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Brief biographical details on Br Edward Sinnott SJ.

Brief handwritten precis to archival items on St Ignatius College, Galway (1869-1904, 12 items) by Fr James Rabbitte SJ. Reference to Sacred Heart College, Crescent , Limerick on reverse.

Brief history of the Apostolic School, Mungret College and those who attended the Apostolic School.

Copy case concerning the property of Rev. Henry SJ and Rev Charles James Lynch SJ submitted to the Solicitor General Charles O'Conor. Includes his opinion.

Case for counsel on behalf of Rev. Thomas A. Finlay and George O'Brien Esquire and Counsel’s opinion on settling the draft Deed of Trust. Provides the background to the Rural Industries Trust Fund. Joseph H. Murray, one of the trustees of the Fund has recently died and they wish to know if the other two trustees remain secure in their position but with the power of adding to the number of trustees if required. ‘It is desired that the Trustees should have the widest possible powers as to the manner in which they may carry out the Trust…Counsel will please settle Draft Deed and advise.’

Case of Conscience.

Case on behalf of Fr John Curtis SJ on intructions with Thomas O'Hagan re: Clongowes Wood College SJ for John D FitzGerald.

Case on behalf of the trustees of the Mungret Agricultural School for John O' Hagan, fee £3 -3. 0., Kenny & Murphy.

Copy case for Counsel to advise on the proposed case to be made by the Trustees of Mungret Agricultural School, George Wright Esq.

Catalogus defunctorum in renata Societate Iesu ab a. 1814 ad a. 1970 p. Rufo Mendizabal, S.I., collegit
Authors:Rufo Mendizábal, Gesuiti Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Gesuiti Curia generalizia

Circular letter issued on behalf of the Apostolic College of the Sacred Heart, Mungret Abbey, Limerick by Fr William Ronan SJ, seeking donations from American benefactors, issued from College of St Francis Xavier, 39 West 15th Street, New York City.

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

Comments on the structure of the proposed booklet for Irish Jesuit scholastics.

Handwritten document 'Conditions under wh[ich] Fr [Joseph] B[o]urke took over Mungret College' (previously Mungret Agricultural School and Model Farm).

Consolidated final notice to tenants and adjoining owners and occupiers in the matter of the estate of John Emanuel Hughes and the transfer of premises. Includes a plan of the relevant property in Dublin, namely property at Sheriff Street, Mayor Street Lower and North Wall.

Constitution of past pupils of Coláiste Iognáid , lists of officers of the Cumann, of life and annual members, post of Honorary Secretary and statement of accounts.

Typescript copy (with pencil annotations by Fr John MacErlean SJ) about the Irish College in Seville and its affairs, [1635]-[1655] (Archivo Historico Nacional - Section de Clero, leg o. 299, J).

Contract of agreement between William Quiggin and Co. and Fr Matthew Gahan SJ to complete a dwelling house for Fr Gahan.

Parties:
Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell, Barrister, 19 [V] Place, Earescourt Road, London, Rev. Canon Henry Richard William Farren, Bredport Rectory, Dorset of the first part. Edward Blackburne of Bella Vista, Bray, County Wicklow of the second part (the vendors). William George Bailey, Builder, Cherryfield, Sandford, County Dublin of the third part (the purchaser).

Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent of £123.6.6

Parties:
William George Bailey, Builder, Cherryfield, Sandford, County Dublin and Frs Thomas V. Nolan, John Fahy, Dominick Kelly and James Bury all of Milltown Park.

Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent and receivers fees created by and to the covenants, conditions and clauses contained in the Fee Farm Grant of 4 April 1851 in addition to the sum of £5,900. Yearly rent of £123.6.6.

Other:
Signed and sealed by the parties. Includes a map depicting the extent of land cited in the conveyance.

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

Copied excerpt from the Public Record Office Papers, vol. 115 (10) of 1582. Includes list of accusations made against Sir Richard Shee, all involving association with Irish Catholics and the Church. Also includes a reply made by Sir Richard to Walsingham in 1580 in relation to accusations against him. Shee refers to a Mr White (Thomas White SJ [b.1558, entered 1593; d.1622]?) who stayed in his house for a season. States that White is ‘a priest’ and his wife’s cousin, but as far as he knew ‘no Jesuite’. Pasted onto 'The Spectator', 12 December 1885.

