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Photocopy of list of archives in Milltown Park concerning Fr John Coyne SJ.

Sale catalogues, prepared by Donal Ó Buachalla auctioneers, containing particulars of land, and particulars and conditions of sale and tender form for land owned by the Jesuit Fathers at Rathfarnham Castle; Later catalogue containing description of further site for sale on behalf of the Society of Jesus at Rathfarnham Village.

File of newspaper cuttings relating to the controversy surrounding the sale of Rathfarnham Castle by the Jesuits to a private developer.

Notes compiled by Frank M. O'Holohan, M.A., 5 Bantry Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 for Fr James B Stephenson SJ on Brother John Conway’s life entitled 'The Quiet Man from Tralee - Bro. John Conway, S.J.' Remarks ‘When the news came that Bro. John Conway, S.J. had been murdered in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) there was interest and sorrow in the town of Tralee.’.

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice is an agency of the Irish Jesuit Province, dedicated to undertaking social analysis and theological reflection in relation to issues of social justice, including housing and homelessness, penal policy, environmental justice, and economic ethics. Established in 1978 by a small group of Jesuits living and working in Ballymun, on the northside of Dublin city, the Centre was intended to promote social justice and critically examine issues of structural injustice and poverty.

The Centre was founded in 1980, when Ireland was in the midst of serious economic recession, unemployment, and emigration.

Copy letter from Donal O'Buachalla and Company Ltd., 86 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 to Mr. J. J. Donnellan, Castle Inn, Rathfarnham, Dublin concerning the request by J. J. Donnellan to acquire additional land at the rear of his premises. Note to Fr Matthew Meade SJ (4 October 1978).

Letters from Dr E.C. Nelson, Taxonomist, Department of Agriculture, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9 to Fr Daniel Shields SJ, St. Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1 on the greenhouse which used to be in the garden of St Francis Xavier's.

Notes on Killiney Castle and Druid Lodge, Killiney, County Dublin by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, (former Irish Province Archivist) referring to a letter he received from Miss Mary Purcell, 32 Gardiner Place, Dublin 1 (whose letter is also contained in this file). Fr McGrath traces the use of Killiney Castle by the Society of Jesus (nd, 1p). Includes a letter from Mary Purcell to Fr McGrath concerning the sale of Killiney Castle to the St John of God Brothers, France. Another property is also referred to by Miss Purcell who discovered this reference in a minute of a council meeting of the Brothers of St John of God but it is unclear if this other property also belonged to the Society of Jesus. The St John of God Brothers did not continue negotiations with the Society (18 August 1977, 2pp).

Parties:
Fr Gregory Ffrench SJ, 87 Eglinton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin and St Michael's House.

Property:
Portions of the first, second and third floors (the Juniorate) including the refectory at Rathfarnham Castle.

Terms and Conditions:
Annual rent of £10,000 paid in equal quarterly portions.

The Letters of Saint 1625-1681

Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland

Edited by Monsignor John Hanly of the Irish College in Rome

Dublin: The Dolmen Press
North America: Humanisties Press Inc.

St. Ignatius College S.J

Letter of invitation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Donal McCartney, Prof. of Medieval Irish History, U.C.D. (and Dean of the Faculty of Arts) to the reception celebrating 70 years of the Faculty of Arts in U.C.D. – ‘it would be a great honour for us if one of our best-remembered Deans were to attend.’

Correspondence between Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and the Royal Irish Academy concerning his paper ‘Brian Borúma and the Mass in Irish’ and the deposition by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Prof. Ludwig Bieler of the editorial correspondence for the series 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' in the Library of the R.I.A..

Letters to Fr Edward Bourke SJ, Church of St Francis Xavier's, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia from Fr Edward Andrews, Galway, Lawrence Andrews, Pune, India and Fr Robert Tyndall SJ, Dublin.

File containing letters relating to access roads to sites at Rathfarnham, the use of Rathfarnham Castle for accommodation for residents from St Michael's House and the planning conditions on land at Rathfarnham which was offered for sale to the Irish League of Credit Unions.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from James White, Director, National Gallery of Ireland, concerning a portrait of Fr Gwynn’s mother Mary Louisa, by Walter Osborne, in the collection of Fr Gwynn’s sister, Mrs Sheila Moorehead.

Letter from Tom Bacon, Solicitor, 9 Clare Street, Dublin 2 to Fr Matthew Meade SJ, Superior, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin 14 concerning the sale of premises, 37 Main Street by a publican, Patrick McDonald to Valdick Limited. Remarks that solicitors acting for Patrick McDonald have asked that the plot of land at the rear of the premises leased to him by the Jesuit Fathers be assigned to the new owners Valdick Limited.

