The Jesuits in Dublin (1660-1760)
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Extract from 'Reportorium Novum' entitled 'The Jesuits in Dublin (1660 - 1760)' by Fr Francis Finegan SJ, p.43-100.
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
The Jesuits in Dublin (1660-1760)
Extract from 'Reportorium Novum' entitled 'The Jesuits in Dublin (1660 - 1760)' by Fr Francis Finegan SJ, p.43-100.
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Material relating to the Jesuits in Dublin
Part of Jesuits in Ireland pre-1773
Material relating to the Jesuits in Dublin. Includes:
Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Galway in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Part of Jesuits in Ireland pre-1773
Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Galway in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:
Material concerning the reason(s) behind Fr David Woulfe’s leaving of the Society of Jesus
Part of Jesuits in Ireland pre-1773
Material concerning the reason(s) behind Fr David Woulfe’s leaving of the Society of Jesus. Includes typescript by Fr Francis Finegan SJ entitled ‘Why did David Wolf Leave the Society?’ an appendix to his privately published pamphlet on the earliest period of the Society in Ireland (n.d., 7pp);
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John MacErlean SJ on various matters
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John MacErlean SJ on various matters including:
– Fr MacErlean’s censure on a Society Appeal for Funds;
– the progress of his historical research, news from Rome and news about the Society in Australia;
– the establishment of the Society in Ireland including a ‘list of whatever documents exist to my knowledge regarding the establishment of the Society in Ireland…What exactly the establishment of the Society in Ireland means I do not know. It may be a question for a canonist to solve. The canonical succession of the New Society to the Old is disputed, and Rome has never decided the point’;
– the proposed purchase of a volume consisting of ‘the indexes of the first eleven volumes of the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum down to the 3rd volume of April’ and the binding which is ‘much older than the contents…the binding of a Missal that was presented to Father (Nicholas) Leynach in 1613 - 14 by Francis Bray, at a time when Fr Leynach was trying to establish a chapel or oratory of the Society in Clonmel’;
– the Irish College in Rome;
– lists of books the Province could present to ‘the library to be established for the use of the Coll(egium) Scriptorum and a ‘list of those members of our Province who might now or hereafter be fit to cooperate with the Collegium Scriptorum in the production of works’ and a
– ‘Brief Sketch of the Work of the Irish Jesuits from the foundation to the Suppression of the Society 1540 – 1773’ (11pp).
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Extract from The Parliamentary Register - William Fletcher, M.P. for Tralee
Part of Jesuits in Ireland pre-1773
Typescript by Fr John MacErlean SJ of an extract from The Parliamentary Register (Vol. XV, 1795, p. 324) concerning a speech mentioning the Society of Jesus, by William Fletcher, M.P. for Tralee, 4 May 1795.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Biographical material concerning David Woulfe SJ
Part of Jesuits in Ireland pre-1773
Biographical material concerning David Woulfe SJ. Includes