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File containing papers relating to the admission of Stephen Bates to the Society of Jesus and his subsequent life as teacher and superior of the Jesuit community at The Crescent, Limerick.

File relating to the admission of Thomas O'Brien to the Society of Jesus and the taking of vows.

File relating to the admission of Timothy Doody to the Society of Jesus and the taking of vows.

Admission ticket for a papal audience. Issued by the ‘Anticamera Pontifica al Vaticano’; states that Fr John Conmee is to be admitted to an audience with the Pope on Friday 1 May 1903. Includes regulations for those attending papal audiences in relation to dress and behaviour.

Admission tickets to Dáil Eireann, ‘Seiseon Puiblidhe’, in the keeping of Fr Kyran Ward SJ. (In Irish)

Admission, early life in the Society of Jesus and correspondence of Fr William Lee SJ,with his Irish Fr Provincials from time in Zambia concerning his work at Gonzaga College, Dublin and in the Milltown Institute.

Advertisement for ‘A Mission’ at St Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen given by the Jesuit fathers, Frs Matthew Power (Edinburgh) and Fr Willie Doyle (Dublin).

Aerial photographs of Dublin port and Dublin by Ashe Studios Ltd.

'Aeschylus – Choephoroi' by Arthur Sidgwick, M.A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press). With note by Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ (7 June 1947) ‘Copiously annotated in red ink in G.M. Hopkins’s hand on pp. 4 – 6, 14 – 21, 23, 25, 26 – 29, 31 – 34, 38 – 40. Other annotations are in another hand. This book is valuable as an example of Hopkins’s textual criticism.’

Leaflet with details of the AIB sponsored, Spirit of Father Browne photography competition, which has a prize of €5000.

Album compiled by Fr Henry Gill SJ containing newspaper clippings, photographs and letters. Includes:
– newspaper clipping referring to a meeting of the Royal Dublin Society before which a paper by Fr Gill entitled ‘The Theory of the Stratified Discharge in Geissler Tubes’ was communicated by the Registrar Mr. Moss (n.d., 1p.);
– letter from Prof Charles J. Joly, D.Sc., F.R.S., Dunsink Observatory, Co. Dublin (Honorary Secretary of the R.D.S.) stating ‘Your beautiful illustration of precession and nutation is quite new to me and I think you should certainly send it to 'Nature'. I am keeping the figures as you kindly say I may’ (24 March 1903, 1p.);
– black and white photograph of the hunt at Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare ([1903?], 1p.) and note to Fr Gill from the “Proprietors of ‘The Badminton Magazine’ enclosing a cheque for £1.1s as a prize in their photograph competition (27 April 1903, 1p.);
– clipping from a magazine/newspaper concerning the marriage of his sister, Miss Mary Catherine Gill, only daughter of Mr Henry J. Gill, M.A., J.P., of Roebuck House, Clonskeagh, Dublin with Mr. William Harrington, of Cherryfield, Templeogue on 16 June 19?? . Also includes two photographs of the room with the table laid out for the wedding breakfast (16 June 19??, 4 items);
– newspaper report on a lecture given by Fr Gill before the Royal Dublin Society on ‘a possible connection between the recent disturbances at Vesuvius and San Francisco’ ([June 1906], 1p.);
– clipping from the 'Freeman’s Journal' referring to Fr Gill’s theory ‘according to which earthquakes and such like disturbances at one place may, under certain conditions, give rise to corresponding shocks in other places’ (24 August 1906, 1p.);
– clipping on the opening of a new wing of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge by Lord Rayleigh. Includes reference to Mr H. V. Gill’s experiments with spinning tops to illustrate earthquake reactions (19 June 1908, 2pp);
– extract from 'The Tablet' containing the following reference to Fr Gill in its University Notes, ‘…we must congratulate the Rev. H. V. Gill, of St Edmund House, upon his Research Degree won by a Thesis on ‘A New Glow in Vacuum Tubes.’ Father Gill has exhibited his apparatus before the Royal Society, and was also invited to exhibit it by the Royal Institution.’ (see also J17/29) (26 June 1909, 2pp);
– notice advertising Fr Gill’s ‘Earthquake Top…with handle for spinning, and lead bullets’ for 7s.6d. (n.d., 1p.);
– clipping from the 'Freeman’s Journal' on a lecture on ‘Wireless Telegraphy’ given by Fr. Gill in Belvedere College on 6 May 1912 (7 May 1912, 4pp);
– extract from 'The Tablet' of an article entitled ‘The Cardinal at Cambridge A Representative University Gathering’ containing the following reference to Fr Gill, ‘Sir J.J. Thomson, F.R.S., who responded for science, said that this was not the first time that he had had the pleasure of meeting and working with members of that Society. One of them, Father Gill, worked in his laboratory and did extremely valuable and able work, and developed a great power of dealing with physical problems’ (18 May 1912, 3pp);
– photograph of a physics laboratory (possibly one of the labs at Clongowes Wood College) (n.d., 1 item)
– photographs relating to Fr Gill’s research work (n.d., 5 items).

