Material relating to Br James Kavanagh SJ including admission details, catalogue entry, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and mortuary card.

'Catalogus personarum primus' filled in by Fr Michael Browne SJ (1932), photocopy of obituary in newspaper (1933) and brief biography by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on Fr Browne c.[1985].

A file relating to Wah Yan College, Hong Kong and Wah Yan College, Kowloon. Includes minutes relating to the salaries of lay masters and the purchase of school buildings in Wah Yan, finances of the college. Includes a relatio as to the advisability or otherwise of admitting Portuguese or European students in to Wah Yan College by Fr Richard Gallagher SJ, Vice-Rector ([1933], 6pp). Includes a general memorial of visitation (1936, 3pp).

A file relating to the deaths of Frs Michael Saul SJ and Joseph McCullough SJ from cholera.

'Reply to Dr Gregg’s Sermon'.

A file relating to the studies of Juniors. Includes a report compiled by a committee set up to investigate the studies undertaken by Juniors (Ordinatio Studiorum Juniorum Provinciae Hiberniae Societatis Jesu).

Memorial card and legal documents arising from the death of Thomas A. Finlay, K.C., T.D., (43 Pembroke Road, Dublin) [nephew of Fr Finlay]. Includes letter from stockbrokers Horan & Devine, 12 Dame Street [representatives of Mrs. Eva Finlay, widow of Thomas) to [ ] enclosing ‘a list of a few safe Trustee Securities from which you might be able to make a selection for the Trust Funds in this case’ (1 February 1933, 2pp). Memorial card missing (2020).

A file relating to Richard Ingram's entry to the Society of Jesus.

Documents for:

• First Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Primus)
• Second Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Secundus)
• Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae)
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum)
• Index of authors and books published by Ours (Index auctorem et librorum a Nostris editorum)
• Lists of admissions to the Novitiate, (Elenchi Triennales Admissorum in First and Final Vows, etc noviciatum, Admissorum ad Vota Prima et Ultima)
• Catalogue of journals , periodicals (Catalogus ephemeridum et and school annuals.libellorum periodicorum)
• Supplement to First and Second Catalogue (Supplementum Triennale ad Catalogum Personarum Primum & Secundum)

Documents relating to the 1933 Provincial Congregation.

Custom book for the Jesuit Juniorate at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, at university and on holiday (villa).

Drafts of leaflets on Papal objections to ‘Very Many Features of the Present Social and Economic System, Individualistic Capitalism’, Catholic objections to Communism and the foundation of a Christian Social Order. Includes editorial comments on the drafts and two pamphlets compiled by the Redemptorists for the Catholic Truth Society discussing Communism (1933, 1936, 2 items).

'The Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism' and 'The Realism of Holy Week in 1916' by Fr Joseph Darlington SJ.

'Shadow of the Cross', 'Crossroads', 'Temptation', 'My Importance', 'Don’t Read This', 'The First Christmas Present' and 'St. Joseph on Trial' by Fr Robert Nash SJ.

A file relating to the scholasticate in Shanghai. Includes a memorandum by Fr Thomas Cooney SJ outlining his views on the scholasticate.

Biographical information on Fr Patrick J Cunningham SJ and details of death in an air crash.

'Dance Hall Legislation' by Fr Richard Devane SJ.

Case for counsel on behalf of Rev. Thomas A. Finlay and George O'Brien Esquire and Counsel’s opinion on settling the draft Deed of Trust. Provides the background to the Rural Industries Trust Fund. Joseph H. Murray, one of the trustees of the Fund has recently died and they wish to know if the other two trustees remain secure in their position but with the power of adding to the number of trustees if required. ‘It is desired that the Trustees should have the widest possible powers as to the manner in which they may carry out the Trust…Counsel will please settle Draft Deed and advise.’

Admission details for Anthony McShera and catalogue entry.

'Oliveira Salazar and the Portuguese Corporative Constitution' by Fr Edward Coyne SJ.

A file relating to the revision to the Custom Book of the novitiate of Irish Jesuit Province, including a letter from Fr John J Coyne SJ, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois to the Irish Fr Provincial, with copy of Custom Book.

