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Works in progress by various Irish Jesuits on the 'Fourth Centenary of the Foundation of the Society of Jesus'

Documents, mainly letters to Irish Fr Provincial reporting on works in progress by various Jesuits, to be published during the fourth centenary year of the foundation of the Society. Includes letters from Frs John Ryan, Timothy Mulcahy, Charles Scantlebury, Henry Gill, Joseph Canavan, Michael McGrath, Patrick Gannon, Stephen Brown, Arthur Little, John MacErlean, Edward Coyne (See also ADMN/3/37; 39; 42; 57), Timothy Corcoran, Aubrey Gwynn and Seán Ó Catháin. Also includes lists of titles and authors and a memorandum on historical publications of the Irish Province by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (See also ADMN/3/18; 37; 40).

Typescript paper by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘The Red Book of Ossory and a new Kilkenny Roll of 1366’

Typescript paper by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘The Red Book of Ossory and a new Kilkenny Roll of 1366.’ (The Red Book of Ossory contains the text of the constitutions of three (perhaps four) ecclesiastical councils. These texts belong to the Province of Dublin. The Kilkenny Roll contains the constitutions of a Dublin provincial council held at St Canice’s Cathedral in 1366.)

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).

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with regard to St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (mostly transcriptions from various Papal Bulls) with regard to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin:

  • ‘Comyn’s Original Prebends of St. Patrick’s (From Bull of Celestine III)’ (1p.);
  • ‘The Property of the Economy (ad communiam) of St. Patrick’s’ (1p.);
  • ‘Taxation List a.1227 of Prebends of St. Patrick’s, Dublin (from Alan’s Register)’ (1p.);
  • ‘St. Patrick’s Dublin. Bull of Pope Celestine III’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Charter of John Comyn establishing Collegiate Church of St. Patrick’ (Latin) (2pp);
  • Ordinance of John Comyn concerning Privileges of Salisbury’;
  • ‘Charter of Prince John granting Crumlin as Prebend to St. Patrick’s (May 2, 1193)’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Revised Version of John Comyn’s Charter’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Charter of Henry de Loundres adding Three Offices to the Chapter of St. Patrick’s’ (Latin) (2pp);
  • ‘Charter of Henry de Loundres a Dean to Chapter of St. Patrick’s’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Charter of Henry de Loundres exempting Prebends of St. Patrick’s from Procurations of Archdeacon and Dean’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Taxation of the Prebends of St. Patrick’s a.1227’ (Latin and English) (2pp) and ‘Charter of Luke on Privileges of Canons of St. Patrick’s’ (Latin) (1p.).

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on various synods

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on various synods (mostly extracted from the Annals): Synod of Cashel a.1101 and 1106 (3pp);

Raith Breasail a.1110 (7pp) (In Irish);
Fiadh mic Aonghusa a.1111 (2pp) (In Irish);
Uisneach a.1111 (2pp) (In Irish);
Clonfert a.1170 (1p.);
Armagh a.1170 (1p.) (English and Latin);
Tuam a.1172 (1p.) (Irish and English);
Cashel a.1172 (2pp) (Latin);
Waterford (1p.) (Latin);
Dublin a.1177 (1p.) (Latin);
Tuam a.1210 (1p.);
Dublin a.1217 (1p.) (Latin);
Inish Padraig a.1148 (1p.) (Latin);
Kells a.1152 (5pp) (Latin and Irish);
Mellifont a.1157 (2pp) (Latin and Irish);
Synod of Bri mic Thiadhg a.1158 (1p.) (Irish) and
Synod of Clane a.1162 (1p.) (Irish).

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).

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 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).

Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the ‘Council of Three Anglo-Irish Bishops (a.1324)’

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on:
– the ‘Council of Three Anglo-Irish Bishops (a.1324)’ being extracts from various texts (In Latin) (3pp);
– ‘Decree of Three Anglo-Irish Bishops (a.1324-5)’ being extracts from Rawlinson MS B. 484. fol.17 (a ‘miscellany of texts of Irish interest formerly in the library of Sir. James Ware, now among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Libraries’) (2pp).

Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of two chapters – ‘Saint Anselm and the Irish Church’

Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of two chapters – ‘Saint Anselm and the Irish Church’ (8pp) (part of his proposed book The Reform of the Medieval Irish Church, a plan of which he sent to publishers Browne and Nolan in 1949) and ‘Anselm and the Irish Church’ (22pp) (In 1942 an article by the same name by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ was published in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, (lix, pp.1 – 14).

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) ).

Transcripts from various documents relating to the West Indies

Typescript transcripts from various documents (majority secondary sources) relating to the West Indies. Includes extracts with handwritten marginals by Fr Aubrey Gwynn, SJ from: ‘State Papers, Colonial’ on Sir Charles Wheeler, 1670 - 1673 (9pp); on Sir William Stapleton (2pp); ‘Blake Family Records’ (5pp);
– from ‘Council Book of the Corporation of Kinsale’ (1652 – 1800) (3pp);
– ‘Voyage et Travaux des Missionaires de la Compagnia de Jesus, publies par des Peres de la meme Compagnie pour servir de complement aux Lettres Edifiantes’ (11pp);
– documents from a series beginning with ‘C.O.1/XIX – XXXVII’ ‘Narrative of Colonel Theodore Cary (Nov. 17, 1665’ (35pp);
– documents from the ‘State Papers, Adventurers’ beginning with ‘Adventurers in Ireland and Barbados’ ‘Nicholas Blake’ (15pp);
– from the ‘State Papers, Colonial’ (20pp); and transcripts on English, Scottish and Irish Prisoners in Barbados (5pp, 13pp, 29pp).

Text of a poem by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Mr Michael Sweetman SJ

Text of a poem by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Mr Michael Sweetman SJ, Beadle of Milltown Park, written on returning a cricket bat sent to him by Mr Sweetman, for Fr Gwynn’s fiftieth birthday. Recorded and donated by Fr Kevin Laheen SJ (January 1998).

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

Retreat notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ

Copybook of [retreat] notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘Redemption and Atonement.’

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

Purchase of Baymount Castle, Dollymount

Purchase of Baymount Castle, Dollymount. Letters from Mr J T Gwynn, Baymount Castle, Dollymount to Frs Sean McCarron and John Coyne, regarding the sale of Baymount to the Jesuits which refers to sale price, dates in which they can occupy the house, solicitors details and queries (boundary wall, rates), items for sale at Baymount which the Jesuits intend to buy (278 lbs of jam), discounts on items. Includes lists of items bought from Mr J T Gwynn, Baymount Castle by the Jesuits which include items from basement pantry, kitchen, dining room, drawing room, etc (August 1948) and items required (December 1948). Mr J T Gwynn was the uncle of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and had been headmaster of the Protestant Preparatory School at Baymount. His daughter made an unsuccessful effort to carry on the school with a small mixed infants class (See letter from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Father Provincial, 16 February 1948). See CM/MAN/55.

Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin

Proposed articles for the commemorative issue of 'Studies' for the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society of Jesus

Proposed articles for the commemorative issue of 'Studies' for the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society of Jesus. Includes a letter from Aubrey Gwynn SJ, 35 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ concerning the commemorative issue.

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

Proposal to found a Jesuit Weekly Paper

Documents examining ‘the question of the advisability or otherwise of our…(the Irish Jesuit Province)…founding & running a Weekly Paper’ following Fr General’s letter asking the Provincial to “find out the views of ‘peritorum Patrum’ on this subject.” Includes copy of circular letter and questionnaire sent by the Provincial to sixteen ‘knowledgeable’ Jesuits and replies from the following Fathers: Patrick Connolly (Editor of 'Studies'), Michael Kirwan, John Ryan, Aubrey Gwynn (ADMN/3/18; 29; 40), Timothy Corcoran, Michael Egan, Edward Cahill, Joseph Canavan, Timothy Mulcahy (Editor of 'Madonna', 'Irish Monthly' and 'The Jesuit Directory'), Edward J. Coyne (See also ADMN/3/29; 39; 42; 57), John McMahon, George Roche, John Keane, Charles Doyle (includes two unsigned replies from Frs Stephen Brown and Charles Scantlebury). Also includes tables of summaries of the views expressed.