Copy affidavit in the matter of the estate of John Sherlock, Trustee for the sale of the estate of Anna Maria O'Brien, widow, deceased, owner and petitioner.

Copy articles of intermarriage between Daniel O'Callaghan and Catherine Purcell, daughter of Baron Purcell.

Copy instructions submitted to counsel on behalf of the Jesuit fathers and opinion by John B Murphy concerning a deed from Elizabeth L.M. Radcliffe, Spinster to Fr John Curtis SJ transferring Governments Stocks.

Copy of a general resolution of the Society of Jesus, issued by Fr General Roothaan. Addressed to Camille de Dominicis, Superioress of the Monastery of the Holy Virgin St. Ursula in Rome, and to all the religious of that monastery and of ‘the other monasteries of the same valuable order in the Catholic world.’ Grants a share in the prayers, sacrifices and other pious works performed by members of the Society.

Copy of a letter from Fr Richard Coyne SJ, Editor, Mungret Annual, Mungret College, Limerick to Fr Patrick J. Stephenson SJ, Xavier College, Kew, Melbourne concerning the Mungret Annual and priests, working in Australia, who attended Mungret.

Copy of a list of writings of Fr Charles Aylmer SJ and a note on the pedigree of the Aylmer family.

Copy of a typescript entitled ‘Past and Present. Mainly a Retrospect’ by Fr Joseph McDonnell SJ [from the Memorials of the Irish Province?], concerning Fr Thomas Betagh SJ and the history of the early Restored Society of Jesus in Ireland. Incomplete.

Copy of administration in relation to the estate of James Johnston Mullan, late of Sandymount Castle, Dublin, who died on 12 June 1939. Issued by the High Court of Justice; the Principal Probate Registry. States that the last will of Johnston, of which a copy is included, did not name any executor, and that on 3 October 1939 Letters of Administration of all and singular the personal estate of the deceased were granted to William Morgan Mullan, son of the deceased. Certifies that an Affidavit for Inland Revenue was delivered showing the gross value of Johnston’s personal estate within Ireland to be £2994.2.0 for the purpose of Estate Duty, and that the amount of £270.3.10 for Estate Duty and interest thereon has been paid.

The will of James Johnston Mullan bequeaths all of his real and personal estate to his son William Morgan Mullan and his daughter Kathleen Mullan in equal shares, but if the latter should marry or decide to live elsewhere she is to be paid the sum of £1,500. William Mullan to support and maintain Kathleen and James’ wife (their mother) and pay each of them the sum of £1 weekly during their lives, and in case of Kathleen’s marriage or removal, the sum of five hundred pounds each to be paid to his wife and son James Morgan of Stroud, Gloustershire (sic). If his wife should decide to live separately and apart from the other legatees William Morgan and Kathleen or either of them she shall be paid £1000 in addition to the legacy of £500.

Parties:
(1) William Morgan Mullan of Sandymount Castle, Sandymount in the County of the City of Dublin, solicitor (the Vendor)
(2) Modern Homes (Dublin) Ltd., having their Registered Office at “St. Andrews”, Serpentine Avenue in the City of Dublin, Limited Company (the Purchasers)

Property:
All that lot or parcel of ground with the dwellinghouse and offices now standing thereon situate on the east side of Gilford Road, Sandymount in the Barony of Dublin in the County of Dublin, bounded on the north-west and south-west by Gilford Road and Sandymount Green, and on the north and north-east partly by the holding of James Beckett, partly by the holding of Susan and Louisa Hempenstall and partly by an unleased portion of the estate of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.

Terms and conditions:
In pursuance of an agreement dated 13 November 1939, between James R. Smyth of St. Andrews, Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge in the City of Dublin and William J. Kavanagh of 57 Merrion Square in the City of Dublin, builders on behalf of the Purchasers, and by which Mullan agreed to the sale to the Purchasers for the sum of £2,925 of the above premises for all the residue of the term of 150 years set down in a lease of 1870, and consideration of the said sum paid by the Purchasers to the Vendor, the latter, as personal representative of James Johnston Mullan, deceased, assigns and conveys unto the purchasers the above property, to hold for all the unexpired residue of the term of 150 years, subject to the rent of £125, and to the covenants and conditions in the 1870 lease, and subject to the sub-leases set out in an accompanying schedule.

Parties:
(1) The National Bank Limited, having their Head Office at No. 13 Old Broad Street in the City of London
(2) James Johnston Mullan of 38 Park Avenue, Sandymount in the County of Dublin, Gentleman

Property:
All that lot or parcel of ground with the dwellinghouse and offices now standing thereon situate on the east side of Gilford road, Sandymount in the Barony of Dublin, in the county of Dublin, bounded on the north-west, west and south-west by Gilford Road and Sandymount Green, and on the north and north-east partly by the holding of James Beckett, partly by the holding of Susan and Louisa Hepenstal and partly by an unleased portion of the estate of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, together with all the rights, members and appurtenances to the said lot or parcel of ground belonging or in anywise appertaining.

Terms and conditions:
In pursuance of an agreement in a mortgage between James Johnston Mullan and the Bank, and in consideration of the sum of £225 paid by the latter to the former, the Bank as mortgagees and as beneficial owners assign and convey unto Mullan all and singular the above property to hold for the residue of the term of years in the lease of 4 January 1870, subject to the yearly rent of £125.

Copy of estimate for proposed changes to Galway Presbytery and Church prepared by Michael Tighe.

Parties:
Louisa Whaley, widow, Olive Meade and John Whaley, all of Robertstown, Naas, County Kildare and Martin Hernon, William Street, West Galway, farmer.

Property:
Plot of ground marked number nineteen on the map or plans of Sherwood Fields, in the parish of Rahoon and West Liberties in the town of Galway containing one rood and twenty-two perches Irish Plantation measure.

Terms and Conditions:
To hold from 29 September 1894 for aterm of 999 years subject to a rent of £5.10.0

Parties:
Martin Hernon, William Street, West Galway, farmer and Frs John Hughes, James Forristal and Dominick Kelly all of St Ignatius College, Galway.

Property:
Plot of ground marked number nineteen on the map or plans of Sherwood Fields, in the parish of Rahoon and West Liberties, in the town of Galway containing one rood and twenty-two perches Irish Plantation measure.

Terms & Conditions:
999 years from 29 September 1894 at a yearly rent of £5.10.0.

Parties:
(1) William A. Greer formerly of Sandymount Castle, Sandymount in the County of Dublin and now of No. 49 Chaplin Road, Wembley, Middlesex (Mortgagor)
(2) The National Bank Limited having their Head Office at No. 13 Old Broad Street in the City of London

Property:
All that parcel of ground with the dwellinghouse and Offices thereon situate on the east side of Gilford Road, Sandymount, in the Barony of Dublin and County of Dublin, bounded on the north-west and west and south-west by Gilford Road and Sandymount Green, and on the north and north-east partly by the holdings of James Beckett and Susan and Louisa Hepenstall and partly by an unleased portion of the estate of the Earl of Pembroke held under Lease of 4 January 1870 from the Earl of Clanwilliam and Others to John Edmond Byrne for the term of 150 years from 29 September 1869 at the yearly rent of £190.

Terms and conditions:
In consideration of the advances made or to be made by the said Bank to the said Mortgagor, the latter as beneficial owner demises unto the Bank all and singular the above property, to hold the same for the residue of the term of years for which the said Mortgagor now holds the same (less the last day of such term), subject to redemption on payment by the said Mortgagor to the said Bank of the sum or sums for the time being owing by him to the said Bank

Copy of Power of Attorney in relation to the Earl of Pembroke’s Irish and settled estates. The Right Honorable Reginald Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery appoints Henry Arthur Vernon of No. 1 Wilton Place in the City of Dublin, Esquire, as his attorney. The Right Honorable Sidney Charles Lord Herbert appoints Arthur James Beatty of No. 31 Molesworth Street in the City of Dublin, solicitor, as his attorney. The power of attorney to be irrevocable for twelve calendar months from the date of the document.

Copy of text of a letter from St Ignatius to St Francis Borgia on Mortification.

Copy of the regulations governing the relations of the two schools (Apostolic and Lay), Mungret College, Limerick.

Parties:
Rev. Dr.Thomas Penswick, Liverpool, Rev. John Briggs, Chester and Rev. Matthew Gahan SJ.

Property:
Parcel/plot of ground with the chapel and other buildings in the Parish of Bradden, Isle of Man

Terms & Conditions:
Fixed annual/chief rent

Costs from Maxwell and Weldon, Solicitors to Fr Robert Haly SJ in the case Conly versus Green.

Costs from O'Keeffe and Lynch, Solicitors, 30 Molesworth Street, Dublin to the Jesuit fathers for legal services.

Costs from Thomas J. MacGrath, Solicitor, 15 Kildare Street, Dublin to Rev. Thomas Wheeler SJ, Fr Thomas V. Nolan SJ and Michael Browne SJ in respect of a deed of indemnity and the will of Miss Mary Nicholson and a bequest of 3300 to Fr Nicholas Walsh SJ..

Custom book for Mungret Apostolic College. Typed document giving some guiding principles for Apostolic students at Mungret College.

Custom Book for Mungret College (in Fr William Ronan's handwriting). Copy of letter from Fr Ronan SJ to Irish Fr Provincial on duties of the Minister and Moderator of Mungret College (26 November 1882).

Custom book for the Jesuit Juniorate at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, at university and on holiday (villa).

Custom book for the Jesuit Juniorate at Rathfarnham Castle, with insert notes on the Jesuit tertianship.

Dates of deaths of [ ] Nangle, John Hyacinth Nangle, Mary E Nangle, Sir Percy Nugent and George A Nicolls.

Death notice of Fr William V. Kane SJ.

Photocopy of death notices of Fr Timothy Corcoran's niece, Maureen O'Meara.

Declaration form to be filled in by a parent/guardian of a student entering the Apostolic School, Mungret College (Form D).

Declaration of the payment of £1,000 by Mrs Elizabeth Archbold to John Pepper of Mountjoy Square being the money due to him upon a mortgage of the lands of Newtown, County Dublin.

Handwritten formula of declaration to be made by Irish Jesuit scholastics at their First Vows. (Copied by Fr Patrick Bracken SJ). (In Latin).

‘Decretum’ issued by Fr General Beckx, constituting the Irish Province and announcing the election of Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ as Irish Provincial.

Decree issued by Pope Clement X in relation to the rights of religious orders. Includes a handwritten note in English: ‘The Mr Locke spoken of was a father S.J. about 1660-1690 E. Hogan S.J.’

Decree issued from Lausanne on behalf of Pope Pius IX regarding the cause of Peter Canisius, later a saint. (In Latin).

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

Degree from the Jesuit College in Palermo awarding a Doctor of Divinity to Charles Aylmer.

Material on Edward Dodd who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic
Born: 3 May 1888
Entered: 7 September 1904
Left: 1917

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

Material on Francis Davis who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 29 November 1880
Entered: 7 September 1897
Left: c.1912

Material on James Baily, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 12 December 1890
Entered: 18 September 1918
Left: 20 November 1926

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

Material on Michael Coyne who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 24 January 1894
Entered: 1 September 1918
Left: 31 May 1927

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

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

Copy of the description of the customs approved by the superiors of the Maryland and Missouri Missions and by Fr Visitor (Fr Peter Kenney SJ). Includes comments by Fr Kenney.

Description, written by J. M. O'Callaghan, C.C. of a visit made by Fr Patrick Duffy SJ to Tasmania. Refers to a meeting between Fr Duffy and Archbishop Murphy and Governor Hamilton at a Government House Levée. Governor Hamilton greeted Fr Duffy very warmly and remembered how Fr Duffy saved his life in the Crimean war when he carried Governor Hamilton to an ambulance.

Details concerning the entrance examination for the Apostolic School, Mungret.

