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Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
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Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Text of a poem by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Mr Michael Sweetman SJ
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Text of a poem by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Mr Michael Sweetman SJ, Beadle of Milltown Park, written on returning a cricket bat sent to him by Mr Sweetman, for Fr Gwynn’s fiftieth birthday. Recorded and donated by Fr Kevin Laheen SJ (January 1998).
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
The Irish church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
The Irish church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Edited by Gerard O'Brien. Four Courts Press, Blackrock, Kill Lane, Co. Dublin.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Photocopies of lists of writings of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Photocopies of lists of writings of Fr Gwynn: ‘The Historical Writings of Reverend Professor Aubrey Gwynn SJ’ up to 1960, from Medieval Studies. Presented to Aubrey Gwynn SJ by J.A. Watt, J.B. Morrall and F.X. Martin, O.S.A. (eds.) (1961, 8pp.) and ‘Historical Writings of Aubrey Gwynn. Addendum’ listing publications up to 1978, from 'The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries' by Fr Gwynn (Gerard O'Brien (ed.) ) (1992, 2pp).
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
File containing Fr Seán Ó Catháin's admission papers and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials
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File containing Fr Seán Ó Catháin's admission papers and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials concerning his role as head of the Education Department, University College Dublin and later supply work.
Material relating to Fr Gregory Ffrench SJ
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Material relating to Fr Gregory Ffrench SJ which includes correspondence concerning his work for the Society throughout his life. Includes notes by Msgr Alfred O'Rahilly on the life of Fr Willie Doyle SJ sent to Fr Ffrench SJ (18 August 1964, 2pp). Includes a letter from Fr Ffrench SJ, Jesuit Retreat Centre, Tullamore, County Offaly to Irish Fr Provincial concerning the closure of Emo. Remarks 'But this dinner for Ours on the 11th? Apart from considerations of poverty, I cannot see that the closing of Emo is any occasion for festivity. After all, Emo is being closed because God does not see fit to bless the Province as at present being run with sufficient vocations to justify keeping it open.' (27 August 1969, 3pp). Includes correspondence concerning his work for the Crusaders of the Blessed Sacrament (1974-1982).
Negative of photograph of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Negative of photograph of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, taken from a group with Eamon De Valera and Prof. Michael Tierney. Original copyright the Irish Times.
Irish Times Limited, 1859-
Card of Walter Osborne portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’
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Card published by the National Gallery of Ireland, of the Walter Osborne (1859-1903) portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’ (age 6). (Osborne was Fr Gwynn’s god-father). Portrait was presented to the Gallery in 1979 by Fr Gwynn’s sister.
National Gallery of Ireland, 1854-
Letter from Alice Gwynn on domestic affairs
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Letter from Alice Gwynn (Fr Gwynn’s sister-in-law) on domestic affairs.
Gwynn, Alice, 1904-1991
Photograph of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ at Milltown Park, Dublin
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Photograph of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ at Milltown Park, Dublin with Frs. Michael Hurley and Dermot Fleury.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Notes compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the life and works of his elder brother Edward Lucius Gwynn
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Notes compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the life and works of his elder brother Edward Lucius Gwynn who died in St Vincent’s Hospital. Sydney on 7 September 1919 aged 28. Buried in the Catholic Cemetery Waverley.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Unfinished manuscript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of a history of the Gwynn family from 1660 to 1903
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Unfinished manuscript, handwritten and typed, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of a history of the Gwynn family from 1660 to 1903. Divided into five chapters. Intended by Fr Gwynn for publication.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Articles from Studies on Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Photocopies of articles from Studies, Winter 1992, Vol. See also 81, No. 324, on Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ , published on the centenary of his birth: ‘Aubrey Gwynn; The Person’ by Prof. Geoffrey Hand; ‘Aubrey Gwynn: The Scholar’ by Prof. Katherine Walsh and Aubrey Gwynn: The Jesuit’ by Fr Fergus O’Donoghue SJ (pp. 375 – 398).
