Letters from Fr Edward Boyd Barrett SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
- IE IJA ADMN/13/5
- Ffeil
- 29 September - 25 November 1920
Letters from Fr Edward Boyd Barrett SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.
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Letters from Fr Edward Boyd Barrett SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
Letters from Fr Edward Boyd Barrett SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.
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Letters from Fr Stephen Brown SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
Letters from Fr Stephen Brown SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.
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Letters from Fr Oswald Kellet SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
Letters from Fr Oswald Kellet SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.
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Letters from Mr Thomas P Kelly SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
Letters from Mr Thomas P Kelly SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.
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Letters from Fr Michael Maher SJ to Irish Fr Provincials
Letters from Fr Michael Maher SJ to Irish Fr Provincials.
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Letters from Fr August Coemans SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ
Letters from Fr August Coemans 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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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 of account sheets of the Hibernian Bank Limited in account with Fr William Delany SJ and Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ
Account sheets of the English Province in account with the Irish Province
A file of account sheets of English Province in account with the Irish Province.
Account sheets of the Champagne Province in account with the Irish Province
A file of account sheets of the Champagne Province in account with the Irish Province. Includes accompanying letters.
Letters from the Income Tax Office, Athlone, to Fr Alfred Murphy SJ, St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, in relation to the salaries of various members of the College.
Receipts of dividends from railway stocks invested by the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus
Receipts of dividends from railway stocks invested by the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus - for example - ‘The West Carbery Tramways and Lights Railways Co. Ltd’, ‘Dublin & South Eastern Railway Company’, Great Northern Railway Company’.
Invoices from Brown and Nolan Ltd. made out to 'The Irish Monthly'
A file of invoices from Brown and Nolan Ltd., Manufacturing Stationers and Printers; Publishers and Booksellers made out to 'The Irish Monthly'.
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Letter from Fr Michael Earls SJ to [ ] concerning a lecture he gave on Irish Music at Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Encloses a cutting from a newspaper and ask that it be passed on to Fr O'Brien SJ, of 'The Irish Monthly'.
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Letters regarding admissions to the Society of Jesus
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from possible candidates and various parish priests seeking information on and interviews to discuss, the possibility of entrance into the Society of Jesus. Also includes applications to join the Society; letters from those who have been accepted and letters concerning financial support from novices’ families.
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Correspondence in connection with the administration of the ‘Father Delany Exhibition’ Trust
Correspondence between Irish Vice-Provincial Fr John Keane SJ (Fr Provincial is in Rome for six months), J.W. Bacon (Secretary and Bursar of University College, Dublin) and Fr Michael Egan SJ in connection with the administration of the ‘Father Delany Exhibition’ Trust.
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Copy letter from the Irish Fr Provincial to Dr Robert Browne, Bishop of Cloyne and the Bishop’s reply concerning the appointment of a Professor of Catholic Theology to the National University in succession to Fr Peter Finlay SJ who had resigned the post. Includes letter from Dr David Keane, Bishop of Limerick to Fr John Hannon SJ, Fr Finlay’s successor.
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Correspondence, mainly between Irish Fr Provincial and the Director of the Irish Free State Broadcasting Station (2RN), relating to the broadcast of Christmas Mass from Milltown Park in 1936 and the Lenten Lectures from St Francis Xavier’s Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin in 1937. Also discusses the participation of Jesuit scholastics in the preparation of a special broadcast to be aired following the death of His Holiness Pope Pius XI (Pius XI died on 10 February 1939).
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Documents relating to the celebration of Mission Sunday in Jesuit churches and houses.
Letters on the declining circulation of 'An Timire'
Letters, mostly to Irish Fr Provincial discussing the declining circulation 'An Timire', the Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart and proposals to issue the magazine on a quarterly, rather than monthly basis.
Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and various Jesuits concerning proposals by two English Jesuits, Fr Frederick Wilcock and Fr Ryder, to visit Ireland in order to lecture and collect money for the Jesuit Mission in Estonia and a school for Russian boys in Shanghai. Irish Fr Provincial opposes both proposals.
Correspondence on retreats (and missions) to priests, nuns and the laity
Correspondence on retreats (and missions) to priests, nuns and the laity. Includes correspondence concerning the drafting, by Irish Fr Provincial, of a confidential circular concerning the ‘principles which were to direct Ours when treating, whether in missions or retreats, the 6th & 9th Commandments. I judged…direction necessary because complaints had been made to me that some of Ours had said rather gross things in the pulpit, and because there seemed to be a want of uniformity amongst our preachers and confessors in their manner of treating this difficult subject.’ (See also ADMN/3/11)
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial concerning the celebrations for the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society. Includes:
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Jesuit Fathers and Provincials seeking help in various matters relating to post-war travelling arrangements and material aid. Includes letters from Jesuits from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary seeking opportunities to study in Ireland and correspondence between Irish Fr Provincial and the Department of External Affairs concerning the visit of a German scholastic to Ireland to complete his studies.
