- IE IJA J/186
- File
- 12 August 1930 - 24 February 1978
Part of Irish Jesuits
Material relating to Fr William Hogan SJ, including admission details, catalogue entry, and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincial.
Hogan, William, 1912-1978, Jesuit priest
Part of Irish Jesuits
Material relating to Fr William Hogan SJ, including admission details, catalogue entry, and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincial.
Hogan, William, 1912-1978, Jesuit priest
Letter of congratulation from the Jesuit Curia in Rome
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter of congratulation from the Jesuit Curia in Rome on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s entrance into the Society.
Dezza, Paolo,1901-1999, Jesuit priest and Cardinal
Documents relating to the 1910 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1910 Provincial Congregation.
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Visit of Mondragone party which included three priests, two scholastics and sixteen pupils of the Collegio Nobile of Mondragone, Frascati, Italy and Jesuits including Frs Sean McCarron (Superior of Manresa), Denis P. Kennedy (Rector of Belvedere College), Peader McSeaumais (Belvedere College) and Laurence Kearns(Minster of Manresa), on pier in Dublin Bay, 7 August 1950;
Letter from Dr Charles Russell, Irish College, Rome to Rev. Doctor Denvir, Donegal Street, Belfast
Part of Non-Irish Jesuit material
Letter from Dr Charles Russell, Irish College, Rome to Rev. Doctor Denvir, Donegal Street, Belfast concerning a meeting with the Pope to put forward his 'case'. Describes how anxious he felt about the matter. Remarks 'Yesterday I received the official announcement of my liberation and they will proceed in the next congregation...to make a new appointment.'
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Refers to the proposal to establish the Irish Messenger. Also makes reference to a request for a dispensation on behalf of a priest who wished to enter the Society. Announces that Fr John Ffrench SJ is very sick, and that he is to receive the last sacraments soon. Reports on the political situation in Rome, and the threat of suppression that faces the Society.
Armellini, Torquatus, 1823-1901, Jesuit priest
Part of Irish Jesuits
File of material relating to Fr Francis Joy SJ including catalogue record, mortuary card, and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials.
Joy, Francis, 1903-1977, Jesuit priest
Photographs of Pope's visit to the Vatican Observatory
Part of Irish Jesuits
Photographs of the Pope's visit to the Vatican Observatory, with Fr Daniel Joseph O'Connell SJ.
Photographic slides of sites of Jesuit interest in Barcelona, Rome, Manresa and Spain
Part of Irish Jesuits
Photographic slides of sites of Jesuit interest in Barcelona, Rome, Manresa and Spain produced by Fr John Purcell SJ.
Letter from Fr Nicholas Walsh SJ, Clongowes Wood College, asking to make his tertianship in Rome
Part of Irish Jesuits
[Copy of] letter from Fr Nicholas Walsh SJ, Clongowes Wood College, to [Fr Assistant], asking to make his tertianship in Rome to do his third year of studies. (In Italian). Includes confirmation in Latin on reverse of letter of decision to allow him to go to Rome.
Material related to the admission and taking of vows of Fr Patrick Simpson SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
File of material related to the admission and taking of vows of Fr Patrick Simpson SJ to the Society of Jesus. Includes correspondence related to Fr Simpson’s studies in Rome.
Correspondence between Fr Edward O’Connor SJ and his Irish Provincials
Part of Irish Jesuits
File of correspondence between Fr Edward O’Connor SJ and his Irish Provincials. Material relates to his time in Rome during WWII and his time in Zambia
Letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ, Gesú, Rome, Italy to Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ
A file of letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ, Gesú, Rome, Italy to Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ (Vice Provincial: 11 February 1858-1860; First Provincial of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus: 8 December 1860 - [ ] 1863). At this time Fr Ffrench SJ was the substitute English Assistant to Fr General. As a result many of the letters have an official slant. Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.
