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A son of St. Patrick. Memoir of Father Michael Bergin, S.J.
By Sister S.

Pocket ritual belonging to Fr William J. G. Allen SJ, St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, Offaly.

Notebook containing list of ‘Books of Old Irish Mission’ at Milltown Park, Dublin and list of 'Relics of the Old Society in Ireland' by Fr John MacErlean SJ, from notes by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ (4pp).

Memorial hymn book of the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception, B.V.M. St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin in devout memory of the Rev. Thomas Murphy SJ.

Ricci Hall: a decade 1929-1939

Transcription of a book entitled 'Alithinologia sive Verdica Responsio ad Invectivam mendaciis, fal[l]aciis, calumniis et imposturis foetam in plurimos Antistites, Proceres, & omnis ordinis Hibernos…' (1664) by the Rev. John Lynch, Archdeacon of Tuam. The original book is in Stonyhurst, Lancashire, which is a defence of the Old English since the time of Elizabeth, particularly in the 1640s. Lynch was born in Galway c1600 and died between 1667 and 1673 in San Malo, Brittany. His most famous work is a three volume publication, 'Cambrensis Adversus'.

The first four pages of the transcription are in the handwriting of Fr John MacErlean SJ.; the transcription itself is in a different hand, possibly that of Fr Edmund Hogan SJ.

Partial inventory of books and manuscript material in Fr Stephen Brown's room.

Volume which lists by date the new books (and authors) put into the Jesuit library at St Francis Xavier Community, Upper Gardiner Street. Includes list of books for binding.

Jesuits under fire in the siege of Hong Kong, 1941. Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1944.

List of books 'listed here have been transferred to the storeroom beneath the church, most of them are much abused by water and grime, the balance need trimming of pages. All need re-binding either complete or in part. No classification attempted. Close examination of this list is requested.' at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes list of books that have been parcelled up for re-binding.

'The History of Tacitus According to the Text of Drelli. Books III, IV, V.' by W.H. Simcox M.A. (ed.) (London: Rivingtons). With typed note by Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ (7 June 1947): ‘Marginal notes in Hopkins’s hand on pp. [1], 6 – 7, 19, 41, 49, 59, 88, 94, 96, 118, 125, 133, 135, 140, 161, [220]. These are significant mainly as examples of his textual conjectures.’ With a University College, St. Stephen’s Green stamp on first page.

'Corpus Poetarum Latinorum' by William S. Walker (ed.) (London: George Bell & Sons). With note by Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ (7 June 1947): ‘Clearly annotated in Hopkins’s hand on following pages: [89], 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 102, 103, 155, 157. Annotations of Juvental, pp.686ff., are not Hopkins. This book is valuable as an example of Hopkin’s minute attention to textual details.’ With University College, St. Stephen’s Green and St. Ignatius College’, S.J. Dublin stamps.

Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s Bible, with entries in his handwriting in the ‘Family Register’ of the dates on which his mother and siblings were received into the Catholic Church; dates of family marriages and deaths and the dates on which he took his first vows and was ordained.

Letter from Fr Jerome Mahony SJ, St Mary's, Emo to Irish Fr Provincial agreeing to carry out instructions from Irish Fr Provincial concerning the statue of the Sacred Heart and Fr Calter's books.

Mass book for St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin which details celebrant and time of mass.

'Father Michael Browne, S.J., 1853-1933' by Fr Thomas Hurley SJ, published by Clonmore & Reynolds, Ltd..

Custom book regarding church devotions and masses etc... at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin entitled ‘Aids to New-comers’.

Custom book of the novitiate of the Irish Jesuit Province, with annotations.

Custom book of the novitiate of the Irish Jesuit Province (Same as IE IJA ADMN/17/2). No annotation but extra Appendix.

Memorandum on Milltown Park library, Dublin.

‘The Elements of Euclid Explain’d, in a new, but most easie method.’3rd Edition by Fr Claude Millet de Chales SJ, published in Oxford, 1700. Printed by L.L. for M. Gillyflower at the Spread-Eagle in Westminister–Hall and W. Freeman at the Bible over against the Middle-Temple-Gate, in Fleet-Street, 1700.

With inscriptions, ‘1703 Dec 23 Mr Phil[bishop] E[x] lib Jno (John) Ellis’, stamp of ‘N Riordan’ and ‘Edwin Barton from his father’
Presented to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ by Frances Riordan, 23 St Clements Rd, Harrogate, England (March 1953).

