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Letter to Fr John Conmee SJ from Dr. Henry C. Drury enquiring what year the Conmee family came to live at Kingsland, County Roscommon. The Drury family lived at Kingsland before the Conmee’s and Dr. Drury is helping ‘a friend in London who is working at Drury pedigrees.’

[Copy] letter from Fr John Conmee SJ in Rome to a ‘Mr. Keogh’

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25 March 1905

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[Copy] letter from Fr John Conmee SJ in Rome to a ‘Mr. Keogh’, thanking him for sending Fr Conmee some shamrock for St. Patrick’s day. Also remarks ‘I am…beginning to long for a sight of old Erin and dear old Gardiner Street, and Father Bannon’s righthand man and coadjutor, Mr. Keogh. I saw the Holy Father for the third time yesterday…He is the most good natured man you ever saw, full of simplicity and holiness and warm heartedness; and he was greatly interested in all we were doing in the Church. I am glad you report so favourably of Father Bannon’s health. All the same I think it would do him good to have a change after his many colds and bronchitis.’

Notes on a retreat given by Fr John Conmee SJ in Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare

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23 July 1905

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Copybook containing notes on a Retreat given by Fr John Conmee SJ in Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare. Notes made by Fr John A. Byrne SJ.

Byrne, John A, 1878-1961, Jesuit priest

Fr John Conmee’s diary describing his voyage to the Red Sea

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11 - 24 September 1907

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Extracts from Fr John Conmee’s diary describing his voyage from Paris to the Red Sea.

Account of part of Fr John Conmee's voyage, passing through the Suez Canal

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24 September 1907

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Account of part of Fr John Conmee's voyage, from his first sighting of Port Said, passing through the Suez Canal, into the Red Sea and through the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb.

Letters and postcards written by Fr John Conmee SJ to his sister ‘Maggie’

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6 Feb. 1905 - 1910

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Copies of letters and postcards written by Fr John Conmee SJ to his sister ‘Maggie’. Includes copy of letter describing his visit to Rome and audience with the Pope (6 Feb. 1905, 1p.) and copies of notes written during his final illness.

Admission ticket for a papal audience for Fr John Conmee SJ

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1903

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Admission ticket for a papal audience. Issued by the ‘Anticamera Pontifica al Vaticano’; states that Fr John Conmee is to be admitted to an audience with the Pope on Friday 1 May 1903. Includes regulations for those attending papal audiences in relation to dress and behaviour.

Letter from Fr John Conmee SJ, writing from Rome, giving account of papal audience

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5 February 1905

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Letter from Fr John Conmee SJ, writing from Rome, Italy to Fr Potter in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Gives an account of his private audience with the Pope that morning, at which they discussed Gardiner Street, Jesuit missions in Ireland, and the sodalities.

Letter to Fr John Conmee SJ from the poet Aubrey de Vere

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13 February 1876

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Letter to Fr John Conmee SJ from the poet Aubrey de Vere, Curraghchase, County Limerick in reply to Fr Conmee’s letter thanking de Vere for sending him some of his father’s sonnets, “…but for a mistake on the Publisher’s part they would have been forwarded to you long since. They form part of a volume now out of print, which my Father published as long ago as 1842 entitled ‘A Song of Faith’ and consisting chiefly of poems illustrative of the Apostles’ Creed”. Discusses some of his father’s poems, the nature of poetry and reflects ‘It is really marvellous to think what might be done for the Catholic cause and for the moral and intellectual well-being of the country by even a few first-rate Catholic literary works. Perhaps the next generation may give us a Catholic Coleridge to write Philosophy, a Catholic Wordsworth to be our Poet, a Catholic Scott to illustrate Ireland as Scott illustrated Scotland in his Novels, and a Catholic Historian to undo all the mischief done by the erroneous Tradition. Four such writers would do a marvellous work in the next thirty years; and there seems no reason why Ireland alone might not provide them all, if only the ability so constantly running to waste among us were at once properly developed and disciplined.’

De Vere, Aubrey Thomas, 1814-1902, poet and author

Letter of Association presented to Fr John Conmee SJ and his family by the Abbot of Lerins

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31 January 1879

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Letter of Association presented to Fr John Conmee SJ and his family by the Abbot of Lerins, Order of Citeaux.

Letter from Fr John Conmee SJ to Fr Matthew Russell SJ

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[1900]-[1910]

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Letter from Fr John Conmee SJ, University College, Dublin to Fr Matthew Russell SJ (Editor of 'The Irish Monthly'), thanking him for the ‘kind and encouraging things’ Fr Russell said of Fr Conmee’s ‘little paper’ i.e. 'Old Times in the Barony', which was published as a booklet in 1900. “Anything I may write on the Barony is already promised to the New Ireland. If I can send you any thing worth printing…I will – but I only write on compulsion and compose – as the Scotch joke– wi’ deefeculty’ ”.

'Old Times in the Barony'

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1900

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Booklet by Fr John Conmee SJ, 'Old Times in the Barony' (Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland).

Obituary of Fr Patrick Duffy SJ

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1901

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Obituary of Fr Patrick Duffy SJ.

Letter from Sr Gaynor, Our Lady's Hospice for the Dying, Harold's Cross to Mother Prioress Sr Mary Gabriel, Carmelite Convent, Firhouse concerning the illness of her sister

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22 July 1888

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Letter from Sr John Gaynor, The Sisters of Charity, Our Lady's Hospice for the Dying, Harold's Cross, Dublin to Mother Prioress Sr Mary Gabriel, Carmelite Convent, Firhouse concerning the illness of her sister and Fr Duffy's sister, Anne. Remarks 'Although I know you must feel it a blessed thing for a soul to be nearing its eternal house, still it pains me to have to tell you your dear sister is visibly losing ground.' Refers to Fr Duffy and remarks that she sent for him.

Gaynor, Anna, 1826-1899, Sister of Charity

Letter from Hester Marie to Mother Mary Gabriel, Prioress, Carmelite Convent, Firhouse, Dublin concerning the illness of her sister

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26 July [1888]

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Letter from Hester Marie, 15 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Mother Mary Gabriel, Prioress, Carmelite Convent, Firhouse, Dublin concerning the illness of her sister, Nannie (Anne). Remarks that she has been in to visit her in the hospice.

Letter from Hester Marie to Mother Mary Gabriel, Prioress, Carmelite Convent, Firhouse, Dublin concerning the death of her sister

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4 August 1888

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Letter from Hester Marie, 15 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Mother Mary Gabriel, Prioress, Carmelite Convent, Firhouse, Dublin concerning the death of her sister Nannie (Anne).

Description written by J. M. O'Callaghan, C.C. of a visit made by Fr Patrick Duffy SJ to Tasmania

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1889

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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.

O'Callaghan, Matthew, d 1899, priest

Letters from Mother Gabriel of the Divine Will, Convent of Firhouse, Tallaght, Dublin to her brother, Fr Patrick Duffy SJ

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22 July [ ] & 31 August 1897

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Letters from Mother Gabriel of the Divine Will, Convent of Firhouse, Tallaght, Dublin to her brother, Fr Patrick Duffy SJ concerning Fr Duffy's health and her own health. Includes a letter referring to the death of Hester Marie (31 August 1897, 8pp).

Duffy, Mary Gabriel, Carmelite sister

Br John Fitzgerald SJ