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Letter from Fr Edmund Sullivan SJ, Hong Kong to Fr Socius thanking him for his sympathy following the death of his mother

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/108
Item
15 November 1952

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Letter from Fr Edmund Sullivan SJ, Wah Yan College, Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong to Fr Socius thanking him for his sympathy following the death of his mother. Discusses his work in the college.

Sullivan, Edmund M, 1904-1980, Jesuit priest

Catalogus of the Hong Kong mission

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/109
Item
1952

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Catalogus of the Hong Kong mission for 1953.

Letters sent by the house consultors of the Language School, 1 Battery Path, Hong Kong

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/39
File
6 February 1952 & 6 January 1953

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Letters sent by the house consultors of the Language School, 1 Battery Path, Hong Kong.

Irish Jesuits in South China: a record of twenty five years

IE IJA BKS/295
Item
1952

Part of Publications in Irish Jesuit Archives office

Irish Jesuits in South China: a record of twenty five years
The Local Printing Press, Ltd, Hong Kong

Map of Victoria and Kowloon

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/18
Item
1952

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Map of Victoria and Kowloon.

Letter from Fr Herbert J Dargan SJ , Xavier House, 27 Cheung Chau, Hong Kong to Fr Thomas J Martin SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin

IE IJA J/500/2
File
26 September 1953

Part of Irish Jesuits

Personal record (1953) and letter from Fr Herbert J Dargan SJ , Xavier House, 27 Cheung Chau, Hong Kong to Fr Thomas J Martin SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin in which he describes his journey, clothes bought, advice for future preparations for journeys and masses said (26 September 1953).

House consultor's letter from John Collins SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/40
File
1953 - 22 July 1961

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

House consultor's letter from Frs John Collins, Donal Taylor, John O'Meara, Francis McGaley, James Hurley and Joseph Mallin, and John Gannon, St Francis Xavier's, (Language School, Novitiate and Retreat House) 27 Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong.

Collins, John J, 1912-1997, Jesuit priest and missioner

Ricci: Souvenir record of the silver jubilee of Ricci Hall, Hong Kong University 1929-1954

IE IJA BKS/85
Item
1954

Part of Publications in Irish Jesuit Archives office

Ricci: Souvenir record of the silver jubilee of Ricci Hall, Hong Kong University 1929-1954.

Ricci Hall, Hong Kong, 1929-

Mission material relating to Fr Seamus Doris SJ

IE IJA J/654/4
File
24 July 1954 - 31 March 1988

Part of Irish Jesuits

File of mission material relating to Fr Seamus Doris SJ. Includes passport photograph; personal record; announcement of death; homily; and correspondence between Fr Doris and Frs Thomas J. Martin and Thomas O'Brien, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Annual accounts for the Hong Kong Mission

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/196
File
1954-1955

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Annual accounts for the Hong Kong Mission. Includes accounts for the Wah Yah Colleges in Hong Kong and Kowloon, the Language School in Cheung Chau and Kingsmead Hall Singapore and the Revisor’s report.

Letter from Fr Patrick Joy SJ, Singapore to Miss Joy, 41 Adelaide Road, Dublin concerning his work in the Far East

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/110
Item
21 June 1955

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Letter from Fr Patrick Joy SJ, Kingsmead Hall, Victoria Park Road, Singapore to Miss Joy, 41 Adelaide Road, Dublin concerning his work in the Far East and family news.

Joy, Patrick, 1892-1970, Jesuit priest

Photographic album of Wah Yan College, Hong Kongn and Fr Gallagher's jubilee dinner

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/231
Item
1955

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Photographic album of the (the new) Wah Yan College, Hong Kong. The photographs have typewritten captions. Includes: various buildings, exteriors, interiors and landscape photographs of Wah Yan College, Queen's Road East, Hong Kong: opening day ceremonies of the new college (27 September 1955); Irish Jesuits Frs John Carroll, Richard Harris, Matthew Corbally, Richard Gallagher, Donald Lawler, Thomas Ryan, Timothy Doody, James McAsey, Herbert Dargan, Patrick Toner, Edmund Sullivan and Cyril Barrett; Monsignor Lorenzo Bianchi, Bishop of Hong Kong; Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham and Lady Grantham; Professor Gordon Brown.
Includes photographs of Fr Gallagher's jubilee dinner ar Ricci Hall.

Fr Francis Chan SJ and his qualifications and suitability to take a course in Education in Manresa College, Roehampton, London

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/182
File
10 January - 17 February 1955

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

A file relating to Fr Francis Chan SJ and his qualifications and suitability to take a course in Education in Manresa College, Roehampton, London.

Mission material relating to Fr Derek Reid SJ

IE IJA J/693/4
File
26 July 1955 - 12 August 1960; 1992

Part of Irish Jesuits

File of mission material relating to Fr Derek Reid SJ. Includes announcement of death and newspaper articles; obituaries; personal record; and correspondence between Fr Reid and Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Mission Office, Dublin.

Report by John Gannon SJ sent to Irish Fr Provincial on Chinese education and a proposal to establish a centre for Chinese students

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/50
File
21 September 1956

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

A report by John Gannon SJ sent to Irish Fr Provincial on Chinese education and a proposal to establish a centre for Chinese students. Includes a covering letter.

Gannon, John B, 1922-, former Jesuit priest

Mission material relating to Fr Cyril J Barrett SJ

IE IJA J/641/4
File
31 July 1957 - 11 April 1975; 1989

Part of Irish Jesuits

File of material relating to Fr Cyril J Barrett SJ. Includes passport photograph of Fr Barrett, announcement of his death and obituaries, and correspondence between Fr Barrett and Frs Thomas J. Martin and Vincent Murphy, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street Dublin (31 July 1957 - 11 April 1975).

Material relating to the Church of St Francis Xavier, Jalan Gasing, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaya and agreements with and the Bishop of Kuala Lumpur.

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/42
File
4 July 1957 - 10 March 1961

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

A file relating to the Church of St Francis Xavier, Jalan Gasing, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Federation of Malaya. Includes documents relating to the proposed contract between the Society and the Bishop of Kuala Lumpur.

Letter from Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ to Fr General concerning whether the Irish Jesuit Mission of Hong Kong should be constituted a dependent Vice-Province or not

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/78
Item
24 September 1957

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Copy of a draft of a letter from Irish Fr Provincial Michael A O'Grady SJ to Fr General J. B. Janssens SJ concerning the question whether the Irish Jesuit Mission of Hong Kong (including Singapore and Malaya) should be constituted a dependent Vice-Province or retain its status as a mission under the jurisdiction of the Irish Provincial. Outlines the opinions of the consultors of the Irish Province the Superior and consultors of the Hong Kong mission and the Provincial of the Irish Province.

O'Grady, Michael A, 1911-1969, Jesuit priest

Letters from the Superior of the mission, Fr Thomas Byrne SJ to Irish Fr Provincial

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/123
File
16 July 1957 - 31 May 1960

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

A file of letters from the Superior of the mission, Fr Thomas Byrne SJ to Irish Fr Provincial.

Byrne, Thomas, 1904-1978, Jesuit priest

Letter from Irish Fr Provincial to Fr General outlining the reasons why he feels the novitiate transferred from Formosa to Hong Kong

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/81
File
7 March 1958

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Copy of a letter from Irish Fr Provincial Michael A. O'Grady SJ, 85 Eglinton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin to Fr General J B Janssens SJ, 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, Rome outlining the reasons why he feels the novitiate for candidates of the Society of Jesus in the far East should be transferred from Formosa to Hong Kong.

O'Grady, Michael A, 1911-1969, Jesuit priest

Summary of the Annual Letters from the Hong Kong mission

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/80
Item
28 February 1958

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Summary of the Annual Letters from the Hong Kong mission, including a summary of the Apostolates in each house in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaya.

Documents sent to the Province entitled 'China. Secretive Directives on how to Destroy the Church' from International Fides Service

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/79
Item
[January] 1958

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Copies of documents sent to the Province entitled 'China. Secretive Directives on how to Destroy the Church' from International Fides Service.