Bound copy of Nunziatura in Irlanda di Gio Batista Rinuccini Arcivescovo di Fermo, negli anni 1645 a 1649. Publicata per la prima volta su ̓mss. originali della Rinucciniana.
Dalla Tipografia Piatti, Firenze, 1844

With insert note in Italian on the presenation copy - refers to Daniel O'Connell.

Lined notebook 'COLL S. IGNATII, HIST. DOM.' (House history for St. Ignatius College, Galway) Historia Domus, with handwritten entries which record important dates in the history of the church, college and community in Galway. At the start, it lists the instructions for the ‘Scriptores Historiae Domus’. Reports on number of confessions for each year, the Men’s Sodality and the Apostleship of Prayer. Lists the members of the community for each academic year and records the arrival of new members and the departure of the old, as well as last vows, illnesses, deaths and funerals. Details building work carried out to the buildings and new sport pitches and includes a photograph of such work in 1939. The renovations to the roof and the boiler are described as are the cost of work done, the craftsmen and architects involved etc. Relevant references are made to weather conditions and current affairs, including the reopening of the school ‘which had been suspended for 3 years (1929), ‘War declared. Invasion of Poland’ (1939), fourth centenary of the Society of Jesus (1941), ‘Around this time, the presence of a strange cat was felt (“perceived is better word”) in various parts of the house... she was caught, but escaped, + continued her evil way’ (1942), Taoiseach broadcast to the Nation on the conclusion of the War in Europe’ (16 May 1945), ‘Spiddal priest released by Communists’ (7 June 1952). Other entries refer to feast days, special Masses, novenas and processions, as well as to special periods within the Church calendar, such as Lent and Christmas. Provincials’ visitations are also recorded, as are the visits of other important guests. School events, such as the beginning and end of terms, examinations and prize-giving, operettas, theatricals, Féis Cheoil, debates, sports fixtures, excursions etc. also feature in the house history.

Also contains several insertions, some loose and some pasted onto notebook pages including; newspaper cuttings of special ceremonies, debates, school tours, reviews of theatricals, prize days, obituaries for Jesuits such as Fr Edmund Downing SJ, Jesuit educated pupils and past pupils, articles by Jesuits for example, ‘Why is not more Irish spoken?’ by Fr John J. Mac Sheahan SJ., articles of Jesuit interest in Galway, ‘Attacked by Beetle: Work to Save Church Roof’ (1939), ‘Past Pupils’ union for St Ignatius College’ (December 1946); numbers and finances of the Jesuits in Galway from 1862- 1877 (In Latin); leaflets; Lenten lectures & devotions; musical and theatricals programmes such as Concert & Dramatic Entertainment (4 January 1899); ‘The Rale True Doctor’ and ‘The Cuckoo’ (1936), ‘Sinbad the Sailor’ (1945); copy of report in the Galway Pilot of private theatricals at the College of St Ignatius (5 March 1892); copy of excavation plan done by Mr Edwards, Clerk of Works; holograph letter from Fr John MacErlean SJ to Fr Andrew O'Reilly SJ concerning the early history of the Jesuits in Galway (29 March 1947). Includes copy book which contains correspondence and articles in Galway newspapers about Scoil Fursa, a school which educates through Irish (December 1945 - January 1946).

Ricci: Souvenir record of the silver jubilee of Ricci Hall, Hong Kong University 1929-1954.

Book entitled 'There was an Ancient House' by Benedict Kiely, Methusen and Co Ltd, London. A novel where ‘in a country house thirty novices of a religious order are learning a new, strange life, some failing, others succeeding in conforming to the pattern laid down by rule’. Benedict Kiely was a novice at St Mary's, Emo

Br Denis Peter Fennell SJ’S corrected manuscript of ‘Strange Fragments of Irish and English History’ sent to his Provincial for publication after his death. Accompanying envelopes explain the contents of the manuscript’s two volumes.

Letter from publishers the Clarendon Press, Oxford to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on his proposed book on the history of the early Irish Church.

A report on the American Jesuits
Text by John LaForge; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956

Ex Libris Philena Anne Young

‘Directing Boys and Students’ written by Fr Ernest Mackey SJ, published by St. Anthony Guild Press, New Jersey.

