Letters from Fr John M. Bampton SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
- IE IJA ADMN/13/4
- Ffeil
- 21 October 1915 - 9 January 1919
Letters from Fr John M. Bampton SJ, Mount Street, London to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.
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Letters from Fr John M. Bampton SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
Letters from Fr John M. Bampton SJ, Mount Street, London to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.
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Letters from Fr Paschal Borrello SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
Letters from Fr Paschal Borrello SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.
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Letters from Mr William Cullen SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
Letters from Mr William Cullen SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.
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Photographs of the 29th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus
Photographs of the 29th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus. Including photograph of representatives of the English and Irish Province, and Australian Vice-Province.
Back: Helsham, Joseph Canavan (Irish Province)
Front: John Fahy (Australian Vice-Province), John R MacMahon (Irish Province), John Hannon (Irish Province), Martin D'Arcy (English Province),
Account sheets of the Irish Province in account with the Generalate in Rome
A file of account sheets of the Irish Province in account with the Generalate in Rome. Includes accompanying letters.
A file relating to the Association of Secondary Schools in Ireland (ASTI) and correspondence with the Society of Jesus in relation to the secondary schools under their direction. Includes letters relating to the dismissal of lay teachers, the employment of lay teachers in Jesuit schools and the salaries of lay teachers, list of lay teachers at Clongowes Wood College SJ and salary (1941)
Correspondence relating to Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ
Correspondence relating to Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ, who was Irish Vice Provincial, 11 February 1858-7 December 1860 and the first Provincial of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 8 December 1860 - [ ] 1863. No index.
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Letters to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Brown SJ
A file of letters to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Brown SJ (term 7 May 1883 - 2 February 1888). Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.
Letters to Irish Fr Provincial James Murphy SJ
File of letters to Irish Fr Provincial James Murphy SJ. Includes an index/précis to the letters.
Letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ, Gesú, Rome, Italy to Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ
A file of letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ, Gesú, Rome, Italy to Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ (Vice Provincial: 11 February 1858-1860; First Provincial of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus: 8 December 1860 - [ ] 1863). At this time Fr Ffrench SJ was the substitute English Assistant to Fr General. As a result many of the letters have an official slant. Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.
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Letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ, Gesú, Rome to Irish Fr Provincial Edmund J O'Reilly SJ
A file of letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ, Gesú, Rome, Italy to Irish Fr Provincial Edmund J O'Reilly SJ (term as Fr Provincial 1863 - 19 April 1870). Fr Ffrench's letters were written in his capacity as English Assistant to Fr General. As a result all of the letters have an official slant. Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.
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Letters concerning the attendance of Religious Superiors at Diocesan Synods
A file of letters concerning the attendance of Religious Superiors at Diocesan Synods. Includes letters to Fr Thomas Kelly, SJ, Rector, Crescent College, Limerick concerning the issue. Two of the letters are from Irish Fr Provincial Edmund J O'Reilly SJ.
Letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ
A file of letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ (all except one dated 2 September 1870 are written from Gesú, Rome) to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ (term 20 April 1870 - 17 March 1877). Fr Ffrench's letters were written in his capacity as English Assistant to Fr General. As a result all of the letters have an official slant. Fr Ffrench, SJ died in Rome on 31 May 1873. Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.
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Letters to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ
A file of letters to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.
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).
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Report on Poverty in the Province
Documents relating to a report on poverty in the Province sent to Rome in October 1926 in response to a letter sent in March 1926 by Fr General to the Irish Fr Provincial. Includes copy of Fr General’s letter, questionnaire and the responses which comprise the report.
Correspondence mostly between two sisters and the Irish Fr Provincial concerning the sisters’ efforts to contest the will of their late cousin, Josephine Keshan, decd., 1910, who left the administration of her entire estate to the Society of Jesus. The matter was settled amicably.
Memoranda and letters to the Provincial on proposals to establish an amateur Irish Jesuit news agency to supply information to Radio Vaticana.
Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and Jesuits on various matters such as
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial relating to pictures of St Ignatius Loyola in a book by Mary Purcell.
