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Typescript copy of ‘Lines written by my father on the eve of Mother’s funeral. April 28th 1941’ beg. Here where the meadows gave ease to tired feet. 10 lines.

Letter from Stephen Lucius Gwynn (aged 9) to his ‘Aunt Lizzie’ concerning his love of shooting birds with his catapult!. With postscript written by his mother Lucy.

Envelope containing a lock of Stephen Lucius Gwynn’s hair (Fr Gwynn’s father), ‘Stee’s hair 1867 Three year’s old.’

Handwritten note from W. Riddell Martin to Fr Frank Browne SJ asking whether Fr Browne would act as a judge on the monthly (summer) competitions for the Photographic Society of Ireland.

Irish Province News obituary for Mr Terence McParland SJ.

Leave or Duty ration book belonging to Fr Frank Browne SJ, Irish Guards, which includes stamps for meat, tea, butter and margarine, sugar, lard, cheese and jam.

L‘M.L.G. Birthday Book (1899)’ Page in Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s handwriting of dates and names, presumably from his mother’s (Mary Louisa Gwynn) ‘Birthday Book.’

Letter from Fr Hilary Lawton SJ, Clongowes Wood College, Naas, county Kildare to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ asking permission to spend a few nights in Dublin.

Includes entry dated 18 September 1894 which reads: ‘I have read all diary up to this. It has done me good intellectually and spiritually. I see what kind of life I have led.…Worry, hoping, struggling, trying again, thinking, prayer, trying to be humble, wishing to be holy, compromising or compounding with obstacles, determined to avoid deliberate sin of all kinds with God’s grace,…much to endure mentally & bodily, feel responsibility of office very much, studying same books as well as matters connected with new duties. I suppose such will always be my life’ (1p.).
Also includes entry dated 22 January 1901 which reads, ‘I have read all diaries up to this.…I think I will begin keeping it again. Kept it up to about year ago I think pretty regularly. Life much the same. Health much better.…This is my sixth year as Superior at M(ill)town Park. Hopes it lasts.’
Also includes entry on last page dating to 12 November 1912 which reads ‘Have read D(iary) fr(om) beginning to here.…Had given up keeping diary for years, but last month began again though not on the same lines. My idea was to put down day by day what I had come to, what I thought, what I tried to be, to take stock of myself in all my bearings, as a kind of statement of what all my experiences had made me. I have written more in this kind of diary…since Oct. 1st than perhaps in a whole year of ordinary kind. I began with repugnance, I soon got some facility & even liking for such writing. I have never felt the joy that writers feel so often in using their steel pen, though I have written a good deal.…The eight years I was at Mungret 1903 – 1911 I taught Lat(in), Greek, English, most pass, a good deal honours too of English (I, II Arts) & all the University classes in Latin fr(om) Matric. to B.A. incl..…In the resumed diary I was putting down all about humility etc., etc., as if it were almost something new, a better way etc., & I find I’ve been always at it. But I really think I am better at it now, for I have learnt to recognise that I am all out-of-joint & therefore much better able to get on, feeling how infinitely better off I am than I deserve to be, how others better, how grateful I ought to be (& try to be) to be in God’s house, a member of the Society, how silly to find fault with what wise & holy men have appointed. Health all along much the same, discomfort, no positive pain, at times not easy to be patient or cheery with, but on the whole I am splendidly off here & dont wish ever to be elsewhere.…I think I may say I never was so well off & so peaceful & so come to anchor as I feel here & have felt since coming, but especially this second year & most since I took up D(iary) again.’

Typed manuscript by Fr William Barnaby Faherty SJ, on Fr John Bannon SJ and his years as military chaplain during the American Civil War.

Copy of article by Fr Kevin Laheen SJ entitled, ‘The letters of an Irish brother, Edward Sinnott, S.J., from Calcutta, 1834-1837’, 'Collectanea Hibernica', 2004, 155-197. Contains transcripts of letters J406/2-7.

Letter from Norbert L. Moran, solicitor, Dublin, to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ. Encloses a bill for miscellaneous costs (not included). Also refers to his efforts for a sale of Tobercurry.

Letter from Fr John Ryan SJ, 35 Lower Leeson Street to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ concerning a discussion with Dr Quinlan about Fr Francis Shaw's health and a decision that Fr Shaw should go to Bonn for his studies.

Map depicting a new road for Daniel O'Connell, Kilgory, Mount Holland across land belonging to Thomas O'Reilly. By John Murphy, Professor of Mathematics and certified land surveyor.

Photograph of O’Connell street, Dublin.

Note on the Counter Reformation from the Catholic Encyclopedia by Fr Michael Egan SJ.

Pamphlet written by Fr Patrick Gannon SJ entitled 'The Church Supreme and Independent', Catholic Truth Society of Ireland Dublin.

