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File of receipts, requests for masses, and bequests sent to Fr Charles Farley SJ, St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, (Province
Procurator). Includes receipts, postcards and letters from Frs Edward Boyd Barrett, James O'Connor, Joseph Flinn, A. Magne, Daniel J. Finn (from R.M.S Orsova on the way to Australia), James Creagh, James Farrell, John Ryan (Valkenberg), William Byrne, Bernard Page, John Nerney, C. Wishoff, Leopold Skarek, and Dr. Conway Dwyer, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin.

Material relating to Fr Thomas FitzGerald SJ including pasport photogrpah, catalogue entry (1939, 1962 and 1965) and application to join the Society.

Pass issued by Willie Chamberlain, Inspector General, Dublin Metropolitan Police for Fr Daniel Joseph Flinn SJ, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin to travel around Dublin in May 1916, and catalogue entry for Fr Flinn SJ (1930).

Material relating to the entry of Br Peter Foley SJ into the society, final vows and medical note.

Material relating to Fr Leonard Gallagher SJ and his brother, Frank Gallagher. Includes Frank's anti-treaty material, material relating to the Irish civil war, letters from Frank to Fr Leonard from Gormanstown Internment Camp (17 January - 4 August 1923, 9 items) and letter from Joseph Cripps to Fr Leonard from Gormanstown Internment Camp (30 August 1923, 1p). Includes some biographical information on Fr Leonard Gallagher SJ.

• brief details of Patrick O'Reilly and Michael Fitzgerlad, Youghal, County Cork who were arrested on possession of Arms and Ammunition at Ballinaclash, Clashmore, County Waterford;
• typed correspondence and accounts relating to anti-treaty publicity (1922-1923);

Material relating to Fr Jeremiah Hayes SJ, including catalogue entry and correspondence regarding dispensation to say Mass due to health.

Photocopy of account of the award of the degree of Welsh Bard to Fr William Kane SJ, (April 1915) and obituary, both taken from taken from 'Letters and Notices'.

Material relating to Br James Kavanagh SJ including admission details, catalogue entry, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and mortuary card.

Typescript copy of sermons by Fr Hugh Kelly SJ preached at Gardiner street church on the occasion of the reception there and veneration of the right arm of Saint Francis Xavier.

Recitations by Fr Robert Dillon-Kelly SJ which include: 'Jot it down';' Chincilla'; 'Spinning Wheel'; 'A wonderful boy of old, Limerick';' The Pilot of the Shannon'; 'Down with it'; and 'The Jesuit Trail'.

A file concerning a proposal for a new edition for Rodriquez’s ‘ “Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection” for use in English-speaking Countries.’.

Obituaries for Fr Thomas Kelly SJ.

Material relating to which Fr Conal K Murphy SJ includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

A file containing biographical information on Rev. James Cullen SJ. Includes notes written by Fr Fergus O’Donoghue SJ.

File of material relating to Fr John Mallin SJ including short CVs (1942; 1965; 1974), documents regarding entry to the Society (details of baptism and medical reports), medical reports, small number of letters written from Germany by Fr Mallin (1963-66) and Spain (1973-74) and obituary from the 'Irish Province News' (April 1977).

Material relating to Fr Daniel Louis Meagher SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

A file containing biographical information on Rev Robert Kane SJ.

Brief biographical details on Br Edward Mordaunt SJ.

Material relating to Fr Geoffrey C Murphy SJ which includes correspondence relating to his life in Malaysia, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

Biography of Fr Nicolas Tuite de MacCarthy SJ taken from the archives of the Society of Jesus in Toulouse (1977), and copybook belonging to Fr Proinsais Ó Fionnagaín SJ (Frank Finegan) entitled ‘P. Fr. Nicolas Tuite McCarthy, S.J. + 1833 à Annecy’, sourced from the Menologe de la Compagnie de Jesus par le P. Eleban de Guilhenny da la meme Compagnie (Paris 1892). At rear of copybook, reference is made to Irish Jesuits who died in the First World War.