Circulars and letters to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ and Vice-Provincial Fr John Coyne SJ from Fr General John Baptist Janssens SJ, Fr Joseph Bolland SJ, English Assistant, Fr Friedrich Schwendimann SJ and others. Includes letters concerning the appointment of Iacobus Martegani as Italian Assistant (14 January 1955); the use of contraceptive devices by married couples (19 May 1955); the fourth centenary of the death of Ignatius Loyola (31 July 1955); the situation of the Society of Jesus in Poland (28 January 1957).
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Correspondence between Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, and Irish Provincials Thomas Byrne and Michael O'Grady. Includes letters relating to the nominations of various Jesuits to be Spiritual Directors in Dublin technical schools; a series of lectures on the subject of marriage delivered by Provincial O'Grady (13 November 1954); Missions given to emigrants in England (31 January 1955); help in the Archbishop's ‘work against Communism’ (9 February 1955); Readers and History Books used in Jesuit schools (1 February 1955).
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Fragment of letter from Fr General Beckx refers to ‘Dionysius Murphy’ and ‘William Seaver’
Fragment of letter from Fr General Beckx. Refers to ‘Dionysius Murphy’ and ‘William Seaver’.
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Letter from Fr Anton Anderledy SJ, Vicar General, to all Provincials
Letter from Fr Anton Anderledy SJ, Vicar General, to all the Provincials. (Printed; in Latin; also includes English translation).
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Letter from Fr Robert Whitty SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Fr Murphy
Letter from Fr Robert Whitty SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Fr Murphy. Refers to the reaction in America to an article in the March 1890 edition of the Lyceum on ‘The Church in America’, and to a letter received by the Father General from an American Jesuit on the subject. Includes a review taken from a Chicago Catholic newspaper, which criticises the article.
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Letters from Fr General Peter Beckx SJ to Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ, Irish Vice-Provincial
Extracts from letters from Fr General Peter Beckx SJ to Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ, Irish Vice-Provincial.
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List of Jesuit Superiors General from 1541 to 1853
‘Praepositi Generales Societatis Jesu’. [Circular from the Generalate]. List of Jesuit Superiors General from 1541 to 1853.
Documents, comprising encyclicals and open letters to all prelates issued by Pope Pius IX
Documents, comprising encyclicals and open letters to all prelates, including those in Ireland, issued by Pope Pius IX. Includes an encyclical on the political upheavals in the Italian states, an appeal for support in defence of the Papal states (18 June 1859, 15pp), and a ‘Decretum’ re. the rights of religious orders, a copy of a decree regarding the receiving of novices, and the admittance to professions in the Society (28 January 1850; 2pp).
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Correspondence of bequests made to Father Provincial regarding the Hong Kong and China missions
A file relating to correspondence of bequests made to Irish Fr Provincial regarding the Hong Kong and China missions.
Documents relating to the 1902 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1902 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1906 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1906 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1910 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1910 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1913 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1913 Provincial Congregation. Includes notes by Fr Peter Finlay SJ as Province Procurator to consult with the Fr General [1905-1917].
Documents relating to the 1915 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1915 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1920 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1920 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1923 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1923 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1927 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1927 Provincial Congregation. Includes photograph (Fr Peter Finlay SJ) at Procurators Congregation, Rome, 1927 - with names.
Documents relating to the 1930 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1930 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1933 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1933 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1938 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1938 Provincial Congregation.
The Jesuit Irish mission: a calendar of correspondence, 1566-1752
The Jesuit Irish mission: a calendar of correspondence, 1566-1752
Institutum historicum Societatis Iesu, Roma, 2017
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Copies of Archivum Hibernicum, published by: Catholic Historical Society of Ireland.
