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Irish Jesuit Directory and Year Book

1st Edition 1928
(5’’ x 7 1/4’’)
Became 'The Irish Jesuit Year Book' from 1955 onwards.
Produced by the Irish Messenger Office, 5 Great Denmark Street, Dublin until 1962. In 1963 the Irish Messenger Office moved to 37 Lower Leeson Street.

The Irish Jesuit Directory and Year Book
Contents:

  • A yearly Calendar which includes the necessary directions for those who make use of the Missal at Mass. Gives the rank of feast; colour of vestments; prayers to be said and any special conditions etc. for each day
  • Obituaries (early years simply provide lists of the recent dead with date and location of death)
  • Directory of the Irish Province - lists each community in turn: names of residents; ‘Notes of the Year’; activities of each community.
  • Applications for Missions and Retreats and for the Erection of certain Sodalities etc.
  • Summary of the Society of Jesus and of their Foreign Missions (lists numbers in each province throughout the world).
  • Articles on: Society of Jesus Mission activities; Saints; priests; Jesuit publications/periodicals; new colleges/buildings/houses etc.; the Jesuit Seminary Fund; general Jesuit history; Jesuit scientists and musicians.
  • Alphabetical list of Jesuits in the Irish Province.

Index to the Irish Jesuit Directory, 1928 – 62 (6 3/4’’ x 8 3/4’’) and Supplementary Index to the Jesuit Year Book, 1963 – 1976

Jesuit Year Book

Copy of an image from the Jesuit Year Book on the occasion of Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ visitation to Northern Rhodesia.

Letter from the Vicar Apostolate of Hong Kong, Enrico Valtorta to [ ], Rome concerning the Chinese mission

Copy of a letter from the Vicar Apostolate of Hong Kong, Enrico Valtorta to [ ] (not a Jesuit but somebody in Rome) concerning the Chinese mission. Remarks that the Irish Jesuits would be advised to take on a hostel or a college or both and revive the publication 'Rock'. Remarks that men are available to go to China. Suggests that some Irish Jesuits should be sent to study Chinese in the Benedictine University in Peking prior to teaching in the Jesuit college in Hong Kong.

Valtorta, Enrico Pascal, 1883-1951, Apostolic Vicar and Roman Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong

Memorials of the Irish Province

Vol. 1, No.1 June 1898 – Centenary year, Part II 1814 – 1914
(For circulation among Ours Only)
Contains Obituaries
Index
Handwritten index biographical notices in the Memorials of the Irish Province and general index. Compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

  1. Vol. 1, No.1 June 1898
    ‘A Short History of the Irish Province Part I, From its foundation under St. Ignatius down to the year 1626’;
    ‘Memoir of Father Peter Kenney, S.J.’;
    ‘Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died in Clongowes up to 1826’;
    University College Results;
    Catalogus Hib A.. 1752 in Missione Hibernica’.

  2. Vol. 1, No.II June 1899
    ‘Biographical Sketch of the Rev. T. Betagh’;
    Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died in: Clongowes, from 1826 to 1869 Tullabeg, previous to the year 1874;
    Notes on the lives of early Irish Jesuits written in 1877 by Fr John Curtis SJ;
    ‘Voyage to Palermo and Back’ by Fr Charles Aylmer SJ;
    ‘Fr Edmund J O’Reilly’ by Fr Matthew Russell SJ;
    ‘An Old MSS Catalogue of Clongowes, 1820-1821’;
    Chronological list of Jesuits connected with the Irish Mission from 1550-1779;

  3. Vol. 1, No.III June 1900
    ‘Memoirs of the Suppression and Restoration of the the Society of Jesus in Ireland’ by Fr Bracken SJ’;
    ‘Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
    Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died at: the Residence, Gardiner Street from 1845 to 1895. Belvedere College from 1855 to 1892;
    ‘Some manuscript catalogues of Clongowes, 1823, 1824, 1825 - 1834, 1837 and 1839’;

  4. Vol. 1, No.IV June 1901
    ‘Memoirs of the Suppression and Restoration of the the Society of Jesus in Ireland, Part II’ by Fr Bracken SJ’;
    ‘Vale Novitiorum’;
    ‘Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
    Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died at: University College, Dublin, from 1889-1893.

  5. Vol. 1, No. V June 1902
    ‘Short History of the Australian Mission’;
    ‘Some Irish Worthies S.J.’ by Edmund Hogan SJ;
    Memoirs of Fathers who Died at Milltown Park, from 1865 to 1887;
    ‘Further Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
    ‘Two letters, 1813, 1814’ written by Fr Charles Aylmer.

  6. Vol. 1, No. VI January 1903
    ‘Memoirs of Fr Alfred Murphy SJ’;
    ‘Some Early Irish Jesuits’;
    ‘Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
    ‘A Short History of Irish Province Pt.1’(Fr Grene).

  7. Vol. 1, No. VII June 1903
    ‘A Short History of Some Early Irish Jesuits (continued)’ by Rev. J. McDonnell SJ;
    ‘A contribution towards a History of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, from its Revival soon after the year 1800. Part II’ by Fr John Grene SJ.
    ‘Some Letters in Jesuit Archives in Ireland’;
    Memoir of Father P.E. Duffy, S.J. Part I.

  8. Short Memoirs of the Early Irish Jesuits down to the year 1840
    by Fr Joseph McDonnell SJ, 1903

  9. Centenary Year, 1814-1914, Part I
    ‘The Irish Province 1814-1914’;
    ‘Rathfarnham Castle and some of its Former Owners’;
    ‘First Dublin residence, George’s Hill, 1812’;
    ‘Brief Chronological Notes, 1829-1914’;
    Necrologia: 1900 to December 1913.

  10. Centenary Year, 1814-1914, Part II
    ‘The Irish Province 1814-1914’;
    ‘Milltown Park and and some of its Owners’;
    ‘Brief Chronological Notes, Milltown Park, 1858-1914’;
    ‘Irish Province, 1860-1914, Brief Chronological Notes’;
    ‘Gardiner Street, 1860-1914, Brief Chronological Notes’.

Notes compiled by Fr John Grene SJ, on individual Jesuits of the Irish Province

Notes compiled by Fr John Grene SJ, on individual Jesuits of the Irish Province. A note states 'Possibly all are in Memorials Ir. Prov.' Some notes in other hand, post-date Grene.

Browne, Thomas
Burke, William
Butler, James

Cunningham, John
Curtis, John

Ferguson, Charles

Gannon, Nicholas

Halpin, Thomas
Haly, Robert
Hayes, James Mark
Hearne, John

Kavanagh, Michael
Kelly, Michael
Kernan, Edward

Lentaigne, Joseph
Lynch, Henry
Lynch, John

McDonnell, James

O'Callaghan, Sylvester
O'Connor, John
O'Farrell, Michael
O'Reilly, Edmund

Rorke, Henry
Ryder, Alexander

Seaver, Matthew
Sheehan, Patrick
Stackowski, Francis Xavier

Obituaries of Fr Henry Browne SJ

Photocopies of obituaries of Fr Henry Browne SJ, Professor of Greek at the Royal University of Ireland and the National University of Ireland, St Stephen’s Green (c.1890-1922), one taken possibly from the newsletter of the English Province of the Society of Jesus and the second by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, from the 'Irish Province News',

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.