- IE IJA J/105
- File
- 1965 - 10 Janaury 1978
Part of Irish Jesuits
File relating to Fr Rupert F H Coyle SJ which includes correspondence concerning the Ordo for the Irish Province, catalogue entry.
Coyle, Rupert F H, 1896-1978, Jesuit priest
Part of Irish Jesuits
File relating to Fr Rupert F H Coyle SJ which includes correspondence concerning the Ordo for the Irish Province, catalogue entry.
Coyle, Rupert F H, 1896-1978, Jesuit priest
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Photograph of Irish Fr Provincial Charles O'Conor SJ, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Éamon de Valera (president of Ireland), Bishop Patrick Dunne and Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Rector) on the occasion of Rathfarnham's Jubilee.
Caretaker's lodges at Rathfarnham Castle and the sale of one of the lodges
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file relating to the caretaker's lodges at Rathfarnham Castle and the sale of one of the lodges (178 Rathfarnham Road) to Pat Boland who occupied the premises under a caretaker's agreement since 1970.
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
Letter from J. J. O'Neill, Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, 2 Kenilworth Square, Dublin to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ concerning St Ignatius College, Galway. Remarks that he feels the school can be a success.
Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, 1878-1924
Part of Irish Jesuit Mission books of the Pre-Suppression period
Adversus omnes haereses
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de Castro, Alfonso, 1495-1558, Franciscan theologian and jurist
Caretakers agreements at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Caretakers agreements between Robert Breslin and William Hearne and the Jesuit Fathers, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Illustrated Souvenir of the Triduum for the coming of the reliquary containing the right arm of St Francis Xavier to Gardiner Street Church, 9-12 December 1949.
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Letter to Fr Matthew Meade SJ from Sister M. Patrick, Presentation Convent, George’s Hill, Dublin, concerning a crucifix in their convent believed to have been once owned by St Francis Xavier. Includes extract concerning the crucifix from ‘St Joseph’s Sheaf’ of 1903 and brief illustrated pamphlet on the same topic.
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Typed memorandum outlining the present position of development plans for the Rathfarnham area by Dublin City Planning Authorities.
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file relating to the proposed development of Rathfarnham Castle for mixed residential use, parkland, office space, shopping and a hotel. Includes plans of the proposal.
Benediction music by Robert O'Dwyer, Organist, Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Benediction Music Number 1 in E-Flat by Robert O'Dwyer, Organist, Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street.
The description of Ireland: and the state thereof as it is at this present in anno 1598
The description of Ireland: and the state thereof as it is at this present in anno 1598. With amendments by Fr Hogan.
Hogan, Edmund, 1831-1917, Jesuit priest
Account of succession to private property of Rev. Peter Finlay SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Account of succession to private property of Rev. Peter Finlay SJ, Milltown Park, Milltown, county Dublin.
List of archives in Milltown Park concerning Fr John Coyne SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Photocopy of list of archives in Milltown Park concerning Fr John Coyne SJ.
Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters, including financial
Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters. Includes letters concerning financial matters and;
– a complaint about an individual Jesuit with regard to his behaviour while conducting a retreat for nuns (See also ADMN/3/36);
– a draft deed of trust for the Father Delany Exhibition (See also ADMN/3/13);
– the health and financial affairs of various scholastics;
– the proposal for the establishment of a [school] at Tullabeg by the Society of Pious Missions;
– a conference of Jesuit Fathers in Chicago for the purpose of adopting a Provisional Constitution of the ‘Frequent Communion Guild’;
– requests for money from various individuals;
– the campaign to appoint a Catholic Director to the Board of Directors of the Clogher Valley Railway (the Society are shareholders in the Railway);
– the appointment of Jesuits to various offices;
– a petition to the British government ‘to show mercy to Roger Casement’;
– a proposed portrait of Archbishop Walsh by Sir John Lavery;
– a profit and loss account of the Irish Monthly for year ending 31 August 1914 (See also ADMN/3/20; 66; 67);
– the work of St. Joseph's Young Priests (See also ADMN/3/53);
– lists of locations of Retreats and names of priests giving Retreats for 1912 and 1913 (See also ADMN/3/36; 41);
– suggestions for Retreats given by Jesuits, by Dr Patrick Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1896-1926) and memorandum on the scheme to establish a small lending library in Milltown Park for priests (See also ADMN/3/12; 38).