'The New Testament and Divorce, Review' by Fr Patrick Gannon SJ.

Material on Patrick Fallon who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 12 March 1914
Entered: 14 August 1934
Left: 12 August 1949

Covering letter from Noel M. Purcell to Fr Finlay enclosing a copy of the Declaration of Trust.

Blank report card for student at Preparatory school of Belvedere College SJ.

Ordination document for Fr Edmund Sullivan SJ.

Memoriale of Irish Provincial Fr Laurence Kieran SJ, visitation to St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street.

'The Pope’s Call to Action' and 'Lay Catholics in the World of Today' by Fr Henry Gill SJ.

Guestbook for those on retreat at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Material on Michael J Byrne who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 8 August 1910
Entered: 18 August 1935
Left: 24 February 1944

Material on Maurice Cooney who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 22 July 1917
Entered: 7 September 1935
Left: 8 May 1943

Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Cork in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:

• notes by Fr John MacErlean SJ (n.d., 73pp);
• letters from T.J. Walsh, C.C., South Presbytery, George’s Quay, Cork to Fr MacErlean on the Jesuits in Cork in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (the second with annotations by Fr MacErlean) (3, 11 February 1948, 2pp);
• transcripts of extracts from various sources concerning the seventeenth century Cork Jesuits, made by Fr MacErlean (n.d., 4pp);
• typescript by unknown Jesuit entitled The Jesuits in Cork, (n.d., 2pp);
• historical notes and lists of Jesuits in Cork made by [Fr P. O’Kelly SJ?] (n.d., 7pp) and
• ‘Sermon on the Sacred Heart, attributed to Fr Nicholas Barron (1719-1784) preached to the Presentation Sisters, Cork. Original with the Sisters in Cork’. Typescript transcript (11pp) and photocopy of the handwritten text, with signature of Fr Barron (14pp).

Biographical information on Fr Charles Harold Barrett SJ.

Typed notes compiled by Fr Francis Finegan SJ on the medieval monastery and church of SS Trinit´Scottorum, Rome and Irish saints in Italy.

Parties:
Rev. Thomas Aloysius Finlay, 35 Lower Leeson Street and George O'Brien, 3 Burlington Road, County Dublin, Doctor of Letters (the Trustees).

Draft notes made by solicitor [and clerks] concerning the drawing up of the Deed of Trust.

A file relating to the will of Canon Roche and money he left for the education of students for foreign missions.

French examination paper for St Ignatius College, Galway. Sketch drawing of south Galway on reverse.

Documents for:

• Second Catalogue (Catalogus Personarum Secundus);
• Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae);
• Catalogue of those apt for governing (Catalogus Aptorum ad Gubernandum);
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum) et arcarum Provinciae);
• Index of authors and books published by Ours(Index auctorem et librorum a Nostris editorum);
• Examples of Deeds (Exemplar Contractus Perpetui);
• Supplement to First and Second Catalogue (Supplementum Triennale ad Catalogum Personarum Primum & Secundum).

Short biography of Fr William Ronan SJ by Rev. James F. Cassidy, BA entitled 'A Saintly Irish Jesuit'.

Brief history of the Apostolic School, Mungret College and those who attended the Apostolic School.

Menus from a reunion dinner of Mungret College alumni held in Mount Barker Convent in Australia.

Copy of a report on the Chinese mission written in French relating to a suitable mission district for the Irish Jesuit mission in China. Includes a document on the same subject prepared by Fr Tom Cooney SJ.

'The Irish Constitution' by Fr Edward Cahill SJ.

'Dance Halls & More Dance Halls' by Fr Richard Devane SJ.

Comments on the structure of the proposed booklet for Irish Jesuit scholastics.

A file relating to the Language School, Loyola, Tai Lam, Ch'ung, Un Long, Hong Kong.

A file relating to two Irish Jesuit missionaries Frs Ernest Mackey SJ and Michael Garahy SJ who travelled to South Africa to conduct a mission in honour of the centenary celebrations in the Vicariate of the Western Districts of the Cape of Good Hope.

'Letter to the Editor of the Irish Press, Re: Spain' by Fr Patrick Gannon SJ.

