Proposed trip by Fr Patrick Simpson SJ to Zambia
- IE IJA J/405/5
- File
- 25 March-2 June 1973
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File of material concerning the proposed trip by Fr Patrick Simpson SJ to Zambia.
Proposed trip by Fr Patrick Simpson SJ to Zambia
Part of Irish Jesuits
File of material concerning the proposed trip by Fr Patrick Simpson SJ to Zambia.
Letters from Fr John Burden SJ to the Irish Fr Provincial
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters from Fr John Burden SJ to the Irish Fr Provincial.
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning his friend Fr Matthias Bodkin SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning his friend Fr Matthias Bodkin SJ. Includes letter of condolence written to Fr Gwynn following Fr Bodkin’s death in 1973, from Mrs Brigid Hardwick, Stonyhurst College, Lancashire (4 November 1973, 4pp) and Alan Denson.
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Letters from Masao Kobayashi (Lecturer in Western History, Waseda University, Tokyo) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, concerning Dr. Kobayashi’s publication of a Japanese translation of Fr Gwynn’s 'Roman Education'.
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Patrick J. Dunning, C.M.
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Patrick J. Dunning, C.M. (President of St. Patrick’s College, Armagh). Includes:
Also includes references to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ ‘presenting to U.C.D.’ his ‘most valuable card-index on Irish Medieval History, together with your most valuable correspondence with distinguished scholars. I am sure the History Department will be delighted with this generous presentation’ (23 July 1975, 2pp). (Inquiries to the Archives Department, U.C.D. in February 1998 revealed that no such presentation was made, either to the Library, History or Archive Departments in U.C.D.)
Dunning, Patrick, Vincentian priest
Material concerning Fr Michael Fitzgibbon SJ
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
Announcements of the death of Fr Michael Fitzgibbon SJ.
Fitzgibbon, Michael, 1889-1973, Jesuit priest
Coláiste Iognáid, Galway class photograph
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Coláiste Iognáid, Galway class group, which includes three girls. Front row, l-r: Liam Greene SJ, Thomas MacMahon SJ, Mr Aidan Ryder, Patrick Tyrrell SJ (Headmaster), Mr Alexander [Eatern] (Deputy Head), Edward Diffely SJ, Padraig Folen and Kevin O'Rourke SJ.
University Hall, Dublin, Record by Fr James B Stephenson SJ, assisted by Henry Lappin.
Stephenson, James B, 1906-1979, Jesuit priest
Obituary of Fr Hugh Kelly SJ by Mary Purcell
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Obituary of Fr Hugh Kelly SJ by Mary Purcell from the magazine of the Medical Missionaries of Mary.
Purcell, Mary, 1906-1991, teacher, religious biographer, and archivist
Details of Fr Daniel O'Connell's next-of-kin
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Details of Fr Daniel O'Connell's next-of-kin.
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file relating to Fr John Coyne's translation of 'Christian Prayer in its Course through the Centuries' by Josef Andreas Jungmann SJ. Includes correspondence with the publishers and Josef Andreas Jungmann. The translation was published by Paulist Press, New York posthumously. Includes a typed manuscript of the translation.
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Letter to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Irish Provincial Cecil McGarry SJ following Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ's request that Fr McGarry censor his book on the history of the Irish Church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, something Fr McGarry thinks is unnecessary.
McGarry, Cecil, 1929-2009, Jesuit priest
Part of Irish Jesuit chaplains
Document entitled ‘What is your function, Father?’, produced by the Chaplains’ Office, Kevin Street College of Technology. Explores the roles of chaplains in the Colleges of Technology.
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Neville Hadcock
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Neville Hadcock. Discusses his academic work on French dioceses and maps of monastic Britain; his family, his health and that of his wife Jeanne; their book Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland, high crosses, the Tridentine Mass and the introduction of the New Liturgy.
Hadcock, Neville, -1980, historian
Part of Catholic University of Ireland and University College, Dublin
A memorandum written by Fr Peter M Troddyn SJ outlining the history of University College, Dublin, University Hall and 35 Lower Leeson Street, detailing origins and connection with the Jesuit Fathers. Refers also to the proposal to open University Hall to other third-level students. Remarks ‘...the hall should continue to operate as it has done for so long...I query if the sixtieth year of our present building...and what I consider the centenary year of the Irish Jesuits’ occupation with one continuing body of students is an appropriate year to make so radical a change as is proposed.’.
Troddyn, Peter M, 1916-1982, Jesuit priest
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Typed notes by Fr Francis Finegan SJ on an obituary of Fr James Broderick SJ by Fr Philip Caraman SJ. Fr Finegan refutes the suggestion that Fr Broderick was refused admission to the Irish Province on the grounds of his social status.
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
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Obituary from the 'Province News', the Australia Province of the Society of Jesus, No. 1, pp22 - 24 (June 1973) for Fr Michael Fitzgibbon SJ.
Australian Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1931-
Manuscript by Séan Griffin entitled 'A Last Look at Rathfarnham (1199 - 1973)'
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Two copies of a manuscript by Séan Griffin entitled 'A Last Look at Rathfarnham (1199 - 1973)'.
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Photographs of the model of the planned development at Rathfarnham Castle by Robinson, Keefe and Devane architects.
Louis Pieterse, photographer
Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Burke’s Complete Peerage
Part of Irish Jesuits
Handwritten notes by Fr Gwynn from Burke’s Complete Peerage, VII, pp.55 – 56.
Information on Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-grandfather’s cousin, John Gwynne
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Information on Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-grandfather’s cousin, John Gwynne (1754 – 1828/9), founder of a ‘charitable endowment Institution, Derry.’ Includes letters from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland to Fr Gwynn (30 June, 8 July 1975, 2 items. 1p. each) and note given to Fr Gwynn by Archbishop George Simms (July 1974, 1p.) (John Gwynne bequeathed a large sum of money to found a charitable endowment in Derry known as the Gwynne Institution, for the education of boys whose parents could not afford to give them a suitable education. The money was to be distributed equally among Protestants and Catholics. (from Burke’s Irish Family Records, 19[74], p. 53) )
Simms, George Otto, 1910-1991, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
Photocopies of articles from the Irish Times, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on William Smith O'Brien
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Photocopies of articles from the Irish Times, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on William Smith O'Brien (17, 18 July 1974, 2pp). Includes letter published in the paper by W. Smith O'Brien (father of Blanche Touhill) on Fr Gwynn’s articles (27 August 1974, 1p.) and letter from W. Smith O'Brien to Fr Gwynn (8 September 1974, 1p.).
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Notes on, and from the Fenian Papers in the State Paper Office
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Notes on, and from the Fenian Papers in the State Paper Office by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Breandan Mac Giolla.
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Letters from Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s first cousins, Arthur Montague Gwynn, New South Wales, Australia and Edward Harold Gwynn, Gloucester, England, written in response to Fr Gwynn’s request for genealogical information as part of his research on the history of the Gwynn family (24 July 1974 – 17 April 1975, 3 items).
Extract from the Australian Dictionary of Biography for Fr William Kelly SJ
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Extract from the Australian Dictionary of Biography for Fr William Kelly SJ.
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter from Fr Joe Shields SJ, Ricci Hall, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Fergus [Cronin or O'Keefe] concerning a query from an American archaeologist on the writings of Fr Daniel Finn SJ, and a request to check in the Irish Province.
'The Jesuit Community of Mungret College 1882-1974'
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Manuscript by Fr Francis Finegan SJ entitled 'The Jesuit Community of Mungret College 1882-1974'.
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad
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Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad, relating to her research on Archbishop FitzRalph. Includes typed notes on Otto III. Also includes Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s wedding invitation to Katherine’s marriage to Dr Alfred Strnad at University Church in July 1976.
Walsh-Strnad, Katherine, -2011, historian
Genealogical notes relating to Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-great grandfather sent by Mercy Simms
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Genealogical notes relating to Fr Gwynn’s great-great grandfather, Rev. John Gwynne and his wife Catherine Rolleston, sent to Fr Gwynn by Mercy Simms (his cousin).
Simms, Mercy, 1915-1998
Provisional notes for Marriage Encounter Weekend
Provisional notes for Marriage Encounter Weekend.
Part of Irish Jesuit community houses
Irish Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1830-
Numbers of those at the Apostolic School, Mungret
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
Report on the Apostolic School, Mungret including numbers who entered, names and addresses of some past students, Rectors and Superiors.
Mungret Apostolic School, 1880-1969
Photocopy of the title page of an autobiography of St Teresa of Jesus
Part of Jesuits in Ireland pre-1773
Photocopy of the title page of the first translation into English of an autobiography of St Teresa of Jesus. Translated by Fr William Malone SJ (1611), and reprint details of Scolar Press reprint (1974).
Malone, William, 1586-1656, Jesuit priest
Part of Irish Jesuits
Material available 2050.
O'Connell, Jeremiah, 1937-2020, Jesuit priest
Programme for a retreat for Clongowes Wood College at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Programme for a retreat for Clongowes Wood College at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.
Wah Yan College Kowloon 50th anniversary magazine
Wah Yan College Kowloon 50th anniversary magazine.
Wah Yan College, Kowloon, 1924-
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters from Fr John Barrett SJ, Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs’, Auriesville, New York to Fr Daniel Shields SJ requesting his assistance in the return of scripts deposited at the Gate and Abbey Theatres. Includes a note from The Abbey Theatre and a copy Fr Barrett’s play ‘Requiem for Jesuits’.
Barrett, John, Jesuit priest
Draft Gwynn family entry from Burke's Peerage
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Draft Gwynn family entry from Burke's Peerage sent to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ by the publishers: ‘We are sending you the entire genealogy in the hope that you might be able to supply fuller information – especially full present addresses – on the other side of the family as well as your own immediate branch.’
Letters from Mercy Simms to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Letters from Mercy Simms (nee Gwynn, Fr Gwynn’s first cousin) wife of Archbishop George Otto Simms, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, concerning domestic and social affairs. Includes references to the Gwynn genealogy/pedigree and Fr Gwynn’s research on the subject.
Simms, Mercy, 1915-1998
Page in Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s handwriting of dates and names
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L‘M.L.G. Birthday Book (1899)’ Page in Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s handwriting of dates and names, presumably from his mother’s (Mary Louisa Gwynn) ‘Birthday Book.’
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Gill and Macmillan concerning Fr Gwynn’s proposal to publish works on ‘the Roman Mass in Ireland Before Trent’ (the proposal was rejected) and his memoirs.
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof Ludwig Bieler on academic and social matters
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof Ludwig Bieler on academic and social matters, including problems of Latin translations with regard to 'Dicta Patricii'; palaeographical studies of various manuscripts and references to Prof Bieler’s articles in various publications.
Bieler, Ludwig, 1906-1981, Hiberno-Latin scholar
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Letter from Fr Proinsias Ó Fionnagáin SJ, 35 Lower Leeson St, Dublin to Br John Maguire SJ, replying to a query on Fr Daniel Finn SJ. Fr Ó Fionnagáin SJ researches Finn’s writings in the Irish Province News and at the National Library of Ireland. Note on top of letter ‘Copy of this letter posted to Fr Joe Shields – 2/7/74 John Maguire’
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Material concerning Fr Desmond Durnin SJ
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
A file relating to Fr Desmond Durnin SJ. Includes a list of his next of kin.
Durnin, Desmond P, 1907-1982, Jesuit priest
Encounter News - Marriage Encounter Ireland
Encounter News, Marriage Encounter Ireland Vol 2 No.4 – Vol 3, No.6.
Correspondence relating to Pat Boland, caretaker, Rathfarnham Castle
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
File relating to Pat Boland, caretaker, Rathfarnham Castle. Includes correspondence relating to his house at 178 Rathfarnham Road and a letter congratulating him on his retirement.
Mungret Record: Catalogue of students, lay and apostolic, 1882-1963
The Jesuits in Ireland 1542 - 1974
The Jesuits in Ireland 1542 - 1974 by Michael Viney
Viney, Michael, 1933-2023, artist and journalist
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dom Daniel Rees, Downside Abbey, Bath
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dom Daniel Rees, novicemaster [and librarian] Downside Abbey, Bath, relating to various research queries from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and the exchange of books between Milltown Park Library and Downside, including a ‘complete bound set of the Downside Review’ (24 June 1975, 2pp).
Correspondence between Fr Liam Egan SJ and his Irish Provincials
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File of correspondence between Fr Liam Egan SJ and his Irish Provincials.
Letter and note concerning the biography of Rev. James Gwynne
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter (from Peter, Haslemere, Surrey) and note concerning the biography of Rev. James Gwynne (Fr Gwynn’s maternal grandfather) (1829 -1869).
Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Luke Joseph Hooke
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Copybook of notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘Luke Joseph Hooke the Sorbonne (1974).’ Includes loose pages of notes (9pp). (In 1974, Fr Gwynn wrote an article for 'Studies' entitled ‘A Forgotten Irish Theologian (Luke John Hooke, 1716 – 96)’)
Letters and cards of congratulation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the 50th anniversary of his ordination
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Letters and cards of congratulation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the 50th anniversary of his ordination on 13 July 1974. Includes:
– letters from various Columban sisters invited to attend the Golden Jubilee celebrations (15 July -3 August 1964, 7 items);
– letter of congratulation from Fr General Pedro Arrupe SJ (2 July 1974, 1p.);
– letters from Alice Moore (Fr Gwynn’s sister-in-law) (22, 31 July 1974, 2 items) (see also J10/20; 21; 51);
– letter from Fr Thomas J. Fullerton (see J10/15) (27 July 1974, 2pp);
– letters from various Jesuits (including Frs Des O'Grady, E.J. Andrews, John Neary and Fergus Cronin) and letter from Prof. Geoffrey Hand (30 July 1974, 2pp).
See also J10/31; 49; 68; 256; 257.
Arrupe, Pedro, 1907-1991, Jesuit priest and Father General
Text of a speech by [ ] delivered at a meeting of the Mungret Union
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Text of a speech by Irish Fr Provincial delivered at a meeting of the Mungret Union.
McGarry, Cecil, 1929-2009, Jesuit priest
Lines by Fr Frank McSwiggan SJ prompted by the thought of Mungret closing
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Lines by Fr Frank McSwiggan SJ prompted by the thought of Mungret closing and the number of priests who left her classrooms for the priesthood.
McSwiggan, Francis, 1896-1981, Jesuit priest
The Clongowes Union Centenary Chronicle
The Clongowes Union Centenary Chronicle by William A. Menton.
‘William Smith O'Brien and the Principles of Young Ireland’
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Photocopy of a paper by Prof Blanche Touhill on ‘William Smith O'Brien and the Principles of Young Ireland.’
Touhill, Blanche, historian
Notes by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on ‘Manuscript of Poems on St. Thecla by Gerard Manley Hopkins’
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Notes by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Province Archivist from 1975 to 1986) on ‘Manuscript of Poems on St. Thecla by Gerard Manley Hopkins.’ ‘This manuscript is written on the inner pages of a double foolscap sheet, the Latin poem on the left hand, the English on the right hand page…Both poems are in G.M. Hopkins’s handwriting, but not [signed] or dated.’ (Notes form the body of a letter sent to Dr Peter Beal (Index of English [Literary Manuscripts Series], University of Leeds) in September 1975). Includes notes on the appearance of the manuscript and lists the corrections made on the manuscript. Both poems appear in 'The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins', 4th edition, 1967.
McGrath, Fergal P, 1895-1988, Jesuit priest
Photographs of Br Frank Bonfield SJ
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Photographs of Br Frank Bonfield SJ.
Some Jesuit Contributions to Irish Education: with special reference to 16th & 19th centuries Vol.I
Some Jesuit Contributions to Irish Education: A Study of the Work of Irish Members of the Society of Jesus in connection with the Irish College, Salamanca (1592-1610); Mungret College, Limerick (1881 to 1889): St. Stanislaus College. Tullabeg 1818 to 1886): and University College, Dublin (1883 to 1909)
Two Volumes
Thomas J. Morrissey, M.A.