Ffrench, John, 1812-1873, Jesuit priest
Notes and letters by Fr John Ffrench SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Notes and letters by Fr John Ffrench SJ, including reports on 12 boys at St Stanisalus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly and what he has taught to them (18 October 1834), letters while acting as Substitute English Assistant to Fr General and English Assistant to Fr General, Rome to Fr O'Reilly SJ and Fr Browne SJ (21 December 1865 & 16 February 1867) and note on the wood used for Tullabeg. Includes letters from Fr George Lambert SJ, Fr General Peter Beckx SJ, Curia Generalizia Compagnia di Gesù, Rome, Italy on the death of Fr John Ffrench SJ (1873).
Copy of a general resolution of the Society of Jesus, issued by Fr General Roothaan
Copy of a general resolution of the Society of Jesus, issued by Fr General Roothaan. Addressed to Camille de Dominicis, Superioress of the Monastery of the Holy Virgin St. Ursula in Rome, and to all the religious of that monastery and of ‘the other monasteries of the same valuable order in the Catholic world.’ Grants a share in the prayers, sacrifices and other pious works performed by members of the Society.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Material relating to Fr Francis O'Farrell SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Material relating to Fr Francis O'Farrell SJ. Includes notes, letters and postcards (mainly in German).
Mission material relating to Br Patrick Sherry SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Mission material relating to Br Patrick Sherry SJ. Includes passport photographs, passports, personal record, announcement of death, and correspondence between Br Sherry and Frs Thomas J. Martin and Vincent Murphy, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland.
Notes compiled by Fr Francis Finegan SJ on the SS Trinit´Scottorum, Rome
Part of Irish Jesuit Colleges in Europe
Typed notes compiled by Fr Francis Finegan SJ on the medieval monastery and church of SS Trinit´Scottorum, Rome and Irish saints in Italy.
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Catalogus Defunctorum in renata societate lesu (II) 1970-1985
Catalogus Defunctorum in renata societate lesu (II)
1970-1985
Collegit et edidit
Nicolás R. Verástegui S.J.
Romae - 1986
Documents relating to the 1913 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1913 Provincial Congregation. Includes notes by Fr Peter Finlay SJ as Province Procurator to consult with the Fr General [1905-1917].
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Refers to a portrait of Fr John Ffrench SJ, and undertakes to send it to Fr Walsh.
Armellini, Torquatus, 1823-1901, Jesuit priest
Admission ticket for a papal audience for Fr John Conmee SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
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.
Visit of Mondragone party which stayed at Manresa
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Visit of Mondragone party which stayed at Manresa - included three priests, two scholastics and sixteen pupils of the Collegio Nobile of Mondragone, Frascati, Italy and Jesuits( including front row, l-r: Mr Delmirari J, Sigior Bellegamba (Italian Legation), Fr. Alberico Grass SJ. Fr Denis P. Kennedy SJ (Rector of Belvedere College), Mr Waldron (Dept. of External Affairs), Fr Chile DJ, Fr Bondani SJ, Fr Laurence Kearns SJ (Minister Manresa). Back row: Mr Phelan, Mr Mooney, Fr Sean McCarron SJ (Superior Manresa), Fr Charles Byrne SJ (Belvedere College), [ ], Fr Peader McSeaumais SJ (Belvedere College) and [ ], at Manresa, Dollymount 9 August 1950;
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
Photocopy letter from Irish Fr Provincial Patrick Keating SJ, The Presbytery, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr General concerning a letter Fr Keating received from John O'Reily, Archbishop of Adelaide and the suggestion that the Austro-Hungarian and Irish Mission should unite in Australia.
Keating, Patrick, 1846-1913, Jesuit priest
Letter from Aloysius Fortis to Peter Kenney
Letter from Aloysius Fortis to Peter Kenney.
Fortis, Luigi, 1748-1829, Jesuit priest and Father General
The Letters of Saint 1625-1681
The Letters of Saint 1625-1681
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland
Edited by Monsignor John Hanly of the Irish College in Rome
Dublin: The Dolmen Press
North America: Humanisties Press Inc.