File of letters addressed to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
File of letters addressed to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ. Mainly relates to financial matters as Fr Wheeler was Province Procurator at the time. Includes letters from:
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter from Fr Terence L Connolly SJ, Boston College Library, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA to Frank Gallagher, Director of Government Information Bureau, Merrion Street, Dublin (brother of Fr Richard) thanking him for sending a inscribed copy of his book ‘The Four Glorious Years’.
Connolly, Terence L, 1888-1962, Jesuit priest
Chronicorum opus, in tres partes diuisum
Part of Irish Jesuit Mission books of the Pre-Suppression period
Chronica. Ptd. (Chronicorum opus:-Chronicon pantibus tribus distircla ab. Initio mundi ad MCCCLIX).
Antoninus of Florence, 1389-1459, Saint and Dominican friar
Address given by Cox to the Legal and Economic Society of University College Dublin
Part of Non-Irish Jesuit material
Edited text of an address given by Cox to the Legal and Economic Society of University College Dublin on the main provisions of the Home Rule Bill of 1912.
House history for St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
House history for St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street.
Diary of Fr William A Sutton SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Diary includes entry dated 16 December 1902, following his one of his periodic reading of past diaries, which reflects ‘It has been a great help to me to have hit upon a subject of writing and study which is interest(in)g & useful. I have written & studied much about Bacon being Shakespeare. This has done more good than anything in the way of cheering etc., but it is not everything. I can do much for religious truth through this subject too.…This is my seventh year here…(Milltown Park)…as Superior. Present Prov(incia)l has often told me I do excellent work here & that no one else would suit so well. Wonderful. I am not an atom conceited about it. I see well that any good in me or done by me is by God’s help & that my not having any conceit is sole way of continuing’
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter from Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning the newly founded ‘lectureship in Ancient History in U.C.D.’. ‘I feel that you will be very much disappointed when I ask you… to present yourself as a candidate; for I know that you wish to go to China. Do try to forgive me when I ask you to do something that pleases you less.’
Fahy, John, 1874-1958, Jesuit priest
Status Temporalis for the Irish Province
Status Temporalis (Province Account).for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.
Bathroom with bathtubs and sinks (to be a dormitory), Manresa, Dollymount
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Bathroom with bathtubs and sinks (to be a dormitory), Manresa, Dollymount, 5 September 1948. One of the Jesuits (Laurence Kearns) sleeping in the room;
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
Copy of a letter from Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr John MacSheahan SJ (Superior) concerning a proposal for the Jesuits in Galway to take over the running of a hostel and the possibility of opening a preparatory school.
Fahy, John, 1874-1958, Jesuit priest
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A telegram from Pope Pius XI to Fr Patrick Barrett SJ, Director of Retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, blessing all those making a retreat at Rathfarnham. In Latin.
Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939, Head of the Catholic Church
Part of Non-Irish Jesuit material
Letter from Eugene O'Curry, 2 Portland Street North, Dublin to Rev. John Henry Newman, Rector of the Catholic University, Dublin regarding an offer of the Professorship of Archaeology at the University. Remarks ‘...I would gladly accept (it), if the term does not mean more than I could honestly undertake.’. Explains that he is working under a Royal Commission as a co-translator of the Brehon Laws and also with the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, to translate and edit an ancient Irish Law Tract, the Battle of Moylena.
O'Curry, Eugene, 1794-1862, Irish scholar
Part of Non-Irish Jesuit material
Copy letter from John Edward Pigot, Merrion Square to [John] O'Hagan concerning the proposal of Lane to the Presidency of [ ]. remarks that he has no objection to John O'Hagan proposing Lane and that he will second the proposal.
Pigot, John Edward, 1822-1871, Young Irelander, writer, musician, and lawyer
List of property owned by the Irish Province of the Society
List of property owned by the Irish Province of the Society, compiled by Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Includes details such as type of property – stocks, mortgages, land etc. – and value.
