The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560-1760
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The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560-1760
Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2022
Lyons, Mary Ann, historian
The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560-1760
The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560-1760
Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2022
Lyons, Mary Ann, historian
History of the Old Society
Catalogues, lists, necrologies
Information on individual Jesuits
Compilations of biographical notes
Transcripts of biographical notes
Jesuit Foundations in different counties
Irish Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1830-
Irish Jesuits in penal times 1695-1811
Irish Jesuits in penal times 1695-1811: Thomas Betagh and his companions.
Messenger Publications, Dublin, 2020
Morrissey, Thomas J, Jesuit priest, educationalist and historian
The Jesuits in Ireland: Before and After the Suppression
The Jesuits in Ireland: Before and After the Suppression
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
Notes on the Jesuits in Kilkenny in the seventeenth century
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Notes on the Jesuits in Kilkenny in the seventeenth century. Includes:
Material concerning the Jesuits in New Ross, County Wexford in the seventeenth century
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Material concerning the Jesuits in New Ross, County Wexford in the seventeenth century. Includes:
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Material concerning the Jesuits in Waterford in the seventeenth century
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Documents concerning the Jesuits in Waterford in the seventeenth century. Includes:
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
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Copy of title page of a book in Stonyhurst College community library, England entitled ‘The Instruction of a Christian’ by Cardinal Richlieu. The book was printed by the Jesuit printing press, Kilkenny, 1647. Includes mails (2012) on the subject with Stonyhurst College.
Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, 1593-
Text of a talk given by Manuel Revuelta SJ in the house in the Valladolid Province
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Text of a talk given by Manuel Revuelta SJ in the house in the Valladolid Province, where many Irish Jesuits made their novitiate.
Material relating to the Jesuits in Dublin
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Material relating to the Jesuits in Dublin. Includes:
‘Catalogue of Early Irish Jesuits with dates of deaths’
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‘Catalogue of Early Irish Jesuits with dates of deaths’ compiled in a diary by Fr John MacErlean SJ (1922), and list of Irish Jesuits in Ireland in 1640 by Fr Francis Finegan SJ (4pp).
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Notes on the Jesuits in Drogheda, County Louth in the seventeenth century
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Notes made by Fr John MacErlean SJ and Fr Fergus O’Donoghue SJ, (Irish Province Archivist 1986 - 2019)) on the Jesuits in Drogheda, County Louth in the seventeenth century.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
The First Jesuit Mission and Second Jesuit Mission in Ireland
Book 'The First Jesuit Mission and Second Jesuit Mission in Ireland'.
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Irish Jesuits 1598-1773, dictionary
Irish Jesuits 1598-1773, dictionary - Vol. IV biographies.
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Photocopy of the title page of an autobiography of St Teresa of Jesus
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Photocopy of the title page of the first translation into English of an autobiography of St Teresa of Jesus. Translated by Fr William Malone SJ (1611), and reprint details of Scolar Press reprint (1974).
Malone, William, 1586-1656, Jesuit priest
Newspaper clippings concerning the history of the Old Society of Jesus in Ireland. I
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Photocopies of newspaper clippings concerning the history of the Old Society of Jesus in Ireland. Includes articles on Jesuits James Archer, Henry Fitzsimons, the Hollywood Mass Rock and the ‘Popish Plot’.
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Material relating to Jesuits in Athlone, County Westmeath in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Biographical dictionary of Irish Jesuits 1598-1773
Biographical dictionary of Irish Jesuits 1598-1773.
Material relating to the Jesuits in Clonmel, County Tipperary in the seventeenth century
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Material relating to the Jesuits in Clonmel, County Tipperary in the seventeenth century. Includes:
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Cork in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Cork in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Galway in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Galway in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:
Material relating to the Jesuits in Limerick in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
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Material relating to the Jesuits in Limerick in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Includes:
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Material relating to Elizabeth, Countess of Kildare's association with the Jesuits
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Material relating to Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Countess of Kildare’s association with the Jesuits, her lease to the Society, of Kilkea Castle, County Kildare in 1634 and the chalice presented to the Jesuits in the same year by the Countess. Includes: photocopy of a newspaper article, ‘Unexplained Mystery of Kilkea castle’s Chalice’ by Dr George A Little (n.d., 2pp) and extract from the 'Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society', Vol. 5, 1906 - 08, p. 61- 62, on the chalice (3pp).