St. Ignatius College S.J
Hanly, John J., -2016, priest and historian
Documents relating to the 1915 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1915 Provincial Congregation.
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Refers to a letter from the latter, the subject of which Fr Armellini has communicated to the Fr General. Expresses the hope that Fr Walsh has by now received the painting and drawing of Fr Ffrench, by way of Miss Fleming. Adds that ‘[t]he professor shall not be sent’ until word comes from Fr. Walsh. Encloses small photographs of the portrait (not included). Contains note written by Fr Walsh regarding the content of the letter.
Armellini, Torquatus, 1823-1901, Jesuit priest
Lexicon nominum locorum - Caroli Egger
Officina Libraria Vaticana, [Civitas Vaticana], 1977
Lexicon nominum locorum: Supplementum referens nomina Latina-vulgaria
Lexicon nominum locorum: Supplementum referens nomina Latina-vulgaria
Officina Libraria Vaticana, Vatican City, 1985
The pastoral function of church archives
The pastoral function of church archives.
The Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church
Part of Irish Jesuits
Material relating to Fr Patrick Kenny SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, personal record and medal from the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Clongowes Wood College SJ.
Kenny, Patrick, 1889-1973, Jesuit priest
Letter from Aloysius Fortis to Peter Kenney
Letter from Aloysius Fortis to Peter Kenney.
Fortis, Luigi, 1748-1829, Jesuit priest and Father General
Letter from Fr General Wlodimir Ledochowski SJ, Rome to Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ concerning Studies and other matters relating to formation.
Ledóchowski, Wlodimir, 1866-1942, Jesuit priest and Father General
Documents relating to the 1920 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1920 Provincial Congregation.
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Refers to the latter’s request for a German or Italian professor. Explains that, with the scholastics out of the Roman College, ‘double professors are required’, and that many have been sent elsewhere. Undertakes to send to Fr Walsh the portrait of Fr. Ffrench ‘in oil colours and with pensil [sic]’. Reports that the previous day they had a procession in the Church of St. Ignatius ‘to place the body of the Bd John Berchmans in the new shrine’. Encloses a photograph of a painting by Gagliardi Junior ‘and offered by F. Rossi to the Augustinian Father who delivered the panegyric of the Bd Peter at the Gesù’.
Armellini, Torquatus, 1823-1901, Jesuit priest
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. In reply to the latter's query in relation to the training of a novice master for Ireland. Fr Armellini recommends Fr Van der Hoeven SJ, Rector and Master of novices at Arlon in Belgium. Refers to Fr Walsh’s statement in relation to a villa house in Ireland. Asks Fr Walsh to reply soon to the Fr General in relation to ‘the Diocesan Seminary’; suggests that the Bishop might have changed his mind in relation to handing it over to the Society. Reports on the health of the Pope. Refers to the portraits and drawings of Fr Ffrench, which had not yet arrived in Dublin.
Armellini, Torquatus, 1823-1901, Jesuit priest
Letter from Aloysius Fortis to Peter Kenney
Letter from Aloysius Fortis to Peter Kenney.
Fortis, Luigi, 1748-1829, Jesuit priest and Father General
Letter from Fr John Conmee SJ, writing from Rome, giving account of papal audience
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter from Fr John Conmee SJ, writing from Rome, Italy to Fr Potter in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Gives an account of his private audience with the Pope that morning, at which they discussed Gardiner Street, Jesuit missions in Ireland, and the sodalities.
Documents relating to the 1923 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1923 Provincial Congregation.
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ to the Irish Fr Provincial and refers to events in Rome
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from the American College in Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Declines, with thanks, the latter's ‘offering’. Refers to events in Rome, and reports that the Fr General and others will not leave the country ‘till they see what can be done and where they may settle themselves.’ Announces that he is to stay in Rome for some time ‘for the communications with the Propaganda &c.’. Asks Fr. Walsh to send faculties to him to distribute.