LXIII 2010
LXXIII 2020
LXXIV 2021
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Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Conal Murphy SJ, written while serving as a chaplain with the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers in Christchurch and Aldershot, Hants., Langholm, Dumfriesshire and The Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire; 587 Field Company, [Royal Engineers], Estate Camp, Inverkip, Scotland and in North Africa; 78th Division, British North Africa Force in Tunisia and 78th Division, Central Mediterranean Force (C.M.F.) in Sicily and Italy; 67 Garrison, B.N.A.F. in Tunisia and No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Italy, C.M.F., and Austria. Includes his first letter to the Irish Fr Provincial written from Salisbury (4 September 1941, 2pp); letter from Ursula Murphy [Fr Murphy’s sister] to Fr Coyne stating she had received word that Fr Murphy had gone overseas (1 December 1941, 1p.); letter to Fr Michael O’Meara (See CHP2/32) (13 October 1943, 1p.) and letter to Fr Provincial from Fr Murphy written on ‘a memorable day, the end of the war in Italy’ (2 May 1945, 2pp). Includes leaflets for the Service of Remembrance and Dedication at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in which Fr Conal Murphy SJ contributed to (1976; 1978), and photograph of Fr Conal Murphy SJ in military chaplains uniform, with military ribbon rack underneath.
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Michael Pelly SJ written while serving as a chaplain
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Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Michael Pelly SJ written while serving as a chaplain with 11th York and Lancaster Regiment (218th Infantry Brigade); in Otley, West Yorkshire; The Military Hospital, York; with the British North Africa Force in North Africa; 1st Battalion, The Buffs, C.M.F. in Italy; in 93rd British General Hospital, C.M.F. and in the School of Infantry, Warminster, Wiltshire. Includes Fr Pelly’s first letter to the Provincial written from Bridlington (23 April 1942, 1p.) and letters describing the monastery of Cassino following the battle of Monte Cassino (30 May 1944, 2pp), being in Rome on the day it was taken by the Allies and his ‘semi-private audience with the Pope’ (30 June, 29 July 1944, 2 items).
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Documents relating to Fr Michael Pelly's time as a chaplain.
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Documents relating to Fr Michael Pelly's time as a chaplain. Includes Fr Pelly's ‘British Military Identity Document’ with photograph (December 1943, 1 item) and photocopy from a newspaper [Irish Independent?] of an article on the ‘Mass of Reparation said in Monte Cassino Ruins’ by Fr Pelly (1944, 1p).
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Handwritten history of the residence at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin
Handwritten history of the residence at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes holograph letters from Fr Bartholomew Esmonde SJ, Rome to Frs Aylmer and Meagher, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street relating to the proposed altar, with illustrations of altar; history of St Francis Xavier's by Fr Kenney SJ; annual letters by Fr Curtis SJ (1841 - 47); Historia Domus of St Francis Xavier College (Belvedere) and residence by Fr Kavanagh SJ, notice of valuation of house at Upper Gardiner Street (1 March 1832); history of Upper Gardiner Street residence (1865 - 68); an oration made in aid of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street (1833); annual letters by Fr O'Farrell SJ (1840);
Pilgrimage to Rome by Irish pilgrims in connection with the jubilee of his holiness, Pope Leo XII
Documents and objects relating to a pilgrimage to Rome by Irish pilgrims in connection with the jubilee of his holiness, Pope Leo XIII. Includes travel documents; diary of journey; pilgrim's enrolment certificate for Michael Mulraney, 21 Mid Gardiner Street, Dublin, medals of Pope Leo XIII and green maniple with harps.
Copies of Superiors letters of Manresa House to Rome
Copies of Superiors letters (Fr Sean McCarron SJ) of Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin to Rome (in English) and acknowledgment of letters from Rome (in Latin). The letters outline the works going on at Manresa (1949, 1952; 1954-56). Annual letter Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin (In Latin). 1951-52; 1952-53.
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A file relating to permission granted by Fr General Wlodimir Ledóchowski SJ and the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Matthew Cullen, for the establishment of a Jesuit house at Emo, County Laois.
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Photographs of retreatants at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Group photographs of retreatants at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, and Rome, Italy with Fr John F O'Connor SJ, 1964.
Volumes relating to the Irish College in Lisbon
Two volumes, one bound, relating to the Irish College in Lisbon. The volumes contain various papers bound together. The first volume relates to the foundation of the college (485ff). The second volume consists of six sections: Accounts of the college; Ordinances from Rome; Custom book of college life; Statutes and customs; Mass and Orders book; The narration of the imprisonment and expulsion of Fr Dionysius Charti. Note by Fr Francis Finegan SJ on provenance of volumes - that Fr Manuel Gonçalves da Costa SJ visited Milltown Park in 1948, consulted volumes which in custody of Fr John MacErlean SJ (1981), and translation by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ (5 February 1987).
