Requests received from the Hong Kong mission for financial assistance
- IE IJA MSSN/HONG/88
- File
- 26 May 1942 - 24 October 1945
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
A file relating to requests received from the Hong Kong mission for financial assistance.
Requests received from the Hong Kong mission for financial assistance
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
A file relating to requests received from the Hong Kong mission for financial assistance.
Proposal to found a Jesuit Weekly Paper
Documents examining ‘the question of the advisability or otherwise of our…(the Irish Jesuit Province)…founding & running a Weekly Paper’ following Fr General’s letter asking the Provincial to “find out the views of ‘peritorum Patrum’ on this subject.” Includes copy of circular letter and questionnaire sent by the Provincial to sixteen ‘knowledgeable’ Jesuits and replies from the following Fathers: Patrick Connolly (Editor of 'Studies'), Michael Kirwan, John Ryan, Aubrey Gwynn (ADMN/3/18; 29; 40), Timothy Corcoran, Michael Egan, Edward Cahill, Joseph Canavan, Timothy Mulcahy (Editor of 'Madonna', 'Irish Monthly' and 'The Jesuit Directory'), Edward J. Coyne (See also ADMN/3/29; 39; 42; 57), John McMahon, George Roche, John Keane, Charles Doyle (includes two unsigned replies from Frs Stephen Brown and Charles Scantlebury). Also includes tables of summaries of the views expressed.
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
A file relating to army chaplains. Includes letters and memoranda relating to the non-payment of their salaries to the Hong Kong mission. Includes extracts from letters by Fr Matthias Bodkin SJ, a naval chaplain concerning news of the Irish Jesuits in Hong Kong.
Material concerning the appointment of diocesan censors
Letters and printed circulars concerning the appointment of diocesan censors.
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.
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
A file of letters relating to a small plot of land between Rathfarnham Castle and the golf course and the decision of the golf club to sell the plot of land to a builder. Includes a letter from J. Keane SJ, Rathfarnham Castle, County Dublin to Fr Socius remarking that the building of houses on this plot of land would interfere with Rathfarnham Castle's privacy. Suggests the construction of a boundary wall along this plot (19 March 1929, 2pp).
Lenten Lectures given in St Francis Xavier's Church and whether they should be discontinued
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
A file relating to the Lenten Lectures given in St. Francis Xavier's Church and whether they should be discontinued.
Part of Irish Jesuits
Correspondence between Thomas Fleming and his Irish Fr Provincials during his professional life in China and in Australia.
Fleming, Thomas V, 1897-1988, Jesuit priest
File relating to a bequest for £883-11
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
File relating to a bequest for £883-11 left to the Irish Fr Provincial by Mary Mooney, Portslade-by-Sea, Sussex, England for the cost and maintenance of Manresa and the erection of a plaque to the memory of Fr Charles Doyle SJ. Includes copy of Mary Mooney’s will, accounts of the executor and correspondence between representatives of Barclay’s Bank and William Dargan, Bursar of the Irish Province.
Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin
Correspondence of bequests made to Father Provincial regarding the Hong Kong and China missions
A file relating to correspondence of bequests made to Irish Fr Provincial regarding the Hong Kong and China missions.
Appointment of Fr Frank Browne SJ as an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class
Part of Irish Jesuits
Documents found among the papers of Fr Willie Doyle SJ (with whom Fr Browne briefly served as chaplain), collated by Fr Charles Doyle SJ, concerning Fr Frank Browne SJ. Includes telegrams to Robert Browne, Bishop of Cloyne (14 March & 25 August 1919) concerning Fr Browne & circular letter from the War Office to Fr Browne, St Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, informing him of his appointment as an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class ‘as from 1st Sept. 1921 on which date your commission as a temporary Chaplain to the Forces ceased to have effect.’ (14 September 1921).
British Army, 1660-