Walsh, Nicholas, 1826-1912, Jesuit priest
Register of letters received at Catholic University of Ireland and University College, Dublin
Part of Catholic University of Ireland and University College, Dublin
Register of letters received at Catholic University of Ireland and University College, Dublin with detailing of date, name, address, subject, date of reply and reply
Catholic University of Ireland, 1854-1911
Fee Farm Grant - Rathfarnham House
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Parties:
William Thomas, Earl of Clancarty, Garbally, County Galway, John Earl of Strafford, Hardmonsworth, County of Middlesex, Thomas Conolly, Castletown, County Kildare, Elizabeth Pakenham and Helen Pakenham, Spinster, Coolure, County Westmeath of the one part and Francis Blackburne, Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin.
Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.
Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent of £123.6.6 in two equal payments on 25 March and 29 September.
Other:
Signed and sealed by the parties.
Assignment for premises in Drogheda and lands of Ballyboggan
Parties:
Rev Bartholomew Esmonde SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Rev. John Ffrench SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly and Rev. Stephen Farrell SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.
Property:
Premises in Drogheda and lands of Ballyboggan
Terms and Conditions:
Payment of rent and performance of the convents to which the premises are subject and liable.
Other:
Signed and sealed by Rev Bartholomew Esmonde SJ
Holograph manuscript of Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins’s 'St. Thecla'
Part of Irish Jesuits
Holograph manuscript of Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins’s 'St. Thecla'. Two versions – English ‘St. Thecla’ (34 lines, 1p.) and Latin ‘In Theclam Virginem’ (16 lines). On top left and right corners respectively, A.M.D.G. and L.D.S written (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam and Laus Deo Sempe).
Burke Savage, Roland, 1912-1998, Jesuit priest and editor
Copy of ‘The Irish Monthly’, No. 174, Vol. XV,December 1887 published by M.H Gill & Son, with insert pp716-717 - letter from R M Levey, Violet Hill, Vico Road, Dalkey, Dublin to Dr Francis Cruise refering to Cruise's book on 'Thomas A Kempis' (14 May 1895), reviewed in said issue of ‘The Irish Monthly’. Dr Cruise name wriiten on front of ‘The Irish Monthly’.
Conveyance and Assignment in Trust for benefit of Poor Purchasers
Part of Irish Jesuits
Type:
Conveyance and Assignment in Trust for benefit of Poor Purchasers
Parties:
Rev. Thomas Finlay, 35 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin (the Settlor): 1st party.
Rev. George Redington Roche, Mungret College Limerick;
Thomas A. Finlay, Longford, County Longford, District Justice and Noel M. Purcell, 45 Lower Leeson Street, solicitor (the Trustees): 2nd part.
Terms:
Fr. Finlay assigns three plots of ground unto the trustees, along with the premises currently occupied by the Dublin Food Supply Company Ltd., to hold for various terms as given in the three indentures to which the plots are subject to, subject to a number of conditions, including one that the Dublin Food Supply Company shall ‘carry on business solely for the purpose of supplying to the poor, all or any manner of household supplies at such a price and no greater over and above the wholesale price as will cover rents and other costs of distribution.’
Property:
The plot of ground in Gloucester Place Upper, parish of St. Thomas, city of Dublin, subject of an indenture of 19 December 1918 between Josephine Hodgens, spinster and Fr. Finlay; plot situated at the rere of the premises in Middle Gardiner Street, Dublin, subject of an indenture of 11 October 1910 between Margaret Alexandrina Brabazon and Fr. Finlay; No. 1 Pimlico, parish of St. Catherine, city of Dublin and ground adjoining it which are subject of an indenture of 28 April 1924 between Michael Joseph Dillon and Fr. Finlay.
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
Letter from Fr Patrick Joy SJ, Kingsmead Hall, Victoria Park Road, Singapore to Miss Joy, 41 Adelaide Road, Dublin concerning his work in the Far East and family news.