Album from Patrick O'Mara’s time as a student at Valkenberg, The Netherlands. The album contains farewell poems in German, Latin, Greek and English by O'Mara’s classmates; a series of photographs and numerous insertions. For preservation reasons the photographs have been removed from the album and are listed below in the order in which they appear. A note in pencil in the album indicates their original position. A photograph of the mill at Valkenburg appears to be missing between J552/ 33 and 34. Unrelated paper insertions have also been listed separately. Photographs of O'Mara at other stages in his early career in the Society of Jesus are included at the end of the album.

Album, with note on inside ‘Positive pack 1 (2897) Suggest No.2: Menton, France & No.17: Arch of Titus, Rome. Photographs have been removed from the album. Pencil annotations on the album (not in Mr Frank Browne SJ hand) are in written here in italic.

1. Sister Josephine, Ursuline, b. 1870
2. Menton (on reverse) ‘Photo taken by Fr Earley. Stormy on the sands at Humewood P.E. Nov – 1902’. (Humewood is a coastal area, Port Elizabeth, South Africa).
3. Cobh (on reverse) - ‘To dearest Joe With love From Sissie Oct. 31st 1902.
4. Menton
5. Rome
6. Rome
7. Rome
8. Fontana de Trevi (Rome)
9. (Menton, France)
10. Venice
11. San Marcs, Venice
12. Doge’s Palace, Venice
13. Via Appia
14. Via Appia
15. (Tour of Italy, Greece)
16. (Tour of Italy, Greece)
17. Arch of Titus, Rome
18. Rome
19. Rome
20. (Tour of Italy, Greece)
21. Pompeii?
22. Pompeii?
23. Naples
24. Genoa
25. Rome
26. Rome?
27. (altar)
28. Venice
29. Milan
30. (Switzerland)
31. (Switzerland?)
32. (Switzerland?)
33. (Switzerland?)
34. (Switzerland?)
35. (Switzerland?) 35
36. Menton?
37. Cork
38. 1 38 Sheet 2 Cork
39. 2 39 Timahoe
40. 3 40 Switzerland
41. 4 41 Switzerland?
42. 5 42 Switzerland? Bellanzama?
43. 7 43
44. 8 44 Monte Carlo?

Annotated typescript on liturgical texts [by Françoise Henry?]. Incomplete.

Announcement of the death of Fr Stephen Farrell SJ at Milltown Park on 20 June 1879 and obituary. (In Latin and English).

Application by Fr Seán Ó Catháin SJ for the Lectureship (1950) and Professorship (1966) in Education in University College Dublin.

Application by John Burden SJ to receive his diaconate.

Application by Mr Richard Ingram SJ for sub-diacanate.

Application by Mr Lawton for sub-diaconate.

Application by Joseph Hurley SJ for sub-diaconate.

Application from Francis Shaw for sub-diacanate.

Application and testimonials of Fr Lambert McKenna SJ for the Professorship of Education at University College Galway.

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).