Biographical details of Fr Joseph Canavan SJ.

Admission details for Anthony McShera and catalogue entry.

A file relating to the 1916 Rising which includes Dublin Metropolitan Police safe travel pass (3 May 1916). Includes diaries (5 items) kept by Mr John Delaney SJ during the Rising.

Material related to the entry and ordination of Joseph McSweeney, including catalogue entry and photograph.

A file relating to Joseph Hurley's entry to the noviceship.

A file containing biographical details of Fr Lambert McKenna SJ.

A file concerning doubts over the suitability of Mr Lambert McKenna SJ and Mr John Casey SJ for ordination. The letters express doubts over the health of both priests and their ability to say the office each day and mass.

Memorandum of agreements between Fr Robert Nash SJ and Brown & Nolan Limited, 41 42 Nassau street, Dublin, The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A, M.H Gill & Son, 50 Upper O’ Connell Street, Dublin and Benziger Brothers, 6 - 8 Barclay street, New York 8, N.Y, U.S.A

• 2 March 1946, ‘Send forth thy light’;
• 23 July 1946, ‘Marriage, before and after’;
• 17 February 1947, ‘Send forth thy light – Part II’ (Thy light and thy truth);
• 15 October 1948, ‘The Riddle of Life’ afterwards called ‘Is life worthwhile’;
• 29 January 1949, ‘The Priest at his Prie - Dieu’;
• 14 November 1949 ‘The Nun at her Prie - Dieu’
• 9 August 1955, ‘Standing on holy ground’;
• 5 March 1959, ‘Ideals to live by’.

Includes issues such as delivery date, royalty payments and conditions of sale and resale.

Medal of the Order of the Crown (Ordre de la Couronne), class Officier, conferred by the King of Belgium to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ. Includes official document concerning the decoration (6 May 1919) and letter from the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs (22 May 1919). The medal in case, with name of Fernanrd Heremans, Schaerbeek, is a five-armed white enamel and silver-gilt Maltese cross with silver-gilt graduated rays between the arms, on green enamel oval laurel wreath suspension; the face with a gilt-edged circular central blue enamel medallion bearing the gilt crown of Belgium; the reverse with a gilt-edged circular central blue enamel medallion bearing the cipher of King Leopold II, founder of the Order. Material hand in by Margaret Doyle, Archivist, Clongowes Wood College, 9 January 2017. Medal given by King of Belgium in recognition for the work of Irish Jesuits in helping Belgian refugees in Ireland during the First World War.

A file containing biographical information on Fr Patrick J Connolly SJ.

Obituary for Fr John J O'Carroll SJ [1980] by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ, article written by Fr John J O'Carroll SJ entitled 'La littérature féniane' pp507-516, and testimonials of Rev. J. J. O'Carroll candidate for a fellowship in modern languages in the Royal University of Ireland.

Application by Fr Seán Ó Catháin SJ for the Lectureship (1950) and Professorship (1966) in Education in University College Dublin.

File containing Fr Seán Ó Catháin's admission papers and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials concerning his role as head of the Education Department, University College Dublin and later supply work.

Details of Fr Daniel O'Connell's next-of-kin.

A file containing biographical material on Fr Arthur Little SJ.

File of mission material relating to Fr Walter O'Connor SJ. Includes passport photographs, photographs, personal record, rough notes on coloured slides for the ordination of the first Tongan priest, Fr Dominic Nchete (15 August 1952); extract from a letter of Fr O'Connor SJ (28 March 1952) and homilies.

File relating to the admission of Kevin O'Dwyer to the Society of Jesus and the taking of vows.

Biographical information on Fr Richard Ingram SJ. Includes a memorial card.

File of documents related to Fr Andrew O'Farrell SJ sermons in Irish and English, translation of Gilbert Keith Chesterton ‘Don Juan of Austria’, and newspaper report on the annual mass at Galway University College.

List of Auditores Philosophiae 1917 - 1918 at Jersey which includes Andrew O'Farrell SJ. Includes news of Jesuits in France, and First World War. (In French).