Poem by Stephen L. Gwynn entitled ‘We That Are Old’ beg

Cutting from the 'Times' of a poem by Stephen L. Gwynn entitled ‘We That Are Old’ beg. 'We that are old have little will To linger on'. Ten verses and copy of same written out by Fr Aubrey Gwynn (2pp).

Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, author, politician, and soldier

Photographs of Juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin

Photographs of Juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Includes photographs of groups taking part in the Irish Month at Rathfarnham.

  1. Jesuit Juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin on sports field. Includes Aubrey Gwynn (hat), [1913]-[1917];
  2. Jesuit Juniors involved with the Irish Month at Rathfarnham, Castle, Dublin. Includes standing 3rd row, far right Laurence Kearns.Seated front row, far right, Pádraic Ó Brolcháin, 1933;
  3. Jesuit Juniors involved with the Irish Month at Rathfarnham, Castle, Dublin. Includes standing 3rd from right, Louis Meagher. Seated, l-r seating front row, , , , Bill White [1934];
  4. Jesuit Juniors involved with the Irish Month at Rathfarnham, Castle, Dublin. Includes standing 2rd from right,Michael Morrsion, [1934];
  5. & 6. Same group. Jesuit Juniors involved with the Irish Month at Rathfarnham, Castle, Dublin. Includes standing fourth from left, Seán McCarron, [1935].

Photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ

Photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

  • memoiral card for Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ;
  • Aubrey Gwynn SJ at Louvain, July 1920;
  • two photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with a bishop/archbishop outisde of cathedral at [Würzburg];
  • Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with a religious siters outside church;
  • Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with members of Civil Service Branch of [St Joseph's Young Priests Society], Joe Robinson, Michael J O'Neill and Archie Roberts [1950];

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

Photographs belonging to Fr Kyran Ward SJ

Photographs belonging to Fr Kyran Ward SJ which documents his life from 1912 until his death, 1972.

Galway:

  1. Fr Kyran Ward SJ, [1960]-[1972]; 4 photographs
  2. Group at shore front with Fr Kyran Ward SJ in the centre
  3. [ ], Br Michael Crowe SJ, [1960]-[1972]; 2 photographs
  4. Father of Fr Kyran Ward SJ, 27 June 1920; 2 photographs
  5. Muiris Ó Séaghdha, 5 May 1945;
  6. Villa house for Jesuits at Moville, 1913;
  7. Group of Jesuits on villa [1910]-[1935];
  8. Group of Jesuits on villa [1910]-[1935], James Whitaker;
  9. Group of Jesuits on a boat, Cleggan extreme left John Sulllvian, Charles Byrne, John Neary;
  10. Mortimer Glynn, Charles Byrne, A Morris, ,;
  11. Gap of Dunloe, father of Fr Kyran Ward SJ, 26 August 1929;
  12. Charles Byrne, Cleggan
  13. Roundstone, County Galway;
  14. Clongowes Wood College villa at Glengarriff [1928] - [1931] - Br O'Grady, Frs McGlade, C Barrett, Kieran Ward; M Kelly, James Whitaker, G Finucane, T Kelly; Frank Joy, M McCarthy and Donal Trant McCarthy.
  15. Frs Robert Dillon-Kelly, Nolan and ?;

Photographic album includes:

  • family photographs of himself and his parents (1923);
  • cycling in Wicklow with G. Dunne and J Hurley, 1912;
  • his time at Rathfarnham 1915 - 1916, with names;
  • on villa at various locations;
  • Jesuit contemporaries;
  • Jersey 1916 - 1919;
  • on villa Wicklow, while at Millltown Park, Dublin, 1919;
  • postcards from Jersey; Donegal 1923;
  • election of Pope Pius XI 1922;
  • photographs of Clongowes Wood College (1919 -1923) including hurling, rugby, cricket, swimming, rugby, tennis;
  • Clongowes union day activities, the Copper beech Winter 1920;
  • tertianship at St. Beuno's, Wales 1927 - 1928;
  • Frs Robert Dillon-Kelly, Nolan and Ward; Frs. Dick Butler and Paddy Cashman; later life of Fr Ward in Galway and time in France 1960’s;

Photograph of Edward Lucius Gwynn

Photograph of Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s brother Edward Lucius, who died on 7 September 1919, aged 28 in Sydney, Australia.