Photographs of mass at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin and on Mountjoy Square. Includes Fr Phillip Hartnett SJ, and cardinals at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Photographic negatives of the exterior of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of material relating to developments at Rathfarnham Castle. Includes letters by Donal O'Buachalla, Fr Matthew Meade SJ, Rector, Rathfarnham, and Irish Fr Provincial Paddy Doyle SJ; market valuations for sites A and B by Hamilton and Hamilton Estates Limited; expressions of interest in the site by various groups of developers; letters by representatives of the Rathfarnham Traders Association.

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

Copy of article by Fr Matthew Meade SJ, on 'Rathfarnham Retreat’ in Interfuse No. 8, March/April 1980.

Photograph of a portrait of Fr John Bannon SJ by Frank Gavin, which hung at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street.

Photograph of four priests at the altar at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes Papal Nuncio Dr Gaetano Alibrandi and Fr Joe Gill SJ.

Photograph of group of retreatants at Our Lady’s Grotto, Rathfarnham.

File of correspondence between Fr Colm Ó Riordan SJ and Frs. Tom O'Brien and Vincent Murphy, Irish Jesuit Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Relate to health issues, weather and travel plans.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr John Morrall (Senior Lecturer in Political Science, London School of Economics) concerning his candidature for the Leaky Chair of Medieval History at T.C.D. and Fr Gwynn’s agreement to act as a referee.

Letter from Tom Bacon, Solicitor, 9 Clare Street, Dublin 2 to Donal Ó Buachalla, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 concerning the dangerous condition of some of the trees at Rathfarnham Castle.

Report of the Commission of enquiry into the Irish Penal System

Chairman

Mr Seán MacBride, S.C.

Editor of Report

Mícheál Mac Gréil, S.J., ph.D., Lecturer in Sociology, St Patrick's College, Maynooth

Report published by the Commission of enquiry into the Irish Penal System, November 1980

Attached Letter from Seán MacBride, S.C. to Father Joe Dargan, S.J. Provincial Milltown Park Ranelagh Dublin 6 transmitting a copy of the Non-Governmental Commission of Enquiry into the Irish Penal System.

Letter from Fr Hilary Lawton SJ, Superior, 35 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin to Irish Fr Provincial Joseph Dargan SJ, concerning books and periodicals in the library that he wishes to donate to colleges.

Letter from Thomas Bacon of J.G. O'Connor and Co., solicitors, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ following the death of his sister Sheila. Encloses a copy of Mrs. Moorehead’s will dated 8 November 1978, in which she bequeaths £1,000 to Fr Gwynn; an oil painting of ‘Cattle in Berkshire’ by Walter Osborne and the water-colour sketch of Fr Gwynn as a boy, also by Osborne, to the National Gallery; a lithograph of her grandfather William Smith O'Brien; a poem of his written in Kilmainham Jail and a signed poem by Thomas Francis Meagher, to the Municipal Art Gallery (5pp).

Letter from Irish Fr Provincial Joseph Dargan SJ, 87 Eglinton Road, Dublin to Fr Hilary Lawton SJ, wishing him well in his new position as Superior in Leeson Street.

Rough typescript notes on Fr Aubrey Gwynn's family by Fr Michael Hurley SJ.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Brendan O'Brien concerning volumes of William Smith O'Brien’s diaries and family news.

Invitation from Taoiseach Charles Haughey to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to a reception in the Irish Parliament House at the Bank of Ireland, College Green, to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Declaration of Independence by Grattan’s Parliament and the Convention of the Ulster Volunteers in Dungannon.

Part of a letter from Thomas Bacon, solicitor, 9 Clare Street, Dublin 2 to Fr Matthew Meade SJ (Superior), Rathfarnham Castle concerning the Jesuit Fathers' responsibility to the upkeep of the former entrance to Rathfarnham Castle and repairs to the gate lodge.

Copy of Country Life (vol. CLXXII no. 4438) containing an article on Rathfarnham Castle by Edward McParland.

Birthday cards for Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s 90th birthday. Includes card signed by 46 Jesuits in Milltown Park and card from Bishop Hanson and his wife (former Bishop of Clogher).

Obituary of Fr Daniel Joseph O'Connell SJ by the Vatican Observatory (4pp)and copy of a letter from Fr John P Leonard SJ, Rome, Italy to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, 35 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin describing Fr O'Connell'a death (15 October 1982, 1p).

A file containing information on the history of Rathfarnham Castle. Includes a photocopy of an article on Rathfarnham Castle by Alistair Lindsay, Senior Architect, OPW from Interfuse (Autumn 1994, 4pp).

Photographs of the main gateway and first floor chapel of Rathfarnham Castle, taken by the Irish Architectural Archive.

Edited by John Bowman and Ronan O'Donoghue.