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List of Jesuits ordained in the archdiocese of Malines and Jesuit preachers and confessor in the archdiocese of Malines, 1607-1794. Taken from Archivum Hibernicum XXIII (1960)
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
The Jesuit Mission to Ireland 1596-1626
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M.A. thesis by James J Corboy SJ, entitled 'The Jesuit Mission to Ireland 1596-1626' at the faculty of Modern History, UCD (2 copies, 248pp each) (1941) with separate bibliography and index (34pp). Also includes letter from Dr R Dudley Edwards, UCD and Fr Jerome Mahony SJ concerning ‘Lord Justice Loftus’ and ‘Carew’ (5pp) (21 June 1954), and letter from Fr Jerome Mahony SJ to Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ that he has completed Menelogy up to 1800 (13 February 1956).
Corboy, James, 1916-2004, Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic Bishop of Monze
List of those professed of the four vows in the Society, between 1541-1705
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List of those professed of the four vows in the Society, between 1541 and 1705.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
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Extracts relating to [Irish] novices, from ‘Liber Ingressum et Votorum’ of the Provinces of Castille and Toledo. Arranged chronologically from 1592 to 1765. Reference to Irish Jesuits in Spain at the time of the Suppression, 1773. Transcribed by Fr John MacErlean SJ from various sources.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
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‘Obituary Letters’ of individual Jesuits [who died in Spain], transcribed by Fr John MacErlean SJ from various sources. Arranged chronologically from 1705 to 1790. In Spanish.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
List detailing the location of Jesuits in Ireland, 1540-1809
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List detailing the location of Jesuits in Ireland, 1540-1809. Complied by Fr John MacErlean SJ.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
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Obituaries of Irish Jesuits of the Old Society, transcribed by Fr John MacErlean SJ, from various sources. Arranged chronologically, from 1590 to 1656. Most in Spanish, some in Latin.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Obituaries of Jesuits, transcribed by Fr John MacErlean SJ, arranged chronologically 1660-1702
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Obituaries of Jesuits contained in correspondence, transcribed by Fr John MacErlean SJ from various sources. Arranged chronologically, from 1660 to 1702. In Latin and Spanish.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
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Documents relating to the Belgian Novitiates of Mechelen and Tournai. Includes extracts from Albums of Novitiates at Tournai (from 1584 to 1667 and 1710 to 1750, 26pp) and Mechelen (from 1614 to 1744, 33pp) containing brief biographical details of the Irish novices. Transcribed by Fr John MacErlean SJ. In Latin.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Biographical notes on Irish Jesuits and Jesuits of the Old Society, compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ
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Biographical notes on Irish Jesuits of the Old Society, compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ. Arranged chronologically by individual, tracing the history of the Society in Ireland from 1541 - 1774.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Notes compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ on Jesuits at New Ross in the seventeenth century
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Biographical notes compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ on Jesuits at New Ross in the seventeenth century.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
List of Jesuits and their date of arrival in Ireland, 1554-1637
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List of Jesuits and their date of arrival in Ireland, 1554-1637.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Notes on Irish Jesuits copied by Fr John MacErlean SJ from Watty Cox’s Irish Magazine
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Notes on Irish Jesuits copied by Fr John MacErlean SJ from Watty Cox’s Irish Magazine, August 1810.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Notes on the Jesuits in Cashel, County Tipperary in the seventeenth century
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Notes made by Frs John MacErlean and Francis Finegan on the Jesuits in Cashel, County Tipperary in the seventeenth century. Includes drafts of a typescript ‘The Jesuit School at Cashel - 1620’ (n.d., 1p. and 2pp).
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Lists of Irish Jesuits and their year of entry into the Society, from 1550 to 1799
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Chronological lists of Irish Jesuits and their year of entry into the Society, from 1550 to 1799. No indication of compiler or sources, possibly the work of Fr John Rabbitte SJ.
Rabbitte, James, 1857-1940, Jesuit priest
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Transcripts in Italian made by Fr John MacErlean SJ from various sources, concerning the Suppression and preservation of the Society of Jesus. Includes:
– extract of a published document dating from 1773 ‘Frederic II to his agent in Rome, giving reasons why he wishes to preserve the Jesuits in his states’ and
– ‘Lettera del Cardinale Cristoforo Migazzi Arcivescovo di Vienna alla Santità di N.S. Papa Clemente XIV’ (3pp).
