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File containing correspondence mainly between Fr Patrick Doyle SJ, Donal Ó Buachalla, Andrew Devane and Gabriel Byrne, Engineer of Euro–Irish Securities, relating to the Rathfarnham road widening scheme, the possible conversion of South Wing of the Castle and the Junior House for light office use, and the formal offer for the purchase of land for Rathfarnham Village By-pass from Dublin Corporation.

Correspondence between the Vice-Provincial, Mr Andrew MacErlean (brother of Fr John MacErlean SJ) and J.F. MacCarthy (New York Art Dealer) relating to the shipment of a painting by Mr MacCarthy to the Provincial. The painting is by Sir Thomas Thorpe/Sharpe of London and is thought to be entitled ‘The First College of Dublin’, although there is some confusion over the correct title. The painting thought in Dublin to be of poor quality and incorrect title.

A file of correspondence relating to the University Bill and the affiliation of Mungret College following University changes in Ireland. Includes a summary of University Examinations (Royal University) taken by students in Mungret.

Correspondence from [ ] De Hanelle SJ (Brussels) and H. Basuiau SJ (Paris) to Irish Fr Provincial Joseph Lentaigne acknowledging receipt of bank notes and money orders. (In French).

Correspondence with Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin (mostly holograph letters from the Archbishop and copies of Fr. Provincial’s replies) on various matters. Includes letters concerning:

• the purchase of additional land from Mr Bewley adjoining Milltown Park, on which to build a secondary school (See also 1940s correspondence with Archbishop McQuaid);
• the question of the payment of workers for work on parochial and ecclesiastical buildings on Holy Days of Obligation;
• the Statement issued on behalf of the Hierarchy with regard to ‘the raising of military forces and the waging of war’ (persuading ‘young men not to join the new I.R.A. and kindred groups, or if they have joined, to disassociate themselves from such groups’);
• the proposed acquisition of new buildings on Eglinton Road (now the Province Curia, No. 87 Eglinton Road) for the Society to ‘relieve a certain congestion we are experiencing at present in our Dublin Houses’;
• the appointment of Jesuits to various ecclesiastical offices;
• the Commission considering the question of Licensing Laws;
• Jesuit Missions to the Irish in Britain (see also ADMN/3/62);
• the Technical Schools – ‘It is not in any sense an exaggeration to say that the assistance of the Society has made possible the establishment of a firm system of Religious Instruction, for the first time, in the Vocational and Technical Schools’ (letter of Archbishop McQuaid to Fr Provincial, 8 June 1959, 1p.) (see also ADMN/3/61);
• the formation of a committee to select candidates for beatification among the Irish martyrs (see also ADMN/3/24; 43; 48 and 49);
• the publication of spiritual books in Irish by the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary attached to Gardiner Street Church (see also ADMN/3/59 and 65);
• the appointment of Jesuit lecturers in University College Dublin;
• the proposal to establish a federation of the Sodalities of Our Lady in the Dublin Diocese.
  Also includes covering letter and copy of the minutes of the General Meeting of the Irish Actors’ Equity Association held on 27 April 1958.

Correspondence with Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin (mainly holograph letters from the Archbishop and copies of Irish Fr Provincial’s replies) on various matters. Includes letters concerning :