Studies, 1912-
Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Stephen L. Gwynn
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Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on his father (13 February 1864 – 21 June 1950), listing his publications.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Biography of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Potted biography by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ, and memorial card of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
O'Donoghue, Fergus, Jesuit priest
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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.
O'Donnell, Thomas J, 1906-1983, Jesuit priest
Letters from Rose Gayner to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Letters from Rose (Gayner, nee Gwynn) (Fr Gwynn’s cousin) following the illness and death of Fr Gwynn’s sister, Sheila Moorehead, in December 1981. Includes references to a portrait of their ‘Aunt May’ and a family story about Walter Osborne (Fr Gwynn’s godfather): ‘He was apparently rather dominated by a powerful mother but there was an understanding that he would marry Aunt Lucy. However before the understanding could become an engagement he caught a bad cold, and died of pneumonia’ (8 February 1982, 4pp).
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Sarah Wimbush, Archive Research Assistant, National Portrait Gallery, London, seeking information on any known portraits of Stephen Lucius Gwynn (Fr Gwynn’s father), as part of her work in cataloguing Edwardian portraits, one of which is a portrait by Sir William Rotherstein of Stephen (1915). Includes list of known portraits of Stephen (1p.) and photocopy of the portrait (1p.).
Wimbush, Sarah
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Invitation from Taoiseach Charles Haughey to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to a reception in the Irish Parliament House at the Bank of Ireland, College Green, to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Declaration of Independence by Grattan’s Parliament and the Convention of the Ulster Volunteers in Dungannon.
Haughey, Charles, 1925-2006, politician and taoiseach
Drafts of a paper entitled ‘Chapter II. Brian (Boruma) and the Corpus Missal’
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Typescript drafts of a paper entitled ‘Chapter II. Brian (Boruma) and the Corpus Missal’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
'Chapter VII’ typescript entitled ‘Brian Boruma is buried in Armagh’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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'Chapter VII’ typescript entitled ‘Brian Boruma is buried in Armagh’ pp42 – 54 (13pp) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
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Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from 'the Annals of Innisfallen' (4pp); 'Chronicum Scotorum' (2pp); 'the Annals of the Four Masters' (1p.); 'the Annals of Tigernach' (7pp) and notes on 'Donncha Mac Brian' (2pp).
Letter of congratulation from the Jesuit Curia in Rome
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Letter of congratulation from the Jesuit Curia in Rome on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s entrance into the Society.
Dezza, Paolo,1901-1999, Jesuit priest and Cardinal
Birthday cards for Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s 90th birthday
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Birthday cards for Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s 90th birthday. Includes card signed by 46 Jesuits in Milltown Park and card from Bishop Hanson and his wife (former Bishop of Clogher).
‘Chapter VI’ holograph draft by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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‘Chapter VI’ holograph draft (pp136 - 156) (21pp) and typescript pp27 - 41 (15pp) with footnotes (3pp) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Edmund Colledge O.S.A.
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Edmund Colledge, O.S.A. (Pontifical College of Medieval Studies, Toronto, Canada and Austin Friars School, Carlisle) on various academic matters and their mutual colleagues, including Dr. Katherine Strnad; Walsh. Includes references to Archbishop Richard FitzRalph (12 February 1975, 1p.) and a proposal that Dr Bernard Muir (of the English Department, University of Melbourne) undertake research on the Drummond Missal.
Colledge, John Eric, 1910-1999, academic and Roman Catholic priest
Letter of congratulation from James Corboy SJ, Bishop of Monze
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Letter of congratulation from James Corboy SJ, Bishop of Monze, Zambia, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Fr Gwynn’s entrance into the Society of Jesus.
Corboy, James, 1916-2004, Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic Bishop of Monze
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Christopher Hohler
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Letters (some incomplete) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Christopher Hohler (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and Oslo) on a wide range of topics including:
Includes offprint of chapter by Dr Hohler entitled ‘Some Service Books of the Later Saxon Church’ from David Parsons (ed.) Tenth Century Studies (1975), pp.60 – 83 (24pp) with notes, pp.217 – 227 (11pp). Also includes notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Hohler correspondence (3pp & 3 envelopes).