Correspondence between Fr Dan Dargan SJ and architects and building and civil engineering contractors relating to changes in the oratory at St Francis Xavier's.

Note from 'The Belvederian' which references a lecture by Father Henry Gill SJ entitled 'Wireless Telegraphy' in 1912.

James Joyce's schooldays
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1982

Note written by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (former Irish Province Archivist) concerning Killiney Castle and the Jesuit community who resided there.

Towards a national university: William Delany, SJ (1835-1924): an era of initiative in Irish education. Wolfhound Press ; Humanities Press, Dublin, Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1983

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.

Card published by the National Gallery of Ireland, of the Walter Osborne (1859-1903) portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’ (age 6). (Osborne was Fr Gwynn’s god-father). Portrait was presented to the Gallery in 1979 by Fr Gwynn’s sister.

Letter from Thomas Hyde, 7 Asgard Road, Howth, Dublin to Fr Dargan SJ thanking Fr Dargan for sympathising over the death of their brother Charles.

Letter from Mrs Walls, 13 Willow Park Avenue, Ballymun, D 11 to Fr Daniel Shields SJ in which she encloses £2 for the Penny Dinners. Refers to her mother as ‘Aunt Josephine, mentioned in James Joyce’s books and that she is ‘his first cousin’.

Box 18, 2.

Letters regarding budgets for Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin (2001);

Letter from F McGovern, Provincial Archivist, Society of African Missions, SMA Fathers, Blackrock Road, Cork to Fr Senan Timoney SJ, Provincial Secretary, Society of Jesus, 87 Eglinton Road, Dublin 4 concerning material from the SMA archives relating to Fr William Kane SJ, during his time as Chief Justice of Nigeria.

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international non-governmental organisation, founded in 1980 with the mission to accompany, to serve and to advocate the cause of refugees and forcibly displaced persons worldwide.

Photocopy of an article by Frank McDonald published in the 'Irish Times' on Rathfarnham Castle entitled 'The Keys of this Castle go to a Speculator'.

Death certificate for Fr John Murphy SJ, 23 September 1986 (Dublin).

Memorial card (with photo) of Fr Daniel Shields SJ.

Letter from Fr Colm Ó Riordan SJ to Sister Gertrude, St Mary’s Convent, Monze, Zambia (27 March 1987) and to Maureen [ ], Milltown Park, with prescription (2 December 1992). Includes address of next-of-kin.

Article from The Sunday Press, which details the Titanic album by Fr Frank Browne SJ which was on display at the opening day of the Boat Show, RDS, courtesy of Fr John Guiney SJ.

Offprint from 'English Studies. A Journal of English Language and Literature' (Vol. 68, No. 4) of an article by Dr Norman White (English Department, U.C.D.) entitled ‘G.M Hopkins’s Contribution to the English Dialect Dictionary’ pp.325 – 335. With dedication to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Irish Province Archivist from 1975 to 1986) from the author.

Note from Fr Dick Coyne SJ, Jesuit House, Rahan, Tullamore, County Offaly to Fr Joseph Conran SJ informing him of the papers (exam
certificates) and photographs found in Tullabeg which he has forwarded on.

Mission office material relating to Fr Thomas O'Brien SJ including correspondence on support for a Zambia student, announcement of Jesuit deaths, annual report for Jesuit Mission Office (1989) and leaflet for funeral Mass for Fr Thomas O'Brien SJ

Congregation for the causes of saints Prot. No. 114

Diocese of Dublin
Cause for the Beautification and Canonisation of the Servants of God

Dermot O'Hurley archbishops, and companions, who died in Ireland in defence of the Catholic faith 1579-1654.

Vol. II

Roma 1988

Congregation for the causes of saints Prot. No. 114

Diocese of Dublin
Cause for the Beautification and Canonisation of the Servants of God

Dermot O'Hurley archbishops, and companions, who died in Ireland in defence of the Catholic faith 1579-1654.

Vol. I

Roma 1988

A file relating to the death of Fr Paul Jenkins SJ (British Province). Includes an obituary and details of a mass held for him at Milltown Park.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Philip Harnett SJ from J.F.Green, architect, Board of Public Works, concerning the restoration of Rathfarnham Castle; essay on ‘Rathfarnham Castle’ by Alastair Lindsay, Senior Architect, Office of Public Works; Notice of talk to the Crumlin Historical and Preservation Society on the history of Rathfarnham Castle by Jim Dillon.

Death notice, funeral arrangements, correspondence on flight and travel arrangements, obituaries of Fr John Monahan SJ; such as 'The Australian Dictionary of Jesuit Biography 1848 - 1998', by David Strong S.J., 1999, p239 - 240.

Newspaper articles concerning Fr Browne's collection of 42,000 photographic negatives re-found in the basement of the Provincial’s house in Dublin by Fr Eddie O’Donnell SJ.