Catechism written by Fr Bernard Collins SJ, published by the Commerical Press Ltd., Lusaka.

Poems and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins
W. H. Gardner

Book belonged to Fr Joseph Kelly SJ.

Copy of ‘Holiness of the Priesthood; meditations and readings for priests’ by Fr Josef Staudinger SJ; trans from the German by Fr John J. Coyne SJ. Annotated revisions by Fr John J. Coyne SJ in pen and pencil.

'Archaeological finds on Lamma Island (near Hong Kong)' by Daniel Finn SJ edited by T. F. Ryan SJ, Ricci Publications, Ricci Hall, University of Hong Kong.

Reconciliation in religion and society: proceedings of a conference organised by the Irish School of Ecumenics and the University of Ulster.

Institute of Irish Studies, the Queen's University of Belfast in association with the University of Ulster, [Belfast], 1994

Limerick Jesuit centenary record 1859-1959. Contains school list of St Muchins's College (1859-73), renamed Sacred Heart College, 1859-1909, 1909-1934, 1934-1959.

The reckoned expense: Edmund Campion and the early English Jesuits : essays in celebration of the first centenary of Campion Hall, Oxford, 1896-1996
Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Rome, 2007

Medieval Studies presented to Aubrey Gwynn, S.J. Edited by J.A. Watt, J.B. Morrall, F.X. Martin. [With plates, including a portrait, and a bibliography of Gwynn's work's]
Colm O Lochlainn, Dublin, 1961.
With editors signature on inside page.

Daniel Seghers, 1590-1661, a tercentenary commemoration.
Vantage Press, New York, [1961]

Book entitled 'Tonga Grammar' by Fr Bernard Collins SJ, published by Longmans.

The Irish Jesuits Vol.1: being a collection of articles on the history of the Irish Province, culled from various sources, mainly for the Jesuit Year Book.

Catholic Guide to Hong Kong
Catholic Truth Society, Hong Kong, 1962

Jesuit Education: an essay on the foundations of its idea.
Fordham University Press, New York, 1963

Ibbuku Lyakulumbya Lyabatonga

Draft typescript of an unpublished book by Fr Leonard Sheil SJ concerning his travels in Spain, with an emphasis on Catholics murdered in the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939). States in the preface ‘This is an account of motorcycling 12000 miles through Spain, with special reference to spots where priests and nuns suffered for their faith in 1936 and 1937.’ Includes holograph preface and footnotes (4pp); ‘Index of Tales with Sources for Persons mentioned in order of their mentioning’ (3pp); map of Spain and Portugal with Fr Sheil’s routes marked in pen (10cm x 9cm) and draft typescript (first three pages are missing) (originally 192pp).

Small English-Tonga dictionary by Fr Bernard Collins SJ. Published by the Jesuits in conjunction with Zambian Publications Bureau, and printed by at Teresianum, Lusaka.

Letter to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from publishers the Clarendon Press, Oxford, concerning Russell & Russell’s reissuing of 'Roman Education'. ‘As he says in his letter of 29 January 1964 a loophole in the Unites States copyright law enables books published here (UK) before 1957 to be reprinted there (US) without authorisation – though not to be exported into countries where this loophole doesn’t exist. Naturally he didn’t say that practically all American publishers regard it as unethical to take advantage of this loophole, for various reasons, and especially because it is liable to create the situation in which we now find ourselves.’

The English Jesuits from Campion to Martindale

Publication by Fr Liam Browne SJ entitled 'The plateau Tonga: an introduction'.

Manuscript by Fr Eddie Bourke SJ, 'Steering neutral in troubled waters: Hong Kong 1941-1945', as a sequel to 'Jesuits Under Fire'. With explanatory letter to Fr Fergus Cronin SJ.

Revised Custom Book for Apostolic students following the integration of the Apostolic School and Lay School.

Irish Jesuits 1560 - 1814 Vol.2.

A short English-Nyanja vocabulary by Thomas Price.
The Publications Bureau, Lusaka and Blantyre.

Treading the winepress - with christ in his passion.

Acquisition book for the Father's library, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, with some inserts.

Photocopy of the title page of the first translation into English of an autobiography of St Teresa of Jesus. Translated by Fr William Malone SJ (1611), and reprint details of Scolar Press reprint (1974).

The Clongowes Union Centenary Chronicle by William A. Menton.