Letter from Fr Denis Murphy SJ, Milltown Park, Milltown, Dublin to Fr Ryan concerning religious called to give evidence on behalf of the cause of the Irish Martyrs. Remarks 'Those have promised to come on Thursday will occupy two days at least on giving their evidence. The Roman people will think nothing of our proceedings if we don't spin these out to some length.'

Printed copy of a 'Pastoral Letter to the clergy and laity of the Diocese of Limerick by Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick.

Certificate conferring faculties on Fr Cyril Power SJ from the Archbishop of Dublin. (This certificate was issued every few years by each diocese confirming that a priest could continue saying masses and hearing confessions etc.).

Text of a sermon by Fr Edward J Coyne SJ.

The first two parties (Miss Evelyn Egan to Fr Peter Finlay SJ) assign certain shares and securities unto the trustees ‘to pay the income and dividends arising there from to Catherine Gargan during her life…’

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

Letter from Fr John Grene SJ, Clongowes, to l’Abbé McDonald, [Fr John MacDonald SJ], Louvain. Reports on the opening of Belvedere House, and on Fr Kenney’s progress on his way to Rome. Praises the students at Clongowes, and refers to new arrangements made for the Prefectship. Reports on other events involving the Community and the school, including the opening of the Debating Society, and a visit by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Daniel O’Connell.

List of names of priests imprisoned on Boffin Island by Fr James Rabbitte SJ. Includes some notes.

Unsigned letter in [Fr. Betagh's handwriting] to [ ] Fortescue congratulating him on his success. Remarks 'nothing but the R. Catholick Bill can carry me to Dublin, and that, I fear, will not be agitated.' Discusses the expensive chapels in poor monasteries on the continent.

Certificate issued by Fr General Jan Roothaan SJ appointing Fr Robert Haly SJ, Rector of Clongowes.

Summary by [ ] of the various moral and social issues addressed by Fr Richard Devane SJ. Refers to legislation concerning the censorship of films, publications, Illegitimate Children's Act, The Public Dance Halls Act amongst others.

Copy of letter from Howard Kyan to Dr Scallan. Assures the latter that he is in good health, and is at liberty to go anywhere he wishes, having left Dr Duncan's some time previously. States that when his sister-in-law has become reconciled to her husband he shall be ‘very happy to see her’.

Exam paper for third year Philosophy, Vals, France, belonging to Mr Patrick Connolly SJ.

Certificate appointing Robert St Leger as Rector of Clongowes Wood College SJ.

Draft schedule of deeds relating to Fr John Errington's estate.

Articles in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled 'The Only Way' (In three parts: Part I: p.188 – 195; Part II: 232 – 237 and Part III: p.280 – 288.

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

Photocopy of obituary notices from the 'Irish Independent' and the 'Freeman's Journal' of Fr Edmund Hogan SJ.

Notes by Fr Peter Kenney SJ relating to his visitation to the American Mission.

Two copies of a letter from Br Denis Peter Fennell SJ, Clongowes Wood College SJ, Naas, County Kildare to his Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ, explaining the nature and history of his propagandist writings.

Scrapbook belonging to Fr Joseph Darlington SJ containing photographs of saints and two photographs of himself.

Notes for a sermon preached on Easter Sunday by Fr Henry King SJ in St Ignatius, Galway.

Photograph depicting the ordination of a group of Chinese priests by Bishop Francis Xavier Ford (son of Patrick Ford of Clann na Gael and owner of 'Irish World' in fenian days in U.S.A.. Fr Patrick Joy SJ is seen on the extreme left of the photograph, second row. Other Irish Jesuits are in the photograph.

Note on ‘St. Thecla’ made by Fr Peter Troddyn SJ (Editor of 'Studies') – ‘English version first published in 'Studies '(XLV, 1956, p.187). Both Latin & English pub(lishe)d in 4th edn of Poems O(xford) U(niversity) P(ress).’

Hopkins, Gerard Manley Rev. St. Thecla, an Unpublished Poem, Beg. That His Fast-flowing Hours With Sandy Silt. 1956.

Notes by Fr Kane entitled ‘Reminiscences Begun on the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom 1919’. The reminiscences are addressed to Monsignor Paul.

Newspapers clippings of lectures and scrapbook by Fr John Hannon SJ, Professor of Catholic Theology in the National University of Ireland on subjects such as: The Mystery of the Incarnation: The Divinity of Christ, The Eucharist as a sacrament and a sacrifice. Material was collated by Fr Timothy Corcoran SJ.

Obituary of Fr Hugh Kelly SJ by Mary Purcell from the magazine of the Medical Missionaries of Mary.

Photograph of wedding party outside building, possibly Limerick, with Paddy O'Mara SJ, back left. Blurred.

A file relating to 'The Social Teachings of James Connolly' by Fr Lambert McKenna SJ. Includes an edited with commentary and introduction by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ. Includes an article by Fr McKenna entitled 'The Social Teachings of James Connolly' published by the 'Catholic Truth Society of Ireland' ([ ] 1920, 25pp). Includes an article by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ entitled 'The Paradox of James Connolly, Irish Marxist Socialist (1868 - 1916) and the 'Papal Encyclicals (1891 - 1991)' published in Milltown Studies, 28 (1991, pp. 24 - 40).

Letter (written in Irish) from John Hyde, Ballycotton, County Cork to Fr [ ] concerning the results of his Intermediate Examination.

Copy of letter from Fr Redmond Roche SJ, Belvedere College, Dublin to Fr Eustace Boylan SJ, Canisius College, Mona Vale, Pymble, NSW, Australia regarding the biographer of Fr Henry Fegan SJ by Fr Boylan and its suitability for publication.

Photocopy of list of other translations carried out by Fr John Coyne SJ.

Memorandum on Milltown Park library, Dublin.

Letter from George Joseph Plunket Browne, Bishop of Galway to Fr Patrick Bracken SJ. Refers to the death of Fr Kenney, for whom he had a solemn requiem and High Mass celebrated in the chief chapel in Galway. Also thanks him in advance for agreeing to conduct a spiritual retreat the following July.

Photograph of Michael Moloney, Laurence Kearns and [P. Tormey] on a bench at St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly.

Subscription receipt from the Crescent College Union for Fr John Ryan SJ.

Copy of the minutes of the first meeting of the University Council.

Material relating to the lives of saints and scholars, ‘Beatha Chárthaigh Naomhtha, dá ngorrthear fós Mochuda Leasa Mhórr (550?– 632?)’ (11pp) with notes in another hand commenting on the text (5pp).

Pamphlet “Fr. Willie” Father William Doyle, S.J. His World-wide Appeal and Favours Attributed to His Intercession, ‘Irish Messenger’ Series.

Typed memorandum for Irish Fr Provincial listing the number of Irish missions given by Fr Leonard Sheil SJ from 1933 to 1947; his work in Britain which began in 1948, ‘Since then Fr Sheil has given five missions most years and never less than three – during the autumn period in Britain’; and listing his work from 1933 to 1947 in Ireland in the autumn as ‘mostly with the convent school-girls, and occasional retreats in convents and in Jesuit churches.’

Postcard from Fr Willie Doyle SJ, Guadaloupe Barracks, Bordon, Hampshire to his father, Hugh Doyle Esq., Dalkey, Dublin in which he gives his new address.

Portrait print of Fr Willie Doyle SJ.

Notice of Fr James Butler SJ (from Dr Oliver's account, p 218).

Memorial card for Fr James Bury SJ.

Typescript copy manuscript by Denis Gwynn on William Smith O'Brien, lent by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Timothy Moloney to assist him in writing his thesis (and later returned). Twelve chapters and Appendix.

Letter from Mr Timothy Moloney (Centro Irlandes, Lerida, Spain) concerning his thesis and Denis Gwynn’s manuscript on William Smith O'Brien.

Invitation card for the academicals exercises and distinctions of premiums St Colman’s College, Fermoy, Cork.

Biographical information on Fr Thomas Brown SJ.

Life of Fr Joseph Brown SJ, written in Latin. Annotation that 'HIbernus He told Madame Kelly his father [John] was Irish'.

Obituary from the 'Province News', the Australia Province of the Society of Jesus, No. 1, pp12 - 13 (June 1973)

Text of ‘Last thing to be read’ for dinner and supper at the first, second and third day of Triduum.

Obituary from the 'Province News', the Australia Province of the Society of Jesus, No. 1, pp22 - 24 (June 1973) for Fr Michael Fitzgibbon SJ.

Obituary of Fr John McDonnell SJ taken from the Irish Province News.

Copy of monograph by Prof. Blanche Touhill on ‘The Poetry of an Exile, William Smith O'Brien 1849 - 1956’

Copy letter from Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin expressing his concern, after visitation to Clongowes, at the lack of regularity in the spiritual life of Matthew Bodkin.

Volume of minutes of committee meetings of the Dublin Food Supply Society (DFSS), a society with which Fr Thomas Finlay SJ was associated and whose object was the supply of cheap food to the poor of Dublin in difficulties due to either the Great War or the ‘local Irish situation’. Includes: six enclosures – profit and loss account (31 December 1919, 2 items); profit and loss account (1920, 1p.); Report of the Annual General Meeting (16 May 1921, 1p.); profit and loss account and Report of the Annual General Meeting (February 1925, 2 items).

Xerox copy of a book by Canon W. R. Brownlow entitled 'Memoir of Sir James Marshall.'

Letter from Mr John Mary O'Connor SJ, writing from Brussels, to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ. Asks the latter to communicate with Messrs Sheridan & Kenny – solicitors of Fr O'Connor’s mother – in relation to the ‘Dowling mortgage’.

Letter from Dr Harold Quinlan, 43 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin to Fr Laurence Kieran SJ concerning Fr Francis Shaw's health and his recent examination of Fr Shaw.

Letter from Fr Henry Fegan SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin to Mr Fergal McGrath SJ sympathising over the death of [his father].

Letter from [ ] Wallace to [ ] Walsh submitting his opinion on the O'Reilly estate, case of opinion of 1779, and settlement of 1747.

Letter from Dr W Scallan to Fr [ ]. Refers to the latter’s reply to his letter of 19 January. Defends himself and his actions with regard to his dealings with Fr Kyan. Claims that he advised 'a course of extreme liberality towards Rev A Kyan in the recent events', and states that the latter ought to be grateful to him (Scallan). Asks for the return of the letters he sent, and directs his addressee's attention to the pamphlet, which he encloses (not included).

Letter from Thomas Furlong, Bishop of Ferns to Fr Robert Kelly SJ. Reports on the success of the Association in his diocese. Asks Fr Kelly to send a large supply of tickets to him.

Letter from Fr John Grene SJ, writing from Cork, to l’Abbé McDonald, [Fr John MacDonald SJ], Louvain. Reports on the end of the academic year in Clongowes. Describes Academy Day, on which some of the scholars who are leaving the school perform and recite. Explains that he is down in Cork on family and other business. Refers to the opening of Belvedere the following September. Asks about members of the community in Louvain. Announces that Fr Peter Kenney SJ is to go to Rome.

Photocopy of a poem by Fr Patrick Gannon SJ 'To Mary Patricia Five Years a Growing'.

List of names of scholars (72) at Clongowes, possibly pupils of Robert Haly SJ. (Fr. Haly spent his regency at Clongowes from 1816 - 1825).

Copy of a letter from Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick to the Editor of the 'Munster News' entitled 'Irish Emigrants and English Mobs'. The letter refers to Irish emigrants being forced to join the British army to fight in the First World War.

Bound volume of pamphlets by Fr Lambert McKenna SJ on various social topics. Includes 'The Social Teachings of James Connolly'. Includes notations made by [Fr. McKenna].

A file relating to Richard Ingram's entry to the Society of Jesus.

Letter from Fr James A. Cullen, Tagoat, Wexford to Rev James Tuite SJ, Irish Provincial, Milltown Park, Dublin concerning a meeting with Dr Warren. Remarks ‘He could not be kinder with me and told he would place no obstacle in the way of my vocation.’ Refers also to shares in National Bank stock he (Fr Cullen) intends to sign over to the Society.

Letter from Fr Lawton, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ declaring his willingness to act as a chaplain to the forces.

Material relating to the lives of saints and scholars, ‘Comhghall Naomhtha 517 – 602’ (8pp) and notes in another hand commenting on the text (6pp).

Letter from Fr McAlroy, Tullamore, County Offaly to Fr William Seaver SJ, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly. Invites the latter and others to dine with him and the Archbishop on the following Thursday.

Photocopy of published text of a sermon preached by Rev. Thomas Burke, O.P. in aid of the evening and Sunday schools founded by Dr Betagh. The sermon was preached in SS. Michael and John's Church.

Memorandum from the librarian of the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street Dublin to Fr Edmund Hogan SJ asking him to return overdue books.

Handwritten notes by Fr Richard Devane SJ on the cinema and film censorship. Outlines his opinions on and arguments in support of the control of the cinema in Ireland. Emphasises the need for censorship.

Booklet written by Bishop Celestin Ibáñez y Aparicio, O.F.M., Bishop of Yenan entitled 'Ordo Vitae pro Ministro Christi'.

Photograph (blurred) of group of jesuits on the beach at Roundstone, Galway.

Extracts from a tribute to Mother Mary Martin, Foundress of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, with article by Fr Hugh Kelly SJ.

Typed diary by Fr Joseph McSweeney SJ of periods in his life - Chaplain in the R.A.F. (1945-1949), journey to Northern Rhodesia and first impressions (1950), trip to Lourdes, France (July 1970) and Rome, Italy (1975).

Annotated manuscript of Br Denis Peter Fennell SJ ‘Reminiscences of a Clongowes Octogenarian’ sent to his Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ, with accompanying letter.

Testimonial letter from the Bishop of Cloyne (Robert Browne) granting leave for John Hyde to enter the Society of Jesus.

Typed manuscript of an article by [ ] entitled 'The Confederacy's "Fighting Chaplain": The Civil War Years of Father John B. Bannon'.