Appreciation of war time service issued by Winston Churchill for Fr Patrick O'Mara SJ.

Original and copies of appreciations of Fr Willie Doyle SJ including letters from General Sir William Bernard Hickie, 16th Division, B.E.F.to Hugh Doyle Esq., Melrose, Dalkey, Dublin (15 December 1917) and to Fr Charles Doyle SJ (14 October 1924); Private M. Murphy, France, (Fr Willie Doyle’s orderly) (22 August 1917).

'Archaeological finds on Lamma Island (near Hong Kong)' by Daniel Finn SJ edited by T. F. Ryan SJ, Ricci Publications, Ricci Hall, University of Hong Kong.

Print out of personal history.

A file relating to an article by Fr Arthur Little SJ rejected by the censors. Includes a letter from Fr Arthur Little SJ, St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, County Offaly to Irish Fr Provincial stating that he wishes the article to be sent for censorship to Rome ‘I have no desire to get anyone into trouble so I shall only communicate with the English Assistant. If he upholds the censors having read their remarks I can only apologise for taking badly what turns out to be a fair verdict.’ (4 September 1938, 3pp).

Offprint of an article by Fr Joseph Canavan SJ entitled 'Charity in the Early Church'.

Copy of a publication called 'Ecclesiastical Review', (vol. xxxv, no. 3), containing an article by Mr Patrick Connolly SJ entitled 'Principles of Literary Criticism, Old and New'.

Copy of article by Fr Kevin Laheen SJ entitled, ‘The letters of an Irish brother, Edward Sinnott, S.J., from Calcutta, 1834-1837’, 'Collectanea Hibernica', 2004, 155-197. Contains transcripts of letters J406/2-7.

Article entitled ‘A Chaplain’s Story: Fr. Willie Doyle; A pastor across all divides’. Recounts Fr Doyle’s time as an army chaplain in the First World War. Also includes a print-out of pages from a web-site dedicated to Fr Doyle. Accompanied by a note to Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ, Province Archivist, explaining their provenance.

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.

Article by Fr Thomas A. Finlay SJ, ‘Liberty of Thought: An Address’ in an unidentified journal, p.219-226, kept by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ

Article from the 'Irish Times' entitled ‘The terrible trouble with Hopkins’ by Arminta Wallace. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0929/1224255430910.html

Offprint from 'The Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society' entitled ‘An Investigation into the Causes of the Self-Ignition of Ether-Air Mixtures’ by The Late Prof. J.A. McClelland, D.Sc., F.R.S., and Rev. H.V. Gill, S.J., D.S.O., M.C., M.A.. (Vol. XVI (N.S.), No. 10, p.109 – 119)

Offprint of an article entitled 'The Christian and Work' by Fr Michael Connolly SJ taken from the ‘Irish Ecclesiastical Record’, pp83-101. The text of a public lecture, given at Milltown Park, Dublin, 11 April 1962.

Typed manuscript of an article entitled 'The Fourth Career of Father John B. Bannon; St. Louis Pastor, Southern Chaplain, Confederate Agent, Irish Orator' by William Barnaby Faherty SJ

Article from 'Studies' entitled ‘Brave Days at Cambridge’ (p.268 – 280).

Article from 'Studies' entitled ‘Entropy, Life and Evolution’ (p.129 - 138).

Article from 'Studies' entitled ‘Facts and Fancies: Physics and Philosophy’ (p.91 – 100).

Article from 'Studies' entitled ‘Glare of Head-Lights: Solution of Problem’ (p.317 – 319).

Article from 'Studies' entitled ‘Science in Our Schools' (p. 461 – 470).

Article from the 'Irish' Ecclesiastical Record entitled ‘Logic and Modern Science’ (Fifth Series, Vol. XLIV, p.113 – 122).

Article from The Sunday Press, which details the Titanic album by Fr Frank Browne SJ which was on display at the opening day of the Boat Show, RDS, courtesy of Fr John Guiney SJ.

Articles from the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' entitled ‘On the Frontier of Physical Science’ (p.449 – 460).