Book 'The First Jesuit Mission and Second Jesuit Mission in Ireland'.

Copy of letter from Fr Fergal McGrath SJ to Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ concerning the books, following a recent inquiry about them from Dr James Cotter, New York. ‘I gave you the news that I had found five (probably seven) of the books used or annotated by G.M Hopkins, which you so painstakingly located in 1947. You had mentioned that you had found fifteen to twenty such books. I sent you a list of all the books which I had found in the same cupboard, and asked you to let me know whether you could establish a link between any of them and Hopkins. If my letter went astray, I shall be glad to make another copy of the list.’

Letter to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ from Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ after Fr McGrath sent him the card index of books belonging to, or associated with Hopkins. Fr Bischoff indicates those ‘having definitely been Hopkins…None of the other titles on your list were associated with Hopkins.’

Letter to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Irish Province Archivist 1975 to 1986) from Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ (Jesuit Community, Georgetown University, Washington), concerning books used by or belonging to Fr Gerard Hopkins SJ, found in St Ignatius’ House of Writers, 35 Lower Leeson Street. ‘I confess I am appalled at the idea that these books have been carelessly assimilated into the house library. In 1947, I spent hours examining every book in the Leeson Street house Library. The result was that I segregated some fifteen or twenty books that had definitely belonged to or been used by Hopkins. All of these I turned over to Father Aubrey Gwynn, then librarian. I made clear to him what the books were, their value as having been associated with Hopkins, and suggested that they be kept as a separate collection. I do not have a detailed listing of the books…I have only two definite titles that I recall…There are also several books by Richard Watson Dixon that belonged to Hopkins…You ought to also have the autograph manuscript of Hopkins’s poem ‘St. Thecla’, as well as manuscripts of one or two of his letters.’

Books used by or belonging to Fr Gerard Hopkins SJ
Annotated books, 1876 - 1884
IE IJA J/11/18 - 'The History of Tacitus According to the Text of Drelli. Books III, IV, V.'
IE IJA J/11/19 - 'Corpus Poetarum Latinorum'
IE IJA J/11/20 - 'The Acharnians of Aristophanes'
IE IJA J/11/21 - 'Aeschylus – Choephoroi'

Non-annotated books, 1884 - 1918
IE IJA J/11/22 - ‘Poems’ by Richard Watson Dixon
IE IJA J/11/23 - 'Poems' by Henry Patmore
IE IJA J/11/24 - 'Prometheus. The Firegiver' by Robert Bridges
IE IJA J/11/25 - 'Eros and Psyche. A Poem in Twelve Measures' by Robert Bridges

Prejudice and tolerance in Ireland

An tAthair William Bathe, C.I., 1564-1614: ceannródaí sa teangeolaíocht
Seán P. Ó Mathúna
Oifig an tSoláthair, Baile Átha Cliath.

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:

• draft table of contents (2 different drafts, 1p. and 4pp);
• preface (3pp);
• list of abbreviations (2 drafts, each 2pp);
• chapter 4 ‘The Origins of the See of Dublin’ (2 different drafts: 47pp and 4pp footnotes; 37pp);
• chapter 5 ‘Lanfranc and the Irish Church’ (2 different drafts: 53pp, 3pp footnotes and 1p. of editing notes; 36pp (pp.57 – 92) and 4pp footnotes);
• chapter 6 ‘Gregory VII and the Irish Church’ (5pp incomplete, and 4pp footnotes);
• chapter 7 ‘Saint Anselm and the Irish Church’ (34pp and 2pp footnotes (p.27 is missing) );
• chapter 8 ‘Six Irish Papal Legates (1101 – 98)’ (82pp and 10pp footnotes);
• chapter 9 ‘The First Synod of Cashel (1101)’ (54pp and 4pp footnotes);
• chapter 10 ‘The Synod of Rath Breasail (1111)’ (29pp and 3pp footnotes);
• chapter 11 ‘Saint Malachy and the See of Armagh (1121 – 37)’ (56pp and 4pp footnotes);
• chapter 12 ‘The Synod of Kells’ (35pp and 3pp footnotes (p.17 is missing) );
• chapter 13 ‘The Irish Dioceses after the Synod of Kells’ (105pp; 9pp footnotes and 7pp editing notes (1968 – 1969) );
• chapter 14 ‘Irish Cistercian bishops and the Anglo-Norman invaders’ (43pp and 6pp footnotes);
• chapter 15 ‘Epilogue’ (7pp and 3pp footnotes) (partly typescript and partly holograph);
• ‘Appendix A: An Arrouaisian Breviary from St. Mary’s Abbey, Trim’ (9pp and 1p. footnotes) and
• ‘Appendix B: A New List (c.1600) of Medieval Irish Dioceses’ (14pp; 1p. footnotes and 1p. editing notes).

