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The Irish Jesuits Vol.1: being a collection of articles on the history of the Irish Province, culled from various sources, mainly for the Jesuit Year Book.

Photograph of Fr Daniel J. Finn SJ's grave stone in London.

Copy will and grant of Teresa Doran, 51C Dawson Street, Dublin and Howth View, Blackrock, County Dublin, Spinster. Bequeaths money to the Jesuit fathers, Milltown Park, Dublin for educational purposes.

A page of Irish history: story of University College, Dublin, 1883-1909. Talbot, Dublin, 1930

List of volunteers for the Chinese mission.

Decrees by the Papal Nuncio in Brussels regarding the Irish Church. (In Latin).

Booklet of rules of Jesuit rectors. First published in 1823 (In Latin).

The Jesuits in Ireland 1542 - 1974 by Michael Viney

Expenses of Hong Kong mission visitors. A note reads 'It was agreed that the Provincial would support and clothe the above visitors (extraordinary medical expenses excluded) and should receive anything earned by them while in Ireland, including masses.'

Copy will of Ellen Colgan, 33 Great Charles Street, Dublin. Bequeaths the residue of her estate to her brother Rev. John Colgan SJ and Rev. Thomas Vincent Nolan SJ, Rev. Michael Browne SJ and Rev. James Bury SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Account book of the Irish Jesuit Province.

List of the numbers of retreats and tridua (three day retreat for religious communities) given [for statistical purposes].

Statement of rental and epitome of title of houses and premises in Common Street and Lower Sheriff Street derived through the will of Rev. Joseph Christopher McCann.

Copy of ‘An account of a voyage from Falmouth to Buenos Ayres in 1828 - 9 written by Father Patrick Moran SJ of the Irish Mission.’ Incomplete.

Document containing three parts: I Observations of Fr General on Order of Studies; II Responses Regarding Each Stage of Studies; III Letter from Fr Provincial (Fr William Delany SJ) to Fr Assistant concerning the foregoing.

Document in Latin signed by John Hyde SJ declaring his willingness to accept sub-diacanate.

Villa (holiday) journal for Irish Jesuit scholastics (Juniors).

Kinnagh Hill, Killiney, County Dublin, 1922;
Bayview House, Wickow, County Wicklow, 1923;
'Elton' & 'Albany', Kilcoole, County Wicklow, 1924;
Clydagh Hotel, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1925;
Clydagh Hotel, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1926;
Clydagh Hotel, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1927;
Gormanstown Castle, County Meath, 1928;
Castlebellingham, County Louth, 1929;
Charleville House, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, 1930;
Gormanstown Castle, County Meath, 1932;

Note from Fr James Cleary SJ to Irish Fr Provincial John Conmee SJ.

Points discussed and agreed between Irish Fr Provincial John R. MacMahon SJ and Fr Patrick Joy SJ (Superior of the Hong Kong mission) concerning financial arrangements for the mission.

Copy will of Nicholas John O'Neill, 4 Belleview Terrace, Limerick in which he bequeathed £2,700 to the Apostolic School at Mungret, County Limerick, the money to be used to educate Irish boys who would not be able to afford the expense of their maintenance and education for the priesthood.

Letter from W. P. Kelly and Walker, Athlone, County Galway to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin concerning the will of Mr. Andrew Moore and a legacy of £500 to the Society of Jesus.

To the greater glory: a history of the Irish Jesuits.

To the greater glory: a history of the Irish Jesuits.

Will of Joseph Hannan, Caherelly Castle, County Limerick. Bequeaths a portion of his estate to the Irish Provincial of the Society of Jesus so that masses can be offered for his soul. Instructs that £52 that he borrowed from the Society of Jesus be returned.

Search relating to the will of Mary Clare Sutton, Eccles Street, Dublin. Rev. William Ronan SJ was appointed sole executor and residuary legatee and devisee.

Advertisement leaflet for a sale of work in aid of the Irish Jesuit mission to China.