Article in 'Messager du Coeur de Jésus' containing an article on Fr. Doyle by Fr Wery-Lacouagne SJ (p.75-95).

Copy of 'Revue d’Ascétique et de Mystique' containing an article on Fr Doyle by Léonce de Grandmaison (p.128-146).

Article from The Commonweal entitled ‘Father William Doyle, S.J.’ by Henry Longan Stuart.

Article by Fr Henry Gill SJ in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled ‘Give Me Only Thy Love!’ (p.238 - 244).

Articles in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled ‘Weatherwise’, (p.378 - 379).

Article by Fr Henry Gill SJ in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled 'A Thought on Miracles' (p.760 - 763).

Article by Fr Henry Gill SJ in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled 'As Strong as Death' (p.526 - 532).

Article by Fr Henry Gill SJ in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled 'Galway Bay' (p.183-185).

Articles in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled 'Spiritual Communion' (p.514 – 519).

Article by Fr Henry Gill SJ in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled 'The Church and Spiritualism' (p.33 - 40).

Articles in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled 'The Only Way' (In three parts: Part I: p.188 – 195; Part II: 232 – 237 and Part III: p.280 – 288.

Articles in 'The Irish Monthly', entitled 'The Prayer Book of the Church' (p.393 - 397).

Article by Frank McNally, ‘An Irishman’s Diary’ in the Irish Times which mentions Michael Mallin and his sons.

Copy of 'The Messenger of the Sacred Heart', containing an article on Fr Doyle (p.86-87).

Photocopy of an article on Fr Robert Haly SJ's life by Rev Henry Browne SJ from a book entitled 'A Roll of Honour Irish Prelates and Priests of the Last Century'.

Article on Fr Scully House taken from the Jesuit Year Book, 1970, pp71-73.

Article on Kenneth Flood taken from ‘Ten More Priests’ by Fr Robert Nash SJ, pp222 - 243.

Photocopy of an article from 'The Lancet' (Vol. 349) entitled 'My winter world: the illness of Gerard Manley Hopkins' by Kenneth M. Flegel, M.D. which concludes that 'inflammatory bowel disease, particularly Crohn's disease of the colon, provides a better explanation of Hopkins illness, accounting for recurring diarrhoea with haemorrhoids, fever, progressive weight loss, and profound fatigue'.

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).

A file containing articles photocopied from the Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, vol. I, no. 5 and vol. III, no. 3 on "The Aylmer Family", "The Principal Gentry of the County Kildare in the Year 1600" and "Donadea and the Aylmer Family".

Parties:
Anne Archbold, Elizabeth Archbold, Mary Archbold, Spinsters, City of Dublin of the first part, Sarah Kavanagh, Widow of the second part and Gerald Archbold and Michael Hanrahan of the third part.

Property:
Lands of Newtown, Castlebancroft and Fazakerlys, County Dublin.

Terms & Conditions:
To secure a payment of £1,600.

Other:
Signed and sealed.

Assortment of Martin and Browne family photographs, taken by Fr Frank Browne SJ.

1. Clifford Browne, aged 1, son of James Browne M.D., and nephew of Fr Frank Browne SJ, in studio photograph (c.1908);
2. [Clifford Browne], [c.1911];
3. Studio portrait of Robert (Bertie) Joseph Francis Martin, aged 14. (November 1913);
4. Child recuperating in hospital bed, ‘3 days after’;
5. Woman with laughing child [Clifford Browne's wife with daughter);
6. Outside Fort Villas, Cork;
7. Unknown woman with cat;
8. [Ursula Martin] with child. Method of photograph on reverse;
9. Unknown woman with chick on her shoulder – insignia on sleeve;
10. Unknown child;
11. Unknown woman;
12. Unknown woman;
13. Three children playing;
14. [John Martin], [c.1956];
15. Ursula Martin on her wedding day, [c.1946];

Attachment sent by Fr Michael Head SJ, Jesuit Archivist, Melbourne, Australia, of a biography written by Fr Matt Egan SJ on Fr Patrick Duffy SJ.