Article entitled ‘A breviary from St Mary’s Abbey, Trim’, Rioght na Midhe, 290-298, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn.
Hohler, Christopher, 1917-1997, medievalist and art historian
Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad
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Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad, relating to her research on Archbishop FitzRalph. Includes typed notes on Otto III. Also includes Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s wedding invitation to Katherine’s marriage to Dr Alfred Strnad at University Church in July 1976.
Walsh-Strnad, Katherine, -2011, historian
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Letter from Thomas Bacon of J.G. O'Connor and Co., solicitors, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ following the death of his sister Sheila. Encloses a copy of Mrs. Moorehead’s will dated 8 November 1978, in which she bequeaths £1,000 to Fr Gwynn; an oil painting of ‘Cattle in Berkshire’ by Walter Osborne and the water-colour sketch of Fr Gwynn as a boy, also by Osborne, to the National Gallery; a lithograph of her grandfather William Smith O'Brien; a poem of his written in Kilmainham Jail and a signed poem by Thomas Francis Meagher, to the Municipal Art Gallery (5pp).
Bacon, Thomas, solicitor
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Geoffrey Scott, O.S.B., Douai Abbey, Reading
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Geoffrey Scott, O.S.B., Douai Abbey, Reading, following Neville Hadcock’s sudden death on 2 January 1980. (Neville had donated some material to the Library before his death, while his books were sold at auction)
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Gilbert Laithwaite
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Gilbert Laithwaite (an Old Clongownian, 1907-1911) to whom Fr Gwynn frequently sent his publications.
Laithwaite, Sir, John Gilbert, 1894-1986, Irish-British civil servant and diplomat
Christmas card from Alice Gwynn
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Christmas card from Fr Aubrey Gwynn sister-in-law, Alice Gwynn.
Gwynn, Alice, 1904-1991
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Correspondence between Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and the Royal Irish Academy concerning his paper ‘Brian Borúma and the Mass in Irish’ and the deposition by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Prof. Ludwig Bieler of the editorial correspondence for the series 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' in the Library of the R.I.A..
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Notes on Fr Aubrey Gwynn's family by Fr Michael Hurley SJ.
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Rough typescript notes on Fr Aubrey Gwynn's family by Fr Michael Hurley SJ.
Hurley, Michael, 1923-2011, Jesuit priest and ecumenist
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Brendan O'Brien concerning William Smith O’Brien
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Brendan O'Brien concerning volumes of William Smith O'Brien’s diaries and family news.
O'Brien, Brendan
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof Ludwig Bieler on academic and social matters
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof Ludwig Bieler on academic and social matters, including problems of Latin translations with regard to 'Dicta Patricii'; palaeographical studies of various manuscripts and references to Prof Bieler’s articles in various publications.
Bieler, Ludwig, 1906-1981, Hiberno-Latin scholar
Material relating the Regional Seminary, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
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A file relating to the Regional Seminary, Aberdeen, Hong Kong. Includes documents relating to the establishment of the Regional Seminary, finances, annual report detailing the opening of the Seminary in 1931 (24 January 1933, 6pp). Includes letters relating to the Terna for the Rector of the Seminary (12 - 15 April 1937, 5 items and 30 June 1937 - 2 July 1937, 7 items).
South China Regional Seminary, 1931-
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dom Daniel Rees, Downside Abbey, Bath
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dom Daniel Rees, novicemaster [and librarian] Downside Abbey, Bath, relating to various research queries from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and the exchange of books between Milltown Park Library and Downside, including a ‘complete bound set of the Downside Review’ (24 June 1975, 2pp).
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.
Hand, Geoffrey Joseph Philip, 1931-2016, Professor and former Chairman of Irish Manuscripts Commission
Easter card from Prof. Jack Watt to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Easter card from Prof. Jack Watt to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ containing domestic news. Encloses publisher’s notice for Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad’s book on Archbishop Richard FitzRalph, A Fourteenth-Century Scholar and Primate: Richard FitzRalph in Oxford, Avignon, and Armagh (1981).