Ph.D Degree N-U.I.
Faculty of Arts, University Collge, Cork.
Department of education: Professor V.A. McClelland.
1975
Morrissey, Thomas J, Jesuit priest, educationalist and historian
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Province Archivist, 1975 to 1986) from Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ (Clongowes Wood College), concerning the holograph manuscript of Hopkins’s 'St. Thecla' which Fr Burke-Savage discovered ‘while cleaning out Fr [Patrick] Connolly’s room (in St Ignatius, House of Writers, 35 Lower Leeson Street) when he was in (St.) Vincent’s having his leg set about 1948…I got leave from Engl(ish) Provincial to keep it on permanent loan.’
Burke Savage, Roland, 1912-1998, Jesuit priest and editor
Material concerning Fr John Purcell SJ in Australia
Part of Irish Jesuit Missions
A file relating to Fr John Purcell SJ and his failing health.
Purcell, John, 1913-1976, Jesuit priest
Biographical notes on Fr John Curtis SJ by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Biographical notes on Fr John Curtis SJ by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (former Irish Province Archivist).
McGrath, Fergal P, 1895-1988, Jesuit priest
Envelope letter from Fr Geoffrey Murphy SJ, Malaysia to Fr John Macken SJ
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Envelope letter from Fr Geoffrey Murphy SJ, 23 Minden Heights, Road One, Minden, Penang, Malaysia to Fr John Macken SJ thanking him for his correspondence and comments on directed retreats.
Preliminary planning report regarding the lands of the Jesuit Fathers at Rathfarnham Castle
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Preliminary planning report by Delaney MacVeigh and Pike, Planning Consultants, regarding the lands of the Jesuit Fathers at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.
Delaney MacVeigh and Pike, planning consultants
A Biographical Dictionary Of Irish Jesuits In the time of the society's Third Irish Mission 1598-1773
Compiled by Francis Finegan, S.J., St. Ignatius, 35 Lower Leeson Street.
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Baptismal certificate for Fr James Walshe SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Baptismal certificate for Fr James Walshe SJ.
Note from Br John Baptist Byrne SJ to Irish Fr Provincial
Part of Irish Jesuits
Note from Br John Baptist Byrne SJ to Irish Fr Provincial.
Catalogue of Publications by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Copybook containing a ‘Catalogue of Publications by Aubrey Gwynn SJ in the library of Milltown Park.’ Compiled by Fr Gwynn.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Certificate of Marriage of parents of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Certified copy of the Certificate of Marriage of Fr Gwynn’s parents Stephen Lucius Gwynn and Mary Louisa Osborn Gwynn, on 17 December 1889 at Christ Church in the parish of Walcot St. Swithin, Somerset.
‘The Poetry of an Exile, William Smith O'Brien 1849 - 1956’
Part of Irish Jesuits
Copy of monograph by Prof. Blanche Touhill on ‘The Poetry of an Exile, William Smith O'Brien 1849 - 1956’
Touhill, Blanche, historian
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from the Librarians of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Scotland concerning the medical career of his grandfather’s brother, William Gwynn, MD.
Group at the entrance to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Group at the entrance to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. The Irish and Vatican flags are flying. Includes Jesuits, l-r Bob Thompson, Tony Baggot, Matthew Meade, Paddy Doyle, George Fallon, Seán Ó Duibhir and Jim Fitzgerald.
Irish Independent, newspaper, 1905-
Hardback loose leaf binder containing documents related to Madonna Sodality Prints. List and details readings for Sundays of the year, Sundays of Lent and Easter, social enquiries and preliminary articles.
Magazine for primary school at Scoil Iognáid
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
Typewritten magazine for primary school classes at Scoil Iognáid including sixth class. Includes stories, articles, quizzes, jokes, riddles, news and poems: ‘Ode to Mister Burke’; ‘Murder in the Dark’.