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).

Baptism certificate of Fergal McGrath.

Baptismal certificate for Fr James Walshe SJ.

Baptismal certificate for Robert Haly from SS Peter and Paul, Cork.

Bible belonging to members of the Kane family, initially William Joseph Kane, which has handwritten entries at the front explaining the genealogy of the Kane family. The entries have been signed by John Francis Kane, Fr Robert Kane SJ and Fr William Kane SJ. Earliest entry relates to John Kane, baptised 1775.

'Biblia Sacra'. Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins’s own copy of the Vulgate. Signed by him ‘Gerardi Manley Hopkins. Octobris XXXI, in vigil, omn. sanct. MDCCCLXVI’ (the day he was received into the Catholic Church). With 'St. Ignatius' College S.J. Dublin.' stamp. Petal of blossom flowers p115 and p546 . Copy of vulgate stops at Proverbs, Chapter 19. Index refers to 1313pp.

Bill for sherry and brandy made out to Fr Charles Aylmer SJ, Athol Street, Dublin.

Lawyer's bill of costs to Fr Charles Aylmer SJ regarding his sister's will, by Kernan and Treacy, Dominick Street.

Biographical details and appreciation of Fr John Ryan SJ taken from the report of the President of University College Dublin.

Biographical details of Fr John Hyde SJ. Includes Fr Hyde's medical report on entering the Society, information compiled by the examiners assessing his suitability for the Society and personal histiory.

Biographical details of Fr Joseph Canavan SJ.

A file containing biographical details of Fr Lambert McKenna SJ.

Biographical details on Fr Hilary Lawton SJ.

Biographical details on Fr Stephen Brown SJ.

Biographical details relating to Fr William Ronan SJ.

Anonymous [ Fr Gregory Ffrench SJ] biographical essay on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Fr Willie Doyle SJ.

Biographical information and photocopies of obituaries for Fr Daniel J Finn SJ.

File containing biographical information, obituary and notes from a sermon of Fr William Allen SJ (10 May 1964).

Biographical information Fr John Ffrench SJ which includes 'A few particulars relative to the Hon. and Rev. John Ffrench SJ', Dolllard, Printinghouse, Dublin (1887), 'Memoirs of Father Ffrench of the Society of Jesus', Manresa Press, Roehampton (1898) and copy of a letter from Fr Ffrench, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly to Mother Ursula Querk, Ursuline Convent, St Joseph's, Sligo concerning his nephew's accident and his cure due to the intercession of (6 February 1854, 4pp), with note from Sr. M. St. Dominic, Ursuline Convent, St Joseph's, Sligo (20 September 1983).

Biographical information on Br William Glanville SJ and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials. Includes a photograph of Br William Glanville SJ and Fr Sean Noonan SJ, September 1957, and mortuary card.

Biographical information on Fr Charles Harold Barrett SJ.

Biographical information on Fr Doyle including a copy of his birth certificate and memorial card.

Biographical information on Fr Francis Daly SJ.

Biographical information on Fr Francis M Browne SJ.

Biographical information on Fr Henry Fegan SJ.

Biographical information on Fr Henry Gill SJ. Includes:
– extract on Fr Gill from the Catalogus personarum primus (1930, 2pp);
– potted biography of Fr Gill by Fr John A Leonard SJ (n.d., 1p.);
– photocopies of newspaper obituaries of Fr Gill (27 Nov. 1945, 1p.);
– photocopies of obituaries from 'The Belvederian' and 'The Clongownian' (1946, 1p. each) and
– photocopy of an obituary printed in the 'Irish Province News', (Jan 1946, 3pp).

Biographical information on Fr John Barragry SJ.

Biographical information on Fr John Burden SJ - catalogue entries and obituary.

Biographical information on Fr John Coyne SJ.

Biographical information on Fr John J Hannon SJ. Includes catalogue entry (1930), correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and brief biography by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ.

Biographical information on Fr John Ryan SJ by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ.