A breviary from St Mary’s Abbey, Trim’, Rioght na Midhe, 290-298, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn.

Hohler, Christopher, 1917-1997, medievalist and art historian

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Edmund Colledge O.S.A.

  • IE IJA J/10/200
  • File
  • 12 February 1975 - 23 November 1982
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Edmund Colledge, O.S.A. (Pontifical College of Medieval Studies, Toronto, Canada and Austin Friars School, Carlisle) on various academic matters and their mutual colleagues, including Dr. Katherine Strnad; Walsh. Includes references to Archbishop Richard FitzRalph (12 February 1975, 1p.) and a proposal that Dr Bernard Muir (of the English Department, University of Melbourne) undertake research on the Drummond Missal.

Colledge, John Eric, 1910-1999, academic and Roman Catholic priest

Documents relating to the Stowe Missal and Tallaght

Documents relating to the Stowe Missal and Tallaght. Includes:

  • holograph text entitled ‘The Stowe Missal in Tallaght’ pp.2-14 (n.d., 13pp);
  • fragment (3pp) and
  • typescript entitled ‘Decline of Tallaght’ pp.11 – 20 (n.d., 10pp).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Martin McNamara MSC

  • IE IJA J/10/210
  • File
  • 27 March - 16 May 1978
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Martin McNamara MSC containing Fr McNamara’s comments following his reading of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s paper on the ‘three Irish Missals and the possible connection of the Corpus Missal with Brian Borumha’ before its publication.

McNamara, Martin, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart priest

Letters from Rose Gayner to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ

  • IE IJA J/10/23
  • File
  • 10 December 1981 - 8 February 1982
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters from Rose (Gayner, nee Gwynn) (Fr Gwynn’s cousin) following the illness and death of Fr Gwynn’s sister, Sheila Moorehead, in December 1981. Includes references to a portrait of their ‘Aunt May’ and a family story about Walter Osborne (Fr Gwynn’s godfather): ‘He was apparently rather dominated by a powerful mother but there was an understanding that he would marry Aunt Lucy. However before the understanding could become an engagement he caught a bad cold, and died of pneumonia’ (8 February 1982, 4pp).

Letter from J.G. O'Connor and Co., solicitors, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ following the death of his sister Sheila

Letter from Thomas Bacon of J.G. O'Connor and Co., solicitors, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ following the death of his sister Sheila. Encloses a copy of Mrs. Moorehead’s will dated 8 November 1978, in which she bequeaths £1,000 to Fr Gwynn; an oil painting of ‘Cattle in Berkshire’ by Walter Osborne and the water-colour sketch of Fr Gwynn as a boy, also by Osborne, to the National Gallery; a lithograph of her grandfather William Smith O'Brien; a poem of his written in Kilmainham Jail and a signed poem by Thomas Francis Meagher, to the Municipal Art Gallery (5pp).

Bacon, Thomas, solicitor

Letters from Prof. Ross Hoffman of Fordham University, New York

  • IE IJA J/10/27
  • File
  • 1 May 1949-3 January 1980
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters from Prof. Ross Hoffman of Fordham University, New York, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Denis Gwynn on personal matters, mainly his work, health and family and discussions on various American Presidents, the Pope and the Church. Includes:
– letter describing his work on arriving at the Manuscript Room in Sheffield Central Library to unpack and sort ‘three boxes (each about 2' by 2' by 8”) of unsorted (Edmund) Burke papers…they are largely the originals of the published letters, but there is also a rich collection of unpublished letters of Earl Fitzwilliam to Burke in the 1790’s and a few other fairly important letters that never have been printed…I am, it seems the first person to examine them since their delivery here…you can imagine how exciting is the experience of turning up, for example, original letters from George III to Rockingham…It is but one of scores, probably hundreds, of museum pieces that are usually kept under lock, key, and glass…collectors would pay fabulous things for these things…There is no one else in the room and I am in a constant state of exaltation, surely this is an experience that comes once in a life-time to one historian in a thousand.’ Also refers to the bomb damage in Sheffield, following the War (1 May 1949, 2pp);
– letter describing his work transcribing the Burke letters – ‘The whole body of documents runs to about 230 letters between 1759 and 1776…they throw a great deal of new light on Anglo-Irish relations, or rather upon Mr. Burke’s idea of those relations’ and his ‘projected book on Burke and the New York Agency, which really is becoming a large work on Burke and the Origins of the American Revolution’ (30 June 1950, 1p.);
– letter to Denis Gwynn concerning a book on Burke and Barry correspondence and his book on Edmund Burke and Charles O’Hara (28 March 1952, 2pp);
– letters on the publication of his books on Edmund Burke and Charles O’Hara and Burke, New York Agent (1956);
– lengthy commentaries on: the American (both internal and external policy, including the Korean and Vietnam Wars and race relations) and British political situations; the awarding of an honorary degree from the National University on him; his book on Lord Charles Rockingham, The Marquis (1973) and
– references to a portrait of Edmund Burke by James Barry in the National Gallery (24 March – September 1973, 4 items).
Also includes letters written by James White, Director of the National Gallery to Fr Gwynn, concerning the portrait which was presented to Trinity College Dublin and ‘is in the Andrew’s Room in the Provost’s House’ (23 August, 4 September 1973, 2 items);
Includes letter to Fr Gwynn from Prof. Hoffman’s daughter, Mary Ellen Flinn, following her father’s death on 16 December 1979. Encloses a memorial card (3 January 1980, 2pp).

Hoffman, Ross John Swartz, 1902-79, American historian, author and educator

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Neville Hadcock

  • IE IJA J/10/28
  • File
  • 10 February 1973 - 29 November 1979
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Neville Hadcock. Discusses his academic work on French dioceses and maps of monastic Britain; his family, his health and that of his wife Jeanne; their book Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland, high crosses, the Tridentine Mass and the introduction of the New Liturgy.

Hadcock, Neville, -1980, historian

Letters from Prof. Geoffrey Hand to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ

  • IE IJA J/10/31
  • File
  • 1 April 1975-11 March 1981
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters from Prof. Geoffrey Hand to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ. Includes news of his appointment to the Fiesole Institute, Florence; his work, colleagues in U.C.D. (where he Lectured in Legal and Constitutional History); family and health.

Hand, Geoffrey Joseph Philip, 1931-2016, Professor and former Chairman of Irish Manuscripts Commission

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr George Maguire

  • IE IJA J/10/32
  • File
  • 16 October-2 November 1971
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr George Maguire concerning his late brother Conor, and a Fr Peter Golding, an Irish teacher at Clongowes Wood College (Dr. Maguire went to Clongowes from 1902 to 1907; Fr Gwynn from 1903 to 1908). Fr Richard Golding SJ taught Irish at CWC. Dr Maguire writes that his father taught Fr Golding Irish when he was living in Cong.

Maguire, George, doctor

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Gilbert Laithwaite

  • IE IJA J/10/33
  • File
  • 31 December 1979 - 4 November 1981
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Gilbert Laithwaite (an Old Clongownian, 1907-1911) to whom Fr Gwynn frequently sent his publications.

Laithwaite, Sir, John Gilbert, 1894-1986, Irish-British civil servant and diplomat

Easter card from Prof. Jack Watt to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ

Easter card from Prof. Jack Watt to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ containing domestic news. Encloses publisher’s notice for Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad’s book on Archbishop Richard FitzRalph, A Fourteenth-Century Scholar and Primate: Richard FitzRalph in Oxford, Avignon, and Armagh (1981).

Watt, Jack, historian

Photographs of Denis Gwynn, and Sheila Moorhead

Photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s brother, Denis and sister, Sheila Moorhead, at Malahide, Dublin (1970), at the grave of Mary Louisa Gwynn, Stanmullan, County Meath (1970) and Jacquline's wedding (30 April 1968).

Gwynn, Denis Rolleston, 1893-1971, journalist and historian

Card of Walter Osborne portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’

Card published by the National Gallery of Ireland, of the Walter Osborne (1859-1903) portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’ (age 6). (Osborne was Fr Gwynn’s god-father). Portrait was presented to the Gallery in 1979 by Fr Gwynn’s sister.