Leaflet entitled ‘Catholic Engaged Encounter, The Weekend Encounter’
Leaflet entitled ‘Catholic Engaged Encounter, The Weekend Encounter’.
Irish Jesuits 1598-1773, dictionary
Irish Jesuits 1598-1773, dictionary - Vol. IV biographies.
Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest
Mission material relating to Fr Michael Moloney SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
File of material relating to Fr Michael Moloney SJ. Includes death certificate, announcement of death;, and correspondence between Fr Moloney and Fr Vincent Murphy SJ, Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.
Letters from Fr Francis McSwiggan SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway to Fr Fergus O'Keefe SJ
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Letters from Fr Francis McSwiggan SJ (Prionnsais Mac Suigín), St Ignatius College, Galway to Fr Fergus O'Keefe SJ on the prayer ‘Do’n Chroi Ro-Naofa’. (In Irish and English)
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Edmund Colledge O.S.A.
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Fr Edmund Colledge, O.S.A. (Pontifical College of Medieval Studies, Toronto, Canada and Austin Friars School, Carlisle) on various academic matters and their mutual colleagues, including Dr. Katherine Strnad; Walsh. Includes references to Archbishop Richard FitzRalph (12 February 1975, 1p.) and a proposal that Dr Bernard Muir (of the English Department, University of Melbourne) undertake research on the Drummond Missal.
Colledge, John Eric, 1910-1999, academic and Roman Catholic priest
Brief biographical details on Br Edward Sinnott SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Brief biographical details on Br Edward Sinnott SJ.
Irish Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus, 1830-
Entrance to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Entrance to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. The Irish and Vatican flags are flying.
Irish Independent, newspaper, 1905-
Group at the entrance to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Group at the entrance to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Includes Fr Matthew Meade SJ.
Irish Independent, newspaper, 1905-
Descriptions of what a Marriage Encounter weekend involves in Ireland
Three descriptions of what a Marriage Encounter weekend involves in Ireland.
Controversy between Dr O'Dwyer (Bishop of Limerick) and Mungret College
Part of Jesuit colleges in Ireland
A file relating to the controversy between Dr O'Dwyer (Bishop of Limerick) and Mungret College (1886 - 1900), and research by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ.
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
File containing correspondence mainly between Fr Patrick Doyle SJ, Donal Ó Buachalla, Andrew Devane and Gabriel Byrne, Engineer of Euro–Irish Securities, relating to the Rathfarnham road widening scheme, the possible conversion of South Wing of the Castle and the Junior House for light office use, and the formal offer for the purchase of land for Rathfarnham Village By-pass from Dublin Corporation.
Photograph of individuals in front of Our Lady’s Grotto, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Part of Irish Jesuit houses of formation
Photograph of individuals in front of Our Lady’s Grotto, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. The priest front left maybe Fr Michael Sweetman SJ.
Some Jesuit Contributions to Irish Education: with special reference to 16th & 19th centuries Vol.II
Some Jesuit Contributions to Irish Education: A Study of the Work of Irish Members of the Society of Jesus in connection with the Irish College, Salamanca (1592-1610); Mungret College, Limerick (1881 to 1889): St. Stanislaus College. Tullabeg 1818 to 1886): and University College, Dublin (1883 to 1909)
Two Volumes
Thomas J. Morrissey, M.A.
Ph.D Degree N-U.I.
Faculty of Arts, University Collge, Cork.
Department of education: Professor V.A. McClelland.
1975
Morrissey, Thomas J, Jesuit priest, educationalist and historian
Letters from Prof. Geoffrey Hand to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letters from Prof. Geoffrey Hand to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ. Includes news of his appointment to the Fiesole Institute, Florence; his work, colleagues in U.C.D. (where he Lectured in Legal and Constitutional History); family and health.