Details of Fr Daniel Jones' contemporaries and fellow students at Theology, Laval, France and their later careers.

Printed document listing discourses/rhetorical displays by boys at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, England.

Document announcing the appointment of George ‘Sallery’ [Sillery] as overseer over the three works ‘in or about Jamestown’ by William E Corbett.

Document by Fr Joseph Dalton SJ, Mission Superior, on donations for churches and parishes made by Dr Vaughan, Archbishop of Sydney.

Document concerning new regulations on the type of apostolate work being carried out in China. The document was circulated at a General Congregation of the Society.

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

Document confirming the appointment of Fr Stephen Farrell as Extraordinary Confessor to Carmelite nuns at Blackrock, and to Mercy Sisters at Baggot Street, Rathdrum and Richmond.

Document confirming the granting of faculties to Fr Alfred Murphy SJ by Pope Pius IX for the blessing and giving indulgences to holy objects, e.g., rosaries etc. (In Latin).

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 entitled ‘Notes on Third Level Chaplains presently appointed to the Technological Colleges of the Dublin Vocational Education Committee’. Gives details of chaplains in various V.E.C. institutions, including Bolton Street and Kevin Street.

Document entitled ‘Our Problem’, published by the Catholic Housing Aid Society. Outlines proposal to build a block of flats for old people and newly-weds. Lists societies and businesses who have donated funds.

Document entitled ‘What is your function, Father?’, produced by the Chaplains’ Office, Kevin Street College of Technology. Explores the roles of chaplains in the Colleges of Technology.

Copy of a document from Rome concerning studies in the Chinese language for Jesuit Missioners.

Document issued by Dr John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam, granting faculties to Fr Patrick Corcoran SJ.

Printed document issued by the Holy See with regard to Freemasons. (In Latin).

Document issued on behalf of Pope Leo XII (Manuel Fernández Varela, Commissioner of Crusade Council) regarding permission [for the residents of the Canary Islands] to eat meat in Lent. Refers to Don Diego Gartlan (In Spanish).

Document issued on behalf of Pope Pius IX, confirming the cult of Blessed Peter Faber SJ. (In Latin).

Document laying down rules for the community in SFX, Upper Gardiner Street in relation to diet and the daily timetable for prayer etc.

Document issued in Madrid (Manuel Fernández Varela, Commissioner of Crusade Council) listing Leo XII’s bulls and indulgences to subjects of Spanish King. Signed by Don Diego Gartlan. (In Spanish).

Document on the proposed Centre for Faith and Justice. Discusses different aspects of the Centre, including principal activities (‘social-science analysis, ethical, value-informed analysis and lived experience’) and personnel.

Document outlining the domestic duties of two Jesuit brothers: [Br.] Pat McGennis and Br. Farrell, in an unidentified boarding school.

Document which briefly outlines the history of the beginnings of missions in Australia, Hong Kong and Northern Rhodesia.

Document relating to Robert St Leger's first vows and additional vows.

Handwritten document setting out the order of the day, and reading lists for an unidentified formation house. (In Latin).

Document signed by Emmanuel de Zuñiga SJ of the Society of Jesus in the Kingdom of Sicily granting permission to Frs Horatio Mont[ ], Robert St Leger, Bartholomew Esmonde, Paul Ferley and James Butler to celebrate Mass, hear confessions etc [in Sicily]. (In Latin; with seal attached).

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

Document written by Fr Patrick Bracken SJ regarding rules for Jesuit boarding schools. Quotes Frs Roothaan and Beckx. (In Latin).

Documents relating to the 1835 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1847 Provincial Congregation.

Documents reviewing Fr Henry Gill ’s publications and contributions to the various fields of physical science. Includes: copy of argument [addressed to his superiors in the Society of Jesus] for staying at his present position in Dublin, rather than joining the Australian Mission (2pp); copy ‘List of Papers describing original research work, with some opinions on same’ (with handwritten amendments) (5pp); copy ‘List of Articles in Reviews’ from 1897 to c1911 (with handwritten amendments) (2pp) and copy extracts from correspondence comprising testimonials in favour of Fr Gill from former professors (2pp).

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