Anderson and Bland, solicitors
- Corporate body
Anderson and Bland, solicitors
Clonmore & Reynolds, Ltd, publishers
M.H. Gill and Son, publishers and printers, 1856-
Upper Sackville Street, Dublin
Lawrence, William Mervin, 1840-1932, photographer
Gonzaga College Past Pupils Union
Old Belvedere Rugby Football Club, 1930-
Pontifical Gregorian University, 1551-
Hooker, Craigmyle and Company Limited, fundraising consultants
Harpenden, Hertfortshire, England and Old Burlington Street, London England.
The Universe, Catholic newspaper, 1860-
Blount, Lynch and Petre, solicitors
Dublin Metropolitan Police, 1836-1925
Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Roman Catholic publishers
Sigma Xi, non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers, 1886-
St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, 1795-
Irish Transport & General Workers’ Union, 1909-1990
Belvedere College Union, 1902-
Irish Architectural Archive, 1976-
J.G. O'Connor & Co., solicitors
Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898-
Dublin Evening Standard, newspaper
Catholic Defence Society, Ireland
Leinster Express, newspaper, 1831-
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, 1152-
Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
Piazza Pio XII, Rome, Italy
The Old Athlone Society, 1965-
Community Counselling Service Incorporated, fundraisers
Empire State Building, New York, USA
Leinster Leader, newspaper, 1880-
Clongowes Social Services Club, 1914-
St Brendan's College, Killarney, 1860-
Catholic Headmasters’ Association, 1878-
Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland, 1909-
Clongowes Wood College Union, 1897-
The National Archives (UK Government, and for England and Wales), 2003-
TNA - England and Wales, Government of the United Kingdom. TNA was formerly four separate organisations: the Public Record Office (PRO), the Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) and Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
Irish National Teachers' Organisation, 1858-
Muintir na Tíre, community development association, 1937-
Fitzpatrick and Sons, monumental masons, 1896-1952
Royal Hospital, Donnybrook, 1743-
The Francis Bacon Society, 1886-
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1940-
Donal O'Buachalla & Co. Ltd, property advisor, 1954-
South China Regional Seminary, 1931-
The foundation of the South China Regional Seminary at Aberdeen, Hong Kong was laid in 1930 and opened the following year. It is directly under the Congregation of Propagation of Faith of the Holy See and managed by the Irish Jesuit priests.
University of Cambridge, 1209-
Halls of residence, established by the Jesuits, attached to the University of Hong Kong.
Earley and Company, church decorators and stained glass artists, 1861-1975
The Society of Jesus was founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola and since then has grown from the original seven to 24, 400 members today who work out of 1,825 houses in 112 countries. In the intervening 455 years many Jesuits became renowned for their sanctity (41 Saints and 285 Blesseds), for their scholarship in every conceivable field, for their explorations and discoveries, but especially for their schools. The Society is governed by General Congregations, the supreme legislative authority which meets occasionally. The present Superior General is Father Arturo Sosa. Ignatius Loyola was a Spanish Basque soldier who underwent an extraordinary conversion while recuperating from a leg broken by a cannon ball in battle (see picture). He wrote down his experiences which he called his Spiritual Exercises and later he founded the Society of Jesus with the approval of Pope Paul III in 1540.
From the very beginning, the Society served the Church with outstanding men: Doctors of the Church in Europe as well as missionaries in Asia, India, Africa and the Americas. Men like Robert Bellarmine and Peter Canisius spearheaded the Counter Reformation in Europe, courageous men like Edmund Campion assisted the Catholics in England suffering under the terrible Elizabethan persecutions and missionaries like deNobili Claver, González, deBrito, Brebeuf, and Kino brought the Gospel to the ends of the earth. No other order has more martyrs for the Faith.
Ignatius Loyola had gathered around him an energetic band of well-educated men who desired nothing more than to help others find God in their lives. It was Ignatius’ original plan that they be roving missionaries such as Francis Xavier, who would preach and administer the sacraments wherever there was the hope of accomplishing the greater good. It soon became clear to Ignatius that colleges offered the greatest possible service to the church, by moral and religious instruction, by making devotional life accessible to the young and by teaching the Gospel message of service to others. From the very beginning these Jesuit schools became such an influential part of Catholic reform that this novel Jesuit enterprise was later called “a rebirth of the infant church”. The genius and innovation Ignatius brought to education came from his Spiritual Exercises whose object is to free a person from predispositions and biases, thus enabling free choices leading to happy, fulfilled lives.
Jesuits were always deeply involved in scholarship, in science and in exploration. By 1750, 30 of the world’s 130 astronomical observatories were run by Jesuit astronomers and 35 lunar craters have been named to honor Jesuit scientists. The so-called “Gregorian” Calendar was the work of the Jesuit Christopher Clavius, the “most influential teacher of the Renaissance”. Another Jesuit, Ferdinand Verbiest, determined the elusive Russo-Chinese border and until recent times no foreign name was as well known in China as the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, “Li-ma-teu”, whose story is told by Jonathan Spence in his 1984 best seller. China has recently erected a monument to the Jesuit scientists of the 17th century – in spite of the fact that since 1948 120 Jesuits languished in Chinese prisons. By the way, no other religious order has spent as many man-years in jail as the Jesuit order.
Jesuits were called the schoolmasters of Europe during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, not only because of their schools but also for their pre-eminence as scholars, scientists and the thousands of textbooks they composed. During their first two centuries the Jesuits were involved in an explosion of intellectual activity, and were engaged in over 740 schools.
Then suddenly these were all lost in 1773. Pope Clement XIV yielding to pressure from the Bourbon courts, fearing the loss of his Papal States, and anticipating that other European countries would follow the example of Henry VIII (who abandoned the Catholic Church and took his whole country with him), issued his brief Dominus ac Redemptor suppressing the Society of Jesus. This religious Society of 23,000 men dedicated to the service of the church was disbanded. The property of the Society’s many schools was either sold or made over into a state controlled system. The Society’s libraries were broken up and the books either burned, sold or snatched up by those who collaborated in the Suppression. As if unsure of himself the Pope promulgated the brief of suppression in an unusual manner which caused perplexing canonical difficulties. So when Catherine, Empress of Russia, rejected the brief outright and forbade its promulgation, 200 Jesuits continued to function in Russia.
That Jesuits take their special vow of obedience to the pope quite seriously is evident from their immediate compliance with distasteful papal edicts. Clement XIV’s Suppression is one example. Another occurred earlier in 1590 when Pope Sixtus V wanted to exclude Jesus from the official name of the Society. Jesuits immediately complied and offered alternate names but Sixtus died unexpectedly before his wish could be carried out. Included among these occasional papal intrusions in the Society’s governance was Pope John Paul II’s appointment of a delegate to govern the Society during Superior General Arrupe’s illness. So edified was he at the Society’s immediate compliance that the pope later lavished extraordinary praise on the Jesuit Order.
The Society was restored 41 years after the Suppression in 1814 by Pope Pius VII. Although many of the men had died by then, the memory of their educational triumphs had not, and the new Society was flooded with requests to take over new colleges: in France alone, for instance, 86 schools were offered to the Jesuits. Since 1814 the Society has experienced amazing growth and has since then surpassed the apostolic breadth of the early Society in its educational, intellectual, pastoral and missionary endeavors.
They form a Jesuit network, not that they are administered in the same way, but that they pursue the same goals and their success is evident in their graduates, men and women of vast and varied talent.
Joshua Clarke & Sons, stain glass manufacturers, 1893-1931
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1849-
St Michael’s House, disability service, 1956-
Riverview Observatory, Sydney, 1908-
National Archives of Ireland, 1988-
Our Lady's Boys' Club, Galway, 1941-
Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, 1900-
Royal College of Science for Ireland, 1867-1926
St Beuno's College, Wales, 1848-
St Beuno's College was built in 1848 as a place for Jesuits to study theology. Up to this time prospective Jesuit priests studied in Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, but the increasing numbers put a strain on the old buildings. So in 1846, the then Provincial Superior of the British Jesuits, Fr Randal Lythgoe, when visiting the Jesuit parish in Holywell travelled to see some farm land that the Society of Jesus owned near Tremeirchion and immediately decided that this should be the site for his new ‘theologate’. In early Victorian days when epidemics of typhoid and cholera regularly swept cities, the country air of North Wales was considered a healthy place to prepare the young men to go into the new industrial towns and cities to serve in schools and parishes.
Roman Catholic association whose members serve it on a voluntary basis.
The Sodality of Our Lady, an association formed by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and approved by the Holy See, was a religious body which aimed at fostering in its members an ardent devotion, reverence and filial love towards the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary & St. Patrick was canonically erected in the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street on 1st May, 1853. Members of a sodality would attend devotions in the evening time or at weekends.
Canisius College, Pymble, New South Wales, 1938-
Jackson, Stops and McCabe, auctioneers
Galicianae Province of the Society of Jesus
Australian Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1931-
The first Jesuits to set foot in Australia, Fr Aloysius Kranewitter SJ and Fr Maximilian Klinkowstroem SJ, came from Austria. They arrived in Adelaide in 1848. In 1853, a property was bought near Clare. Fr Kranewitter named it Sevenhill.
Two Irish Jesuits established a community in Melbourne in 1865, and three more Austrians and one of the first native-born Australians to become a Jesuit established a community in Darwin in 1882.
The Australian Province was formally established in 1950, with Fr Austin Kelly SJ its first Provincial, having being a Vice-Province in 1931.
Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1928-
Loreto Sisters in Ireland, 1609-
In 1821 Teresa Ball, a Dublin woman, brought the Congregation to Ireland.
Christie's, auction house, 1766-
Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, 1887-
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1924
Jesuit Library, Milltown Park, 1860-2019
Mungret Agricultural College, 1858-1878
Mungret Apostolic School, 1880-1969
Founded by Fr William Ronan SJ, at a house adjoining the Jesuit College of the Sacred Heart (Crescent), Limerick in September 1880. Moved to Mungret College in 1882.
National Portrait Gallery, London, 1856-
Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, 1898-
The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA) was founded in Dublin in the Presbytery of St Francis Xavier Church, Gardiner Street in December 1898 by Fr James Cullen SJ.