Armellini, Torquatus, 1823-1901, Jesuit priest
Documents relating to the 1927 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1927 Provincial Congregation. Includes photograph (Fr Peter Finlay SJ) at Procurators Congregation, Rome, 1927 - with names.
Letter from Jean Janssen.
Janssen, Jean, 1789-1847, Jesuit priest
Documents relating to the 1930 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1930 Provincial Congregation.
Letters from Father General to the Rector of St Ignatius, Galway
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
Letters from Father General to the Rector of the Jesuit community at St Ignatius College, Galway.
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from the American College in Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Acknowledges the receipt of the latter's letter, with enclosures, of 24 November. States that he has not yet heard of the arrival of Dr Conroy. Refers to events in Rome, and to a decree which deprived the Society of its houses and churches there. Also laments the effects of the situation on the Catholic schools.
Armellini, Torquatus, 1823-1901, Jesuit priest
Documents relating to the 1933 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1933 Provincial Congregation.
Letters from Gerard (brother in law) to Fr William White SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters from Gerard (brother in law), 21 Havelock Street, Glasgow and Pontificio Collegio Irlandese, rOME to Fr William White SJ.
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from the American College in Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Thanks the latter for the money order which he enclosed in his last letter. Discusses the matter of the payment of stipendia for masses. Refers to the suspension of the sale of a farm belonging to the Irish College in Rome. Reports that the Pope had made a decree in relation to the Venerable Fr. Antony Baldinucci SJ, saying that he ‘possessed the theological and cardinal virtues in grada heroico’. Asks Fr Walsh to communicate to him details in relation to the proposed painting of Blessed Peter Faber, and asks where it is to be sent. Reports that the Fr General is in Fiesole at present.
Armellini, Torquatus, 1823-1901, Jesuit priest
Un ritratto di James Joyce.
Bradley, Bruce, Jesuit priest
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Discusses faculties for Masses and confraternities.
Armellini, Torquatus, 1823-1901, Jesuit priest
Documents relating to the 1938 Provincial Congregation
Documents relating to the 1938 Provincial Congregation.
Pilgrimage to Rome by Irish pilgrims in connection with the jubilee of his holiness, Pope Leo XII
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Documents and objects relating to a pilgrimage to Rome by Irish pilgrims in connection with the jubilee of his holiness, Pope Leo XIII. Includes travel documents; diary of journey; pilgrim's enrolment certificate for Michael Mulraney, 21 Mid Gardiner Street, Dublin, medals of Pope Leo XIII and green maniple with harps.
Article from 'Archivium Historicum Societatis Jesu' entitled 'Le P. François Bray (1584 -1624)...'
Part of Jesuits in Ireland pre-1773
'Le P. François Bray (1584 -1624). Un Irlandaise de la Mission Navale des Jèsuites Belges' by Édouard R. Hambye SJ. Reprint from 'Archivium Historicum Societatis Jesu', Vol. XV, 1946.
Hambye, Édouard René, 1916-1990, Jesuit priest
Letter from Fr George Lambert SJ to the Irish Fr Provincial on importance on avoiding controversy
Letter from Fr George Lambert SJ, writing from the Gesù in Rome, to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Writes to the latter at the request of the Fr General to draw the attention of Fr Walsh ‘to the great importance of avoiding anything which might give the Engl. Government a pretext to quarrel with us’. Adds that the prospects of the Society retaining their houses and churches decrease every day.
Lambert, George, 1821-1882, Jesuit priest
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Letter from Fr George Lambert SJ, writing from the Gesù in Rome, to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Reports that the Gesù was taken over by officials of the Giunta. Encloses a protest that was read and handed in by Fr Armellini (included; in Italian), and states that the residents are to vacate the building on 3 November.
Lambert, George, 1821-1882, Jesuit priest
Monumenta Anglia III: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Documents (1541-1562).
Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Rome, 2000.