Material on St. Aloysius Gonzaga. Includes:
– chronology of his life (n.d., 2pp);
– hand drawn map of northern Italy (no scale given) (n.d., 1p.);
– printer’s estimate for producing the book (4 October 1943, 1p.) and
– copies of a trial two pages (from chapter one) from the printers (Cahill & Co., Ltd.) (4 October 1943, 2 items).

A file relating to Fr Daniel Byrne SJ concerning his entry to the Society of Jesus (1938) and his death following a car accident in Northern Rhodesia in 1964.

A file relating to Patrick J. Benson, member of the Chikuni Mission who died in 1970. Includes documents relating to his entry to the Society in 1942.

Letter from James G. O'Connor, solicitor, 9 Clare Street, Dublin to Fr Patrick Kennedy SJ, Rathfarnham Castle, Rathfarnham, County Dublin concerning a portion of land held by William George Bailey under his own conveyance, rent free. Remarks that the rent on the land held by the Jesuits is incorrect and advises the correct amount.

Verses by a retreatant, S. O'B. on the grotto of Our Lady of Loudres¸ Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Typed extract from the Drogheda Independent of 17 April 1938 reporting on the opening of the novitiate of the Order of the Medical Missionaries of Mary at Collon, County Louth, and the sermon preached by Fr Hugh Kelly SJ, Rector, St. Stanislaus’ College, Tullamore, for the occasion. The extract was forwarded to Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ by Sr Eileen Keogan.

Statement (in Latin) issued by the Vatican to Religious Orders concerning the Sacred Congregation for Seminaries and University Studies.

Documents relating to the 1938 Provincial Congregation.

'Letter to the Editor of the Irish Times, Re: Spain' by Fr Patrick Gannon SJ.

Memoirs of Fr Joseph Darlington SJ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

Application by John Burden SJ to receive his diaconate.

'The Control of the Film' by Fr Richard Devane SJ.

'Can Ireland be Neutral' by Fr James McCann SJ.

Application form and notes establishing St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner street as a charity and tax implications.

'The Censorship of Films' by Fr Richard Devane SJ.

Copy of administration in relation to the estate of James Johnston Mullan, late of Sandymount Castle, Dublin, who died on 12 June 1939. Issued by the High Court of Justice; the Principal Probate Registry. States that the last will of Johnston, of which a copy is included, did not name any executor, and that on 3 October 1939 Letters of Administration of all and singular the personal estate of the deceased were granted to William Morgan Mullan, son of the deceased. Certifies that an Affidavit for Inland Revenue was delivered showing the gross value of Johnston’s personal estate within Ireland to be £2994.2.0 for the purpose of Estate Duty, and that the amount of £270.3.10 for Estate Duty and interest thereon has been paid.

The will of James Johnston Mullan bequeaths all of his real and personal estate to his son William Morgan Mullan and his daughter Kathleen Mullan in equal shares, but if the latter should marry or decide to live elsewhere she is to be paid the sum of £1,500. William Mullan to support and maintain Kathleen and James’ wife (their mother) and pay each of them the sum of £1 weekly during their lives, and in case of Kathleen’s marriage or removal, the sum of five hundred pounds each to be paid to his wife and son James Morgan of Stroud, Gloustershire (sic). If his wife should decide to live separately and apart from the other legatees William Morgan and Kathleen or either of them she shall be paid £1000 in addition to the legacy of £500.

Copy of negative search in the Registry of Deeds for memorials registered appearing on the Index of Names for all Acts affecting the parcel of ground on the east side of Gilford Road, Sandymount, Barony of Dublin and County of Dublin, known as Sandymount Castle. Includes list of abstracts of such instruments.

Application from Francis Shaw for sub-diacanate.

Parties:
(1) William Morgan Mullan of Sandymount Castle, Sandymount in the County of the City of Dublin, solicitor (the Vendor)
(2) Modern Homes (Dublin) Ltd., having their Registered Office at “St. Andrews”, Serpentine Avenue in the City of Dublin, Limited Company (the Purchasers)

Property:
All that lot or parcel of ground with the dwellinghouse and offices now standing thereon situate on the east side of Gilford Road, Sandymount in the Barony of Dublin in the County of Dublin, bounded on the north-west and south-west by Gilford Road and Sandymount Green, and on the north and north-east partly by the holding of James Beckett, partly by the holding of Susan and Louisa Hempenstall and partly by an unleased portion of the estate of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.