Documents relating to the preparation of the new Catechism for use in schools
Documents relating to the preparation of the new Catechism for use in schools. Includes correspondence between the Irish Provincial and the Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid and copies of observations and suggested alterations to the Catechism made by various Jesuits including Frs. Denis Nerney, Edward Coyne and Paul O'Dea.
Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters
Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters. Includes letters concerning:
Letters, memoranda and reports concerning the various Sodalities
Letters, memoranda and reports concerning the various Sodalities in Irish Jesuit works.
Letters and memoranda to the Irish Fr Provincial concerning the proposed re-publication of the 'Irish Monthly'.
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial concerning the proposed translation of the French Catholic Encyclopaedia.
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial concerning proposed publications of biographies of, and brochures on, St Ignatius Loyola during the fourth centenary of the saint’s death.
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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Letters from Cardinal William Conway and from Dr James Fergus to Irish Fr Provincial
Letters from Cardinal William Conway, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, and from Dr James Fergus, Bishop of Achonry and Secretarius of the Irish Hierarchy, to Irish Fr Provincial Brendan Barry SJ in relation to a letter sent to the Irish Bishops seeking their views about how best the Society of Jesus is to serve the Church in Ireland. Dr Fergus expresses the opinion of the Bishops by writing, ‘..the Society could render no better service…than by a continuance and intensification of the activities in which it is at present engaged, having perhaps as a special aim the cultivation of a sense of social responsibility among the laity’ (16 October 1967).
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Documents concerning:
Triennial Documents, 1899 - 1902
Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae) and House Histories (Historia Domus) for Ireland and Australia (2 versions).
Triennial Documents, 1930 - 1933
Documents for:
Status Temporalis for the irish Province
Status Temporalis (Province Account) for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.
Status Temporalis for the Irish Province
Status Temporalis (Province Account) for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.
Status Temporalis for the Irish Province
Status Temporalis (Province Account) for: St Ignatius’ College, Galway; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullabeg; Clongowes College, Naas; Belvedere College, Dublin; Crescent College (College of the Sacred Heart), Limerick; Mungret College, Limerick; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; University Hall; 35 Lower Leeson Street; St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street.
Documents relating to the 1832 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1832 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1838 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1838 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1889 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1889 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1896 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1896 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the 1933 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1933 Provincial Congregation.
Documents relating to the Visitation of the Irish Mission by Fr Fidelis Grivel SJ
Documents relating to the Visitation of the Irish Mission by Fr Fidelis Grivel SJ in 18[17]. Includes:
Documents relating to the Visitation of the Irish Vice-Province by Fr Charles Brooke SJ
Documents relating to the Visitation of the Irish Vice-Province by Fr Charles Brooke SJ in 1842. Includes [copy] letter containing Fr Visitor’s views on the proposal to establish a Novitiate at Tullabeg (22 Sep. 1842, 2pp) and [copy] letter from Fr Brooke to the Vice-Provincial, Fr Robert St Leger SJ concerning Tullabeg’s large debts and the proposal to establish a Novitiate at the College, with the Novices undertaking to ‘take some part of the teaching of the scholars’ (1 Oct. 1842, 3pp).
Custom books of the Irish Jesuit Province
Custom books of the Irish Jesuit Province, some annonated.
Documents related to retreats given by Jesuits which include sermons and novenas
File of documents related to retreats given by Jesuits which includes: ‘A short catechism for the instruction for those who are preparing to make their first Communion’- Addressed to Parents’ (12 January 1767); ‘A sermon on the duties of parents to their children (1803); ‘Analysis or General Notion of Discourse in various religious subjects’ (1806); ‘A discourse on the 2nd Precept of Charity’ (1 July 1809); ‘novena in preparation for the festival of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – chiefly taken from the Italian of Father Charles Borge’; scholars’ retreat (1839); ‘A sermon on the Love of God’.
Two indexes to 'Studies' which detail authors and articles (1912 - 1946 minus 1915 & 1916) and index for Volumes 1 - 20, compiled by E. M. Kerrigan, B.A., The Library, University College Dublin.
Agendas for meetings of Prefects of Studies
A file of agendas for meetings of Prefects of Studies.
Letters to Irish Fr Provincial Edmund J O'Reilly SJ
A file of letters to Irish Fr Provincial Edmund J O'Reilly SJ (term as Fr Provincial 1863 - 19 April 1870). Includes an index/précis to the letters by [ ]. Other letters including undated letters have been added to, but not described, Fr E O'Reilly's list, J455.
Letters to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ
A file of letters to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ (term 31 July 1880 - 6 May 1883). Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.
Note by Irish Fr Provincial Timothy Kenny SJ on orders from Fr General
Note by Irish Fr Provincial Timothy Kenny SJ on orders from Fr General.
Instructions for the saying of Mass by Irish Fr Provincial James F Murphy SJ
Instructions for the saying of Mass by Irish Fr Provincial James F Murphy SJ.
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Copy of a letter/draft of a letter from Irish Fr Provincial John S. Conmee SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr [ ] concerning a discussion paper on Higher Studies in the Society. Includes a copy of the discussion paper from Fr General.
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Photograph of Jesuit scholastics from a house of formation
Photograph of Scholastics from a house of formation, perhaps Tullabeg, at villa, Castlebellingham, County. Most individuals are named.
Rules and regulations for juniors and scholastics in Irish Jesuit formation colleges
File of handwritten documents setting out rules and regulations for juniors and scholastics in Irish Jesuit formation colleges. Relates to Masses, prayer, timetables, dining, recreation, personal freedom, villas etc.
Irish jesuit Mission bequest from Joseph Carroll, 50 Shandon Park, Philsboro, Dublin
Irish jesuit Mission bequest from Joseph Carroll, 50 Shandon Park, Philsboro, Dublin.
Irish Jesuit Mission bequest from Patrick Hedigan
Irish Jesuit Mission bequest from Patrick Hedigan.
Irish Jesuit Mission bequest from Fr Gerald J. Griffith
Irish Jesuit Mission bequest from Fr Gerald J. Griffith (P.P.).
Newspaper clippings concerning Marriage Encounter
Newspaper clippings concerning Marriage Encounter:
Documents related to Marriage Encounter including Marriage Encounter: Resource Community
File of documents related to Marriage Encounter including ‘Marriage Encounter: Resource Community’; leaflets on ‘To know to share to grow in love’; reports on ‘The gifts of daily dialogue’ and ‘Introduction - to scripture dialogue’.
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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Departure file for Edmund Coghlan
Material on Edmund Coghlan who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 7 January 1840
Entered: 7 September 1861
Left: 1872/73
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Departure file for John G Creagh
Material on John G Creagh who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 8 August 1899
Entered: 31 August 1916
Left: 6 August 1925
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Departure file for Maurice Doyle
Material on John Doyle who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 11 March 1910
Entered: 19 September 1927
Left: 11 March 1930
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Departure file for William Flanagan
Material on Edward Flanagan who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 18 December 1894
Entered: 8 June 1919
Left: 26 March 1923
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'The Irish Constitution' by Fr Edward Cahill SJ
'The Irish Constitution' by Fr Edward Cahill SJ.
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'The King, the Irish Free State and the British Commonwealth of Nations' by Fr Richard Devane SJ
'The King, the Irish Free State and the British Commonwealth of Nations' by Fr Richard Devane SJ.
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'Dance Hall Legislation' by Fr Richard Devane SJ
'Dance Hall Legislation' by Fr Richard Devane SJ.
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'The Control of the Film' by Fr Richard Devane SJ
'The Control of the Film' by Fr Richard Devane SJ.
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'The Protestant Church of Ireland and its Claim to Episcopal Succession' by Br Denis Fennell SJ
'The Protestant Church of Ireland and its Claim to Episcopal Succession' by Br Denis Fennell SJ .
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'Can Ireland be Neutral' by Fr James McCann SJ.
'Can Ireland be Neutral' by Fr James McCann SJ.
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'The Nun at her Prie-Dieu' by Fr Robert Nash SJ
'The Nun at her Prie-Dieu' by Fr Robert Nash SJ.
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Material relating to 35 Hardwicke Street, Dublin
A file relating to 35 Hardwicke Street, Dublin. Includes deeds relating to this property (25 March 1810-17 June 1854). Includes a letter from Maxwell, Weldon and Company Solicitors, 40 North Great George's Street, Dublin to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ, The Presbytery, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin concerning the deeds '..for the purpose of enabling us to report on the title of you community to the premises, 35 Hardwicke Street' (5 March 1912, 1p). Includes:
In 1814, a Jesuit community took over the vacant Poor Clare convent in Hardwicke Street, Dublin. St Francis College was established at Hardwicke Street in 1832 however it proved to be too small for this emerging school. New premises were needed and Belvedere House, Great Denmark Street was bought in 1841.
Mortgage for property at Killiney Castle
Mortgage (& two copy mortgages)
Parties:
Rev. William Delany, S.J., Rev. Edward Kelly, S.J., Rev. John O'Carroll, S.J. and Rev. Sylvester O'Callaghan, S.J., St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, county Offaly of the one part. Rev. John Power, Roman Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, David Keogh, Adelphi Hotel, John Slattery, Merchant, William Street, Waterford City of the other part.
Property:
Scalp William or Mount Mapas known as Killiney Castle, Barony of Rathdown, County Dublin containing 5 acres, 1 rood and 131/2 perches and containing 32 acres and 24 perches and parts of the lands of Dalkey Commons, Barony of Rathdown, County Dublin containing 1 acre, 3 roods and 17 perches.
Terms & Conditions:
In consideration of a sum of £4,500. Payments at a rate of £4.10 paid equally twice a year on 22 August and 22 February.
Other:
Signed and sealed.
Case Daniel Ryan deceased, Kenny versus Ryan
A file relating to a case Daniel Ryan deceased, Kenny versus Ryan. Includes a letter from [ ], Solicitor, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial Patrick Keating SJ concerning '...Delahunt's affair.' Continues 'The parties I got the money from are now pressing for payment.' (22 September 1897, 1p).
Assignment of loan between Jesuit fathers by the will of Rev.d George F. Waters
Parties:
Rev. Timothy Kenny SJ, Melbourne, Victoria, Rev. John Verdon SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin of the first part (the Grantors). Rev. James Murphy SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin and Rev. John Verdon SJ, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin and Rev. Thomas V. Nolan SJ, Milltown Park of the other part (the Grantees).
Terms & Conditions:
Sum of £500 by the will of Rev.d George F. Waters Decd.
Other:
Signed and sealed
A file relating to the will of Jessie Maguire. Appoints Fr Thomas V. Nolan SJ and Fr James Fottrell SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin as executors. They are also named amongst the beneficiaries.
A file relating to the will of Mr Denis Kehoe. Includes a copy of the will (13 November 1831, 7pp). Includes a letter from Thomas Leland, [Solicitor], Fitzwilliam Square to Fr Esmonde concerning the appointment by Mr Denis Kehoe of Fr Esmonde SJ and Fr John O'Connor SJ as guardians of his son and daughter (24 February 1832, 3pp).
Will of William Nugent Skelly. Rev. Bartholomew Esmonde SJ, Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare is named as a beneficiary and was bequeathed the residue of Skelly's estate.
A file relating to the will of Professor John Casey, 86 Iona Terrace, South Circular Road, Dublin.
A file relating to the will of Joseph Smyth, Greenaun Gowra, County Kildare in which he bequeathed his house and lands to be held in trust and sold by the trustees of Clongowes Wood College, county Kildare.
A file relating to the will of Philip Francis Little. Bequeaths £50 to the Society of Jesus. Includes a copy of the will. Remarks in a postscript 'I do not include my dear brother the Rev. Robert J. Little SJ under any benefit in my will. Professing as he does the holy virtue of poverty, it is useless conferring benefit upon Robert of which he can not avail. (23 September 1916, 3pp). Includes a letter from Patrick J. Little, executor of his brother's will. Enquires '...I would like to know whether a claim would be advanced on behalf of Father Robert to a share on technical grounds.' (27 January 1927, 2pp).
A file relating to the will of Elizabeth Cahill, Hill View, Meath Road, Bray, County Wicklow and the estates of both Elizabeth Cahill and James Healy. Elizabeth Cahill bequeathed the residue of her estate to Fr Kirwan SJ, Superior of Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin for the charitable purposes of the Jesuit Fathers.
Transcripts from, and translations of letters to Irish Jesuits from Generals
ADMN/1
Proposals to Purchase Property
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial informing him of properties suitable for purchase by the Society – ‘The Hermitage, Mr William Woodbyrne’s Estate’; a house at Lehenagh, Frankfield, Cork and Magheramenagh Castle, Belleek, County Fermanagh.
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from various editors and publishers mostly regarding the purchase and publication of religious books and periodicals, including Fr Stephen Brown’s 'Ireland in Fiction', 'Our Boys' published by the Christian Brothers and 'The Universe'.
Letters on charitable work of Irish Jesuit Province
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from the Catholic Working Boy’s Technical Aid Association, the St. Vincent de Paul and the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Includes memorandum comparing the work of the St. Vincent de Paul in Ireland and Belgium.
Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters, including financial
Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters. Includes letters concerning financial matters and;
– a complaint about an individual Jesuit with regard to his behaviour while conducting a retreat for nuns (See also ADMN/3/36);
– a draft deed of trust for the Father Delany Exhibition (See also ADMN/3/13);
– the health and financial affairs of various scholastics;
– the proposal for the establishment of a [school] at Tullabeg by the Society of Pious Missions;
– a conference of Jesuit Fathers in Chicago for the purpose of adopting a Provisional Constitution of the ‘Frequent Communion Guild’;
– requests for money from various individuals;
– the campaign to appoint a Catholic Director to the Board of Directors of the Clogher Valley Railway (the Society are shareholders in the Railway);
– the appointment of Jesuits to various offices;
– a petition to the British government ‘to show mercy to Roger Casement’;
– a proposed portrait of Archbishop Walsh by Sir John Lavery;
– a profit and loss account of the Irish Monthly for year ending 31 August 1914 (See also ADMN/3/20; 66; 67);
– the work of St. Joseph's Young Priests (See also ADMN/3/53);
– lists of locations of Retreats and names of priests giving Retreats for 1912 and 1913 (See also ADMN/3/36; 41);
– suggestions for Retreats given by Jesuits, by Dr Patrick Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1896-1926) and memorandum on the scheme to establish a small lending library in Milltown Park for priests (See also ADMN/3/12; 38).
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 on the republican procession at Bodenstown, County Kildare
Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and various Jesuits regarding an incident which took place at the graveyard in Bodenstown, County Kildare during a Republican procession from Sallins to the grave of Wolf Tone, in which Fr Daniel Fitzgibbon SJ played a prominent role in preventing an outbreak of violence.
Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and successive editors of the 'Irish Monthly'
Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and successive editors of the 'Irish Monthly'. Includes: letters, memoranda and notes relating to deliberations on the future of the magazine in November 1932, discussions on the terms upon which the management of the 'Irish Monthly' could be changed and letters concerning the controversy caused by an article entitled ‘The Papal Encyclicals and the Banking Commission’ by Fr Edward Coyne SJ in which Fr Coyne was said by Mr Peter O'Loghlen, T.D. to have made ‘gravely misleading and damaging’ comments with reference to Mr O'Loghlen’s Report as a member of the Banking Commission.
Documents, mainly letters to Irish Fr Provincial reporting on works in progress by various Jesuits, to be published during the fourth centenary year of the foundation of the Society. Includes letters from Frs John Ryan, Timothy Mulcahy, Charles Scantlebury, Henry Gill, Joseph Canavan, Michael McGrath, Patrick Gannon, Stephen Brown, Arthur Little, John MacErlean, Edward Coyne (See also ADMN/3/37; 39; 42; 57), Timothy Corcoran, Aubrey Gwynn and Seán Ó Catháin. Also includes lists of titles and authors and a memorandum on historical publications of the Irish Province by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (See also ADMN/3/18; 37; 40).
Letters, mostly to the Irish Fr Provincial, concerning the future of 'The Standard' publication
Letters, mostly to the Irish Fr Provincial, concerning the future of 'The Standard', a weekly publication in financial difficulties. A proposal was made to offer the running of the paper to the Society but the offer was turned down.
Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and Jesuits on various matters such as
Documents relating to the death of the Very Rev. Wlpdimir Ledóchowski, Father General of the Society
Documents relating to the death of the Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledóchowski, General of the Society on 13 December 1942. Includes: copies of cuttings from various Irish newspapers (11 - 19 December 1942, 12 items); calling cards received by the Irish Fr Provincial (includes card from William T Cosgrave) (8 items) and telegrams and letters of condolence sent by the Bishop of Raphoe, various religious congregations and organisations, William T Cosgrave, the Papal Nuncio, Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin and the Lord Mayor of Dublin. (Includes full list of those who sent messages of sympathy) (14 - 23 December 1942, 39 items).
Letters concerning the relationship between the Society of Jesus and the Legion of Mary
Letters concerning the relationship between the Society of Jesus and the Legion of Mary and the Legion’s 1943 Dundalk Missionary Display. Includes letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Archbishop McQuaid.