Biographical information on Fr Peter Kenney SJ
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- 1808 - 1977
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Biographical information on Fr Peter Kenney SJ, and material related to the early years of the Irish Vice-Province.
Biographical information on Fr Peter Kenney SJ
Rhan oIrish Jesuits
Biographical information on Fr Peter Kenney SJ, and material related to the early years of the Irish Vice-Province.
Extract from The Parliamentary Register - William Fletcher, M.P. for Tralee
Typescript by Fr John MacErlean SJ of an extract from The Parliamentary Register (Vol. XV, 1795, p. 324) concerning a speech mentioning the Society of Jesus, by William Fletcher, M.P. for Tralee, 4 May 1795.
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Copy of 'The Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart' containing an article entitled ‘Dublin, and Proud of It!’ on Fr. Doyle (p.65-67).
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Article published in the 'Irish Monthly' entitled 'Christian Influence in Post-War China' by Bishop Paul Yu-Pin. Includes a review of Fr Thomas Ryan's book Jesuits Under Fire.
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A file relating to the fate of the Irish Jesuit priests working in Hong Kong during the Second World War and the Japanese occupation of the city. Includes returned letters to Irish Fr Provincial marked 'No Service Return to Sender'. Includes letters from family members asking for news or reporting to Irish Fr Provincial on letters received by them. Includes letters from other individuals seeking news about non Jesuit family members. Includes a copy of a request by Irish Fr Provincial John R. MacMahon SJ to Joseph P. Walshe, Department of External Affairs seeking help in assisting four Jesuit students to return home to Ireland (23 March 1943, 1p). Includes a reply stating that a proposed scheme to exchange civilian internees applies only to British or Allied subjects (12 May 1943, 1p). Includes a memorandum written by Fr Joy on Irish nationals in Hong Kong. The memorandum was sent by Irish Fr Provincial to the Irish Red Cross (24 October 1942, 2pp). Includes letters concerning Irish Jesuits who left Hong Kong to live and work in India during the war and subsequent return to Hong Kong when the war was over. Includes 'A Priest in a Japanese Jail' by Fr Gerard Casey SJ (1948)
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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Article in 'The Messenger of the Sacred Heart'
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Copy of 'The Messenger of the Sacred Heart', containing an article on Fr Doyle (p.86-87).
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‘The Society of Jesus in Ireland before the Suppression (1540-1773)’ by Fr John MacErlean SJ
Extract from the 'Irish Jesuit Directory' entitled ‘The Society of Jesus in Ireland before the Suppression (1540-1773)’ by Fr John MacErlean SJ.
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Catalogue entry, obituaries and Service (1917-1921) Medal for Fr William McElligott SJ. Includes article by Damien Burke entitled 'Irish Jesuits and the London IRA, 1921' which outlines William McElligott involvement in the War of Independence.
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Article in 'Revue d’Ascétique et de Mystique'
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Copy of 'Revue d’Ascétique et de Mystique' containing an article on Fr Doyle by Léonce de Grandmaison (p.128-146).
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Article entitled ‘A Chaplain’s Story: Fr. Willie Doyle; A pastor across all divides’
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Article entitled ‘A Chaplain’s Story: Fr. Willie Doyle; A pastor across all divides’. Recounts Fr Doyle’s time as an army chaplain in the First World War. Also includes a print-out of pages from a web-site dedicated to Fr Doyle. Accompanied by a note to Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ, Province Archivist, explaining their provenance.
‘Atomic bomb on Hiroshima: eyewitness account of P. I. Siemes SJ’
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Typescript article entitled ‘Atomic bomb on Hiroshima: eyewitness account of P. I. Siemes SJ’. With pencil annotation ‘Not to be published - Rights are being sold in aid of our Hiroshima Fathers’.
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'The priest among the soldiers' edited by Martin Dempsey
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'The priest among the soldiers' edited by Martin Dempsey, (London, 1947) which includes ‘At Belsen’ by Fr Michael Morrison SJ (pp188-194).
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Article in 'Messager du Coeur de Jésus'
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Article in 'Messager du Coeur de Jésus' containing an article on Fr. Doyle by Fr Wery-Lacouagne SJ (p.75-95).
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Extract from the 'Irish Jesuit Directory', of an article by Fr John MacErlean SJ entitled 'The Superiors of the Irish Mission of the Society of Jesus 1598 – 1774'; annotated by Fr MacErlean (24pp) and handwritten draft of same which includes index at front, listing the Superiors, their date of appointment and terms of office (34pp).
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Article from The Commonweal entitled ‘Father William Doyle, S.J.’ by Henry Longan Stuart.
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Typed manuscript of an article entitled 'The Fourth Career of Father John B. Bannon; St. Louis Pastor, Southern Chaplain, Confederate Agent, Irish Orator' by William Barnaby Faherty SJ
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Material relating to the Jesuits in Dublin
Material relating to the Jesuits in Dublin. Includes:
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Typed manuscript of an article by [ ] entitled 'The Confederacy's "Fighting Chaplain": The Civil War Years of Father John B. Bannon'.
Copy of 'La Vie Spirituelle. Ascétique et Mystique'
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Copy of 'La Vie Spirituelle. Ascétique et Mystique', Vol. XIX, No. 3 containing an article on Fr. Doyle by F. de Lanversin (p.323-341).
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Extract describing Irish Jesuit scholastics at Palermo in 1810
Photocopy of an extract from Annali Siculi Della Nuova Provincia, 1810, describing Irish Jesuit scholastics at Palermo in 1810. Photocopy given to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Irish Province Archivist until 1986) by Fr Daniel O'Connell SJ, Rome.
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Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Galway in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Galway in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:
Material relating to Elizabeth, Countess of Kildare's association with the Jesuits
Material relating to Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Countess of Kildare’s association with the Jesuits, her lease to the Society, of Kilkea Castle, County Kildare in 1634 and the chalice presented to the Jesuits in the same year by the Countess. Includes: photocopy of a newspaper article, ‘Unexplained Mystery of Kilkea castle’s Chalice’ by Dr George A Little (n.d., 2pp) and extract from the 'Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society', Vol. 5, 1906 - 08, p. 61- 62, on the chalice (3pp).
Notes on the Jesuits in Kilkenny in the seventeenth century
Notes on the Jesuits in Kilkenny in the seventeenth century. Includes:
Material relating to the Jesuits in Clonmel, County Tipperary in the seventeenth century
Material relating to the Jesuits in Clonmel, County Tipperary in the seventeenth century. Includes:
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Material concerning the Jesuits in Waterford in the seventeenth century
Documents concerning the Jesuits in Waterford in the seventeenth century. Includes:
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Material relating to Jesuits in Athlone, County Westmeath in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:
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Material concerning the Jesuits in New Ross, County Wexford in the seventeenth century
Material concerning the Jesuits in New Ross, County Wexford in the seventeenth century. Includes:
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'“ Snatched from the Brink” A True Story of Fr. William Doyle, S.J.’
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Copy of 'The Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart' containing an article entitled ‘ “Snatched from the Brink” A True Story of Fr. William Doyle, S.J.’ (p.364-367).
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