A file relating to biographical information on Fr Robert St Leger SJ, and the origins of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly.

Biographical details of Fr John Hyde SJ. Includes Fr Hyde's medical report on entering the Society, information compiled by the examiners assessing his suitability for the Society and personal histiory.

Biographical details relating to Fr William Ronan SJ.

Documents related to the entry of John Bury into the Catholic faith, first Communion and Confirmation.

Parties:
William Napoleon Nolan, Esquire, Lower Dominick Street, city of Dublin and Thomas Henry Kohler, Merchant Tailor, 7 Lower Sackville Street, city of Dublin.

Property:
Dwelling house on Lower Sackville Street

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent of £151.1.4 sterling to be paid in four equal payments on 1st March, 1st June, 1st September and 1st December.

Parties:
Samuel Page, Notary Public, Dame Street, Dublin and William Napoleon Nolan, Esquire, 32 College Green, Dublin.

Property:
7 Sackville Street, City of Dublin

Terms and Conditions:
£105 sterling to be paid in four quarterly payments on 1st March, 1st June, 1st September and 1st December.

Other:
Signed and sealed by the parties

Photocopy of brief memoir by Fr Joseph A Shiel SJ 'Jottings over 60 Years'.

Granting of faculties by John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin to Fr Patrick Simpson SJ. Includes note on aiding a Catholic to be educated in a non-Catholic School or College or University in This Diocese’.

Biographical information on Fr John Coyne SJ.

File of material relating to Fr John Coyne SJ taken from the Mission Office, 28 Upper Sherrard St (12 July 2011). Includes photographs; personal record; and correspondence between Fr Coyne and Fr Thomas J Martin, SJ Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

A file relating to Fr John Coyne's translation of Valignano's 'Mission Techniques for Japan volume I' by Josef Franze Schutte SJ.

A file relating to Fr John Coyne's history of the Zambesi Mission. Includes a letter from Fr Coyne, Archdiocese of Lusaka, Loyola, Northern Rhodesia, Africa to Fr Sean [MacM ] concerning the death of Fr Dan Byrne SJ in a car crash in Africa (7 May 1964, 2pp).

A file relating to Fr John Coyne's translation of the 'Theology of Ecumenism' by Peter Blaeser contained in 'Was ist Theologie?' by Engelbert Neuhuesler and Elizabeth Goessman.

A file relating to Fr John Coyne's translation of 'Christian Prayer in its Course through the Centuries' by Josef Andreas Jungmann SJ. Includes correspondence with the publishers and Josef Andreas Jungmann. The translation was published by Paulist Press, New York posthumously. Includes a typed manuscript of the translation.

A file containing certificates conferring Sub Deaconship, Deaconship and Priesthood on Fr Joseph Darlington SJ.

Biographical information on Fr Richard Devane SJ, including catalogue entry (1930).

Documents regarding Thomas Wheeler's entrance into Holy Orders. (In Latin)

Parties:
Anne Archbold, Elizabeth Archbold, Mary Archbold, Spinsters, City of Dublin of the first part, Sarah Kavanagh, Widow of the second part and Gerald Archbold and Michael Hanrahan of the third part.

Property:
Lands of Newtown, Castlebancroft and Fazakerlys, County Dublin.

Terms & Conditions:
To secure a payment of £1,600.

Other:
Signed and sealed.

A file relating to research carried out by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on his family tree.

A file relating to the O'Callaghan estate in County Clare. Fr Edmund O'Reilly's mother Bridget O'Callaghan was a co-heiress of her father's estate in Clare. Includes rental accounts for the estate, with names.

A file of draft articles for a Charter of University College, Dublin (Irish Universities Bill, 1908).

Copies of a memoir written by John Bithrey (former Jesuit scholastic) on Fr Michael Egan SJ.

A file containing biographical details on Fr Aloysius Sturzo SJ including recollecting by a Jesuit in 1933 (when a novice in 1873), list of Italian Jesuits who came to Ireland in 1860.

