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A file relating to the preparation of a prospectus for Mungret Apostolic School, Limerick.

Photocopy of a cutting from The Universe reporting on a presentation at U.C.D. to Fr Thomas Finlay SJ , following his retirement from the University after seventeen years as Professor of Philosophy and nearly thirty years as Professor of Political Economy. Photocopy of a cutting from The Independent reporting on the presentation to Fr Finlay on the occasion of his retirement.

A file of press clippings from the 'Irish Press' and 'Irish Times' concerning the safe return of Irish Jesuits from Hong Kong following the Japanese surrender.

File of material related to the primary school and secondary school in Galway and school policies. Includes details of lectures, lecture notes and reports entitled 'Developing Education in the Seventies'; 'Risking a Lost Culture'; 'Church and State in Secondary Education' (Autumn 1968); the Jesuits and education in Galway; statement of policy for Coláiste Iognáid; 'Scoil Naisiunta'; 'Problems of a minority language in Education (31 October 1971). In Irish and English.

‘Féilire 1936 - 1937 Coláiste Iognáid, S.J., Gallimh’. Calendar for Coláiste Iognáid which details the primary school (bun - scoil) and secondary school (meán scoil), school fees (táillí scoile), list of teachers and calendar of events (In Irish). On the penultimate page, details information re. the College, including the departments (preparatory and intermediate) courses followed, reports, terms, school fees, lunch, discount on fees for brothers subjects taught, extra-curricular activities, discipline, fees, school regulations etc. On reverse, ‘Coisreacad Staidear’ as Gaelige.

Print outs of photographs (1970-1992) and copy of advertisement for the Manresa Gymkhana, 17 June 1956, to be held at Manresa House, Dollymount, held at the Irish Jesuit Archives.

Bronze prize medal for Athletic Sports at St Ignatius College, Galway. The description of the medal is as follows. On obverse: ‘View in perspective of church. Above, COLLEGIUM S. IGNATI SOC. JESU GALVIENSE. In exergue A.M.D.G. Signed, J. WOODHOUSE A R H A.’; Reverse: ‘Across, PRIZE MEDAL enclosed in sprays of oak-leaves and acorns, ends crossed and tied. Above, Imperial crown. Around, a circle of egg and ornament. Diam. 2.55”. Bronze. By John Woodhouse. Serrated rim.’ Includes letters and shadings of medal by Ruth Dromgoole, Department of Education, National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin to Fr Andrew O'Reilly SJ (26 March 1946) and Fr McGrath SJ (6 February 1950) as she was preparing a catalogue of a collection of medals in the museum.

Programme of events for the Worldwide Marriage Encounter, All Ireland Convention held at U.C.D Campus, Belfield, Dublin 4.

Programmes for concert and dramas at St Francis Xavier's Hall, (Pioneer Hall), Upper Sherrard Street, includes Grand Easter presentation by Pioneer Choral and Dramatic Society.

A file of programmes for plays and concerts performed at Mungret College, Limerick.

Programmes invitations, tickets and reviews relating to theatricals, including comedies, tragedies, operettas, librettos and pantomimes, staged by pupils of the Mungret College and Apostolic School. Includes reference to New Years Holiday, Shrovetide, Shrove Tuesday, St Patrick’s Day, Feast of St Francis Xavier and Christmas Holidays.

Programmes of dramas and concerts performed by Jesuit Juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Includes:

• 13 August 1928, Feast of St. John Berchmans
• Christmas 1930, An doctuir breige
• 1930-31, Rathfarnham Castle Debating Society 50th year Tongue-in-check allotment of Roll of Honour.
• Christmas 1931, ‘Kitchen Nuts’
• 13 August 1932, Rathfarnham Philharmonics: Feast of St John Berchmans
• Christmas 1933, ‘Fear na Foribe and Tons of Money’
• Christmas 1934, ‘Seven keys to Baldpate’
• Christmas 1935, ‘The man from Buenos Aires’ (An fear as Buenos Aires)
• 13 August 1936, Feast of St. John Berchmans
• Christmas 1936, ‘The Sport of Kings’
• Christmas 1937, ‘Lord Babs’
• Christmas 1938, ‘Professor Tim’
• New Year’s 1940
• Christmas 1943, Rathfarnham Castle Debating Society: ‘That the study of literature conduces more to the formation of an educated man than the study of History’.
• 13 August 1927-30, Feast of St. John Berchmans

Programmes of dramas and concerts performed by Jesuit Juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Includes:

• Christmas 1927 Lapa an Apa
• Christmas 1929 An Bunnán Buidhe
• [.1941] The Blue Dodder
• [1911-1939] Lyrics to short songs

Includes notes by Patrick Hume SJ (2019) on both plays and participants. Material taken from the Jesuit library, Milltown Park, before the transfer to DCU (2019).