• information for the Commission established to ‘investigate and report upon the existence and title of all collections for pious purposes in the Diocese of Dublin’;
• the supply of Altar wine to the Society;
• the appointment of Fr Thomas Counihan SJ to the Commission on Youth Unemployment;
• his request ‘not to use candles at the end of Retreats and Missions during the present war-circumstances’;
• the death of various Jesuits including Frs [Thomas Counihan], Michael Kirwan, James Tomkin, Laurence J. Kieran (former Provincial) and Vincent Byrne;
• circular comprising the decisions of the 1942 October Meeting of the Hierarchy;
• 1944 Decree concerning the education of Catholics in non-Catholic Schools, Colleges or Universities of the Dublin Diocese (See also ADMN/3/38);
• the proposed visit of Fr Adelard Dugré SJ, ‘formerly an Assistant of our late Father General and now an Assistant of our Father Vicar General’ to Ireland and his appointment with the Archbishop;
• the granting of diocesan faculties to various Jesuits and the results of diocesan examinations;
• the ‘Solemn Votive mass’ to be celebrated in the Pro-Cathedral on 25 June 1945 on the occasion of the Inauguration of the President, Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh (See also ADMN/3/59 and 76);
• copies of letters concerning the Archbishop’s instructions as to the ‘attitude to be adopted in regard to the strike declared by the Central Executive Committee of the Irish National Teachers’ Organization’ and the restoration of ‘normal conditions’ in the schools following the Teachers’ Strike;
• the collection by secondary schools of used clothing ‘for the very destitute young people of Europe, especially the Catholics of Hungary’;
• the answers of the Milltown Theological Faculty to certain questions posed ‘concerning the question of defining as a dogma of the Faith the doctrine that the Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed bodily into Heaven’;
• statistical reports on the Society in Ireland required for the ‘Relatio Status’ of the Archbishop to the Holy See and for the Annuario Pontificio;
• the appointment of Fr Thomas Counihan SJ to conduct the Thirty Days’ Exercises at Holy Cross College, Clonliffe in October 1947 and September 1948;
• proposals to purchase Churchtown House, Dundrum for use as a secondary school and the alternative plan to build a school on grounds adjoining Milltown Park (See also 1950s correspondence with Archbishop McQuaid);
• the institution of the ‘Tribunal for the Ordinary Informative Process in the Cause of the Beatification and Canonisation of the Servant of God, John Sullivan, Priest of your Society’ (24 October 1947, 1p.) (See also ADMN/3/24; 48 and 49);
• the purchase of Baymount Castle, Dollymount for use as a Retreat House (Manresa House) (See also ADMN/3/6 and 74) and
• letter of condolence following the fire at Milltown Park in 1949 (11 February 1949, 1p.).

Death notice, funeral arrangements, correspondence on flight and travel arrangements, obituaries of Fr John Monahan SJ; such as 'The Australian Dictionary of Jesuit Biography 1848 - 1998', by David Strong S.J., 1999, p239 - 240.

Correspondence, mainly between Irish Fr Provincial and the Director of the Irish Free State Broadcasting Station (2RN), relating to the broadcast of Christmas Mass from Milltown Park in 1936 and the Lenten Lectures from St Francis Xavier’s Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin in 1937. Also discusses the participation of Jesuit scholastics in the preparation of a special broadcast to be aired following the death of His Holiness Pope Pius XI (Pius XI died on 10 February 1939).

Costs from Daniel Purcell, Solicitor, 58 Dame Street, Dublin to Rev. James F. Murphy SJ for power of attorney and conveyance on behalf of Rev. Joseph Hannon.

Costs from P. F. Quinlan, Solicitor, 68 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin to Rev. James Bury SJ, executor of Major Rev. John J. Fitzgibbon SJ, M.C. or legal services.

Minutes of council meetings of the Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Ignatius, Galway. Refers to retreats and retreat directions, details members present and those proposed for membership.

28 September 1890-1 December 1912;
13 December 1912 - September 1937;
April 1946 - November 1951;
14 May 1961-14 January 1974;

Coursework entitled ‘The family of Sir Robert John Kane (1809-1890); the emergence and disappearance of a nineteenth-century Dublin family’ by Dr Clara Cullen, submitted for Certificate in Family Module 2/Genealogy (GX04) - tutor Mr Sean J. Murphy, M.A.

Covering letter from Noel M. Purcell to Fr Finlay enclosing a copy of the Declaration of Trust.

Covering letter from Noel Purcell to Fr Finlay (30 December 1930, 1p.) and costs of solicitor Daniel Purcell & Son in account with Rev. Thomas A. Finlay in the matter of the conveyance settlement and appointment of trustees (29 December 1930, 1p.).

Covering letter, receipts and certificates for three sets of bonds and stocks, lodged in the National City Bank Ltd. for safe-keeping by Fr Thomas Finlay SJ: certificates for £1,200 Agricultural Credit Bonds, 1st Series; £1,075 Agricultural Credit Corporation Bonds, 2nd Series and £250 Dublin Corporation 5% Inscribed Stock.