Copy of letter from Dr. Grant, Director of the Scottish College in Rome
Copy of letter from Dr Grant, Director of the Scottish College in Rome, to Sir Augustus Paget, British Minister to Italy. Writes in relation to the fate of the Roman College, and its status as a university for foreigners.
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Circular from 27 scholastics studying philosophy at Roman colleges
Circular from 27 scholastics studying philosophy at Roman colleges, which include Patricius (Patrick) M. Hughes and Guillelmus (William) O'Farrell.
Catalogues for Jesuits at the Irish College in Rome
Handwritten entries by Fr John MacErlan SJ of the catalogues (Catalogus Brevis) for Jesuits at the Irish College in Rome, 1635-1773, and a notebook on letters of interest in Rome, Italy, and whether to photograph or copy.
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Rectors of the Irish College in Rome
A file relating to the Rectors of the Irish College in Rome by Fr John MacErlan SJ, 1 January 1628 - 6 December 1769. Includes biographical details.
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List of the Rectors of the Irish College in Seville and Rome
List of the Rectors of the Irish College in Seville, 20 August 1619-3 April 1767, and Rome, 1635-1772, by Fr John MacErlean SJ.
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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:
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various academics (including Valéria Flint) mostly relating to aspects of the life of Honorius Augustodunensis. Includes offprint ‘The Career of Honorius Augustodunensis’ by V.I.J. Flint, University of Auckland, New Zealand from Revue Bénédictine (Vol. 82, Nos. 1 – 2, 1972, p.63 – 86).
Letters from Prof. Geoffrey Hand to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Letters from Prof. Geoffrey Hand to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ. Includes news of his appointment to the Fiesole Institute, Florence; his work, colleagues in U.C.D. (where he Lectured in Legal and Constitutional History); family and health.
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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.
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Holograph letters from Fr Matthew Devitt SJ, Rome to Father Rector, concerning the deliberation over whether to hold a General Congregation or not (27 September); in official interview with Fr. General ‘with regard fundamental theology…no changes or suspension of ordination’ however ‘though the ordination must stand the execution may be deferred for a year or two while we are preparing a professor and he expects this should be set about without delay’. Fr Devitt reports that ‘there is a sickening sirocco wind blowing - very fatiguing and oppressiveness’ (5 October).
Material to Fr John Conmee SJ from various individuals in Rome on the Cause of the Irish Martyrs
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Letters, notes and telegrams to Fr John Conmee SJ from various individuals in Rome on the Cause of the Irish Martyrs.
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Holograph letter from Fr Patrick Duffy SJ, Rome to John Patrick Duffy, 6 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Dublin concerning the plight of the Irish, ‘the death of the old Volunteer of 82’, the weather in Rome ‘we have been frying in here for the last two months. The heat has been fierce’ and Daniel O'Connell.
Letters from Gerard (brother in law) to Fr William White SJ
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Letters from Gerard (brother in law), 21 Havelock Street, Glasgow and Pontificio Collegio Irlandese, rOME to Fr William White SJ.
Notes and letters by Fr John Ffrench SJ
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Notes and letters by Fr John Ffrench SJ, including reports on 12 boys at St Stanisalus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly and what he has taught to them (18 October 1834), letters while acting as Substitute English Assistant to Fr General and English Assistant to Fr General, Rome to Fr O'Reilly SJ and Fr Browne SJ (21 December 1865 & 16 February 1867) and note on the wood used for Tullabeg. Includes letters from Fr George Lambert SJ, Fr General Peter Beckx SJ, Curia Generalizia Compagnia di Gesù, Rome, Italy on the death of Fr John Ffrench SJ (1873).
Biographical information on Fr John J Hannon SJ
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Biographical information on Fr John J Hannon SJ. Includes catalogue entry (1930), correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and brief biography by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ.