National Gallery of Ireland, 1854-

Memorial cards of Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s family

Memorial cards of Fr Gwynn’s family:
– brother Owen John Gwynn (died 24 January 1919) (1919, 1 item);
– brother Edward Lucius Gwynn (died 7 September 1919, age 28) (1919, 2 items; 1 includes a photograph);
– mother Mary Louisa Gwynn (died 26 April 1941) (1941, 2 items);
– aunt Jane Emily Dumergue (died 2 May 1949) (1949, 1 item) and
– brother Denis Gwynn (died 10 April 1971, age 78) (1971, 1 item, with photograph).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from National Portrait Gallery, London, seeking information on any known portraits of Stephen Lucius Gwynn

  • IE IJA J/10/44
  • File
  • 20 May - 10 June 1982
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Sarah Wimbush, Archive Research Assistant, National Portrait Gallery, London, seeking information on any known portraits of Stephen Lucius Gwynn (Fr Gwynn’s father), as part of her work in cataloguing Edwardian portraits, one of which is a portrait by Sir William Rotherstein of Stephen (1915). Includes list of known portraits of Stephen (1p.) and photocopy of the portrait (1p.).

Wimbush, Sarah

Invitation to a reception to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Declaration of Independence by Grattan’s Parliament

Invitation from Taoiseach Charles Haughey to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to a reception in the Irish Parliament House at the Bank of Ireland, College Green, to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Declaration of Independence by Grattan’s Parliament and the Convention of the Ulster Volunteers in Dungannon.

Haughey, Charles, 1925-2006, politician and taoiseach

Information on Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-grandfather’s cousin, John Gwynne

  • IE IJA J/10/64
  • File
  • July 1974 - July 1975
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Information on Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-grandfather’s cousin, John Gwynne (1754 – 1828/9), founder of a ‘charitable endowment Institution, Derry.’ Includes letters from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland to Fr Gwynn (30 June, 8 July 1975, 2 items. 1p. each) and note given to Fr Gwynn by Archbishop George Simms (July 1974, 1p.) (John Gwynne bequeathed a large sum of money to found a charitable endowment in Derry known as the Gwynne Institution, for the education of boys whose parents could not afford to give them a suitable education. The money was to be distributed equally among Protestants and Catholics. (from Burke’s Irish Family Records, 19[74], p. 53) )

Simms, George Otto, 1910-1991, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh

Letters to Fr Gwynn from Geraldine Willis, Librarian, Church of Ireland Representative Church Body Library

  • IE IJA J/10/65
  • File
  • 8 November 1977 - 18 September 1978
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Geraldine Willis, Librarian, Church of Ireland Representative Church Body Library, Rathgar Road, Dublin, with biographical information on the following Gwynn’s who were clergymen in the seventeenth century: Arthur; John; Roger; William; George and John (1761 – 1852).

Willis, Geraldine, Librarian

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various academics and archivists regarding Fr Gwynn’s research on William Smith O'Brien

  • IE IJA J/10/68
  • File
  • 17 January 1968 - 13 September 1975
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various academics and archivists (including Marcus Bourke, Kevin B. Nowlan (History Dept. U.C.D.), Prof. Geoffrey Hand and Breandan Mac Giolla Choille (Keeper of State Papers, S.P.O., Dublin) ) and Prof. Blanche Touhill, Associate Dean of Faculties, University of Missouri–St. Louis) regarding Fr Gwynn’s research on William Smith O'Brien his great-grandfather.

Touhill, Blanche, historian

Declaration by Fr Charles S. Galton SJ

Declaration by Charles S. Galton SJ that he ‘received Aubrey Osborn Gwynn into the Church on the 14th of Dec. 1902’ (21 May 1918, 1p.) and copy of Certificate of Reconciliation, ‘According to the Register of Baptisms kept at S. H. Church Wimbledon Aubrey Osborn Gwynn…was reconciled at the said Church, by Charles S. Galton on the 14th day of December 1902’ (18 May 1902, 1p.)

Galton, Charles S., 1860-1936, Jesuit priest

Photocopies of articles from the Irish Times, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on William Smith O'Brien

  • IE IJA J/10/71
  • File
  • 17 July-8 September 1974
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Photocopies of articles from the Irish Times, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on William Smith O'Brien (17, 18 July 1974, 2pp). Includes letter published in the paper by W. Smith O'Brien (father of Blanche Touhill) on Fr Gwynn’s articles (27 August 1974, 1p.) and letter from W. Smith O'Brien to Fr Gwynn (8 September 1974, 1p.).

Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic

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