Crescent College Review, No.1, August 1897, 66pp.
Crescent College Review, No.1, Midsummer 1898, 118pp.
Presented in 1951 by Mr Joseph Purcell.

Locket with a curl from the hair of Willie Doyle, at the age of three. With box.

Curriculum Vitae of Rev. George O'Neill SJ and handwritten notebook on Stations of the Cross (started 1868 and finished October 1894), with sermon on the Stations (11 March 1895).

Curriculum Vitae, catalogue entry and obituary for Fr Liam A Egan SJ taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives:https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/L-Egan.htm

Custom book for the Chinese mission. Includes comments on the Custom book.

Custom books of the Irish Jesuit Province, some annonated.

• 1896 (2 copies, 35pp);
• 1897 (2 copies, 35pp);
• 1899 (2 copies, 32pp);

Photocopy of cutting from the 'Irish Times' of an article entitled 'Red Threat To The Faith' reporting on a Lenten lecture delivered by Fr Arthur Little SJ in Gardiner Street. Attached is a typed page entitled 'Europe and Faith' by Hilaire Belloc.

Cuttings from 'The Catholic Press' of an article entitled 'How the Irish Came to Queensland. The Voyage of the "Erin-go-bragh" and a tribute to Fr Aloysius Sturzo SJ'.

Account of daily cash and receipt book for the Jesuit community at St Ignatius, Galway.

Daily Mass or The Mystic Treasures of the Holy Sacrifice

'Dance Hall Legislation' by Fr Richard Devane SJ.

'Dance Halls & More Dance Halls' by Fr Richard Devane SJ.

File of letters and copy of letters related to the postponement of the Penny Dinners in Galway at Columban Hall and its eventual re-establishment. Correspondence between Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kiernan SJ, Fr John MacSheahan SJ, Rector, St Ignatius Church, Galway and Thomas O'Doherty, Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora, relating to Bishop O'Doherty’s pastoral letter in which he indirectly refers to the Penny Dinners and the Jesuits, when he condemns dances organised in aid of Penny Dinners by non – Jesuits, ‘I have the strongest possible objection to the means of raising money employed last January…who can control the evils perpetuated in motor cars' (6 April 1926). Includes correspondence between Fr John MacSheahan SJ, Rector, St Ignatius Church, Galway and M. O. Lainn, Clerk, Galway Urban District Council, relating to the re-establishment of Penny Dinners.

Bound volumes entitled 'Dawning Day', compiled by the Juniors in Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin containing articles, poems and songs on the various missions - China, India and Australia. Binding is loose on 'Dawning Day', 10th edition. Includes photographs of Frs Edward Bourke, Gerald Kennedy and George Byrne, Mr Richard Harris, Mr John Moran, Wah Yan College, the graves of Frs Saul and McCullough.

A file relating to day pupils in Mungret College and the O'Malley Scheme.

Death certificate, mass cards, newspaper notice and account of money in Br Francis Bonfield's room.

Death certificate for Fr James McCann SJ who died at Milltown Park, Dublin. Includes letter from the National Bank Limited, Dublin which returned the death certificate to Fr John Mulligan SJ, St Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Death certificates for Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ.

Death notice, newspaper articles, correspondence and online obituary taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan. https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/D-Reid.htm

File on the death of Fr Patrick Keating SJ including letters from Australia describing his funeral.

A file relating to debt of money owed by Fr Timothy Corcoran's late brother, Francis William Corcoran in South Africa. Francis William Corcoran was in the Natal Police, 1904-1912. Includes a signed agreement by Fr Corcoran's brother (Francis William Corcoran) to repay the loan he obtained from Andrew Phibbs (1 May 1918, 1p). Includes letters from A. Phibbs, Police Stores, Pretoria, South Africa to Fr Timothy Corcoran concerning the debt (7 February 1921 - 29 June 1921, 6 items).

A file relating to Irish Fr Provincial's Laurence Kieran SJ, decision to postpone Fr Joseph Hurley's last vows.

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.)

Declaration signed by Francis Henry Blackburne concerning the lands at Rathfarnham prior to its sale. Includes a map of the demesne.