Sudden death of Fr John Hannon SJ
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File relating to the sudden death of Fr John Hannon SJ, including letters of sympathy.
Photographs of Fr John Hannon SJ
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Photographs of Fr John Hannon SJ.
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Letter to Fr William A Sutton SJ from Fr Herman Walmesley SJ congratulating him on behalf of Fr General, on the Golden Jubilee of his entrance into the Society.
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Material relating to Fr William Hogan SJ, including admission details, catalogue entry, and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincial.
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File of material relating to Fr Francis Joy SJ including catalogue record, mortuary card, and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials.
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Material realting to Fr John C Kelly SJ including correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and the curia (on his work in communciations and the media), personal record and application to join the Society.
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Material relating to Fr Patrick Kenny SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, personal record and medal from the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Clongowes Wood College SJ.
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Photographs belonging to Fr Kyran Ward SJ
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Photographs belonging to Fr Kyran Ward SJ which documents his life from 1912 until his death, 1972.
Galway:
Photographic album includes:
Photographs of Fr Joseph Canavan SJ, Fr John Hannon SJ and Fr J R MacMahon SJ
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A file of photographs of Fr Joseph Canavan SJ (c.[1930], 1946, 1947), Fr John Hannon SJ and Fr John R McMahon SJ and others.
Postcards from Fr Joseph P McCullough SJ to Maggie McLoughlin
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Postcards from Fr Joseph P McCullough SJ, London England and Genoa, Italy to Maggie McLoughlin, No 8 Ward, Royal Hosptial, Donnybrook, Dublin on his way to Hong Kong.
Fr Joseph Hurley's wish to write some of the Messenger of the Sacred Heart in Irish
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A file relating to Fr Joseph Hurley's wish to write some of the Messenger of the Sacred Heart in Irish. Includes a letter from Fr F. Schwendimann SJ, Directio Generalis, Apostolatus Orationis, Borgo S. Spirito 5, Rome, Italy to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ expressing his worry over different dialects in Ireland and the possibility of misinterpretation (21 November 1952, 1p). Includes a copy reply from Fr Provincial explaining that although differences do occur within the Irish language in different parts of Ireland the meaning would not be misinterpreted (26 November 1952, 1p).
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Obituary of Fr Daniel Joseph O'Connell SJ
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Obituary of Fr Daniel Joseph O'Connell SJ by the Vatican Observatory (4pp)and copy of a letter from Fr John P Leonard SJ, Rome, Italy to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, 35 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin describing Fr O'Connell'a death (15 October 1982, 1p).
Photographs of Pope's visit to the Vatican Observatory
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Photographs of the Pope's visit to the Vatican Observatory, with Fr Daniel Joseph O'Connell SJ.
Letters relating to Fr Daniel O'Connell's diamond jubilee
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Letters relating to Fr Daniel O'Connell's diamond jubilee.
Catalogue entries and photograph depicting Fr Daniel O'Connell SJ
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Catalogue entries (1930; 1970), black and white photograph depicting Fr Daniel O'Connell SJ at Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy (1948) and notes on appointment as Director of the Vatican Observatory (1952).
Article by Fr Arthur Little SJ rejected by the censors
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A file relating to an article by Fr Arthur Little SJ rejected by the censors. Includes a letter from Fr Arthur Little SJ, St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, County Offaly to Irish Fr Provincial stating that he wishes the article to be sent for censorship to Rome ‘I have no desire to get anyone into trouble so I shall only communicate with the English Assistant. If he upholds the censors having read their remarks I can only apologise for taking badly what turns out to be a fair verdict.’ (4 September 1938, 3pp).
Photographic album belonging to Fr Joseph O'Connor SJ
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Photographic album (thirty photographs) belonging to Fr Joseph O'Connor SJ relating to his time as a scholastic in Mungret College c.1926, Rector of Mungret College (1936-1941) and later in Galway (1941-1972). Insert postcard from Irish Jesuit in Rome, Italy (1931).
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File relating to Fr Thomas J O'Donnell SJ including memorial card, photographs, catalogue entries, application to join the Society and correspondence relating to his time spent in India and at Vatican Radio.
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Photographic slides of sites of Jesuit interest in Barcelona, Rome, Manresa and Spain
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Photographic slides of sites of Jesuit interest in Barcelona, Rome, Manresa and Spain produced by Fr John Purcell SJ.
Mission material relating to Br Patrick Sherry SJ
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Mission material relating to Br Patrick Sherry SJ. Includes passport photographs, passports, personal record, announcement of death, and correspondence between Br Sherry and Frs Thomas J. Martin and Vincent Murphy, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland.
Material related to the admission and taking of vows of Fr Patrick Simpson SJ
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File of material related to the admission and taking of vows of Fr Patrick Simpson SJ to the Society of Jesus. Includes correspondence related to Fr Simpson’s studies in Rome.
Photographs depicting various scenes and people sent to Fr John Ryan SJ
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A file of photographs depicting various scenes and people.
Letters relating to Fr Denis Murphy's work on behalf of the cause of the Irish Martyrs
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A file of letters relating to Fr Denis Murphy's work on behalf of the cause of the Irish Martyrs. Includes Fr Ryan, Reginlad Walsh O.P., Fr John Morris SJ, Percy Barron (Cistercian Priest), Sr Benedict Maria, Gilbert Dolan (Benedictine monk), J Clement Fowler (Benedictine monk),
Miscellaneous notes on the cause of the Irish Martyrs
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Miscellaneous notes on the cause of the Irish Martyrs (none are in English and none of the martyrs mentioned were Jesuits). Includes letter from Rome (In French), 24 October 1888.
Letters to Fr Charles Aylmer SJ
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A file of letters to Fr Charles Aylmer SJ. A brief précis to the letters is included in the file, and list of Irish Jesuits (1831).
Fr Bartholomew Esmonde SJ missionary work in Malta
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A file relating to Fr Bartholomew Esmonde SJ missionary work in Malta. Includes documents relating to religious instruction of Catholics, descriptions of clerical controversy, disputes with Protestants, conversions of Protestants to Catholicism, preaching, Catholic education, addresses presented to the Governor of Malta, Fr Esmonde's Journal describing his time in Malta, correspondence. Letters are addressed to Fr Esmonde at San Calcedonia, outside Valletta. This house belonged to the Sicilian Province and Malta had a close connection with the Sicilian Province. Note: at least 50% of the documents are written in Italian.
Letters to Fr Bartholomew Esmonde SJ
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A file of letters to Fr Bartholomew Esmonde SJ. A brief précis to the letters is included in the file.
Reader's tickets/call slips in Fr Edmund Hogan SJ
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Reader's tickets/call slips in Fr Edmund Hogan SJ name for the Archivo Secreto Della S. Sede and the Biblioteca Vaticana.
Biographical information on Fr Peter Kenney SJ
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Biographical information on Fr Peter Kenney SJ, and material related to the early years of the Irish Vice-Province.
Research by Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ on Fr Peter Kenney SJ
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A file containing miscellaneous notes, MSS material and articles by Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ relating to his research on Fr Peter Kenney SJ. Includes letters to Fr Burke Savage concerning this research (2 May 1977 - 10 June 1986, 12 items). The file was used by Fr Morrissey for his research on Fr Peter Kenney SJ.
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Material containing Michael J Connolly's admission to the Society of Jesus and correspondence
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File of material relating to the admission of Michael J Connolly to the Society of Jesus and his subsequent Jesuit life including his time as rector of the Jesuit house at Tullabeg, County Offaly and as Tertian instructor at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, catalogue entries, memorial card and obituary.
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File of material relating to the admission of Desmond Collins to the Society of Jesus and subsequent professional life including correspondence relating to the Jesuit Seminary Association.
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Correspondence between Thomas Fleming and his Irish Fr Provincials during his professional life in China and in Australia.
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Admission of Fr Herbert J Dargan SJ to the Society of Jesus and correspondence
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File relating to the admission of Fr Herbert J Dargan SJ to the Society of Jesus and subsequent correspondence mainly related to his time as Tertian instructor at the Jesuit house at Tullabeg, County Offaly (1977-1986).