Gwynn, Edward Lucius, 1890-1919, historian

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

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

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.

Notes made by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ concerning Fr Gerard Hopkins's books

Notes made by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ concerning Fr Gerard Hopkins's books. Includes:
– memorandum recording an inquiry into ‘the annotated books of Hopkins’ from a Dr. James Cotter, New York, in summer 1976, ‘I wrote to him (Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ) June 21st 1977…I received no acknowledgement. He was on a visit to…Inishannon, Co. Cork’ (n.d., 1p.);
– ‘1st Memorandum re Hopkins’ Books. Sept. 8th…1976’ noting how Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ spent a summer examining all the books in the library in 1947; how Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, on becoming Province Archivist in 1975 ‘received a few enquiries about these books. Nobody in the community knew anything about them’, how he wrote to Fr Bischoff about the matter. ‘In August 1976, I found ten of these books in the lower shelf of the press immediately outside my room. I have identified them and list is herewith. There was a typed note…(by)… Fr Gwynn in the press (See J11/17) stating that the books belonged to or were used by Hopkins. I made a card index of all the books…I have marked H those certainly connected with Hopkins.’ (8 September 1976, 1p.);
– ‘2nd Memo’: ‘At present certainly identified with Hopkins 5, probably 2’ and lists them (8 September 1976, 1p.)

McGrath, Fergal P, 1895-1988, Jesuit priest

Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Luke Joseph Hooke

Copybook of notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘Luke Joseph Hooke the Sorbonne (1974).’ Includes loose pages of notes (9pp). (In 1974, Fr Gwynn wrote an article for 'Studies' entitled ‘A Forgotten Irish Theologian (Luke John Hooke, 1716 – 96)’)

Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various Papal Bulls with regard to Christ Church, Dublin

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various Papal Bulls (and other sources) with regard to Christ Church, Dublin:

  • Bull of Lucius III (13 April 1182) (In Latin) (4pp);
  • Bull of Urban III in favour of Christ Church (2 July 1186) (2pp);
  • Charter of St. Laurence O’Toole in favour of Christ Church (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Possessions of Christ Church under John Comyn (July 1186)’ (1p.) and
  • ‘Possessions of Christ Church under St. Laurence O'Toole (May 1178)’ (1p.).

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).

Note made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the ‘Dublin Books of Gerard Manley Hopkins’

Typescript note made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the ‘Dublin Books of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ – ‘Books used by Hopkins during his years at University College, Dublin…These books were identified by Fr. Anthony Bischoff, S.J., who examined every book in the library, May 13- June 9, 1947.’

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

Negative of photograph of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ

Negative of photograph of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, taken from a group with Eamon De Valera and Prof. Michael Tierney. Original copyright the Irish Times.

Irish Times Limited, 1859-

Material relating to the Irish Jesuit priests working in Hong Kong during the Second World War and the Japanese occupation of the city

A file relating to the fate of the Irish Jesuit priests working in Hong Kong during the Second World War and the Japanese occupation of the city. Includes returned letters to Irish Fr Provincial marked 'No Service Return to Sender'. Includes letters from family members asking for news or reporting to Irish Fr Provincial on letters received by them. Includes letters from other individuals seeking news about non Jesuit family members. Includes a copy of a request by Irish Fr Provincial John R. MacMahon SJ to Joseph P. Walshe, Department of External Affairs seeking help in assisting four Jesuit students to return home to Ireland (23 March 1943, 1p). Includes a reply stating that a proposed scheme to exchange civilian internees applies only to British or Allied subjects (12 May 1943, 1p). Includes a memorandum written by Fr Joy on Irish nationals in Hong Kong. The memorandum was sent by Irish Fr Provincial to the Irish Red Cross (24 October 1942, 2pp). Includes letters concerning Irish Jesuits who left Hong Kong to live and work in India during the war and subsequent return to Hong Kong when the war was over. Includes 'A Priest in a Japanese Jail' by Fr Gerard Casey SJ (1948)

Material relating to Fr Patrick G Kennedy SJ

  • IE IJA J/215/1
  • File
  • 15 August 1942 - 1 August 1953
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Material relating to Fr Patrick G Kennedy SJ including correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and memorandum of agreement for the publication of 'Birds of Ireland' by P.G. Kennedy SJ, Robert F. Ruttledge and C.F. Scroope.