Terms and conditions:
In pursuance of an agreement dated 13 November 1939, between James R. Smyth of St. Andrews, Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge in the City of Dublin and William J. Kavanagh of 57 Merrion Square in the City of Dublin, builders on behalf of the Purchasers, and by which Mullan agreed to the sale to the Purchasers for the sum of £2,925 of the above premises for all the residue of the term of 150 years set down in a lease of 1870, and consideration of the said sum paid by the Purchasers to the Vendor, the latter, as personal representative of James Johnston Mullan, deceased, assigns and conveys unto the purchasers the above property, to hold for all the unexpired residue of the term of 150 years, subject to the rent of £125, and to the covenants and conditions in the 1870 lease, and subject to the sub-leases set out in an accompanying schedule.

Material relating to Fr Geoffrey C Murphy SJ which includes correspondence relating to his life in Malaysia, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

Copy of Power of Attorney in relation to the Earl of Pembroke’s Irish and settled estates. The Right Honorable Reginald Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery appoints Henry Arthur Vernon of No. 1 Wilton Place in the City of Dublin, Esquire, as his attorney. The Right Honorable Sidney Charles Lord Herbert appoints Arthur James Beatty of No. 31 Molesworth Street in the City of Dublin, solicitor, as his attorney. The power of attorney to be irrevocable for twelve calendar months from the date of the document.

Handwritten bound account entitled ‘Turas Na Sóisear’ which details Irish speaking cycling club for pupils at Coláiste Iognáid, Galway in the Galway area. Includes name of route, distance covered, account of route, names of party and hand drawn map. Inserts of pasted newspaper clippings. In Irish.

Particulars of Jesuits in Australia for the emigration Office, Australia House, London.

Expression of sympathy on the death of Fr Thomas A. Finlay SJ by the delegates to the Annual General Meeting of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society of which Fr Finlay was Vice-President.

Material on Edward Flanagan who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 28 April 1922
Entered: 5 April 1940
Left: 3 December 1949

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

A file of material relating to Fr Eamon Egan SJ including biographical information and correspondence relating to his death in a boating accident.

A file relating to the opening of the senior division of the Wah Yan College, Kowloon.

Status of the Hong Kong Mission.

Copy of Agreement and Deed of Charge between Modern Homes (Dublin) Limited, having their registered office at St Andrew’s, Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge, Dublin (the contractors) of the one part, and the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and burgesses of Dublin, being the Urban Sanitary Authority for the Urban Sanitary District of the City of Dublin (the Corporation) of the other part. The contractors covenant with the said Corporation that the former, their successors and assigns etc. shall at their own expense put, maintain and keep in repair the drain or sewer of said the premises as shown on an accompanying map, and described in a schedule to the agreement (property on Gilford Road, Sandymount), or in default thereof that the Corporation be at liberty upon giving to the contractors 48 hours’ notice in writing, to do such work as may from time to time be necessary to put, maintain and keep the same in such repair as aforesaid and thereupon the said contractors, their successors and assigns will from time to time pay to the said Corporation all costs, charges and expenses of putting, maintaining or keeping in repair the common drain or sewer of the premises. The contractor further charge upon the premises all sums costs and expenses which may be incurred by the Corporation in carrying out the above, provided that such charges shall be equally divided amongst and borne by each of the houses.
Accompanied by map of the property entitled ‘Sandymount Castle Estate’

Custom book for the Jesuit Juniorate at Rathfarnham Castle, with insert notes on the Jesuit tertianship.

Material on Thomas A Finucane who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 8 September 1923
Entered: 16 Septeber 1941
Left: 1 July 1949

Document in Latin signed by John Hyde SJ declaring his willingness to accept sub-diacanate.