File relating to the admission of Seán Turner to the Society of Jesus and the taking of vows.

A file of material collected by Fr John Grene SJ on the life of Mr James Murphy SJ, a scholastic who drowned whilst on villa (holiday) at Poulaphuca, County Wicklow. The contributors provide information of his life as a student at Clongowes Wood College and later as a novice in the Society.

Biographical information on Fr Peter Kenney SJ, and material related to the early years of the Irish Vice-Province.

A file containing biographical information on Fr Timothy Corcoran SJ. Includes Fr Thomas Morrissey's entry on Fr Corcoran for the Dictionary of National Biography, article on Fr Corcoran by Dermot F. Gleeson and photograph of Fr Timothy Corcoran SJ.

A file of genealogical notes compiled and collected by Fr Timothy Corcoran SJ on his family. Includes letters, from Margaret Ryan, 14 Grand Street, Pokepsie, New York, U.S.A. to Fr Corcoran concerning other relatives in America (18 October 1931), Rody Dwan, Lisnagonoge, Thurles, County Tipperary (1 June 1915) and John D Corcoran, Williamsport, Ohio, U.S.A. (24 January 1929) ; genealogical notes on Corcoran of Clontaffe, parish of Killea (1766-1842) and of Honeymount, parish of Rathnaveoge, Ikerrin (1855-1929) and Curraduff, parish of Killea, Ikerrin, (1855-1929), 1p; copies made by Fr Timothy Corcoran SJ of family relatives in census material, 1821, 6 June 1841, at the Public Record Office, Dublin, (16 April 1916, 24 December 1917), 2pp; copies of originals at Lisnagonoge, Thurles, County Tipperary (25 August 1915), 1p; notes by Fr Timothy Corcoran SJ from the Public Record Office, Dublin (March 1914) on the numbers of peoples in townlands related to him - Rathnaveoge, Honeymount, Gurteen in 1821 census; inscription in Monsea burial ground and photocopies of newspaper clippings (1911).

A file containing biographical information on Fr William Kane SJ.

Coursework entitled ‘The family of Sir Robert John Kane (1809-1890); the emergence and disappearance of a nineteenth-century Dublin family’ by Dr Clara Cullen, submitted for Certificate in Family Module 2/Genealogy (GX04) - tutor Mr Sean J. Murphy, M.A.

Biographical details on Fr Stephen Brown SJ.

A file containing biographical material on Fr Edward Cahill SJ.

A file relating to biographical material on Fr Edward Joseph Andrews SJ.

Five versions of a printed leaflet outlining the aims and organisation of the Association of Prayer against intemperance.

Biographical information on Fr John Barragry SJ.

Biographical information on Fr Charles Harold Barrett SJ.

Mortuary cards, list of relatives, brief Curriculum Vitae, catalogue entry, passport photograph and funeral mass for Fr Thomas O'Brien SJ.

Biographical information on Fr Francis M Browne SJ.

Documents found among the papers of Fr Willie Doyle SJ (with whom Fr Browne briefly served as chaplain), collated by Fr Charles Doyle SJ, concerning Fr Frank Browne SJ. Includes telegrams to Robert Browne, Bishop of Cloyne (14 March & 25 August 1919) concerning Fr Browne & circular letter from the War Office to Fr Browne, St Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, informing him of his appointment as an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class ‘as from 1st Sept. 1921 on which date your commission as a temporary Chaplain to the Forces ceased to have effect.’ (14 September 1921).

Notice of entering in the record of the Irish Division (Mentioned in Dispatches) of Fr Joseph Wrafter SJ (att. 8th Royal Munster Fusiliers) (in February and March 1916; 3 and 9 September 1916) for ‘your gallant conduct and devotion to duty in the field’ signed by W.B. Hickie, Major General, Commanding 16th Irish Division.