Programmes of dramas and concerts performed by Jesuit Juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Christmas 1932 ‘Ambrose Applejohn’s Adventure’
Christmas 1935 ‘The man from Buenos Aires’ (An fear as Buenos Aires)
26 November 1936 Feast of St. John Berchmans
Christmas 1936 Rathfarnham Castle Debating Society
Christmas 1937 ‘Lord Babs’
Christmas 1938 ‘Professor Tim’
Christmas 1938 Rathfarnham Castle Debating Society
Christmas 1938 An Cumann Gaedhealach
Christmas 1949 ‘The Grandmother clock’
Christmas 1950 Christmas plays
Christmas 1950 ‘Jack Strauss and the Seven Dwarfs’
26 November 1950 Feast of St. John Berchmans
Christmas 1951 ‘The Terror’
Christmas 1951 ‘An Ruincleireach’
26 November 1951 Feast of St. John Berchmans
Christmas 1952 ‘Tons of Money’
Christmas 1952 ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’
Christmas 1953 ‘X = 0’ & ‘Brother Wolf’
Christmas 1953 Pantomime & Concert
Christmas 1953 ‘Cuirm Ceoil’
March 1954 ‘The Singer’ & ‘Cuirm Ceoil’
Christmas 1954 ‘Riders to the Sea’ & ‘The Bespoke Overcoat’
Christmas 1955 ‘They got what they wanted’ & ‘An Dochtuir Breige’
Christmas 1955 ‘Aladdin and his lame’
1955 ‘Rock and Rome’
Christmas 1956 ‘Professor Tim’ & ‘Cruit agus Dhá Cruit’
Christmas 1957 ‘Labhartar Bearla Annseo’ & ‘The Devil a Saint would be’
Christmas 1958 ‘An chuis dli’ & ‘Is the priest at home’
Christmas 1959 ‘The Winslow Boy’
Christmas 1959 Rathfarnham Castle Debating Society
Christmas 1960 ‘The Ringer’ & ‘An rod seo romham’

File relating to the land at Renmore belonging to the Jesuit Fathers at St Ignatius’ Galway. Includes précis of evidence between the Jesuit Fathers and Galway Corporation and correspondence between W.B Gavin & Co. Solicitors, Fr Robert McGoran SJ, Galway and Donal O’ Buachall & Co. Ltd.

File of material relating to developments at Rathfarnham Castle. Includes letters by Donal O'Buachalla, Fr Matthew Meade SJ, Rector, Rathfarnham, and Irish Fr Provincial Paddy Doyle SJ; market valuations for sites A and B by Hamilton and Hamilton Estates Limited; expressions of interest in the site by various groups of developers; letters by representatives of the Rathfarnham Traders Association.

A file concerning a proposal for a new edition for Rodriquez’s ‘ “Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection” for use in English-speaking Countries.’.

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.

A file relating to a proposal to sell 70/80 acres of the Mungret property to the Department of Education for a proposed University.

Proposal to publish a quarterly review of 'Letters, Philosophy and Science' under the control of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.

A file relating to various proposals over the years to extend and add to the existing buildings at Mungret College. Includes plans. Includes an extensive file relating to the building of the swimming pool (10 October 1963 - 17 February 1965, 60 items).

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.

Proposed articles for the commemorative issue of 'Studies' for the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society of Jesus. Includes a letter from Aubrey Gwynn SJ, 35 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ concerning the commemorative issue.

File of material relating to the proposed development of Jesuit land at Rathfarnham Castle. Includes planning application, appeal, and letters from local residents and from Andrew Devane, architect, and Donal Ó Buachalla, auctioneer.

Estimates for the proposed lift at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin by Leonard and Donnelly, Builders and General Contractors (26 October 1955) and costings of purchase of life from Sheila Buildings of O'Connell Street and installation at Upper Gardiner Street by John Birch.

A file relating to a proposed new custom book for the novitiate of the Irish Province. Includes two bound copies of the new custom book.

File of material concerning the proposed trip by Fr Patrick Simpson SJ to Zambia.

Prospectus for the Apostolic School of the Sacred Heart, University College, Mungret, Limerick and a prospectus of Mungret College (15 August 1882), including a covering letter written by Fr William Ronan SJ.

Prospectus (in brochure format) for Mungret College.

Typed prospectus for St Ignatius College, Galway day school under the charge of the Jesuit fathers.

Province file for Fr John A McAvoy SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record, testimonial letters, and application to join the Society.

Province file for Fr Patrick McGovern SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

Province file for Fr Seán J McCarron SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

Visitation reports of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus by Fr William Power SJ, Visitor (17 September 1922) (2 copies) and Fr John J McMahon SJ (August 1962).

Letters of Provincials’ Circulars to the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.

A file relating to the provision of services at Rathfarnham Castle i.e. sanitation, water supply, general alterations to the structure of the building, provision of electricity supply, installation of a telephone.

Bound register of payment of fees by pupils of St Ignatius College, Galway, (1888 - 1904; 1903 - 1940). Contains handwritten information under the following typewritten headings; name; class; birth date; address; remarks and rate of payment of fees. Arranged chronologically and alphabetically.

Letters and memorandum relating to the purchase and adaptation of Rathfarnham Castle for use as a Novitiate and House of Studies for Scholastics and Retreat House for Working-Men. Includes general survey of the premises and list of alterations and costs involved in refitting the Castle; copy of letter sent by the Irish Fr Provincial to Archbishop William Walsh concerning the purchase and purpose of the Castle; letters from contractors and insurers relating to the fixtures and fittings of the Castle.

A file relating to the purchase of additional farm land adjoining Mungret. Includes a letter from Fr General Franz Wernz SJ, Rome to Fr James Tomkin SJ (Rector), Mungret College granting permission for a farm adjoining Mungret to be bought. Includes copies of documents relating to the possibility of purchasing Purcell's farm

Purchase of Baymount Castle, Dollymount. Letters from Mr J T Gwynn, Baymount Castle, Dollymount to Frs Sean McCarron and John Coyne, regarding the sale of Baymount to the Jesuits which refers to sale price, dates in which they can occupy the house, solicitors details and queries (boundary wall, rates), items for sale at Baymount which the Jesuits intend to buy (278 lbs of jam), discounts on items. Includes lists of items bought from Mr J T Gwynn, Baymount Castle by the Jesuits which include items from basement pantry, kitchen, dining room, drawing room, etc (August 1948) and items required (December 1948). Mr J T Gwynn was the uncle of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and had been headmaster of the Protestant Preparatory School at Baymount. His daughter made an unsuccessful effort to carry on the school with a small mixed infants class (See letter from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Father Provincial, 16 February 1948). See CM/MAN/55.

A file relating to the purchase of Emo Park by the Jesuit Fathers from the Land Commission (for £2,000). Includes a plan of Emo.

A file relating to the purchase of Rathfarnham Castle by the Society of Jesus. Includes part of the auction catalogue for the contents of the Castle, Battersby & Co, Auctioneers, 39 Westmoreland Street, Dublin, and list of Jesuit purchases (April 1913).

A file relating to the question of establishing a tribunal of appeals (in cases of dismissal) for lay teachers in Catholic secondary schools.

A file relating to a questionnaire circulated by the Sacred Propagation of the Faith in order to obtain up to date information for the Dictionary of Missions.

A series of questions drawn up by [Fr Charles McKenna SJ] concerning the lease for Mungret College.

'The Nun at her Prie-Dieu' by Fr Robert Nash SJ.

A file relating to the rateable valuation of Rathfarnham Castle. Includes a letter from Donal Ó Buachalla and company, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin to Fr Patrick Doyle SJ, Rector, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin 14 remarking that the Rathfarnham property is '...included in the current (1970) Annual Revision Lists...(these lists) allows us an opportunity to take advantage of this listing to appeal the valuation on the general grounds of age, obsolescence, excess accommodation and the ever increasing costs of maintenance and security.'

Reader's tickets/call slips in Fr Edmund Hogan SJ name for the Archivo Secreto Della S. Sede and the Biblioteca Vaticana.

Copy of letter from Fr Timothy Mulcahy SJ, St Francis Xavier's Church to Fr Peter Troddyn SJ on the rebuilding of St Francis Xavier's Hall (9 August 1954) and copies of letter from Fr Peter Troddyn SJ, St Francis Xavier's Church to Mr Leo Kenny, St Francis Xavier Pioneer Club on the move of premises for the club (11 December 1954) and the purchase of 27 Mountjoy Square East (17 February 1955).

Receipt of shares payments by the Jesuit fathers St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin towards £25 annuity to Mrs Brosnahan.

Receipts for funeral expenses from B Farrell, Job Carriage Proprietor and Undertaker, 66 Marlborough Street, Dublin for the following Jesuits: Thomas Mahon; John Verdon; James Fottrell; Patrick Curran; Fr Browne.

File of receipts of dividends from investments by the Jesuit fathers in companies such as: The Dublin United Tramways Company, Limited; Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Limited; The Western Telegraph Company, Limerick; Ballinrobe and Claremorris Light Railway Co., Limited; Loughrea and Attymon Light Railway Co., Ltd.; Great Southern and Western Railway Co.; South Clare Railways Company; Limited.

Receipts from Taylor Brothers, Stone & Marble Work, 25 Talbot Street and 6 Fairview Strand Works and Todd Burns & Co. Limited for payment of work on St Patrick's Chapel, candlesticks and marble altars at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes specification for marble altar.

A file relating to the estate of Ballyboggan, County Wexford. Includes numerous vouchers for agents accounts e.g. rental, poor rate, income tax, tithe rent, county cess.

Receipts for the payment of ground rent to General Goldie for the Catholic Chapel, Douglas.

File of receipts from businesses in Galway to St Ignatius College and Church. Receipts from 1875 include: Midland Great Western Railway; Mercantile and General Printing Office; Galway Town Commissioners; E. O'Malley, China, Delph & Glass warehouse, Galway; Burns, Oates & Co., Office of the Irish Ecclesiastical Record; Martin, Hill & Co. File of receipts from 1964 include: BBC Publication;, Browne and Nolan Limited; Patrick J. Sheahan; Consulting Architect & Civil Engineer; John Carr & Sons Ltd; The Chappell Piano Co. Ltd; The Educational Company of Ireland, Limited; Gunning & Son Ltd, Ecclesiastical Art Metal Manufacturers; Tony O'Sullivan, Pork Butcher and Sausage Manufacturer; O'Gorman Limited.

Bound volumes with account of receipts from Promoters for Rosary Circles for the Apostleship of Prayer - 'The Holy League of the Sacred Heart of Jesus'. Handwritten entries which includes names and amount.

Receipts from stockbrokers M. Dillon & Son for purchases of various stocks by them on Fr Finlay’s behalf.

A file of receipts from the Sun Fire Office, later the Sun Insurance Office, London for premiums received from the Jesuit Fathers.

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’.

A file of receipts relating to payments made by the Irish Jesuit Province. Includes receipts for payment of income tax, interest on mortgages and loans, bridge rate, poor rate.

File of receipts, requests for masses, and bequests sent to Fr Charles Farley SJ, St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, (Province
Procurator). Includes receipts, postcards and letters from Frs Edward Boyd Barrett, James O'Connor, Joseph Flinn, A. Magne, Daniel J. Finn (from R.M.S Orsova on the way to Australia), James Creagh, James Farrell, John Ryan (Valkenberg), William Byrne, Bernard Page, John Nerney, C. Wishoff, Leopold Skarek, and Dr. Conway Dwyer, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin.

Recitations by Fr Robert Dillon-Kelly SJ which include: 'Jot it down';' Chincilla'; 'Spinning Wheel'; 'A wonderful boy of old, Limerick';' The Pilot of the Shannon'; 'Down with it'; and 'The Jesuit Trail'.

Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus Vol.II, III, IV. (1875);
Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus Vol.VII., part the first (1882);
Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus Vol.VII., part the second (1883);

A file relating to the Rectors of the Irish College in Rome by Fr John MacErlan SJ, 1 January 1628 - 6 December 1769. Includes biographical details.