Material relating to Fr Gregory Ffrench SJ

  • IE IJA J/147/1
  • File
  • 5 February 1936 - 19 August 1985
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Material relating to Fr Gregory Ffrench SJ which includes correspondence concerning his work for the Society throughout his life. Includes notes by Msgr Alfred O'Rahilly on the life of Fr Willie Doyle SJ sent to Fr Ffrench SJ (18 August 1964, 2pp). Includes a letter from Fr Ffrench SJ, Jesuit Retreat Centre, Tullamore, County Offaly to Irish Fr Provincial concerning the closure of Emo. Remarks 'But this dinner for Ours on the 11th? Apart from considerations of poverty, I cannot see that the closing of Emo is any occasion for festivity. After all, Emo is being closed because God does not see fit to bless the Province as at present being run with sufficient vocations to justify keeping it open.' (27 August 1969, 3pp). Includes correspondence concerning his work for the Crusaders of the Blessed Sacrament (1974-1982).

Material relating to Fr Daniel Donnelly SJ taken from the Mission Office

File of material relating to Fr Daniel Donnelly SJ, taken from the Mission Office, 28 Upper Sherrard St (12 July 2011). Includes passport
photographs of Frs Daniel and Leo Donnelly; personal record; document entitled ‘The Irish Jesuit Mission in Hong Kong: A retrospect’ by Fr Donnelly from the Irish Ecclesiastical Record (1937); and correspondence between Fr Donnelly and Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Donnelly, Donal, 1898-1975, Jesuit priest

Material relating the Regional Seminary, Aberdeen, Hong Kong

  • IE IJA MSSN/HONG/22
  • File
  • 11 November 1927 - 18 March 1957; 20 October 1981
  • Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

A file relating to the Regional Seminary, Aberdeen, Hong Kong. Includes documents relating to the establishment of the Regional Seminary, finances, annual report detailing the opening of the Seminary in 1931 (24 January 1933, 6pp). Includes letters relating to the Terna for the Rector of the Seminary (12 - 15 April 1937, 5 items and 30 June 1937 - 2 July 1937, 7 items).

South China Regional Seminary, 1931-

Lock of Stephen Lucius Gwynn’s hair

Envelope containing a lock of Stephen Lucius Gwynn’s hair (Fr Gwynn’s father), ‘Stee’s hair 1867 Three year’s old.’

Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, author, politician, and soldier

Lists of writers of the Restored Society and their publications compiled by Fr James Rabbitte SJ

Lists of writers (arranged alphabetically) of the Restored Society and their publications (1832-1925, 38pp, ). Compiled by Fr James Rabbitte SJ of Gardiner Street, (Custodian of the Irish Province Archives, 1924-1930). Typed list of Irish Jesuit authors and title, 20th century (1900-1939, 6pp).

Rabbitte, James, 1857-1940, Jesuit priest

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial concerning the celebrations for the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial concerning the celebrations for the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society. Includes:

  • letter and notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (See also ADMN/3/18; 29; 37) concerning a discovery he made in the course of reviewing a German History of the Jesuit Missions under Fr Roothaan, written for the centenary – ‘I found that the four years spent by Fr Robert St Leger at Calcutta (1834-38) mark a turning-point in the whole missionary policy of the new Society. He and Fr Roothaan differed on a fundamental point, and he was recalled after four years. But Fr Roothaan was later compelled by wider experience to adopt the policy which he had opposed in Fr St Leger’s case – i.e., the policy of permitting our Fathers on the missions to accept promotion to episcopal dignity.’ (26 February 1940, 2 items);
  • copies of circular letters sent to Jesuit schools and to scholastics by Irish Fr Provincial informing them of the date and form of the celebrations for the centenary in each community (11-12 May 1940, 3 items) and
  • copies of newspaper cuttings, congratulatory letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Galway Corporation and the Catholic Social Service Conference and copy replies ([22 August] – 29 September 1941, 9 items).

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 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 (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 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 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

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