Lessor:
(1) The Right Honorable Reginald, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (lessor/reversioner)
(2) The Right Honorable Sidney Charles Herbert (Lord Herbert)

Lessee:
Modern Homes (Dublin) Limited, having their Registered Office at ‘St. Andrews’, Serpentine Avenue in the County Borough of Dublin (the lessee company)

Property:
All and singular that plot or piece of ground situate at Sandymount in the Parish of Saint Mary, Donnybrook and in the Barony and County Borough of Dublin bounded on the west by Gilford Road, on the north partly by Gilford Road, partly by the holding of J.E. Byrne, lessee, partly by the holding of J.W. Beckett and others, lessees, and partly by the holding of L.H. Ormsby, lessee, on the east partly by the holding of J.E. Byrne, lessee, partly by the holding of J.W. Beckett and others, lessees, partly by the holding of L.H. Ormsby, lessee, and partly by another portion of the holding of J.E. Byrne, lessee, and on the south by another portion of the holding of J.E. Byrne, lessee, with the messuages and buildings erected thereon

Terms and conditions:
In consideration of the expense incurred by the lessee company in the erection of the eight messuages upon the above property, and of the several rents and sums of money reserved and made payable in the present lease and the covenants and agreements made by the lessee company and conditions, the lessor, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the will of 20 May 1904 by the Right Honorable Sidney, late Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, and by the Settled Land Acts of 1882 to 1890, and with the consent of Lord Herbert, demises unto the lessee company the above property to hold from 29 September 2019 for the term of 72 years, paying the yearly rent of £126, and also paying during the said term the several additional contingent rents or weekly sums set down in the lease. The lessee company also undertakes to abide by the several other conditions laid down in the lease, including the construction of two roadways with footpaths, drains and sewers, and also the erection of 34 additional messuages or dwellinghouses, with all necessary cartilages, garages, out-buildings, offices, walls, fences, sewers, drains etc. The lessee company to pay to the lessor the yearly rent of £45.

Other:
Includes a map of the property

A file containing various accounts, biographical details and obituary of Fr William Ronan SJ founder and first Rector of the Apostolic School.

Typescript entitled 'Steer Neutral in Troubled Waters, Hong Kong 1941 - 1945' describing the experience of Irish Jesuits during the Japanese occupation by Fr Eddie Bourke SJ. Not related to Fr Thomas Ryan's 'Jesuits Under Fire'.

Biographical information on Fr Martin Cryan SJ.

A file containing the texts of sermons preached in honour of the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society of Jesus.

A file relating to research carried out by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on his family tree.

Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of two chapters – ‘Saint Anselm and the Irish Church’ (8pp) (part of his proposed book The Reform of the Medieval Irish Church, a plan of which he sent to publishers Browne and Nolan in 1949) and ‘Anselm and the Irish Church’ (22pp) (In 1942 an article by the same name by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ was published in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, (lix, pp.1 – 14).

Copy of typed document of Fr Conor Naughton's experiences as a chaplain in India during the Second World War.

Biographical information by Fr John Hayes SJ from the 1942 ‘Catalogus personum primus.’

A file relating to the imprisonment of Frs Patrick Joy and Gerard Casey by the Japanese.

'The Date of the B-text of Piers Plowman' by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

Note on Br Thomas Connell SJ.

Documents relating to Fr Michael Pelly's time as a chaplain. Includes Fr Pelly's ‘British Military Identity Document’ with photograph (December 1943, 1 item) and photocopy from a newspaper [Irish Independent?] of an article on the ‘Mass of Reparation said in Monte Cassino Ruins’ by Fr Pelly (1944, 1p).

Appeal to attend the Annual exhibition of the Association of Perpetual Adoration and Work for Poor Churches so that money can be raised to send linens and vestments to the Foreign Missions.

Biographical information on Br John Brady SJ.

Handbook entitled 'Parish Sodalists Red Book' belonging to Fr John B Kerr SJ. Includes booklets, sample membership cards and sodality seals. The articles are aimed at a American audience. Includes 'An Introduction to the Sodalities of Our Lady' by Fr Douglas E. Daly SJ and 'Moderator's Manual for the St. Mary's Integrated Four-Year High School Sodality Program'.

Granting of faculties by John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin to Fr Patrick Simpson SJ. Includes note on aiding a Catholic to be educated in a non-Catholic School or College or University in This Diocese’.

'Church History for Schools' by 'Fr Jerome Mahony SJ.