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
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Notebook containing list of ‘Books of Old Irish Mission’ at Milltown Park, Dublin and list of 'Relics of the Old Society in Ireland' by Fr John MacErlean SJ, from notes by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ (4pp).
Extract from The Parliamentary Register - William Fletcher, M.P. for Tralee
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Typescript by Fr John MacErlean SJ of an extract from The Parliamentary Register (Vol. XV, 1795, p. 324) concerning a speech mentioning the Society of Jesus, by William Fletcher, M.P. for Tralee, 4 May 1795.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
List of admissions to the Society from 1556 onwards
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List of admissions by Fr John MacErlean SJ, to the Society from 1556 onwards, with some biographical information (mainly dates of entry, profession of fourth vows, death etc.) (45pp). Includes:
– list of the Rectors of the Irish College, Salamanca, from its foundation in 1592 to 1871 (1p);
– lists of Jesuits of the Old Society and their date and place of death/departure (c15pp) and
– extracts from catalogues of various Provinces (c20pp).
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
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Copies of Irish ‘Informationes’ transcribed from the ‘Codex Novitiorum’ and ‘Informationes Novitiorum’ kept at Galloro, Roman Province. Sent with covering letter (12 February 1933, 1p) by Fr Denis Nerney SJ to Fr John MacErlean SJ. Includes ‘Informationes Novitiorum Hib. S.J. in Tirocino Romano, 1826 - 1841’ (in Italian, 6pp) and extracts from the Codex Novitiorum, 1565 – 1586 (in Latin, 7pp).
Catalogue references to Irishmen in Jesuit Provinces 1670-1770
Handwritten chronological catalogue references to Irishmen in Jesuit Provinces 1670-1770 by Fr John MacErlean SJ, and list of Irish Jesuits in Ireland, 1774.
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John MacErlean SJ on various matters
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John MacErlean SJ on various matters including:
– Fr MacErlean’s censure on a Society Appeal for Funds;
– the progress of his historical research, news from Rome and news about the Society in Australia;
– the establishment of the Society in Ireland including a ‘list of whatever documents exist to my knowledge regarding the establishment of the Society in Ireland…What exactly the establishment of the Society in Ireland means I do not know. It may be a question for a canonist to solve. The canonical succession of the New Society to the Old is disputed, and Rome has never decided the point’;
– the proposed purchase of a volume consisting of ‘the indexes of the first eleven volumes of the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum down to the 3rd volume of April’ and the binding which is ‘much older than the contents…the binding of a Missal that was presented to Father (Nicholas) Leynach in 1613 - 14 by Francis Bray, at a time when Fr Leynach was trying to establish a chapel or oratory of the Society in Clonmel’;
– the Irish College in Rome;
– lists of books the Province could present to ‘the library to be established for the use of the Coll(egium) Scriptorum and a ‘list of those members of our Province who might now or hereafter be fit to cooperate with the Collegium Scriptorum in the production of works’ and a
– ‘Brief Sketch of the Work of the Irish Jesuits from the foundation to the Suppression of the Society 1540 – 1773’ (11pp).
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Notes compiled by Fr James Rabbitte SJ on the history of the Society of Jesus in Ireland
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Notes compiled by Fr James Rabbitte SJ (Custodian of the Province Archives, 1924 - 1930), on the history of the Society of Jesus in Ireland. Some inserts in the hand of Fr Edmund Hogan SJ. Includes lists of:
– Superiors of the Irish Mission (7pp);
– residences of the Old Society in Ireland (1p);
– ‘Summary of Work Abroad’ (1p);
– Summary of literary works by Jesuits of the Old Society (5pp);
– schedule of Jesuit writers and professors (5pp and 6pp);
– distinguished preachers (1p);
– those who suffered for the faith (2pp);
– aliases/variants on surnames (2pp);
– ‘Vestiges of the Old Soc(iety)’ (5pp);
– names of writers (arranged alphabetically) and of their works (c60pp) and
– some Jesuit schools of the Old Society (6pp).