Watt, Jack, historian
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Miscellaneous notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Irish Jesuits in Europe, some reference to Maryland and Barbados, including citations to various archival documents.
Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to various archival documents relating to the West Indies
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Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to various archival documents (many from the State Papers (Dominions) ), includes citations and extracts from documents relating to the West Indies (1622-1731). In pencil.
Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Cistercians in Ireland
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Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Cistercians in Ireland. In pencil.
Notes compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Cistercians and Abbot Stephen Lexington’s Visitations
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Typescript notes compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Cistercians and Abbot Stephen Lexington’s Visitations.
Typescript notes with references to various Calendars
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Typescript notes with references to various Calendars (e.g. Calendar of Patent Letters, Calendar of Documents: Ireland) on:
Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on various synods
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Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on various synods (mostly extracted from the Annals): Synod of Cashel a.1101 and 1106 (3pp);
Raith Breasail a.1110 (7pp) (In Irish);
Fiadh mic Aonghusa a.1111 (2pp) (In Irish);
Uisneach a.1111 (2pp) (In Irish);
Clonfert a.1170 (1p.);
Armagh a.1170 (1p.) (English and Latin);
Tuam a.1172 (1p.) (Irish and English);
Cashel a.1172 (2pp) (Latin);
Waterford (1p.) (Latin);
Dublin a.1177 (1p.) (Latin);
Tuam a.1210 (1p.);
Dublin a.1217 (1p.) (Latin);
Inish Padraig a.1148 (1p.) (Latin);
Kells a.1152 (5pp) (Latin and Irish);
Mellifont a.1157 (2pp) (Latin and Irish);
Synod of Bri mic Thiadhg a.1158 (1p.) (Irish) and
Synod of Clane a.1162 (1p.) (Irish).
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Draft holograph chapter entitled ‘5 – The liturgical decree of the second Synod of Cashel (1172)’ (pp.30 –50) (21pp) and draft typescripts, ‘Irish annalists and the Reformers of the Twelfth Century: 1. The Synod of Cashel’ (pp.98 – 102) (5pp) and ‘2. The Synod of Rath Breasail’ (pp.103 – 108) (6pp); ‘3. St. Malachy and Armagh’ (pp.109 – 112) (4pp); ‘4. The Synod of Kells’ (pp.113 – 118) (6pp); ‘5. The second Synod of Cashel’ (pp.119 – 147) (29pp).
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Typescript paper by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘The Red Book of Ossory and a new Kilkenny Roll of 1366.’ (The Red Book of Ossory contains the text of the constitutions of three (perhaps four) ecclesiastical councils. These texts belong to the Province of Dublin. The Kilkenny Roll contains the constitutions of a Dublin provincial council held at St Canice’s Cathedral in 1366.)
Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various Papal Bulls with regard to Christ Church, Dublin
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Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various Papal Bulls (and other sources) with regard to Christ Church, Dublin:
Typescript entitled ‘Brian in Armagh (1005)’ and printed version in 'Seancheas Ard Mhacha'
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Typescript entitled ‘Brian in Armagh (1005)’ (23pp and 2pp footnotes) and printed version in 'Seancheas Ard Mhacha', pp35-50 .
Parts of article article entitled ‘Kings and Monks in the Tenth Century Reformation’
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Carbon copy of an article by [Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ] entitled ‘Kings and Monks in the Tenth Century Reformation.’ Incomplete.
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Typescript on Abbot Stephen de Lexinton entitled ‘The Visitation of the Irish Cistercian Abbeys 1227-8-9.’
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Incomplete typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on what appears to be a history of the White Canons in Ireland up to the fifteenth century (pp. 9 – 18; 24 – 47).
Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the ‘Medieval Irish Annals’
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Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the ‘Medieval Irish Annals.’ Includes table of contents.
Text of a paper given by Katherine Simms on ‘The Origins of the Diocese of Clogher’
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Text of a paper given by Katherine Simms on ‘The Origins of the Diocese of Clogher’ (incorporating Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s notes on the origins of the Irish dioceses).