File of material found in envelope, entitled Free State papers:

• copy of a page from The Freeman’s Journal (12 April 1922);

• newspaper clipping, Bulletin, L’Etat libre d’Irlande (written in French) (9 December 1922);

• copy of a note from the Red Cross secretary Champain, London (on behalf of Sir Arthur Stanley), acknowledging receipt of your letter (3 December) and in reply ‘I am directed to say…My Society feels that it cannot at the moment take any action in the matter’ on the subject of the treatment of civilians in Ireland (13 December 1922);

• letters from Madame Chaponniére-Chaix, ex-President, International Council of Woman, Geneva, Switzerland (16 December 1922-26 January 1923) to ‘My dear President’ (of International Council of Woman, Lady Aberdeen, Aboyne, Scotland). The first letter (written in French) comments on the potential for a Red Cross mission to Ireland (16 December 1922). The second letter (written in English), refers to a letter received from Miss O'Brennan, through the Peace and Freedom League, regarding a visit from the Police at Dr Lynn’s Hospital and the arrest of Miss Mary Comerford. Madame Chaponniére-Chaix doesn’t believe that the time is right for a Red Cross mission to Ireland (26 January 1923);

• copy of note ‘Projet Hayes Humanity Dublin’ which refers to Madame Chaponniére-Chaix and the establishment of the Red Cross in Ireland (In French), (nd.);

• leaflet entitled ‘The extreme penalty’ which details the words of Mr Eamon Aylward in relation to his involvement in disturbances in Kilkenny "The extreme penalty”: Mr. Eamon Aylward, in the document with his signature attached which has been found upon an irregular captured by the Kilkenny force, has lighted up, as by a lightning flash, the criminality of the militarist attack upon the people...but that such an order could be issued by a man blaspheming the honourable name of Irish Republican will reveal to the people the tyranny that they have escaped (1922);

• letter from Richard Mulcahy, Commander-in-Chief, Oglaigh na hEireann, Dublin to Miss Margaret MacNeill, Industrial Schools Office, Government Buildings apologising for keeping ‘those papers so long’ and ‘that the Red Cross people have been suitable replied to’ (25 January 1923);

• pamphlets to the electors of the National University recommending the candidates Eoin Mac Neill and Patrick McGilligan [1927];

• handwritten notes on the resignation Eoin Mac Neill from the boundary commission and events surrounding his candidacy for the university election of 1927;

Register of Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, Mary and St Aloysius, St Ignatius, Galway which details names, address and remarks of different guild members.

Handwritten alphabetical register of names (male), 1933 - Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Supplementary register containing names of all live members transferred from old register up to 13 November 1932.

Handwritten alphabetical register of male names of all live members transferred to supplementary register 1942 - Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Men, Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Stamp, Jan. 1937 indicates lapsed members and these are not in 1937 Guild Books. First date of admission is November 1894. Index to sections (Patron: St Patrick, St Kevin...) given on inside page.

Handwritten register of names (male), Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Dates of enrolement 1933 onwards until 1967.

Handwritten register of lapsed members of the Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, 1939-1944.

Register of the Sodality of the Holy Angels, Mungret College, Limerick. The register details names and addresses of all boys who were in the Sodality on September 1914 until February 1962 and the date received into the Sodality. Includes a list of directors of the Sodality from the foundation in 1891 to 1956.

Regulations for the community issued by Fr Robert St Leger SJ, Vice Provincial, in compliance with an ordination of the Father General regarding Holy Poverty.

Parties:
Lord George William Loftus, Chester Square, London of the first part, Rev. Lord Adam Robert Charles Loftus, Ardess, County Fermanagh of the second part, Lord Agustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus of the third part, Lord Henry Yorke Astley Loftus, Chester Square, London of the fourth part, William Tatton Egerton, esquire, Wilton Terrace, London and Lady Charlotte Egerton nee Loftus of the fifth part, Lady Anna Maria Helen Loftus, spinster, Chester Square, London of the sixth part and the Most Noble John Henry Loftus, Marquis of Ely, Ely Lodge, County Fermanagh of the seventh part.

Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
Release of a charge of £10,000.

Other:
Signed and sealed by the parties.

Parties:
Most Noble Anna Maria Dowager Marchioness of Ely, Chester Square, London and Most Noble John Henry Loftus Marquis of Ely, Ely Lodge, County Fermanagh.

Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
Release of two annuities of £1,000 on the property.

Parties:
Rev. Richard Haggitt, Rector of Fornham all saints cum Westley, County of Suffolk and Samuel Jay, Barrister, Lincoln's Inn, County of Middlesex and John Henry, Marquis of Ely.

Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
Release from two mortgages of £3,000 and £1,000 and interest on same.

Other:
Signed and sealed by the parties.

Relic of St Francis Xavier arm at St Mary's, Emo, Laois. With Jesuits.

2. L-r: James McPolin, Robert Tyndall, Donal O'Sullivan and Frederick Cuffe.

Folder of material related to the relic of St Francis Xavier's at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes newspaper articles, correspondence, article on the origins of the plan to secure the relic for Gardiner street Church and airline and gardai details.

Beads given by Fr Willie Doyle SJ the day before his was killed, to one of his ‘Boys’.

Religious procession [Children of Mar]) walking up street in County Leitrim.

A file containing remarks by various members of the Irish Province on the proposed booklet to aid Scholastics about to begin their Magisterium.

A file relating to the renewal of permission from the Archbishop of Dublin allowing Fr Bodkin to say a Votive Mass daily.

Rent and insurance receipts for 11 and 12 Gloucester Place, Dublin.

A file relating to repairs to the weir at Willbrook, Rathfarnham, Dublin and the pond at Rathfarnham Castle. Includes quotations from contractors for the work.

Reply for sending of Christmas card by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

'Reply to Dr Gregg’s Sermon'.

A report by John Gannon SJ sent to Irish Fr Provincial on Chinese education and a proposal to establish a centre for Chinese students. Includes a covering letter.

Part of a report on how Theological Studies are managed in an unidentified Theological College. An accompanying note in English suggests that the College may be St Beuno's, and that the writer may be Fr Edmund O’Reilly. (In Latin).

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.

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.

Reports on Irish Jesuit tertians.

Reports on Jesuit Studies in the Irish Province.

A file relating to a request by Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney to Fr John Ryan SJ (Superior of the Mission) to make available a chaplain to the Federal Contingent to South Africa.

A file relating to requests received from the Hong Kong mission for financial assistance.

A file containing miscellaneous notes, MSS material and articles by Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ relating to his research on Fr Peter Kenney SJ. Includes letters to Fr Burke Savage concerning this research (2 May 1977 - 10 June 1986, 12 items). The file was used by Fr Morrissey for his research on Fr Peter Kenney SJ.

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

A file relating to research carried out by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on the history of Rathfarnham Castle.

Responses to Irish Fr Provincial's letter seeking volunteers to serve as chaplains. Includes;

• Copy of Provincial's letter (16 February 1942, 1p.)
• Responses from Frs Michael O'Meara SJ (2 letters, See also CHP2/32), Peter MacSeumais SJ, Brian MacMahon SJ, Fergus Cronin SJ (See CHP2/14), Thomas J. Martin SJ (See CHP2/28), Aidan Ennis SJ, Gerard Perrott SJ (brother of Cyril Perrott SJ) (2 letters) (See CHP2/35), Brendan Lawler SJ, Gerard MacLoughlin SJ and Thomas O'Callaghan SJ.

Results for Francis M Browne from the Royal University of Ireland: Matriculation Examination (Summer 1900), First University Examination (Summer 1901) and Second University Examination in Arts (1906).

Printed notices of results of examinations from St Patrick's College, Melbourne for pupils matriculated and passing the Civil Service and St Francis Xavier College, Kew for pupils matriculated and passing the Civil Service (1883) (2 copies), and results of the Senior and Junior public examinations at Xavier College, Kew (December 1913).

Retreat and prayer notes used by Fr William White SJ.

Retreat and sermon notes attributed to Fr William Flynn SJ in the main. One document refers to Easter Sunday, 1 April 1866, [Fr.] James Butler [SJ]. References to sermons at St Beuno's, Wales, Mungret, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Galway.

Retreat group at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin with Fr Patrick Barrett SJ - Central Studios.