McCoog, Thomas, Jesuit priest
Purchase of additional farm land adjoining Mungret
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
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
Wernz, Franz Xavier, 1842-1914, Jesuit priest and Father General
Proposals over the years to extend and add to the existing buildings at Mungret College
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
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 concerning Fr Thomas Byrne SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file of letters realting to Fr Thomas Byrne SJ. Includes a letter from Fr John L Swain SJ, Borgo S. Spirito, Rome to Irish Fr Provivnial Charles O'Conor SJ concerning an emergencvy operatiopn performed on Fr Byrne in Rome (22 December 1963, 1p); letter from Fr Bernard Lonergan SJ, Regis College, 3425 Bayview Avenue, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada to Fr Thomas Byrne SJ, thanking him for suggesting that Fr General be asked to allow Fr Lonergan more free time to write (21 Decmeber 1967, 1p).
Letter from Fr Peter Joseph Chandlery SJ, writing from Rome, to Fr Alfred Murphy SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter from Fr Peter Joseph Chandlery SJ, writing from Rome, to Fr Alfred Murphy SJ. Refers to the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was erected and aggregated by the Father General on 1 March 1895. Also refers to Fr Kenny's visit to Rome.
Chandlery, Peter Joseph, 1846-1925, Jesuit priest
List of the Rectors of the Irish College in Seville and Rome
Part of Irish Jesuit Colleges in Europe
List of the Rectors of the Irish College in Seville, 20 August 1619-3 April 1767, and Rome, 1635-1772, by Fr John MacErlean SJ.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Catalogues for Jesuits at the Irish College in Rome
Part of Irish Jesuit Colleges in Europe
Handwritten entries by Fr John MacErlan SJ of the catalogues (Catalogus Brevis) for Jesuits at the Irish College in Rome, 1635-1773, and a notebook on letters of interest in Rome, Italy, and whether to photograph or copy.
MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist
Obituary of Fr Edward O'Connor SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Obituary of Fr Edward O'Connor SJ by Fr Des O'Loghlen SJ taken from the 'Zambia - Malawi Province' newsletter, September - October 1993.
O'Loghlen, Desmond, 1918-2003, Jesuit priest and missioner
Volumes relating to the Irish College in Lisbon
Part of Irish Jesuit Colleges in Europe
Two volumes, one bound, relating to the Irish College in Lisbon. The volumes contain various papers bound together. The first volume relates to the foundation of the college (485ff). The second volume consists of six sections: Accounts of the college; Ordinances from Rome; Custom book of college life; Statutes and customs; Mass and Orders book; The narration of the imprisonment and expulsion of Fr Dionysius Charti. Note by Fr Francis Finegan SJ on provenance of volumes - that Fr Manuel Gonçalves da Costa SJ visited Milltown Park in 1948, consulted volumes which in custody of Fr John MacErlean SJ (1981), and translation by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ (5 February 1987).
Letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ, Gesú, Rome to Irish Fr Provincial Edmund J O'Reilly SJ
A file of letters from Fr John Ffrench SJ, Gesú, Rome, Italy to Irish Fr Provincial Edmund J O'Reilly SJ (term as Fr Provincial 1863 - 19 April 1870). Fr Ffrench's letters were written in his capacity as English Assistant to Fr General. As a result all of the letters have an official slant. Includes an index/précis to the letters by Fr James Rabbitte SJ.
Ffrench, John, 1812-1873, Jesuit priest
Sudden death of Fr John Hannon SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
File relating to the sudden death of Fr John Hannon SJ, including letters of sympathy.
Ordinatio from Fr General Roothaan to the Vice-Provincial, rectors and superiors of the Irish Vice-Province. (Handwritten; in Latin).
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
Copy of a letter from the Vicar Apostolate of Hong Kong, Enrico Valtorta to [ ] (not a Jesuit but somebody in Rome) concerning the Chinese mission. Remarks that the Irish Jesuits would be advised to take on a hostel or a college or both and revive the publication 'Rock'. Remarks that men are available to go to China. Suggests that some Irish Jesuits should be sent to study Chinese in the Benedictine University in Peking prior to teaching in the Jesuit college in Hong Kong.
Valtorta, Enrico Pascal, 1883-1951, Apostolic Vicar and Roman Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter from Fr John Ffrench SJ, writing the Gesù, Rome, to Fr Kelly SJ. Refers to a visit made by Cardinal Cullen to Rome, and apologises for not having brought up a matter which Fr Kelly wished him to raise with the Cardinal.
Photographic album belonging to Fr Joseph O'Connor SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Photographic album (thirty photographs) belonging to Fr Joseph O'Connor SJ relating to his time as a scholastic in Mungret College c.1926, Rector of Mungret College (1936-1941) and later in Galway (1941-1972). Insert postcard from Irish Jesuit in Rome, Italy (1931).
Part of Irish Jesuits
Holograph letters from Fr Matthew Devitt SJ, Rome to Father Rector, concerning the deliberation over whether to hold a General Congregation or not (27 September); in official interview with Fr. General ‘with regard fundamental theology…no changes or suspension of ordination’ however ‘though the ordination must stand the execution may be deferred for a year or two while we are preparing a professor and he expects this should be set about without delay’. Fr Devitt reports that ‘there is a sickening sirocco wind blowing - very fatiguing and oppressiveness’ (5 October).
Mission material relating to Fr Patrick O'Brien SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
File of mission material relating to Fr Patrick O'Brien SJ. Includes passport photograph; announcement of death; obituaries; death certificate; personal record; Zambian stamps from 1980 - 81; newspaper cuttings from the trial of Laurence Sullivan, Lusaka, Zambia in which Fr O'Brien refused to be called as a witness (1952) and correspondence between Fr O'Brien and Frs. Thomas Martin, Vincent Murphy and Thomas O'Brien, Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.
Proposal concerning the establishment of 'Studies'
Proposal, written in Latin [and submitted to Fr General in Rome] concerning the establishment of 'Studies'.
Correspondence mostly between two sisters and the Irish Fr Provincial concerning the sisters’ efforts to contest the will of their late cousin, Josephine Keshan, decd., 1910, who left the administration of her entire estate to the Society of Jesus. The matter was settled amicably.
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Patrick Bracken
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Patrick Bracken.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Account of the confiscation of the Gesú by the Italian government
Circular from Fr Paul Pierling SJ. An account of the confiscation of the Gesú by the Italian government.
Pierling, Paul, 1840-1922, Jesuit priest
Letters from William Henry Bliss to Dr Charles Russell
Part of Non-Irish Jesuit material
A file relating to William Henry Bliss. Includes letters from William Bliss to Dr Charles Russell and copies of Dr. Russell's letters to William Bliss. Includes 4 letters from William Bliss to Fr Matthew Russell SJ concerning the publication of the correspondence in the Irish Monthly (22 March 1880 - 24 September 1893, 4 items).
Bliss, William Henry, 1835-1909, scholar
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Copies of Superiors letters of Manresa House to Rome
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Copies of Superiors letters (Fr Sean McCarron SJ) of Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin to Rome (in English) and acknowledgment of letters from Rome (in Latin). The letters outline the works going on at Manresa (1949, 1952; 1954-56). Annual letter Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin (In Latin). 1951-52; 1952-53.
Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Memoranda and letters to the Provincial on proposals to establish an amateur Irish Jesuit news agency to supply information to Radio Vaticana.
Fr Joseph Hurley's wish to write some of the Messenger of the Sacred Heart in Irish
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file relating to Fr Joseph Hurley's wish to write some of the Messenger of the Sacred Heart in Irish. Includes a letter from Fr F. Schwendimann SJ, Directio Generalis, Apostolatus Orationis, Borgo S. Spirito 5, Rome, Italy to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ expressing his worry over different dialects in Ireland and the possibility of misinterpretation (21 November 1952, 1p). Includes a copy reply from Fr Provincial explaining that although differences do occur within the Irish language in different parts of Ireland the meaning would not be misinterpreted (26 November 1952, 1p).