Simms, Katharine, historian
Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the ‘Council of Three Anglo-Irish Bishops (a.1324)’
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Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on:
– the ‘Council of Three Anglo-Irish Bishops (a.1324)’ being extracts from various texts (In Latin) (3pp);
– ‘Decree of Three Anglo-Irish Bishops (a.1324-5)’ being extracts from Rawlinson MS B. 484. fol.17 (a ‘miscellany of texts of Irish interest formerly in the library of Sir. James Ware, now among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Libraries’) (2pp).
Notes on ‘Richard Ledred, Bishop of Ossory (1317 –1360)’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Notes on ‘Richard Ledred, Bishop of Ossory (1317 –1360)’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, taken from the various Patent Rolls and Close Rolls of Edward II and Edward III.
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Corrected and amended typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘An English Franciscan in Kilkenny (Richard Ledred, Bishop of Ossory – 1360).’
Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Red Book of Ossory
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Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Red Book of Ossory.
Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with regard to St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
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Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (mostly transcriptions from various Papal Bulls) with regard to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin:
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Draft chapters by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of the book he was working on before he died 'The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries'. Incomplete – first three chapters are missing. Includes:
Letters and notes from Derek H. Turner to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Letters and notes from Derek H. Turner (Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, The British Museum) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning:
Turner, Derek Howard, 1931-1985, museum curator and art historian
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‘Preliminary notes’ (in an unidentified hand) on the Corpus Missal (n.d., 4pp); draft of an article by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘A Fifteenth Century Irish Missal: B.M., Egerton 2677’ (n.d., 3pp) and notes on the Lesnes Missal (n.d., 5pp).
Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘Brian Boruma and the Corpus Missal’
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Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘Brian Boruma and the Corpus Missal.’
Letters from Prof. Ross Hoffman of Fordham University, New York
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Letters from Prof. Ross Hoffman of Fordham University, New York, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Denis Gwynn on personal matters, mainly his work, health and family and discussions on various American Presidents, the Pope and the Church. Includes:
– letter describing his work on arriving at the Manuscript Room in Sheffield Central Library to unpack and sort ‘three boxes (each about 2' by 2' by 8”) of unsorted (Edmund) Burke papers…they are largely the originals of the published letters, but there is also a rich collection of unpublished letters of Earl Fitzwilliam to Burke in the 1790’s and a few other fairly important letters that never have been printed…I am, it seems the first person to examine them since their delivery here…you can imagine how exciting is the experience of turning up, for example, original letters from George III to Rockingham…It is but one of scores, probably hundreds, of museum pieces that are usually kept under lock, key, and glass…collectors would pay fabulous things for these things…There is no one else in the room and I am in a constant state of exaltation, surely this is an experience that comes once in a life-time to one historian in a thousand.’ Also refers to the bomb damage in Sheffield, following the War (1 May 1949, 2pp);
– letter describing his work transcribing the Burke letters – ‘The whole body of documents runs to about 230 letters between 1759 and 1776…they throw a great deal of new light on Anglo-Irish relations, or rather upon Mr. Burke’s idea of those relations’ and his ‘projected book on Burke and the New York Agency, which really is becoming a large work on Burke and the Origins of the American Revolution’ (30 June 1950, 1p.);
– letter to Denis Gwynn concerning a book on Burke and Barry correspondence and his book on Edmund Burke and Charles O’Hara (28 March 1952, 2pp);
– letters on the publication of his books on Edmund Burke and Charles O’Hara and Burke, New York Agent (1956);
– lengthy commentaries on: the American (both internal and external policy, including the Korean and Vietnam Wars and race relations) and British political situations; the awarding of an honorary degree from the National University on him; his book on Lord Charles Rockingham, The Marquis (1973) and
– references to a portrait of Edmund Burke by James Barry in the National Gallery (24 March – September 1973, 4 items).