Joy, Patrick, 1892-1970, Jesuit priest
Part of Irish Jesuits
Correspondence concerning Madame Regina Łukasiewicz’s accusations of the theft of her late husband’s papers by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Prof. E. O'Doherty of U.C.D. (her late husband was Jan Łukasiewicz, Professor of Mathematical Logic at the Royal Irish Academy (a special professorship) ). Madame Łukasiewicz was suffering from ‘paranoid psychosis with delusions of persecution’ and was admitted to St Vincent’s Private Mental Home for a number of weeks until Fr Gwynn helped to arrange her removal to the house of her nephew in England. The papers had in actual fact, been deposited by herself in the R.I.A. Library in 1956. Documents include:
Will of Mary E. O. Bolger and her bequest of £500 to the Jesuit Fathers, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file relating to the will of Mary E. O. Bolger and her bequest of £500 to the Jesuit Fathers, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.
Material relating to the death of Fr Paul Jenkins SJ
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
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.
Fr Frank Browne SJ on his ordination day at Dublin with his family
Part of Irish Jesuits
Fr Frank Browne SJ on his ordination day at Milltown Park, Dublin with his family (Robert Browne, bishop of Cloyne, sisters, brother, niece and nephews).
Browne, Francis M, 1880-1960, Jesuit priest, photographer and chaplain
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file relating to Fr James Daly SJ, including biography, genealogical material, letter from Peter Byrne, University College, Dublin (13 November 1897) to Fr Daly SJ, profits from Clongowes Wood College farm 1915-1916, grants paid to Clongowes Wood College and correspondence from the Irish Fr Provincials.
Daly, James, 1847-1930, Jesuit priest
Jesuits ordained at Milltown Park
Part of Irish Jesuits
Jesuits ordained at Milltown Park, including Fr Frank Browne and his uncle, Robert Browne, bishop of Cloyne, on mounted card.
Browne, Francis M, 1880-1960, Jesuit priest, photographer and chaplain
Construction of the bye-pass at Rathfarnham Castle
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file relating to the construction of the bye-pass at Rathfarnham Castle. Includes maps and plans.
Valuation of Rathfarnham Castle, the contents and the sale of Rathfarnham Castle
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file relating to the valuation of Rathfarnham Castle, the contents and the sale of Rathfarnham Castle. Includes a description of the land and location maps (nd, 4pp).
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
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'.
McDonald, Frank, journalist
Rules of the debating society, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Rules of the debating society for Jesuit juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.
Bequest of left to the Society of Jesus in Australia by Fr Mathew Ryan
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
A file relating to a bequest of £400 left to the Society of Jesus in Australia by Fr Matthew Ryan to be used for the foreign missions. Refers to Fr Frank Browne SJ and his health in Australia, and copy of a letter from the Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ to Superior of the Mission, Fr Jeremiah Sullivan SJ (30 August 1924).
Sullivan, Jeremiah, 1877-1960, Jesuit priest
Letters from Fr Nicholas J. Tomkin SJ to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to Fr Gwynn’s articles
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters from Fr Nicholas J. Tomkin SJ (Library Censor) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to Fr Gwynn’s articles ‘An Irish Settlement on the Amazon, 1612 – 1629’ in 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy', (xli, p.1 – 54) and ‘Documents relating to the Irish in the West Indies’ [1612 – 1752] in 'Analecta Hibernica', (iv, p.139 – 286), with censor’s suggestions.
Tomkin, Nicholas J, 1859-1942, Jesuit priest
Minute book of the debating society, Rathfarnham Castle
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Minute book of the debating society, Rathfarnham Castle.
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file relating to Fr William Dargan SJ, including biographical information, black and white photographs, birth certificate and stole with the initials W.D. (William Dargan) and the date of his ordination, 31 July 1935.
Dargan, William, 1904-1983, Jesuit priest
The Irish Nennius from L. Na Huidre and homilies and legends from L. Brecc
Royal Irish Academy, Todd Lecture Series Vol. VI. The Irish Nennius from L. Na Huidre and homilies and legends from L. Brecc. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1895. With annotations by Hogan.