Ursula M. L. Bygott
Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 1980

Edited by John Bowman and Ronan O'Donoghue.

James Joyce's schooldays
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1982

Towards a national university: William Delany, SJ (1835-1924): an era of initiative in Irish education. Wolfhound Press ; Humanities Press, Dublin, Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1983

The English Jesuits, 1650-1829: a biographical dictionary.
Catholic Record Society, [London], 1984

Cecilia Street: the Catholic University School of Medicine 1855-1931.
F. O. C. Meenan
Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1987

Jesuit roots and pioneer heroes of the Middle West by John J. Killoren. St. Stanislaus Jesuit Historical Museum ; Distributed by Missouri Province Archives, Florissant, Mo., St. Louis.

Sister Oliver Wrafter

RAHAN
1989

Leinster Leader, Naas, Co. Kildare

Clongowes Wood: A history of Clongowes Wood College 1814-1989 by Peter Costello. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1989.

Thrown among strangers: John Henry Newman in Ireland. Veritas, Dublin, 1990

To the greater glory: a history of the Irish Jesuits.

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).

The Confederacy's fighting chaplain: Father John B. Bannon by Phillip Thomas Tucker
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Ala., ©1992

The Irish church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Edited by Gerard O'Brien. Four Courts Press, Blackrock, Kill Lane, Co. Dublin.

Reconciliation: essays in honour of Michael Hurley. Columba Press, Dublin, 1993

Wah Yan College, H.K, 75th anniversary album 1919-1994.

Arthur Cox, 1891-1965
Gill & Macmillan, Dublin.

'A Catholic Unionist; The Life and Times of William Monsell: First Baron Emly of Tervoe (1812-1894)' by Matthew Potter, The Treaty Press, Limerick.

The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1541-1588: 'Our way of proceeding?', E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1996.

The cross on the sword: Catholic chaplains in the Forces.
Tom Johnstone, James Hagerty
G. Chapman, London, 1996

Prejudice in Ireland revisited based on a National Survey of Intergroup Attitudes in the Republic of Ireland
Survey and Research Unit, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.

Men to remember: Jesuit teachers at Saint Louis University 1829-1979.

Standards for the development of archives services in Ireland. Society of Archivists Irish Region, Dublin, 1997

Newman's University Church: a history and guide
Kingdom Books, Dublin, 1997

Congregation for the causes of saints
Prot. No. 114

Diocese of Dublin

Cause for the Beautification and Canonisation of the Servants of God

Richard Creagh, archbishop, who died in England, and companions who died in Ireland in defence of the Catholic faith 1572-1655.

Vol. I

Roma 1998

Congregation for the causes of saints
Prot. No. 114

Diocese of Dublin

Cause for the Beautification and Canonisation of the Servants of God

Richard Creagh, archbishop, who died in England, and companions who died in Ireland in defence of the Catholic faith 1572-1655.

Vol. II

Roma 1998

The Jesuits in Dublin 1598-1998. Wolfhound Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1999

The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography, 1848-1998.
Halstead Press, Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W., 1999

A nation of extremes: the Pioneers in twentieth-century Ireland.
Diarmaid Ferriter (
Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1999

Jesuit Mission Crosses 1850-1880 Book One.

Monumenta Anglia III: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Documents (1541-1562).
Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Rome, 2000.

Jesuit Mission Crosses 1850-1880 Book Two.

'A Short History of Gonzaga College, 1950 - 2000' by Christopher J. Finlay, published by Eneclann Ltd, Dublin. This short illustrated book briefly charts the history of Gonzaga College.

G.M. Hopkins : an inventory of the Anthony Bischoff Research Collection at Gonzaga University
English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., 2001

The Irish College at Lisbon, 1590-1834
Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2001

A guide to Jesuit Archives.

Exile in Erin: a Confederate chaplain's story: the life of Father John B. Bannon.
Missouri Historical Society Press : Distributed by University of Missouri Press, St. Louis.