Will of Miss Margaret Maxwell, 22 Dawson Street, Dublin in which she bequeathed her estate to Fr Nicholas Walsh SJ, Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ and Fr Peter Finlay SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin for masses to be said for her soul and the souls of her parents.

Material on Thomas Fullerton, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 17 August 1889
Entered: 27 June 1914
Left: 3 April 1917

Bill from M. Cartan O'Meara, Solicitor, 44 Kildare Street, Dublin to Rev. James Murphy SJ, Rev. John Verdon SJ, Rev. Thomas V. Nolan SJ, concerning George F. Waters SJ deceased and costs for preparing an assignment of debt.

Summary of the Annual Letters from the Hong Kong mission, including a summary of the Apostolates in each house in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaya.

Villa (holiday) journal for Irish Jesuit scholastics (Juniors).

Milltown Park, Dublin, 1907;
Redford House, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1908;
Ashby, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1909;
Ivanhoe, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1910;
Rochfort House, Portland Road, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1911;
Bayview, Wicklow, County Wicklow, 1912;
Bayview, Wicklow, County Wicklow, 1914;
Warrenpoint, County Down, 1915;
New Brighton, Monkstown, Dublin, 1916;
St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, 1917;
St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, 1918;
St Joseph's, Laytown, County Meath, 1919;
Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare, 1920;
Bayview House (Mrs McPhail), Wicklow, County Wicklow, 1921.

Lessor:
Bridget Magrath of Port Ryan, County Tipperary

Lessee:
John [Teirnan] of Arranhill, County Tipperary

Property:
Town and lands of Kilibegg and Ballyc[ ] in the Barony of lower Ormond and County of Tipperary, containing one hundred and sixty-three acres and eight perches

Terms and conditions:
The lessor demises, grants, sets and to farm lets unto the lessee the above land at the annual rent of £73.07.00stg for thirty-one years to commence on 25 March, ‘(provided the Lives in the Lease taken of said Lands by Richard Magrath [Gesuit] deceased, from Michael Head late of Derry Esqr. Deceased so long subsist.)’

Other:
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of Richard Vandeleur and Rickard Dardis.

Parties:
Patrick Lynch, Esquire, Tara Hall, County Meath and Fr Charles James Lynch SJ, Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare.

Property:
One fourth part of the lands of Ballally otherwise Ballawly known as Rockbawn Farm.

Terms and Conditions:
For the life and lives of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Charles William, Marquis of Kildare and Matthew Patterson names in the lease of 30 June 1838. Payment of rent and renewal fines as stated in the original lease.

Other:
Signed and sealed

Letter (written in Irish) from John Hyde, Ballycotton, County Cork to Fr [ ] concerning the results of his Intermediate Examination.

Account book of the Irish Jesuit Province. Includes an alphabetical index.

Note on Fr Jean Claude Jautard SJ (Spiritual Father of the newly Restored Society; buried at Clongowes in 1821), as Chaplain to George’s Hill Convent, 1814, made by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Irish Province Archivist until 1986).

Letter from Fr General Franz Xavier Wernz SJ to Fr James A Cullen SJ. (Typewritten; in Latin).

Copies of documents sent to the Province entitled 'China. Secretive Directives on how to Destroy the Church' from International Fides Service.

Administration (intestate) in the High Court of Justice, Ireland, Kings Bencon behalf of Henry Alexander Donovan, The Square, Listowel, County Kerryh Division (Probate) deceased bachelor assigning his estate to his brother and only next of kin, Edmund William Donovan SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway. Two pendant wafer seals attached.

Letter from Fr General Franz Xavier Wernz SJ to Irish Fr Provincial William Delany SJ and all Provincials, in relation to ‘decretum 17 Congregationis VII’. (Typewritten; in Latin).

VHS entitled 'Jesuit Education in Ireland'.

