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McSweeney, Joseph, 1909-1982, Jesuit priest, chaplian and missioner Rathfarnham
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'Dawning Day', compiled by the Juniors in Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin

Bound volumes entitled 'Dawning Day', compiled by the Juniors in Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin containing articles, poems and songs on the various missions - China, India and Australia. Binding is loose on 'Dawning Day', 10th edition. Includes photographs of Frs Edward Bourke, Gerald Kennedy and George Byrne, Mr Richard Harris, Mr John Moran, Wah Yan College, the graves of Frs Saul and McCullough.

Material relating to Fr Joseph McSweeney's tour of duty as chaplain to the Royal Air Force after the Second World War

  • IE IJA J/297/3
  • File
  • 5 April 1945 - 2 September 1948
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

File of material relating to Fr Joseph McSweeney's tour of duty as chaplain to the Royal Air Force in the Middle East after Second World War (material on Second World War check chaplain's file). Includes letters regarding going to Belfast in 1945 for medical examination, a letter from Fr Edmund D'Arcy SJ, 114 Mount Street, London to Irish Fr Provincial expressing his concern over Fr McSweeney. Remarks that Fr Blount, senior army chaplain , came to see him and said that he considered Fr McSweeney. to be '...very weary and ought to be brought home'. (28 July 1948, 2pp).

Mission material relating to Fr Joseph McSweeney SJ

  • IE IJA J/297/6
  • File
  • 19 August 1950 - 25 February 1982
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

File of mission material relating to Fr Joseph McSweeney SJ. Includes announcement of death, personal record and correspondence between Fr McSweeney and Fr Thomas Martin SJ, Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.