Rabbitte, James, 1857-1940, Jesuit priest
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Extract from the 'Irish Jesuit Directory', of an article by Fr John MacErlean SJ entitled 'The Superiors of the Irish Mission of the Society of Jesus 1598 – 1774'; annotated by Fr MacErlean (24pp) and handwritten draft of same which includes index at front, listing the Superiors, their date of appointment and terms of office (34pp).
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
‘The Society of Jesus in Ireland before the Suppression (1540-1773)’ by Fr John MacErlean SJ
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Extract from the 'Irish Jesuit Directory' entitled ‘The Society of Jesus in Ireland before the Suppression (1540-1773)’ by Fr John MacErlean SJ.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
‘Catalogus Chronoligicus Ibernorum Societatis Jesu. Patrum ac Fratrum’ from 1550 to 1811
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Typescript copy of ‘Catalogus Chronoligicus Ibernorum Societatis Jesu. Patrum ac Fratrum’ from 1550 to 1811. With information under the following headings: name; date and place of birth; date of entry into the Society; grade; date (and place) of death.
Biographical record of Irish Jesuits, 1554-1637
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Biographical record of Irish Jesuits, 1554-1637. Author unknown, perhaps Fr John Grene SJ.
‘Historia S.J. in Hibernia’ by Fr Denis Murphy SJ
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‘Historia S.J. in Hibernia’ by Fr Denis Murphy SJ.
Murphy, Denis, 1833-1896, Jesuit priest and historian
Ibernia ignatiana, seu, Ibernorum Societatis Iesu patrum monumenta
Ibernia ignatiana, seu, Ibernorum Societatis Iesu patrum monumenta. With amendments and inserts by Frs Hogan and John MacErlean SJ.
Hogan, Edmund, 1831-1917, Jesuit priest
The description of Ireland: and the state thereof as it is at this present in anno 1598
The description of Ireland: and the state thereof as it is at this present in anno 1598. With amendments by Fr Hogan.
Hogan, Edmund, 1831-1917, Jesuit priest
Manuscript by Dr Richard Robert Madden comprising a history of the Society of Jesus
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Unpublished manuscript by Dr Richard Robert Madden comprising a history of the Society of Jesus from its foundation to the early nineteenth century. Attached is a printed title page dated 1874, ‘The Jesuits: In Relation to Religion, Civil Government and Society at Large, In the Several Countries From Which They Have Been Expelled’. Manuscript is divided into two ‘volumes’ (each with an attached printed title page). Volume 1 comprises 17 chapters (c.1,163pp) and Volume 2 contains 21 chapters (c.1,100pp). Also includes three sets of appendices – Volume 1 Appendix with 6 Sections (c500pp); Volume 2 Appendix with 4 Sections (c400pp) and Appendix with 14 Sections (c400pp). Also includes an explanatory note by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Irish Province Archivist until 1986) (2pp, 20 April 1977). (R.R. Madden lived at 3 Vernon Terrace, Booterstown, County Dublin; the manuscript also contains envelopes dating to 1874 addressed to Madden at the Loans Office, Dublin Castle) (Part of the last page of chapter 17, volume 1 is missing)
Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886, doctor, traveller, historian and anti-slavery campaigner
Notebook ‘Irish Jesuits of the Penal Days’
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Notebook ‘Irish Jesuits of the Penal Days’ compiled by an unknown Jesuit. Includes a table of contents on a loose page and a calendar of events in the Irish Society 1542-1822. Separate typewritten page lists 'Jesuit writers of Penal Days'.
Account book of Irish Jesuit property
Account book of Irish Jesuit property. Includes a description of the finances of the Irish Mission account, written by Fr John Fullam SJ. Remarks 'In 1760 this mission had in Paris a capital of £1000 ster. including the deposits of individuals and what belonged to different residences. By the persecution which ensued the whole was nearly despaired of when by Fr Crookshank's activity and cleverness about half that sum was recovered and transmitted to Ireland where Mr Ward placed it as occasions presented.'
Fullam, John, 1719-1793, Jesuit priest
Irish Jesuit Mission books of the Pre-Suppression period
Many of the books have Milltown Library and College Library Carlow stamps.
Irish Mission of the Society of Jesus, 1542-1773
‘Copy of an original MS’ from 1610 in a Jesuit archive in London, and sent to the Fr General
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‘Copy of an original MS’ from 1610 in a Jesuit archive in London, and sent to the Fr General. The subject is an Irish Jesuit mission. (In Latin).