Decree issued by Fr General appointing Fr Patrick McWilliams SJ, Rector of St Ignatius College, Galway.

Parties:
John Marquis of Ely of the first part, The Honorable John Henry Loftus (Lord Viscount Loftus) of the second part and John Hare, esquire, Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin of the third part.

Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
For the life of John Marquis of Ely.

Other:
Signed and sealed by Ely and Loftus.

Deed of appointment of new trustees of the Father Delany Fund. The new trustees are as follows: Fr Edward Coyne SJ, Fr Brian McMahon SJ, the Reverend the O’Conor Don SJ, Eric A. Plunkett, solicitor, Eugene Davy, stockbroker and James F. Meenan, barrister. Includes copy.

Parties:
Rev. Nicholas Walsh, S.J., Milltown Park, County Dublin, Rev. Stephen Farrell, S.J. and Rev. Joseph & Lentaigne, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Terms & Conditions:
In consideration of a sum of £3,600 from the lands bequeathed in the will of Anna Maria Matilda Dennis to Rev. B. Esmonde, S.J. and an agreement by the Society of Jesus to provide two free missions or courses of spiritual exercises for the conversion of sinners to be given annually in the diocese of Dublin.

Other:
Signed and sealed

A file containing deeds of sale of a plot of land in the Parish of Malew. The property was sold to Fr Matthew Gahan SJ.

Copy draft deeds of submission to arbitration the taking of the accounts of the rents received by Mr O'Reilly out of the estates of the co-heiresses of Edward O'Callaghan and of the application thereof in the matter James John Bagot and Ellen Maria Bagot (nee O'Callaghan), his wife (plaintiffs) and Thomas O'Reilly and Bridget O'Reilly (nee O'Callaghan), his wife, The Honorable Thomas Browne and Catherine Browne (nee O'Callaghan), his wife and others (defendants).

Deeds, cheques and shares bequeathed to Fr John Bannon SJ. Includes letter from Mary Agnes English; schedule of payments to Fr. Bannon SJ; account of Fr Bannon’s charity money.

Material on Charles Kerin, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a priest.
Born: 30 May 1844
Entered: 8 October 1869
Left: ?

Material on Christopher Laheen, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 24 June 1916
Entered: 23 March 1940
Left: 24 April 1945

Material on Daniel Hickey who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 15 September 1842
Entered: 3 November 1875
Left: 28 June 1890

Material on Daniel Linehan, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 28 December 1924
Entered: 19 September 1942
Left: 25 July 1953

Material on Desmond G. Kelly who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 12 April 1914
Entered: 7 September 1932
Left: 15 February 1937

Material on Edmund Coghlan who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 7 January 1840
Entered: 7 September 1861
Left: 1872/73

Material on Edward FitzMaurice who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 24 January 1901
Entered: 31 August 1917
Left: 15 December 1922

Material on Edward Flanagan who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 28 April 1922
Entered: 5 April 1940
Left: 3 December 1949

Material on Eugene Coffey who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 14 November 1901
Entered: 29 September 1925
Left: 15 February 1932

Material on Francis X. McMahon, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 28 November 1908
Entered: 2 March 1928
Left: 29 January 1931

Material on Frederick Johnston who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 7 August 1909
Entered: 1 September 1928
Left: 7 August 1931

Material on George Macauley, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 18 November 1909
Entered: 1 September 1928
Left: 28 November 1930

Material on George McCaul, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 1 May 1910
Entered: 2 September 1929
Left: October 1943

Material on Henry Maguire, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 31 March 1913
Entered: 23 September 1932
Left: 8 December 1942

Material on Hubert Kilbride, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 19 June 1918
Entered: 17 September 1942
Left: 2 July 1946

Material on James Carey who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 11 December 1903
Entered: 26 September 1923
Left: 19 June 1928

Material on James Keegan who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 4 January 1908
Entered: 18 August 1935
Left: 17 August 1948

Material on James McCarthy, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 20 November 1913
Entered: 7 September 1932
Left: 15 July 1946

Material on John Cahill who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 1 March 1911
Entered: 1 September 1928
Left: 19 June 1931

Material on John Holland who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 4 October 1916
Entered: 7 September 1935
Left: 17 September 1942

Material on John G Creagh who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 8 August 1899
Entered: 31 August 1916
Left: 6 August 1925

Material on John James Keogh, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 3 April 1917
Entered: 7 September 1935
Left: 16 November 1949

Material on John Jennings who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 23 June 1890
Entered: 7 September 1909
Left: 30 July 1919

Material on John Kearney who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 17 January 1910
Entered: 12 March 1932
Left: 4 January 1940

Material on John Launchpaup, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 8 Apr. 1924
Entered: 18 Dec. 1946
Left: Oct. 1955

Material on Joseph M. McCarthy, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 31 July 1922
Entered: 22 January 1945
Left: 6 February 1952

Material on Maurice Cooney who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 22 July 1917
Entered: 7 September 1935
Left: 8 May 1943

Material on John Doyle who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 11 March 1910
Entered: 19 September 1927
Left: 11 March 1930

Material on Michael J Byrne who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 8 August 1910
Entered: 18 August 1935
Left: 24 February 1944

Material on Michael Keating who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 6 April 1901
Entered: 28 February 1922
Left: 3 July 1926

Material on Michael McShera, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 17 June 1908
Entered: 5 April 1931
Left: 4 February 1943

Material on Noel Maguire, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 7 December 1923
Entered: 14 August 1947
Left: 16 March 1954

Material on Oliver McMahon, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 10 June 1920
Entered: 4 October 1937
Left: 16 June 1948

Material on Patrick C Byrne who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 4 November 1911
Entered: 3 September 1930
Left: 23 November 1933

Material on Patrick Fallon who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 12 March 1914
Entered: 14 August 1934
Left: 12 August 1949

Material on Patrick Lynch, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 1 December 1882
Entered: 7 September 1903
Left: 1 April 1919

Material on Patrick MacBride, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 27 January 1903
Entered: 31 August 1920
Left: 25 June 1929

Material on Patrick McInerney, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 29 July 1909
Entered: 1 September 1927
Left: 24 April 1933

Material on Peter Byrne who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 28 November 1899
Entered: 1 March 1920
Left: 22 December 1943

Material on Peter Higgins who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 21 September 1900
Entered: 9 January 1918
Left: 31 July 1928

Material on Raymond Dunkin who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 21 October 1909
Entered: 1 September 1927
Left: 12 July 1934

Material on Thomas A Finucane who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 8 September 1923
Entered: 16 Septeber 1941
Left: 1 July 1949

Material on Thomas Kelly who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 4 December 1903
Entered: 29 July 1924
Left: 21 December 1931

Material on Thomas Lyons, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 27 March 1842
Entered: 24 December 1862
Left: late 1872

Material on Vincent McAllister, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 19 July 1917
Entered: 7 September 1934
Left: 30 July 1942

Material on Walter McDonagh, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 9 October 1911
Entered: 2 September 1929
Left: 19[43]

Material on Edward Flanagan who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 18 December 1894
Entered: 8 June 1919
Left: 26 March 1923

Material on William Hughes who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 6 June 1896
Entered: 9 October 1914
Left: 9 August 1929

Three descriptions of what a Marriage Encounter weekend involves in Ireland.

A file relating to the design of Christmas cards.

Details of Fr Daniel O'Connell's next-of-kin.

Details of the Chinese mission of the Irish Province entitled 'The Hong Kong Letters'. See MSSN/HONG/2/8, 2/10

File relating to the development of Jesuit property at Rathfarnham Castle. Includes correspondence relating to the appeal for planning permission, the building development at Rathfarnham, the road improvement scheme, and meetings with officials from Dublin Corporation; maps and plans, valuations of the property, accounts of negotiations with developers and their proposals. Main correspondents include Frs Patrick Doyle, Cecil McGarry, and Andrew Devane, Donal Ó Buachalla and Tom Bacon.

Diaries concerning the taking over of Rathfarnham Castle by the Society of Jesus, describing the various maintenance work carried out to make Rathfarnham habitable for the community.