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A file of letters from Fr John Fahy SJ (Vice-Provincial of the Vice-Province 19 March 1931-25 August 1939) to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ. Includes a letter referring to a visit to the Hong Kong Mission. Remarks 'Your men are doing glorious work there I had expected great things; the reality surpassed my expectations. That will become a first class mission.' (25 February 1937, 2pp). Includes a letter referring to plans for a retreat house and scholasticate at Sydney. Refers to the Archbishop of Perth and his desire for the Jesuit fathers to build a college in Perth. Remarks '...he wishes to get the Jesuits into his diocese. It does not seem to have occurred to him that the people of Perth would be expected to support any Jesuit Fathers who work there. So we exchange letters on this question of filthy lucre.' (1 April 1937, 2pp). Includes a letter expressing his thanks to Fr Kieran SJ for writing about the Australian Jesuits studying in Ireland. Remarks '...I am most grateful for your interest in them and your care of them. Other Provincials never write about our men: all we get is the bill and the exam results...' Refers to his own position as Provincial of the Vice-Province. Remarks 'Yes, our period of office is drawing to a close...I long for the day... Boys oh Boys, think of it: no more "relationes", no more triennial papers, no more elenchi, no more building, no more administratio temporalis, no more...peace perfect peace.' (21 April 1937, 2pp). Includes a letter referring to the proposed opening of a scholasticate in January 1938 (25 October 1938, 1p).

Matriculation certificate from the National University of Ireland for John W Hutchinson.

Photographs belonging to Fr John W Hutchinson SJ of self, family and on outings.

Expression of sympathy on the death of Fr Thomas A. Finlay SJ by the delegates to the Annual General Meeting of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society of which Fr Finlay was Vice-President.

Signed copy of the portrait of Fr Thomas A. Finlay SJ by Leo Whelan. Fr Final’s death notice attached.

Lists of spiritual books suitable for distribution by Directors at Diocesan Retreats.

A file of letters from Fr John Meagher SJ (Vice-Provincial of the Vice-Province 25 August 1939-1 October 1947) to Irish Fr Provincial (John R. MacMahon SJ and Thomas Byrne). Includes a letter referring to an offer by the Apostolic Delegate to take a minor seminary in New Zealand in 1947. Asks if four or five young priests could be sent out. Remarks 'We have offers of work from practically every Bishop in Australia and must refuse for want of men. Our recruiting is bad and I really don't know what to do to remedy the trouble.' (10 November 1945, 1p). Includes a letter referring to a request by Fr Dan O'Connell SJ for Fr Richard Ingram SJ to help with his work in the Riverview Observatory. (18 March 1946, 1p). Includes a number of letters concerning Fr Cooney and his ill health. Includes a letter remarking 'He (Fr Cooney) wants to return to Hong Kong in September but I think you realise his return there would probably settle his chances of ever doing any more work...I think that Fr Cooney will never be really fit to return to Hong Kong (15 May 1946, 1p). Includes a letter referring to proposals to open colleges in Adelaide and Brisbane. Remarks due to the shortage of Jesuit Fathers that this is impossible. (27 June 1946, 1p).

Hints for masters and prefects in the colleges of the Irish Province, S.J.

Hints for masters and prefects in the colleges of the Irish Province, S.J.

File relating to the sudden death of Fr John Hannon SJ, including letters of sympathy.

Photographs of Fr John Hannon SJ.

Aerial photographs of Dublin port and Dublin by Ashe Studios Ltd.

Typed memorandum for Irish Fr Provincial listing the number of Irish missions given by Fr Leonard Sheil SJ from 1933 to 1947; his work in Britain which began in 1948, ‘Since then Fr Sheil has given five missions most years and never less than three – during the autumn period in Britain’; and listing his work from 1933 to 1947 in Ireland in the autumn as ‘mostly with the convent school-girls, and occasional retreats in convents and in Jesuit churches.’

File of correspondence from Irish Jesuits mainly in Chikuni and Choma, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) to Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Mission Office, Milltown Park (later Upper Sherrard Street), Dublin concerning the Chikuni Mission (administration, building plans, school life, finance, requests for supplies and general life there). Includes letters from Frs Dan Byrne, Arthur Clarke, Bernard Collins, Tom Cooney, Joseph Mary Gill, William Lee, Joe McCarthy, Tom McGivern, Louis Meagher, Des O'Loghlen, Charles O'Connor and Brian Sharkey.

• letter from Fr Joseph Mary Gill SJ indicating the work he has to do as a teacher as well as been Mission Procurator '...the farm is a big worry. There is something wrong with the cattle and five have just died and a number of the others are sick' (12 October 1950);
• statement by Fr Brian Sharkey SJ entitled 'Some highlights in missionary life for me' which outlines his time at the Chikuni Mission [1951];
• letter from Fr Tom Cooney SJ in which he describes the plant needed from Bord na Mona, 'the 60 K.V.A. would be rather large for Chikuni' (16 September 1953); - Chikuni Mission statistics for the year ending 31st December 1953; - letter from Fr Thomas McGivern SJ which includes plan of a map of the buildings at Chikuni (1 January 1954);
• letter in which Fr Louis Meagher SJ is frustrated with the lack of skills of those been sent out to the mission, 'Could it not be possible to arrange that the brother in Tullabeg be detailed off to give lesson to the scholastics once their names are made known for the missions' (29 September 1956);
• letter from Fr Des O'Loghlen SJ, Choma, Northern Rhodesia informing of the death of Fr Danny Byrne SJ (6 May 1964);
• account of the death of Fr Arthur Cox (11 June 1965).

File of correspondence between Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Dublin, Ireland and Monsignor Adam Kozlowiecki SJ (at various times Vicar Apostolic of Lusaka, Archbishop of Lusaka and Cardinal) Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia / Zambia. Includes letters from Fr Paddy Walsh SJ; signed postcard and photograph by Archbishop Kozlowiecki; correspondence on fundraising issues and finance.

A file of photographs of Jesuits on their way to Northern Rhodesia.

A file of copies of letters from Irish Fr Provincial to the Superior of the Hong Kong Mission concerning the administration of the mission and men destined for work in Hong Kong.

‘Ireland of the Welcomes’. Handwriting of captions by Fr Frank Browne SJ on cover, and photographs by Fr Browne.

Postcard of Boyle Abbey sent to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ by Harold G. Leask on a dig at the Lough Gara crannóg.

Photocopy from the 'Irish Independent' of a review of two books by Claude C. Abbott (ed.): 'The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges' and 'The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon' (London: Oxford University Press).

Leaflet 'Mission Series - Priest & Brothers Jesuits'

Letters from the Consultors of the Chikuni Mission including Frs John Counihan, Arthur Clarke and Bernard Collins.

Booklet commemorating 100 years of the Society of Jesus in Australia entitled 'A Century of Jesuit Achievement 1865-1965.'

Details the history and rules of the club and has photograph of clubhouse on the front and back covers. St Ignatius Rowing Club was located to the right of the Corrib Rowing and Yachting Club and they used to borrow boats in the past.

‘First Impressions of Zambia’ by Fr John T. O'Holohan SJ, Chikuni College, Chikuni Mission, Zambia.

Photographs of Fr Pedro Arrupe SJ visiting Milltown Park, Dublin, with Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and with the Jesuit community at Milltown Park, Dublin by Lensmen photographer (with Frs Tony Geoghegan, Michael Mac Greil, William White).

Not Fr Browne photographs.

Note on ‘St. Thecla’ made by Fr Peter Troddyn SJ (Editor of 'Studies') – ‘English version first published in 'Studies '(XLV, 1956, p.187). Both Latin & English pub(lishe)d in 4th edn of Poems O(xford) U(niversity) P(ress).’

Hopkins, Gerard Manley Rev. St. Thecla, an Unpublished Poem, Beg. That His Fast-flowing Hours With Sandy Silt. 1956.

Notes compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the life and works of his elder brother Edward Lucius Gwynn who died in St Vincent’s Hospital. Sydney on 7 September 1919 aged 28. Buried in the Catholic Cemetery Waverley.

Unfinished manuscript, handwritten and typed, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of a history of the Gwynn family from 1660 to 1903. Divided into five chapters. Intended by Fr Gwynn for publication.

Biographical dictionary of Irish Jesuits 1598-1773.

Book 'The First Jesuit Mission and Second Jesuit Mission in Ireland'.

Encounter News, Marriage Encounter Ireland Vol 2 No.4 – Vol 3, No.6.

The Jesuits in Ireland 1542 - 1974 by Michael Viney

Letter (from Peter, Haslemere, Surrey) and note concerning the biography of Rev. James Gwynne (Fr Gwynn’s maternal grandfather) (1829 -1869).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from the Librarians of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Scotland concerning the medical career of his grandfather’s brother, William Gwynn, MD.

Leaflet entitled ‘Catholic Engaged Encounter, The Weekend Encounter’.

Irish Jesuits 1598-1773, dictionary - Vol. IV biographies.

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

Summarium P. Ioannis Sullivan

Draft of an autobiography of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ. Comprises six non-contiguous section, dealing with his mother’s family ‘The O'Briens of Cahirmoyle’ and his father’s early life. Original holograph manuscript and version typed by a Mrs Hannigan, 13 Church Drive, Churchtown, County Dublin. Manuscript found in an envelope marked ‘Received 15 July 1979 from Mr Hannigan.’

Programme of events for the Worldwide Marriage Encounter, All Ireland Convention held at U.C.D Campus, Belfield, Dublin 4.

Leaflet on ‘Worldwide Marriage Encounter’ including weekend booking form.

Kodak copy negatives of Fr Frank Browne photographs of the Titanic, made by the Ulster Museum and presented to Fr John Guiney SJ.

Marriage Encounter Community New-sheet No.1.

File of documents related to Marriage Encounter including ‘Marriage Encounter: Resource Community’; leaflets on ‘To know to share to grow in love’; reports on ‘The gifts of daily dialogue’ and ‘Introduction - to scripture dialogue’.

Photocopy of an article by Vivien Igoe, entitled ‘Thee, God, I come from, to Thee I go…’ on Fr. Hopkins’s life and works, from the 'Columban Mission' (pp.19 – 25).

Two recent negatives of First World War [1915-1916] scenes (in Fr Henry Gill SJ photographic album, IJA/CHP1).

Poster recounting the history of Jesuits in Galway and document which give a chronology of the history of Jesuits in Connacht, 1605-, and Galway and St Ignatius Parish Church.

Thrown among strangers: John Henry Newman in Ireland. Veritas, Dublin, 1990

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

Copies of photographs (taken by Fr Frank Browne SJ) used for the life story of Br Pat Guidera SJ (1900-1992), published by Cherryfield Lodge, Milltown, Dublin.

Copies of Collectanea Hibernica:
Nos. 37 and 37 (1994-5)
Nos. 39 and 40 (1997-8)
No. 41 (1999)
No. 42 (2000)
No. 43 (2001)
Nos. 44 and 45 (2002-3)

Collectanea Hibernica (1958-2006) was directed by the Franciscans attached to the Franciscan House of Celtic Studies and Historical Research at Killiney, Co. Dublin

Christmas card from Uachtarán na hÉireann, Mary Robinson and her husband Nick Robinson featuring a photograph of Áras an Uachtaráin, taken by Fr Frank Browne SJ in 1946 and Christmas card from AIB, featuring photograph by Fr Frank Browne SJ of mid-winter at Emo, Laois (1935).

Standards for the development of archives services in Ireland. Society of Archivists Irish Region, Dublin, 1997

Jesuit Mission Crosses 1850-1880 Book One.

Jesuit Mission Crosses 1850-1880 Book Two.

Leaflet with details of the AIB sponsored, Spirit of Father Browne photography competition, which has a prize of €5000.

Thomas A. Finlay SJ, 1848-1940: educationalist, editor, social reformer. Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland.

Article entitled ‘Fr. Browne’s Jesuit Ireland’ pp 24 - 29, by Fr Edward E O’Donnell SJ taken from Company, a magazine of the U.S. Jesuits. http://www.companysj.com/v252/jesuitireland/ireland.html http://www.companysj.com/v252/jesuitireland/ireland.pdf
accessed August 2009.

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

The society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598-1606 "Lest our lamp be entirely entinguished".
Brill, Leiden, 2017

An Ghaeilge in Eaglais na hÉireann = The Irish language in the Church of Ireland
Risteárd Giltrap
Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, Baile Átha Cliath, 2019

Article in History Ireland, 'We hope that the Tempest is soon calmed' - Early Irish Jesuits (pp20-23).

The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560-1760
Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2022

File relating to the financing of the Chikuni mission. Contains a letter to Dr Adam Kozlowiecki SJ, Archbishop of Lusaka, from Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ and resume of payments made to the Chikuni mission from 1964-1969.

Photograph of ocean liner, ‘A snapshot on Kodak film’.

Correspondence between the Archbishop of Lusaka, Fr Adam Kozlowiecki SJ, Fr John Kerr SJ , 87 Eglinton Road, Dublin 4 and Irish Fr Provincial Cecil McGarry SJ, relating to the illness and medical expenses of Fr Patrick Walsh SJ, Secretary to the Archbishop.

Article from the 'Irish Times' entitled ‘The terrible trouble with Hopkins’ by Arminta Wallace. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0929/1224255430910.html