Hand, Geoffrey Joseph Philip, 1931-2016, Professor and former Chairman of Irish Manuscripts Commission
Letter from Stephen Kuttner to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter from Stephen Kuttner (President of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, California) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, a ‘Corresponding Member’ of the Institute, informing him that the ‘appointment of Corresponding Members should henceforth be understood as made for a period of five years…’
Drafts of a paper entitled ‘Chapter II. Brian (Boruma) and the Corpus Missal’
Part of Irish Jesuits
Typescript drafts of a paper entitled ‘Chapter II. Brian (Boruma) and the Corpus Missal’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Part of Irish Jesuits
File of material relating to Fr John Chula SJ, (Zambian Province). Includes announcement of death; correspondence between Fr Chula and Frs Tom O'Brien and Vincent Murphy, Irish Jesuit Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.
Chula, John, 1932-1990, Jesuit priest
Catalogus Defunctorum in renata societate lesu ab a.1814 ad a.1970
Catalogus Defunctorum in renata Societate lesu ab a.1814 ad a.1970
P.Rufo Mendizábal, S.I. collegit
Primum Supplementum ab a. 1970 ad a. 1975
Romae, Apud Curiam P. Gen.-1976
Society of Jesus, 1540-
'Chapter VII’ typescript entitled ‘Brian Boruma is buried in Armagh’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
'Chapter VII’ typescript entitled ‘Brian Boruma is buried in Armagh’ pp42 – 54 (13pp) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Notes made by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ concerning Fr Gerard Hopkins's books
Part of Irish Jesuits
Notes made by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ concerning Fr Gerard Hopkins's books. Includes:
– memorandum recording an inquiry into ‘the annotated books of Hopkins’ from a Dr. James Cotter, New York, in summer 1976, ‘I wrote to him (Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ) June 21st 1977…I received no acknowledgement. He was on a visit to…Inishannon, Co. Cork’ (n.d., 1p.);
– ‘1st Memorandum re Hopkins’ Books. Sept. 8th…1976’ noting how Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ spent a summer examining all the books in the library in 1947; how Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, on becoming Province Archivist in 1975 ‘received a few enquiries about these books. Nobody in the community knew anything about them’, how he wrote to Fr Bischoff about the matter. ‘In August 1976, I found ten of these books in the lower shelf of the press immediately outside my room. I have identified them and list is herewith. There was a typed note…(by)… Fr Gwynn in the press (See J11/17) stating that the books belonged to or were used by Hopkins. I made a card index of all the books…I have marked H those certainly connected with Hopkins.’ (8 September 1976, 1p.);
– ‘2nd Memo’: ‘At present certainly identified with Hopkins 5, probably 2’ and lists them (8 September 1976, 1p.)
McGrath, Fergal P, 1895-1988, Jesuit priest
Copy of letter from Fr Fergal McGrath SJ to Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ concerning the books
Part of Irish Jesuits
Copy of letter from Fr Fergal McGrath SJ to Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ concerning the books, following a recent inquiry about them from Dr James Cotter, New York. ‘I gave you the news that I had found five (probably seven) of the books used or annotated by G.M Hopkins, which you so painstakingly located in 1947. You had mentioned that you had found fifteen to twenty such books. I sent you a list of all the books which I had found in the same cupboard, and asked you to let me know whether you could establish a link between any of them and Hopkins. If my letter went astray, I shall be glad to make another copy of the list.’
McGrath, Fergal P, 1895-1988, Jesuit priest
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Letter from James White, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning his sister, Mrs. Sheila Moorehead’s offer or a portrait of her brother, Denis to the Gallery.
White, James, 1913-2003, director of the National Gallery of Ireland
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof. Jack Watt with references to Watt’s family
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof. Jack Watt (History Department, University of Hull and University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) with references to Prof. Watt’s family; news of other academics; a proposed paper of his on ‘John Colton, colonial official and archbishop’; the current political situation in Northern Ireland; Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s publication of the Sermon Diary of Archbishop Richard FitzRalph; Prof. Watt’s research work on the fifteenth century and various volumes of the series 'New History of Ireland'.
Watt, Jack, historian
Burke's Irish family records.
One copy has the inscription 'Ex Libris C.D.C.H. Emo Court', with the signature of Cholmeley Dering Cholmeley-Harrison, and 'Gift from C.D.C.H. Emo Court', with signature.