Memoranda on Chinese post-secondary colleges in Hong Kong

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/51
File
1959

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Memoranda on Chinese post-secondary colleges in Hong Kong and on the problem of staffing a Catholic post-secondary college.

Gannon, John B, 1922-, former Jesuit priest

Obituaries of Fr Richard Gallagher SJ

IE IJA J/161/5
File
7 September 1960; 14 August 2009

Part of Irish Jesuits

Obituaries of Fr Richard Gallagher SJ taken from an Irish newspaper, a Hong Kong Jesuit publication and online obituary, taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, accessed 14 August 2009. https://archives.catholic.org.hk/

Letters from the Superior of the mission, Fr Herbert Dargan SJ to Irish Fr Provincial

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/124
File
27 June 1960 - 15 December 1961

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

A file of letters from the Superior of the mission, Fr Herbert Dargan SJ to Irish Fr Provincial.

Dargan, Herbert J, 1918-1993, Jesuit priest

Letter from Fr Thomas Fitzgerald SJ to Fr Pat [ ] SJ concerning a questionnaire about Chinese Rites

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/82
File
30 May 1960

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Letter from Fr Thomas Fitzgerald SJ, Catholic Cathedral, 3 Farquhar Street, Penang to Fr Pat [ ] SJ concerning a questionnaire about Chinese Rites. Asks for Pat [ ], SJ's opinion on some points relating to Chinese Rites.

FitzGerald, Thomas R, 1905-1967, Jesuit priest

A Priest in a Japanese Jail

IE IJA BKS/248
Item
1960

Part of Publications in Irish Jesuit Archives office

A Priest in a Japanese Jail.
Dublin : Office of the "Irish Messenger", 1948.

Casey, Gerard H, 1905-1989, Jesuit priest

House consultors letters regarding the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Jalan Gasing, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Federation of Malaya

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/43
File
1 & 13 January 1961

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

House consultors letters regarding the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Jalan Gasing, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Federation of Malaya to Irish Fr Provincial.

Catholic Guide to Hong Kong

IE IJA BKS/275
Item
1962

Part of Publications in Irish Jesuit Archives office

Catholic Guide to Hong Kong
Catholic Truth Society, Hong Kong, 1962

Ryan, Thomas F, 1889-1971, Jesuit priest

Map depicting eastern China

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/13
Item
[1965]

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Photocopy map depicting eastern China (newspaper cutting).

Letter from Fr Eddie Bourke SJ, Xavier Retreat House, 27 Cheung Chau, Hong Kong to Fr Joe [ ] SJ concerning news from Hong Kong

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/111
Item
14 June 1965

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Letter from Fr Eddie Bourke SJ, Xavier Retreat House, 27 Cheung Chau, Hong Kong to Fr Joe [ ] SJ concerning news from Hong Kong. Remarks that Fr Joy has been unwell. Refers to MacGreedy who wishes to join the Irish Province but will need to obtain a release from the RAF.

Bourke, Edward, 1895-1985, Jesuit priest

Wah Yan College Kowloon 50th anniversary magazine

IE IJA BKS/88
Item
1974

Part of Publications in Irish Jesuit Archives office

Wah Yan College Kowloon 50th anniversary magazine.

Wah Yan College, Kowloon, 1924-

Material relating to the death of Fr Paul Jenkins SJ

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/112
File
1989 - 1990

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

A file relating to the death of Fr Paul Jenkins SJ (British Province). Includes an obituary and details of a mass held for him at Milltown Park.

Cassette tape of reminiscences of Fr Albert Cooney SJ concerning the attacks on Singapore and Hong Kong

IE IJA MSSN/HONG/113
Item
1996

Part of Irish Jesuit Missions

Cassette tape of reminiscences of Fr Albert Cooney SJ concerning the attack on Singapore and surrender, the Japanese attack on Hong Kong, life under the Japanese, journey to China and life in a Chinese village, journey to Hanoi, North Vietnam, recall to Macau and the Jesuit school in Macau (1943 - 1945).

Cooney, Albert, 1905-1997, Jesuit priest

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