Offprint of an article ‘Hopkins’s Friends and Colleagues’ by Fr Thomas J. Morrissey SJ (National College of Industrial Relations, Dublin) from Richard F. Giles (ed.) 'Hopkins and Dublin: The Man and the City' (pp.194-209) (Ontario: Hamilton, 1988).

Letter to Fr Eddie O’ Donnell SJ from [ ] Army Network, Bagshot, Surrey, England regarding Fr Frank Browne’s First World War record (item damaged from fire at Gonzaga College, 5 May 1996).

A catalogue of pamphlets relating to 'University Education, Ireland 1849 - 1918' held in Milltown Park library compiled by Brendan Woods SJ.

‘Photographer Extraordinary: The Life and Work of Father Browne’ by Fr E. E. O’Donnell SJ in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 79, No. 315 pp. 298-306.

Copy of 'Studies' (Vol. 79, No. 313) containing a poem by Desmond Egan entitled ‘At Hopkins’s Grave June 8 1989’ (pp.69 – 70) read at the wreath-laying ceremony at Fr Gerard Mnaley Hopkins grave in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Commemorative booklet of music published on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Ignatius Loyola and 450th anniversary of the founding of the Jesuits, which was celebrated in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes music

Colour photocopy of an unsigned painting of the original building at Rathfarnham Castle.

Article relating to Rathfarnham Castle in newspaper series on ‘Historic Irish Mansions’.

Ignatius: The first Jesuit schools and the Ratio Studiorum

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.

List of the Press B' books at St Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Newman in Dalkey

Reconciliation: essays in honour of Michael Hurley. Columba Press, Dublin, 1993

Planned Change in the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1965 -1986: A Case Study in Organisational Development

Presented to the National University of Ireland for the degree of PhD

David Coghlan

Under the supervision of Professor Aidan Kelly, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce, University College, Dublin.

September 1993

Booklet entitled 'The Fourth Career of John b. Bannon; St Louis Pastor Southern Chaplain Confederate Agent Irish Jesuit Orator', by William Barnaby Faherty SJ, assisted by Kevin Laheen SJ.

PhD by Brendan Mac Partlin entitled 'The restructuring of the Irish Trade Union Movement 1987-1993', from the School of Business and Administrative Studies , Trinity College Dublin.

Arthur Cox, 1891-1965
Gill & Macmillan, Dublin.

Invitation and booklet on an exhibition entitled, 'The Day Before Yesterday - Father Browne's Dublin, 1922-1949', curated by Peter Walsh, at the Guinness Hop Store, Dublin. Includes catalogue to 174 photographs exhibited. 'The Day Before Yesterday' became a six-part series which traced the origins of the Irish state through the photographs of Fr Browne. It was made by Promedia for RTÉ Television. The first episode was broadcast on 6 April 1994.

Article by Terence P. McCaughey: ‘Andrew Sall (1624-82) Textual Editor and Facilitator of the Irish Translation of the Old Testament’. Delivered as an O’Donnell Lecture in Trinity College Dublin in 1995, and published in its present form in an unknown publication. (McCaughey (Terence): Andrew Sall (1624–82): textual editor and facilitator of the Irish translation of the Old Testament. In Unity in diversity (2004), pp. 153–171.

Leaflet on Rathfarnham Castle history from 16th to 20th century, produced by the Office of Public Works.

Article entitled 'Rathfarnham Castle once shook to another beat' by Dr. A.E Somerfield, in Lifetimes, p.26.

Rathfarnham Castle: A history. by Louise Walsh.

Photocopy of an article from 'The Lancet' (Vol. 349) entitled 'My winter world: the illness of Gerard Manley Hopkins' by Kenneth M. Flegel, M.D. which concludes that 'inflammatory bowel disease, particularly Crohn's disease of the colon, provides a better explanation of Hopkins illness, accounting for recurring diarrhoea with haemorrhoids, fever, progressive weight loss, and profound fatigue'.

Newman's University Church: a history and guide
Kingdom Books, Dublin, 1997

The Jesuits in Dublin 1598-1998. Wolfhound Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1999

A nation of extremes: the Pioneers in twentieth-century Ireland.
Diarmaid Ferriter (
Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1999

The Jesuits

Copy of the chronology of the history of the Catholic University from 1854 to 1882.

A Short History of Gonzaga College, 1950-2000 by Christopher Finlay, Eneclann, Dublin.

'A Short History of Gonzaga College, 1950 - 2000' by Christopher J. Finlay, published by Eneclann Ltd, Dublin. This short illustrated book briefly charts the history of Gonzaga College.

The cruel clouds of war: A book of the sixty-eight former pupils and teachers of Belvedere College,S.J. who lost their lives in the military conflicts of the 20th century.