Hurley, Joseph, 1905-1984, Jesuit priest and Irish language editor
Letter from Fr Alfred Weld SJ, Rome, to Irish Fr Provincial on the takeover of the Gesù
Letter from Fr Alfred Weld SJ, writing from the Gesù in Rome, to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Reports on the takeover of the Gesù by the Giunta, and states that the house is to be used as offices for the Artillery, Infantry and Cavalry. Refers to effect these events are having on the Fr General, and reports on the exodus of the residents from the house. Announces that he and Fr. Lambert are going to the English College. Refers also to the Roman College and the South American College. Refers to confusion in relation to the Pope’s rights over the Observatory. Reports that the Fr General gave him a letter from Fr Walsh, in which he refers to ‘the house in Stephen's Green’, and declares himself to be glad that Fr Walsh has accepted it, and hopes that ‘an energetic man devoted to study’ will be appointed as head.
Weld, Alfred, 1823-1890, Jesuit priest
Part of Irish Jesuits
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
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Michael Pelly SJ written while serving as a chaplain
Part of Irish Jesuit chaplains
Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Michael Pelly SJ written while serving as a chaplain with 11th York and Lancaster Regiment (218th Infantry Brigade); in Otley, West Yorkshire; The Military Hospital, York; with the British North Africa Force in North Africa; 1st Battalion, The Buffs, C.M.F. in Italy; in 93rd British General Hospital, C.M.F. and in the School of Infantry, Warminster, Wiltshire. Includes Fr Pelly’s first letter to the Provincial written from Bridlington (23 April 1942, 1p.) and letters describing the monastery of Cassino following the battle of Monte Cassino (30 May 1944, 2pp), being in Rome on the day it was taken by the Allies and his ‘semi-private audience with the Pope’ (30 June, 29 July 1944, 2 items).
Pelly, Michael C, 1907-1990, Jesuit priest and chaplain
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter to Fr William A Sutton SJ from Fr Herman Walmesley SJ congratulating him on behalf of Fr General, on the Golden Jubilee of his entrance into the Society.
Walmesley, Herman, 1850-1927, Jesuit priest
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
Letter from the Archbishop of Sydney, Patrick Cardinal Moran, The Irish College, Rome to Irish Fr Provincial James Murphy SJ concerning the change of the site of the Jesuit's High School from it's present site to North Sydney.
Moran, Patrick Francis, 1830-1911, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Robert St Leger
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Robert St Leger.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Material relating to Fr Michael Fitzgerald SJ compiled by Fr Hugh Fenning, O.P.
Part of Jesuits in Ireland pre-1773
Documents relating to Fr Michael Fitzgerald SJ compiled by Fr Hugh Fenning, O.P. (Collegio S. Clemente, Via Labicana, Rome), for Fr Francis Finegan SJ. Includes letter from Fr Fenning to Fr Franics Finegan SJ (13 April 1966), 2pp) and enclosed ‘References to Michael Fitzgerald SJ in the archives of San Clemente, Rome’ (n.d., 3pp).
Fenning, Hugh, 1935-2018, Dominican priest, archivist and historian
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
Letter from Fr Alfred Weld SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ giving news
Letter from Fr Alfred Weld SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Confirms that the letters which the latter referred to had arrived, and refers to the travel plans of Fr Kelly and Fr. Mathew. Also refers to Dr Ricard's mission in England. Reports on a dispute with the Bishop of Salford (Herbert Vaughan) in relation to the opening of a school of the Society in Manchester. Gives an account of his own visit to Rome, including his attendance at a dinner in the Irish College on St. Patrick’s Day. Remarks that they have heard nothing from Milltown since coming to Fiesole. Refers to the success of the new Master of Novices.
Weld, Alfred, 1823-1890, Jesuit priest
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney
Letter from Jan Roothaan to Peter Kenney.
Roothaan, Jan Philipp,1785-1853, Jesuit priest and Father General
A guide to Jesuit Archives.
McCoog, Thomas, Jesuit priest
Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and Jesuits on various matters such as