Copy of a draft of a letter from Irish Fr Provincial Michael A O'Grady SJ to Fr General J. B. Janssens SJ concerning the question whether the Irish Jesuit Mission of Hong Kong (including Singapore and Malaya) should be constituted a dependent Vice-Province or retain its status as a mission under the jurisdiction of the Irish Provincial. Outlines the opinions of the consultors of the Irish Province the Superior and consultors of the Hong Kong mission and the Provincial of the Irish Province.

Extract from the will of Mrs Rebecca Teresa Codd, The Grange, Mountmellick bequeathing a number of items to the Irish Province including five oak bookcases and the books contained in them to Emo (The bookcases are in Clongowes Wood College SJ, 2020).

Letter from Fr General Franz Xavier Wernz SJ to Irish Fr Provincial William Delany SJ and all Provincials, in relation to the decree ‘Quam singulari Christus amore’. (Printed; in Latin).

Probate of the will of Laurence Brady, Lynch Park, County Dublin. Bequeaths his property to Rev. John S. Conmee SJ and Rev. George Kelly SJ, Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare as joint tenants. Appoints Conmee and Kelly, Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare as joint tenants and as executors of his will.

Letter from John Cavanagh, Solicitor, 13 College Green, Dublin to Rev. Eugene Browne SJ concerning the will of Mr Patrick Matthews in which he bequeathed the annual dividends or interest of 74 shares of Drogheda Steam Packet company to his nephew Rev. John Stanley Matthews SJ.

Letter from Fr General Franz Xavier Wernz SJ to Irish Fr Provincial John Conmee SJ (Handwritten; in Latin).

Letter from Fr General Luis Martin SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Patrick Keating SJ and refers to Pope Leo XIII. (Printed; in Latin).

Letter from Fr General Luis Martin SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Timothy Kenny SJ. Writes with regard to the compilation of a history of the Society. (Printed; in Latin).

Copy opinion of Mr. R. P. Carton on a case submitted to him on behalf of Fr William Ronan SJ, concerning the will of Mr Devereux and a bequest to St Mungret's College, Limerick.

Will of Jane Woollcombe.

Communication to the [Irish Provincial], announcing the death of the Fr General, and the election of Fr Louis Martin SJ as Vicar General.

Letter from Fr Anton Anderledy SJ, Vicar General, to Fr Eugene Browne SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin in relation to the Exercises given to priests and lay people. (Handwritten; in Latin).

Thesis entitled 'The notion of religious conversion in the parochial and plain sermons of John Henry Newman' in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the Degree of Licentiate in Theology at Regis College, Toronto, Canada.

A file relating to Richard Ingram's entry to the Society of Jesus.

Testimonial letter from the Bishop of Cloyne (Robert Browne) granting leave for John Hyde to enter the Society of Jesus.

Copy of a letter from Irish Fr Provincial Edmund O'Reilly SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin to the Bishop of Melbourne, James Alipius Goold, concerning the arrival of Frs Lentaigne and Kelly in Australia in order '...to take preliminary steps for the establishment of our Society in Melbourne.'

Parties:
Richard Donovan Esquire, Tralee, county Kerry of the first part, Humphrey Donovan Esquire, Tralee, county Kerry of the second part and Gerald Fitzgibbon, Merchant, Tralee, county Kerry of the third part.

Property:
Farm and lands of Derrymore, Barony of Corkaguiney, County Kerry

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent charge of £30 during the period of Humphrey Donovan's novitiate studies until his ordination to be paid yearly on 1 March.

Other:
Signed and sealed

Poster advertising a Solemn Triduum in St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street to celebrate the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society of Jesus.

Document concerning the question of the use of text books in Theological studies.

Account book of the Irish Jesuit Province.

Miscellaneous notes and lists made by Fr John MacErlean SJ on the early history of the Restored Society from 1814 onwards, with special reference to Clongowes Wood College SJ.

Letter from B. Quinn, PP, Laragh, Ballymote, County Sligo to Irish Fr Provincial John Conmee SJ concerning a tenant on land belonging to the Society in Tobercurry. Remarks that the tenant, Patrick Shee, is 'wretchedly poor'. Asks Fr Conmee if he can offer any help to him and his family.

Letter from Fr Joseph E Keller SJ, (English Assistant) writing from Fiesole, to [ ]. Undertakes to bring up the points raised by the latter with the Provincial. Also refers to the subject of stipends for Masses etc.

Letter from Fr Edward Boursaud SJ, secretary to Fr General to the Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ. Discusses the triennial ‘ “scripta”’, which the Fr General wishes to receive from all the provinces. Refers to the death of Fr Sylvester O'Callaghan SJ, and to the presence at Fiesole of Fr Thomas Browne SJ. Also refers to Fr. Porter.

Letter to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ (Editor of Studies) enclosing a suggested plan for a special Centenary number of Studies to be published in June 1956.

Letter from Jan Roothaan to Rectors and Superiors of the Irish Vice-Province.

Statement by Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Brown SJ indicating that he has received and accepted ‘the sum of £900 on 3 per cent stock’ from Sister E.M. Sutton of the Ursuline Convent of Ardanche, France, on certain conditions.

Letter from Fr Edward Boursaud SJ, secretary to Fr General to the Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ. Refers to Fr Murphy’s begging tour of America, and to his recall. Advises Fr Tuite to let the Fr General know the ‘exact state of the Limerick-debt-matter’.

Letter from Fr Boursaud, Secretary to the Fr General, to Fr Tuite. Thanks the latter for sending him extracts from letters on the Minervale, and undertakes to speak to the Fr General on the subject of Confessors at the Convents. Refers to an admonition given in relation to appointments made by Fr Tuite.

Letter from Fr Boursaud, Secretary to the Fr General, to Fr Tuite. Reports that the Fr General is very pleased to hear of the ‘good disposition shown by F. Clery’, and thanks Fr Tuite for sending him the ‘Australian paper’, which gave news of the work of the mission in Australia, including a reference to St Ignatius’ College. Sends the greetings of Fr Porter, who asks Fr Tuite to look in the archives for an instruction from the Fr General around 1878, which modified the ordination of Fr Roothaan on the Minervale.

Letter from Fr Boursaud, Secretary to the Fr General, to Fr Tuite. Conveys the Fr General's permission to send Fr Clery to Tronchiennes. Also refers to the visitation of the Irish Province.

Letter from Fr Boursaud, Secretary to the Fr General, to Fr Tuite. Explains that the Provincial of Maryland, Fr Fulton, is in need of ‘some capable man’ for the Scholasticate, who could teach philosophy or theology, and asks if Fr Tuite could spare Fr Denis Murphy to fill such a position for a few years.

Material on Edward Dwyer who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 28 February 1898
Entered: 12 October 1917
Left: 23 May 1921

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).

List of Missions to be given in Britain in Autumn 1955.

Letter from Fr Boursaud, Secretary to the Fr General, to Fr Tuite. Asks the latter to convey the sympathies of the Fr General to Fr Bannon in his illness. Also conveys permission to Fr Tuite to recall Fr Delany and to send him back to Tullabeg. Refers to the Archbishop of Sydney, and to New Zealand.

Reasons for requesting that the Hong Kong mission should revert to the normal government of the Society, under the Irish Fr Provincial.

Letter from Fr George Porter SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ. Conveys the Fr General's permission to Fr William Delany SJ to borrow up to £1,000, ‘in order to secure a plot of land which is offered for sale near the canal’.

Letter from Mr John Neary SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.

Letter from Fr George Porter SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ. Reports that the Fr General is concerned about the ‘non appearance of Fr Clery’, who was to have returned to Ireland from Sydney. Also quotes from ‘an authentic paper’ in answer to Fr Tuite's question about the formulas of the last vows.

Material on James S. Duggan who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 11 August 1862
Entered: 23 September 1890
Left: 1897

Memorandum on problems for the future of the Hong Kong mission.

Account book of the Irish Jesuit Province. Includes insert for Tullabeg villa, August 1887.

Letter from Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ , St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr John MacErlean SJ appointing him (on behalf of Fr General) to investigate and repel attacks made against the Society in the Irish Province.

Documents relating to the 1847 Provincial Congregation.

Photocopy of a letter from Fr Joseph Dunn SJ, Preston, England to Fr Gaetana Angiolini SJ, Gesu, Italy concerning the Restoration of the Society, and with references to Irish Jesuits in Palermo. In Italian; original document in the Bibliotheca Corsini, Rome (15 July 1815, 3pp) and translation of same made by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Irish Province Archivist until 1986) (5pp).

Letter from Michael Curtin, Parochial House, Cloyne, County Cork certifying that John Hyde was confirmed by Dr Browne on 14 May 1921.

Material on Ralph Doyle who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 26 October 1906
Entered: 19 February 1922
Left: 23 May 1934

Draft will of [ ] bequeathing a sum of £50 sterling to Rev. [ ], of the church of St Francis Xavier's, Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Letter from Fr George Porter SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ. Asks the latter to send to the Fr General 'informationes ad Gubernandum' for Frs George Kelly, Thomas Browne, Thomas Finlay, Peter Finlay, Charles O'Connell, Timothy Kenny and Denis Murphy.

Letter from Mr Fergal McGrath SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.

Letter from Fr Joseph Tristram SJ, writing from Stonyhurst College, to [ ] in Clongowes. Refers to Fr Weston, and gives permission for him to visit his friends. Announces that he intends to come to Ireland with some pupils, who are to go to Dublin, and states that they are to travel ‘by the Waterloo steam packet’. Also refers to the death of the English Fr Provincial Charles Plowden SJ, and to Fr Scott’s report on how it happened. Reports that Fr Plowden’s body ‘lies in the middle of the church yard at Jougné’. Fr Tristram declares himself to be ‘well satisfied’ with Fr Carr, who, he believes, will ‘prove a worthy son of the Society’.

Letter from Fr George Porter SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ on the subject of Mungret College. Discusses its staff, Fr René as spiritual director, and the Fr General's hopes for its success.

Letter from Fr Thomas William Croke, President of St Colman’s College, Fermoy, County Cork, to an unnamed Jesuit father. Regrets that he does not have the time to undertake the panegyric of St. Ignatius. Expresses his admiration for the latter, and for the Society in general.

Lists of books in Irish Jesuit library, and suggestions regarding access. Refers to writing of the history of the Irish Province - archives and library [Edmund Hogan SJ].

Letter from Mr Daniel MacDonald SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.

Letter from Fr George Porter SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ. Refers to the terna for the successor of Fr Thomas Kelly SJ, and asks Fr Tuite to observe Fr Donovan to see whether he would make a good superior. Also requests that he names a Prefect of Studies for Milltown Park. Explains about a reminder for ‘extra [wines]’. Reports that complaints have reached the Fr General about the fathers at Upper Temple Street. Refers also to Fr Denis Murphy’s leave of absence, to the Frs Kelly’s visits to externs, and to Fr E. Murphy's missions in America. Reports on the Fr General’s views in relation to the new College.

Letter from John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam to Irish Fr Provincial Joseph Lentaigne SJ. Refers to Fr. [Thomas] O’Malley's resolution to join the Society of Jesus. Fr O'Malley did not become Jesuit.

Letter from Fr George Porter SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ. Conveys the Fr General's desire that Fr Joseph Clery SJ is to be dismissed from the Society in Ireland, and not in Australia. Refers to Fr John O'Carroll's claim to a share of his aunt's property, and also to Fr Saurin's position in relation to property and his father's will. Adds that reports from America do not give accounts of the success of Fr Murphy’s expedition there.