Insription on faculties of the diocese of Meath granted to the Rev. G[eorge] Byrne SJ by Bishop Laurence Gaughan, on inside cover of 'Collectio Nova. Facultatum, Legum Dispositionumque Diocesesos Midensis'. Handed in by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ (2013), who found it in St. Francis Xavier Community Library, Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Typed notes by Fr Francis Finegan SJ on an obituary of Fr James Broderick SJ by Fr Philip Caraman SJ. Fr Finegan refutes the suggestion that Fr Broderick was refused admission to the Irish Province on the grounds of his social status.

'Catalogus personarum primus' filled in by Fr Michael Browne SJ (1932), photocopy of obituary in newspaper (1933) and brief biography by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on Fr Browne c.[1985].

Text of radio appeals by Fr Tim Mulcahy SJ, on the occasion of World Sodality Day, on behalf of the Society of St Vincent de Paul (4th November [ ]) and High Park Convent, Drumcondra, Dublin (10 September [ ]).

A file relating to the entry of John Burden into the Society of Jesus.

Information of the novices entry (1907-1914) and obituary from the 'Irish Province News' for Fr Henry Croasdaile SJ.

Information of the novices entry (1907-1914), obituaries from' The Clongownian' (1916), ‘material for Memorials of Irish Province S.J. Collected by Fr Henry Lynch S.J.’ and Chronological Catalogue (1900-1929) and article by Mihalea Repina, Assistant Archivist, Jesuits in Britain entitled One Hundred Years Ago Today, regarding Mr Thomas Egan SJ.

Circular letter from the honorary secretary of the Council of the Catholic Defence Society for comment. Handwritten notes by Fr Finlay on 'Scheme for the Constitution and Government of the Catholic Union of Ireland [1905] (11pp).

Biographical information on Fr Thomas Byrne SJ.

Receipts from stockbrokers M. Dillon & Son for purchases of various stocks by them on Fr Finlay’s behalf.

Dividend certificates and lodgement receipts relating to the Agricultural Credit Corporation Ltd. £5 % State-Guaranteed Mortgage Bonds.

Dividend certificates and lodgement receipts relating to Dublin Corporation 5% Inscribed Stock.

Covering letter from Noel M. Purcell to Fr Finlay enclosing a copy of the Declaration of Trust.

Parties:
Rev. Thomas Aloysius Finlay, 35 Lower Leeson Street and George O'Brien, 3 Burlington Road, County Dublin, Doctor of Letters (the Trustees).

Material relating to the Sisters of Charity and the Providence Woollen Mills, Foxford, county Mayo. Includes: envelope sent to ‘Sr. Alcantra (of Foxford), The Sisters of Charity, Merrion, Dublin’ from Foxford enclosing a St. Christopher bracelet, an embroidered patch commemorating the 1932 Eucharistic Congress in Dublin made by the mills and some prayer cards ([n.d.], 6 items);
– copy of supplemental instruction for Counsel, John H. Pigot (16 December 1919, 2pp) on behalf of the trustees of Mrs. E.M. Lynch’s will (2pp), enclosing copy of an extract of a letter from Fr Finlay to a ‘Mr. Ryan’ concerning a bequest to Mother Morrogh Bernard, Superioress of Foxford, to establish an industrial foundation at Warrenstown (2pp) and Counsel’s opinion.

Panegyric on Fr Thomas A. Finlay SJ following his retirement from office in the University.

Memorial card and legal documents arising from the death of Thomas A. Finlay, K.C., T.D., (43 Pembroke Road, Dublin) [nephew of Fr Finlay]. Includes letter from stockbrokers Horan & Devine, 12 Dame Street [representatives of Mrs. Eva Finlay, widow of Thomas) to [ ] enclosing ‘a list of a few safe Trustee Securities from which you might be able to make a selection for the Trust Funds in this case’ (1 February 1933, 2pp). Memorial card missing (2020).

Lodgement receipts from The National Bank Limited in Fr Finlay’s account.

A file relating to Fr Patrick Coffey SJ. Includes biographical information, correspondence, concerning his health during his early years in the Society and correspondence during his time in England working in parishes in Birmingham and London.

Material relating to Fr Bernard P Collins SJ entry to the Society of Jesus, biographical information and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials.