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Jesuit Library, Milltown Park, 1860-2019 Italy
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Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and Jesuits on formation, finance, libraries, holidays and Trinity College Dublin

Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and Jesuits on various matters such as

  • the censure of those in various stages of formation;
  • the proposal to purchase books dealing with the missions in order to establish ‘the nucleus of a useful missionary library’ in Milltown Park (See also ADMN/3/11);
  • Catholics and Trinity College Dublin (See also ADMN/3/43; 76);
  • villas;
  • the introduction of legislation granting a rebate of income tax to parents having children at school;
  • the ‘desirability’ of a ‘recognised uniform’ way of expressing ‘Society of Jesus’ in initials in English and Irish;
  • the introduction of dancing classes ‘under the guidance of a certain number of lady instructresses’ without the permission of Irish Fr Provincial at Belvedere College;
  • Irish scholastics in Jersey and
  • examinations in ‘air raid precautions and anti-gas measures’ for male members of religious orders at the Air Raid Precautions School, Griffith Barracks, Dublin.

Collection of pamphlets of Jesuit interest in the 16th century

  1. De persecutione Anglicana libellus....by Robert Persons SJ, Rome, 1582. Ex libris Josephi Mariani and inscription in Italian;
  2. Rationes decem quibus fretus...by Edmund Campion SJ, Rome, 1582;
  3. Historia del glorioso...by William Allen, 1583;
  4. Alcune lettere della cose del Giappone, 1584;
  5. Relations della felice morte, by Alessandro Valignano SJ, 1584.