Hogan, Edmund, 1831-1917, Jesuit priest
Letters and telegrams from the Superior of the mission, Fr Patrick Joy SJ to Irish Fr Provincial
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
A file of letters and telegrams from the Superior of the mission, Fr Patrick Joy SJ to Irish Fr Provincial.
Joy, Patrick, 1892-1970, Jesuit priest
Minute book of the debating society, Rathfarnham Castle
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Minute book of the debating society, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, with enclosed handwritten flyers for debates
Part of Irish Jesuits
Fr William Browne (Fr Frank Browne's brother) in bed at St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin and Fr Frank Browne praying over William's grave. Includes a burial procession which features the Bishop of Cloyne, Robert Browne and Fr William Browne.
Minute book of the debating society, Rathfarnham Castle
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Minute book of the debating society, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.
Solicitors copy costs of assignment of premises No. 1 Pimlico, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuits
Solicitors copy costs of assignment of premises No. 1 Pimlico, Dublin (Daniel Purcell & Son in account with Fr Thomas A. Finlay).
Purcell, Daniel, solicitor
Draft of a circular letter from [ ], Milltown Park, Dublin to [ ] concerning the organisation of a retreat for lay gentleman.
Letter from Fr Patrick J. Connolly SJ, Editor, 'Studies', 35 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ concerning the rising costs in producing the publication 'Studies'. Suggests various proposals regarding Studies including changing its publication to every two months and amalgamating 'Studies' and the 'Irish Monthly'.
Connolly, Patrick J, 1875-1951 Jesuit priest and editor
Limericks written by Irish Jesuit scholastics in Limerick
Notebook containing Limericks written by Irish Jesuit scholastics in Limerick.
Purchase of Rathfarnham Castle by the Society of Jesus
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file relating to the purchase of Rathfarnham Castle by the Society of Jesus. Includes part of the auction catalogue for the contents of the Castle, Battersby & Co, Auctioneers, 39 Westmoreland Street, Dublin, and list of Jesuit purchases (April 1913).
Sermon preached by Rev. John Hughes SJ entitled 'Waste Products of Modern Civilisation'
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Text of a sermon preached by Rev. John Hughes SJ entitled 'Waste Products of Modern Civilisation' on behalf of The Magdalen Asylum, Gloucester Street, Dublin'.
Hughes, John J, 1843-1912, Jesuit priest
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
Draft letter from [Irish Fr Provincial] to Fr Michael Quinlan SJ (Superior), St Ignatius, Galway concerning documents relating to the lease of property belonging to the Society of Jesus in Galway to a Mr O'Dea. Demands an immediate explanation. Remarks 'It seems to me that under no circumstances should this transaction go through…'.
Fahy, John, 1874-1958, Jesuit priest
Letters from Henry Bedford, All Hallows, Dublin to Fr Matthew Russell SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file of letters from Henry Bedford, All Hallows, Dublin to Fr Matthew Russell SJ.
Bedford, Henry, 1816-1903, educator
Part of Non-Irish Jesuit material
Letter from Eugene O'Curry, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin to T. D. Mc [ ], Montreal, Canada regarding a draft of $100 sent to O'Curry to purchase books. O'Curry apologises for the delay explaining that some volumes he wished to purchase were not available and that he fell ill on two occasions. O'Curry refers to the death of his son in 1857 and his wife in 1858. Concludes that he is still working on the Brehon Laws and that he has published the first twenty one lectures given by him to the Catholic University.
O'Curry, Eugene, 1794-1862, Irish scholar
Letters from Denis Florence MacCarthy to John O'Hagan concerning literary matters
Part of Non-Irish Jesuit material
A file of letters from Denis Florence MacCarthy, 38 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin to John O'Hagan concerning literary matters.
MacCarthy, Denis Florence, 1817-1882, Young Irelander, poet, and translator
Reports on Jesuit Studies in the Irish Province
Reports on Jesuit Studies in the Irish Province.
A.G. & S. Racking and Traffic Department at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A.G. & S. Racking and Traffic Department at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. J.C. O’ Toole, Fr Patrick Barrett SJ (Director of Retreats) and J.J Whelan.
Part of Non-Irish Jesuit material
Holograph essay by Arthur Cox entitled “The Jury System - its development and Reform being an Essay presented for the adjudication of the Chancellor’s Gold Medal by ‘The Man who was Wednesday’ ”. Legal and Economic Society, University College Dublin.
Interior of Manresa House, Dollymount
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Interior of Manresa House, Dollymount, 1948.
Pamphlets and articles by Edward Boyd Barrett
Part of Non-Irish Jesuit material
Published pamphlets and articles by Edward Boyd Barrett. Includes:
Boyd Barrett, Edward J, 1883-1966, former Jesuit priest
'The Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism' and 'The Realism of Holy Week in 1916' by Fr Joseph Darlington SJ.
Darlington, Joseph, 1850-1939, Jesuit priest
Correspondence, mainly between Irish Fr Provincial, Fr Stephen J Brown SJ and Michael Christie (Honorary Secretary of the Library), concerning the foundation of the Central Catholic Library and the degree of Jesuit co-operation with the venture.
Part of Irish Jesuit Mission books of the Pre-Suppression period
Commentary on Old Testament (probably early 16th century) No title page
Day book of University College, Dublin
Part of Catholic University of Ireland and University College, Dublin
Day book of University College, Dublin - income (alms, fees, intentions...) and expenditure (coats, newspapers, stamps, tailor, servants weekly wages, gloves, eggs, altar bread...).
Includes references to Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (30 August 1884, p.1-2; 12 November 1884, p.22, 16 and 18 April 1855, 24 April 1855 - Evelyn Abbott bursar of Balliol fees preliminary taking of M.A. degree by Fr Hopkins - £2.
University College Dublin, 1854-
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file relating to Fr Vincent Dennehy SJ.
Dennehy, Vincent, 1899-1982, Jesuit priest
Minute book of the Xavier Mission Guild, Juniorate, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Minute book of the Xavier Mission Guild, Juniorate, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.
Minute book of the Philosophy Society, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Minute book of the Philosophy Society, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file relating to the Society of Jesus' decision to move the Noviceship and Juniorate from Tullabeg to Rathfarnham. This decision was made following the change of regulations of the National University requiring students to attend lectures in one of the University Colleges. Under the Royal University students had to pass examinations set by the University but could be prepared for the exams elsewhere.
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Report describing the establishment of the Tertianship in Rathfarnham because of the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.
Foclóir gaedhilge agus béarla: an Irish-English dictionary, being a thesaurus of the words, phrases and idioms of the modern Irish language. Educational Co. of Ireland for the Irish Texts Society, Dublin, 1927
Dinneen, Patrick Stephen, 1860-1934, fomer Jesuit priest and Irish language lexicographer
Rebellion & Revolution in Dublin: Voices from a Suburb, Rathfarnham,1913-23
Rebellion & Revolution in Dublin: Voices from a Suburb, Rathfarnham,1913-23, edited by Marnie Hay and Dáire Keogh. South Dublin Libraries. Tallaght:
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from John Eric Colledge of the English Language Department, University of Liverpool, on his academic publications and research, including his proposal to lecture in U.C.D. on St. Nicholas of Flüe, an ‘illiterate contemplative.’
Colledge, John Eric, 1910-1999, academic and Roman Catholic priest
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
A file of correspondence between T. N. Redington, Galway Urban District Council and Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ concerning the closure of St Ignatius College, Galway.
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file of letters from Fr Patrick O'Brien SJ, Rathfarnham Castle, County Dublin to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ concerning the Juniors at Rathfarnham and the order of time.
O'Brien, Patrick, 1876-1957, Jesuit priest
Part of Jesuits in Ireland pre-1773
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.
McCaughey, Terence Patrick, 1933-2016, Presbyterian minister, academic and social justice advocate
Catholic University Church by Ciaran O'Carroll, Newman University Church, Dublin, 2010.
Photograph of the façade of St Francis Xavier's Church and Residence, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Photograph of the façade of St Francis Xavier's Church and Residence, Upper Gardiner Street taken in summer time. In foreground local children and group with two members of the order of the Sisters of Charity.
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from John Durkan, Glasgow, and others associated with the 'Innes Review', relating to Fr Gwynn’s 1940 article ‘Ireland and the English Nation at the Council of Constantine’ in 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy'; connections between the Scottish and Irish historical research communities; the 'Innes Review' (asking if Fr Gwynn would like to contribute any articles); Fr Gwynn’s research on Scottish Benedictines in Germany and his 1952 articles on the Irish at Wúrzburg in the Middle Ages.
Durkan, John, 1914-2006, historian
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
A file of correspondence between William S. Fitzgerald, Secretary, Galway Chamber of Commerce and Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ concerning the closure of St Ignatius College, Galway.
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file relating to formation, order of time, customs, discipline amongst the Jesuit Juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Includes correspondence between Irish Fr Provincial and Fr Rector.
Photographs of St Francis Xavier’s Church and Residence at Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Photographs of St Francis Xavier’s Church and Residence at Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes photographs of various chapels and alters in the church interior as well as the residence garden.
Custom book for the Jesuit Juniorate at Rathfarnham Castle
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Custom book for the Jesuit Juniorate at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, at university and on holiday (villa).
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ Gwynn from Monsignor Professor John Tracy Ellis
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Monsignor Professor John Tracy Ellis (Secretary of the American Catholic Historical Association and Editor of the 'Catholic Historical Review'), on academic matters, including:
– the difficulties of gaining access to contemporary religious archives;
– ideas on academic exchanges between Ireland and the Unites States, ‘for scholarship, professors etc.’;
– the commemoration of the 1,500th anniversary of the death of St. Patrick;
– information on new American church historical publications;
– Fr Gwynn’s review of Mgr. Tracy Ellis’s 1952 'The Life of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore 1834 - 1921' in 'Studies';
– financial difficulties of the Catholic University of America;
– the Monsignor’s lecturing activities;
– a proposed three-volume history of the Church in Ireland;
– comments on ‘the prospect of a Catholic in the White House’ (10 November 1960, 1p.);
– a proposed series of lectures in Dublin as part of the Patrician centennial celebration and the acquisition of copies of several letters of Archbishop Carroll in the Jesuit Archives.
Ellis, John Tracy, 1905-1992, Roman Catholic priest, monsignor and historian
'Biblia Sacra' - Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins’s own copy of the Vulgate
Part of Irish Jesuits
'Biblia Sacra'. Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins’s own copy of the Vulgate. Signed by him ‘Gerardi Manley Hopkins. Octobris XXXI, in vigil, omn. sanct. MDCCCLXVI’ (the day he was received into the Catholic Church). With 'St. Ignatius' College S.J. Dublin.' stamp. Petal of blossom flowers p115 and p546 . Copy of vulgate stops at Proverbs, Chapter 19. Index refers to 1313pp.
Correspondence in connection with the administration of the ‘Father Delany Exhibition’ Trust
Correspondence between Irish Vice-Provincial Fr John Keane SJ (Fr Provincial is in Rome for six months), J.W. Bacon (Secretary and Bursar of University College, Dublin) and Fr Michael Egan SJ in connection with the administration of the ‘Father Delany Exhibition’ Trust.
Keane, John J, 1867-1954, Jesuit priest
Status Temporalis for the Irish Province
Status Temporalis (Province Account) for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.
Receipts from stockbrokers Michael Dillon & Son
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Receipts from stockbrokers M. Dillon & Son for purchases of various stocks by them on Fr Finlay’s behalf.
Dillon, Michael Joseph
'The Church and her marriage laws'
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Pamphlet ''The Church and her marriage laws'' by Fr Peter Finlay SJ. Irish Messenger Series, Dublin.
Finlay, Peter, 1851-1929, Jesuit priest and theologian
Day book for Upper Gardiner Street (Jesuit) community
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Day book for Upper Gardiner Street (St Francis Xavier's) community, which details income and expenditure.
Account book of the Irish Jesuit Province
Account book of the Irish Jesuit Province. Includes an alphabetical index.