Also includes letters written by James White, Director of the National Gallery to Fr Gwynn, concerning the portrait which was presented to Trinity College Dublin and ‘is in the Andrew’s Room in the Provost’s House’ (23 August, 4 September 1973, 2 items);
Includes letter to Fr Gwynn from Prof. Hoffman’s daughter, Mary Ellen Flinn, following her father’s death on 16 December 1979. Encloses a memorial card (3 January 1980, 2pp).
Hoffman, Ross John Swartz, 1902-79, American historian, author and educator
Reply for sending of Christmas card by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich
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Reply for sending of Christmas card by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Ó Fiaich, Tomás, 1923-90, Cardinal Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh
Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Cistercians and the Annals
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Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Cistercians and the Annals:
Lists of ‘Irish Dioceses from Rath Breasail to Kells’
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Lists of ‘Irish Dioceses from Rath Breasail to Kells’ (6pp); ‘Bishops with Sees not Identified’ and ‘Diocesan Sees of 1152, not in Rath Breasail’ (1p.).
Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Irish Dioceses after the Synod of Kells
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Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with the following headings:
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Explanatory statement made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ in 1980 concerning his proposed book 'The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries' and his other more recent publications.
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from William O'Sullivan (Keeper of Manuscripts, T.C.D. Library) concerning the palaeography of the Drummond Missal.
O'Sullivan, William, d 2000, Keeper of Manuscripts, Trinity College Dublin
Catalogue of Publications by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Copybook containing a ‘Catalogue of Publications by Aubrey Gwynn SJ in the library of Milltown Park.’ Compiled by Fr Gwynn.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Retreat notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Copybook of [retreat] notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘Redemption and Atonement.’
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Family trees compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Rough handwritten family trees, two pages, compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Copy transcripts relating to documents on Fr John Stritch SJ and Irish mission
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Copy typescript transcripts, mostly relating to documents (1640-1661), supplied by Fr John MacErlean SJ, in Jesuit archives, on Fr John Stritch SJ and Irish mission.
Transcripts from various documents relating to the West Indies
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Typescript transcripts from various documents (majority secondary sources) relating to the West Indies. Includes extracts with handwritten marginals by Fr Aubrey Gwynn, SJ from: ‘State Papers, Colonial’ on Sir Charles Wheeler, 1670 - 1673 (9pp); on Sir William Stapleton (2pp); ‘Blake Family Records’ (5pp);
– from ‘Council Book of the Corporation of Kinsale’ (1652 – 1800) (3pp);
– ‘Voyage et Travaux des Missionaires de la Compagnia de Jesus, publies par des Peres de la meme Compagnie pour servir de complement aux Lettres Edifiantes’ (11pp);
– documents from a series beginning with ‘C.O.1/XIX – XXXVII’ ‘Narrative of Colonel Theodore Cary (Nov. 17, 1665’ (35pp);
– documents from the ‘State Papers, Adventurers’ beginning with ‘Adventurers in Ireland and Barbados’ ‘Nicholas Blake’ (15pp);
– from the ‘State Papers, Colonial’ (20pp); and transcripts on English, Scottish and Irish Prisoners in Barbados (5pp, 13pp, 29pp).
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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).
Notes relating to Cistercians and Cistercian foundations
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Notes relating to Cistercians and Cistercian foundations.
Notes compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on ‘Premonstratensian entries'
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Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on ‘Premonstratensian Entries in Annals of Boyle’ (1p) and ‘Premonstratensian Entries in Annals of Loch Cé, and Annals of Connacht’ (1p).
‘Extract from the Register of Matthew MacCathasaigh, Bishop of Clogher, 1287 - 1316’
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‘Extract from the Register of Matthew MacCathasaigh, Bishop of Clogher, 1287 – 1316.’ Holograph.
Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of a chapter entitled ‘III. Archbishop Cumin’s Provincial Council’
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Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of a chapter entitled ‘III. Archbishop Cumin’s Provincial Council’ (pp.31 – 46).
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Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘Irish Ecclesiastical Councils of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.’
Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ in a folder entitled ‘Fifteenth & Sixteenth Centuries’
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Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ in a folder entitled ‘Fifteenth & Sixteenth Centuries.’ Includes transcripts concerning the Papal Bull of Alexander VI (2pp); the Synod of Limerick (4pp) and the Synod of Waterford (1p.).
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Explanatory notes (entitled ‘Preface’) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the history of his interest in tracing early Irish liturgical texts.
Documents relating to the Stowe Missal and Tallaght
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Documents relating to the Stowe Missal and Tallaght. Includes:
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from James White, Director, National Gallery of Ireland, concerning a portrait of Fr Gwynn’s mother Mary Louisa, by Walter Osborne, in the collection of Fr Gwynn’s sister, Mrs Sheila Moorehead.
White, James, 1913-2003, director of the National Gallery of Ireland
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr John Morrall (Senior Lecturer in Political Science, London School of Economics) concerning his candidature for the Leaky Chair of Medieval History at T.C.D. and Fr Gwynn’s agreement to act as a referee.
Memoirs of Fr Joseph Darlington SJ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Memoirs of Fr Joseph Darlington SJ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Letter of invitation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Donal McCartney, U.C.D.
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Letter of invitation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Donal McCartney, Prof. of Medieval Irish History, U.C.D. (and Dean of the Faculty of Arts) to the reception celebrating 70 years of the Faculty of Arts in U.C.D. – ‘it would be a great honour for us if one of our best-remembered Deans were to attend.’
McCartney, Donal, Professor
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof. Jack Watt with references to Watt’s family
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof. Jack Watt (History Department, University of Hull and University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) with references to Prof. Watt’s family; news of other academics; a proposed paper of his on ‘John Colton, colonial official and archbishop’; the current political situation in Northern Ireland; Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s publication of the Sermon Diary of Archbishop Richard FitzRalph; Prof. Watt’s research work on the fifteenth century and various volumes of the series 'New History of Ireland'.
Watt, Jack, historian
Christmas cards to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Christmas cards from Prof. Ludwig and Eva Bieler; Prof. John and Yvonne Morrall and Prof. Geoffrey Hand.
Manuscript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, ‘Chapter II. The Origins of the See of Dublin’
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Typescript manuscript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, ‘Chapter II. The Origins of the See of Dublin’ (1979, 27pp). With footnotes (8pp) and Appendix ‘The Career of Sitric, King of Dublin’ typescript (14pp) and holograph (20pp).
Draft of an autobiography of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Draft of an autobiography of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ. Comprises six non-contiguous section, dealing with his mother’s family ‘The O'Briens of Cahirmoyle’ and his father’s early life. Original holograph manuscript and version typed by a Mrs Hannigan, 13 Church Drive, Churchtown, County Dublin. Manuscript found in an envelope marked ‘Received 15 July 1979 from Mr Hannigan.’
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Gerald Simms (History Department, T.C.D.) with references to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s family research; Archbishop Thomas Jones and Bishop Lewis Jones. Includes photocopy of an appreciation of the late Dr Simms from the 'Irish Times', written by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (14 April 1979, 1p.).
Simms, John Gerald, 1904-1979, academic and writer
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Neville Hadcock
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Neville Hadcock. Discusses his academic work on French dioceses and maps of monastic Britain; his family, his health and that of his wife Jeanne; their book Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland, high crosses, the Tridentine Mass and the introduction of the New Liturgy.
Hadcock, Neville, -1980, historian
Letter from Mr Timothy Moloney (Centro Irlandes, Lerida, Spain) concerning his thesis
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Letter from Mr Timothy Moloney (Centro Irlandes, Lerida, Spain) concerning his thesis and Denis Gwynn’s manuscript on William Smith O'Brien.
Touhill, Blanche, historian
Letters from Kevin and Françoise Smyth to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Letters from Kevin and Françoise Smyth to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on various topics, mostly domestic and current academic affairs.
Smyth, Kevin P, 1909-1993, former Jesuit priest
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Gill and Macmillan concerning Fr Gwynn’s proposal to publish works on ‘the Roman Mass in Ireland Before Trent’ (the proposal was rejected) and his memoirs.