Letter from Alice Gwynn on domestic affairs
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Letter from Alice Gwynn (Fr Gwynn’s sister-in-law) on domestic affairs.
Gwynn, Alice, 1904-1991
Letter from Alice Gwynn on domestic affairs
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Letter from Alice Gwynn (Fr Gwynn’s sister-in-law) on domestic affairs.
Gwynn, Alice, 1904-1991
Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad
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Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad, relating to her research on Archbishop FitzRalph. Includes typed notes on Otto III. Also includes Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s wedding invitation to Katherine’s marriage to Dr Alfred Strnad at University Church in July 1976.
Walsh-Strnad, Katherine, -2011, historian
Letter and note concerning the biography of Rev. James Gwynne
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Letter (from Peter, Haslemere, Surrey) and note concerning the biography of Rev. James Gwynne (Fr Gwynn’s maternal grandfather) (1829 -1869).
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Invitation from Taoiseach Charles Haughey to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to a reception in the Irish Parliament House at the Bank of Ireland, College Green, to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Declaration of Independence by Grattan’s Parliament and the Convention of the Ulster Volunteers in Dungannon.
Haughey, Charles, 1925-2006, politician and taoiseach
Information on Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-grandfather’s cousin, John Gwynne
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Information on Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-grandfather’s cousin, John Gwynne (1754 – 1828/9), founder of a ‘charitable endowment Institution, Derry.’ Includes letters from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland to Fr Gwynn (30 June, 8 July 1975, 2 items. 1p. each) and note given to Fr Gwynn by Archbishop George Simms (July 1974, 1p.) (John Gwynne bequeathed a large sum of money to found a charitable endowment in Derry known as the Gwynne Institution, for the education of boys whose parents could not afford to give them a suitable education. The money was to be distributed equally among Protestants and Catholics. (from Burke’s Irish Family Records, 19[74], p. 53) )
Simms, George Otto, 1910-1991, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
Hostel for West African Students in Dublin
Correspondence, mainly between Irish Fr Provincial and Monsignor James Moynagh, Prefect Apostolic at Kiltegan, County Wicklow, concerning Mgr. Moynagh’s proposals to establish a Catholic hostel for West African students attending the National University in Dublin. Includes copies of letters: from Archbishop McQuaid and others, to Mgr. Moynagh; from Mgr. Moynagh to Fr S. Harrington (Provincial of The Society of African Missions) and to Irish Fr Provincial John McMahon SJ and Fr Provincial’s reply.
MacMahon, John R, 1893-1989, Jesuit priest
Holograph article ‘The Introduction of Roman Canon Law into Ireland’
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Holograph article ‘The Introduction of Roman Canon Law into Ireland.’
Group photographs of Jesuits at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
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Group photographs of Jesuits (named) at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.
'PP 3i Anni Rathfarnham 1941-2';
Back row, l-r: Patrick Harper, John O'Shaugnessy, Thomas O'Callaghan, Brian McMahon, Michael O'Mahony, Gerard McLaughlin, James Kelly, Peter McSeamais. Middle row: Liam McElligott, Michael O'Meara, Terence Sheridan, Scozzeri, - Van Bogrt, Fergus Cronin, Denis Gilmore, Brendan Brennan and Peter Buschman. Front row: George Carroll, Aidan Ennis, Charles O'Conor, Henry Keane, Gerard Golden, Gerard Perrott and John Williams. Names given in 1970, of those who have died on reverse.
'Autumn 1914', Juniors at Rathfarnham;
Back row, l-r: John Farrell, Aubrey Gwynn, Thomas Moore, Denis Hayes and Colin McKillop. Middle row: Robert McCarthy, Michael Kelly, Paul O'Dea, Charles Scantlebury, Noel Burke-Gaffney, Donal McCarthy. Front row: Eddie Bourke, Charles Molony, John Ryan, Jeremiah Higgins and Kieran Ward.
[1958]-[1964];
Jesuit brothers including, l-r Andre Bannon, - John Adams, Edward Keogh and Fitzgerald at Rathfarnham Castle.
[1958]-[1964];
Back row, l: Anthony Baggot, Ned Keogh, John O'Connor, Gabriel McKinney, Liam O'Hara, Joseph Osborne, William Glanville, Roderick Greaney, Anthony McShera, James Fitzgerald. Middle row: Albert Kelly, Patrick Brady, Joseph Cleary, James Priest, Frank Roe. Seated: Andrew Bannon, John Adams, Charles O'Conor, Fergal McGrath, Patrick McNamara.
Group photograph of the St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street community on a picnic
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Group photograph of the St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street community on a picnic (found in the papers of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ).
Genealogical notes relating to Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-great grandfather sent by Mercy Simms
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Genealogical notes relating to Fr Gwynn’s great-great grandfather, Rev. John Gwynne and his wife Catherine Rolleston, sent to Fr Gwynn by Mercy Simms (his cousin).
Simms, Mercy, 1915-1998
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File relating to Fr Thomas J O'Donnell SJ including memorial card, photographs, catalogue entries, application to join the Society and correspondence relating to his time spent in India and at Vatican Radio.
O'Donnell, Thomas J, 1906-1983, Jesuit priest
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Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
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Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s Bible, with entries in his handwriting in the ‘Family Register’ of the dates on which his mother and siblings were received into the Catholic Church; dates of family marriages and deaths and the dates on which he took his first vows and was ordained.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
File containing Fr Seán Ó Catháin's admission papers and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials
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File containing Fr Seán Ó Catháin's admission papers and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials concerning his role as head of the Education Department, University College Dublin and later supply work.
Father Thomas Field, S.J. A Pioneer of the Church in Paraguay
Booklet 'Father Thomas Field, S.J. A Pioneer of the Church in Paraguay' by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ. Published for the St Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society by the Irish Messenger Office, Dublin, 1924.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Family trees compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Rough handwritten family trees, two pages, compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
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Explanatory statement made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ in 1980 concerning his proposed book 'The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries' and his other more recent publications.
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Explanatory notes (entitled ‘Preface’) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the history of his interest in tracing early Irish liturgical texts.
A file relating to the exception taken by the ecclesiastical authorities of the Archdiocese of Dublin to two sentences in a review of an American book entitled Religious Instruction and Education in the September issue of Studies (1942). Includes letters from Archbishop John Charles McQuaid to Irish Fr Provincial John R. MacMahon SJ concerning the issue.
MacMahon, John R, 1893-1989, Jesuit priest
Essay on “ ‘Jus Naturale’ in Roman Law” by ‘A. Gwynn SJ’
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Essay on “ ‘Jus Naturale’ in Roman Law” by ‘A. Gwynn SJ’ Incomplete (last 2 pages missing).
Envelope in which the Eugene O'Curry letters were contained
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Envelope in which the letters N6/1 - N6/14, Eugene O'Curry, were contained. Notes on the envelope refer to dates, senders and recipients of some of the letters. Another note reads ‘(The history of these letters is unknown: they were not part of Fr Delaney’s papers). Found loose in strong room April 1944. Seem to belong to Leeson Street.’.
Connolly, Patrick J, 1875-1951 Jesuit priest and editor
Easter card from Prof. Jack Watt to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Easter card from Prof. Jack Watt to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ containing domestic news. Encloses publisher’s notice for Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad’s book on Archbishop Richard FitzRalph, A Fourteenth-Century Scholar and Primate: Richard FitzRalph in Oxford, Avignon, and Armagh (1981).
Watt, Jack, historian
Drafts of a paper entitled ‘Chapter II. Brian (Boruma) and the Corpus Missal’
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Typescript drafts of a paper entitled ‘Chapter II. Brian (Boruma) and the Corpus Missal’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Draft of an autobiography of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Draft of an autobiography of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ. Comprises six non-contiguous section, dealing with his mother’s family ‘The O'Briens of Cahirmoyle’ and his father’s early life. Original holograph manuscript and version typed by a Mrs Hannigan, 13 Church Drive, Churchtown, County Dublin. Manuscript found in an envelope marked ‘Received 15 July 1979 from Mr Hannigan.’
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Draft Gwynn family entry from Burke's Peerage
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Draft Gwynn family entry from Burke's Peerage sent to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ by the publishers: ‘We are sending you the entire genealogy in the hope that you might be able to supply fuller information – especially full present addresses – on the other side of the family as well as your own immediate branch.’
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Draft holograph chapter entitled ‘5 – The liturgical decree of the second Synod of Cashel (1172)’ (pp.30 –50) (21pp) and draft typescripts, ‘Irish annalists and the Reformers of the Twelfth Century: 1. The Synod of Cashel’ (pp.98 – 102) (5pp) and ‘2. The Synod of Rath Breasail’ (pp.103 – 108) (6pp); ‘3. St. Malachy and Armagh’ (pp.109 – 112) (4pp); ‘4. The Synod of Kells’ (pp.113 – 118) (6pp); ‘5. The second Synod of Cashel’ (pp.119 – 147) (29pp).
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Draft chapters by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of the book he was working on before he died 'The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries'. Incomplete – first three chapters are missing. Includes:
Documents relating to the Stowe Missal and Tallaght
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Documents relating to the Stowe Missal and Tallaght. Includes:
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Documents relating to the series 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' published by the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. Includes:
– notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the background to the series (12 November 1977, 1p.);
– printed advertisement for the series including a list of volumes and prices (n.d., 4pp);
– memorandum by Prof Ludwig Bieler (Acting Editor of the series) on a new edition of the complete works of Scottus Erriugena (10 August 1964, 1p.);
– ‘Scriptores Latini Hiberniae Directions for Contributors’ (n.d., 8pp);
– memorandum on some of the publications produced in the series and the uncertain future of the series as a result of financial difficulties (n.d., 3pp);
– letter from Prof Bieler to Fr Synan (Director of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies) inquiring as to the possibility of financial assistance for the series (15 May 1976, 2pp).
Documents concerning the editorship of ‘St Joseph’s Sheaf’
Documents concerning the editorship of ‘St Joseph’s Sheaf’, the magazine of the St Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society.
Declaration by Fr Charles S. Galton SJ
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Declaration by Charles S. Galton SJ that he ‘received Aubrey Osborn Gwynn into the Church on the 14th of Dec. 1902’ (21 May 1918, 1p.) and copy of Certificate of Reconciliation, ‘According to the Register of Baptisms kept at S. H. Church Wimbledon Aubrey Osborn Gwynn…was reconciled at the said Church, by Charles S. Galton on the 14th day of December 1902’ (18 May 1902, 1p.)
Galton, Charles S., 1860-1936, Jesuit priest
Correspondence with Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin with the Irish Fr Provincial
Correspondence with Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin (mainly holograph letters from the Archbishop and copies of Irish Fr Provincial’s replies) on various matters. Includes letters concerning :
McQuaid, John Charles, 1895-1973, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin
Correspondence relating to Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s life-long friend Fr Thomas J. Fullerton
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Correspondence relating to Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s life-long friend Fr Thomas J. Fullerton. Includes:
– letters from Fr Fullerton to Fr Gwynn (17 September 1971 – 1975, 3 items);
– note to Fr Gwynn from Gearoid Cr[ookes], Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, following Fr Fullerton’s death in 1976, enclosing four letters Fr Gwynn wrote to Fr Fullerton from 1916 and 1932. Includes references to Fr Gwynn’s brother Edward Lucius’ departure for Australia, his brother Denis (a soldier who had just been gazetted to the 5th Munsters at the Curragh) (18 November 1916, 4pp), political and social events at home and academic life in U.C.D. (16 April 1932, 2pp).
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
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Correspondence concerning Madame Regina Łukasiewicz’s accusations of the theft of her late husband’s papers by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Prof. E. O'Doherty of U.C.D. (her late husband was Jan Łukasiewicz, Professor of Mathematical Logic at the Royal Irish Academy (a special professorship) ). Madame Łukasiewicz was suffering from ‘paranoid psychosis with delusions of persecution’ and was admitted to St Vincent’s Private Mental Home for a number of weeks until Fr Gwynn helped to arrange her removal to the house of her nephew in England. The papers had in actual fact, been deposited by herself in the R.I.A. Library in 1956. Documents include:
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.
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Correspondence between Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and the Royal Irish Academy concerning his paper ‘Brian Borúma and the Mass in Irish’ and the deposition by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Prof. Ludwig Bieler of the editorial correspondence for the series 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' in the Library of the R.I.A..
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Copy transcripts relating to documents on Fr John Stritch SJ and Irish mission
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Copy typescript transcripts, mostly relating to documents (1640-1661), supplied by Fr John MacErlean SJ, in Jesuit archives, on Fr John Stritch SJ and Irish mission.
'Church History for Schools' by 'Fr Jerome Mahony SJ
'Church History for Schools' by 'Fr Jerome Mahony SJ.
Mahony, Jerome JJ, 1889-1956, Jesuit priest
Christmas cards to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Christmas cards from Prof. Ludwig and Eva Bieler; Prof. John and Yvonne Morrall and Prof. Geoffrey Hand.
Christmas card from Alice Gwynn
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Christmas card from Fr Aubrey Gwynn sister-in-law, Alice Gwynn.
Gwynn, Alice, 1904-1991
'Chapter VII’ typescript entitled ‘Brian Boruma is buried in Armagh’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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'Chapter VII’ typescript entitled ‘Brian Boruma is buried in Armagh’ pp42 – 54 (13pp) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Certificate of Marriage of parents of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Certified copy of the Certificate of Marriage of Fr Gwynn’s parents Stephen Lucius Gwynn and Mary Louisa Osborn Gwynn, on 17 December 1889 at Christ Church in the parish of Walcot St. Swithin, Somerset.
Certificate of Baptism of Aubrey Osborn Gwynn
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Certified copy of Certificate of Baptism of Aubrey Osborn Gwynn, son of Stephen Lucius and Mary Louisa Osborne (sic) Gwynn, 10 Arlington Villas, Bristol, on 25 March 1892.
Catalogue of Publications by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Copybook containing a ‘Catalogue of Publications by Aubrey Gwynn SJ in the library of Milltown Park.’ Compiled by Fr Gwynn.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Catalogue entry for Fr Matthew Devitt SJ
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Catalogue entry for Fr Matthew Devitt SJ and photogrpah of the golden jubilee of Fr O'Reilly and Fr Devitt at the Scalp, Enniskerry, County Wicklow.
Devitt, Matthew, 1854-1932, Jesuit priest
Cardinal Bellarmine. An Historical Sketch
Cardinal Bellarmine. An Historical Sketch
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Card of Walter Osborne portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’
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Card published by the National Gallery of Ireland, of the Walter Osborne (1859-1903) portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’ (age 6). (Osborne was Fr Gwynn’s god-father). Portrait was presented to the Gallery in 1979 by Fr Gwynn’s sister.
National Gallery of Ireland, 1854-
Birthday cards for Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s 90th birthday
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Birthday cards for Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s 90th birthday. Includes card signed by 46 Jesuits in Milltown Park and card from Bishop Hanson and his wife (former Bishop of Clogher).
Biography of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Potted biography by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ, and memorial card of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
O'Donoghue, Fergus, Jesuit priest
Aubrey Gwynn asking his father to become a Jesuit
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Letter from Aubrey Gwynn to his father asking for leave to become a Jesuit ([June 1910], 4pp) and his father’s reply, urging him to wait at least until Aubrey reaches twenty-one before he makes such a momentous decision (20 June [1910], 4pp).
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Articles from Studies on Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Photocopies of articles from Studies, Winter 1992, Vol. See also 81, No. 324, on Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ , published on the centenary of his birth: ‘Aubrey Gwynn; The Person’ by Prof. Geoffrey Hand; ‘Aubrey Gwynn: The Scholar’ by Prof. Katherine Walsh and Aubrey Gwynn: The Jesuit’ by Fr Fergus O’Donoghue SJ (pp. 375 – 398).
Studies, 1912-
Article entitled ‘Father and Son’
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Photocopied extract from Trinity: A College Record, of an article entitled ‘Father and Son’ which reproduces extracts from the Rev. Stephen Gwynne’s Dublin Journal, on the occasion of visiting Dublin for the purpose of entering his son John at Trinity College.
Trinity College Dublin, 1592-
Annotated typescript on liturgical texts [by Françoise Henry?]
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Annotated typescript on liturgical texts [by Françoise Henry?]. Incomplete.
Henry, Françoise, 1902-1982, archaeologist and art historian
‘William Smith O'Brien and the Principles of Young Ireland’
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Photocopy of a paper by Prof Blanche Touhill on ‘William Smith O'Brien and the Principles of Young Ireland.’
Touhill, Blanche, historian
‘The Poetry of an Exile, William Smith O'Brien 1849 - 1956’
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Copy of monograph by Prof. Blanche Touhill on ‘The Poetry of an Exile, William Smith O'Brien 1849 - 1956’
Touhill, Blanche, historian
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‘Preliminary notes’ (in an unidentified hand) on the Corpus Missal (n.d., 4pp); draft of an article by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘A Fifteenth Century Irish Missal: B.M., Egerton 2677’ (n.d., 3pp) and notes on the Lesnes Missal (n.d., 5pp).
‘Irish Missionary Priests in the West Indies’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Amended typescript manuscript entitled ‘Irish Missionary Priests in the West Indies’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
‘Hunting for Runaway White Servants’ with extracts from the ‘Old Records of the Island’ (Barbados)
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Offprint beginning ‘Hunting for Runaway White Servants’ with extracts from the ‘Old Records of the Island’ (Barbados).
‘Extract from the Register of Matthew MacCathasaigh, Bishop of Clogher, 1287 - 1316’
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‘Extract from the Register of Matthew MacCathasaigh, Bishop of Clogher, 1287 – 1316.’ Holograph.
‘Chapter VI’ holograph draft by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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‘Chapter VI’ holograph draft (pp136 - 156) (21pp) and typescript pp27 - 41 (15pp) with footnotes (3pp) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.