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Documents related to retreats given by Jesuits which include sermons and novenas

File of documents related to retreats given by Jesuits which includes: ‘A short catechism for the instruction for those who are preparing to make their first Communion’- Addressed to Parents’ (12 January 1767); ‘A sermon on the duties of parents to their children (1803); ‘Analysis or General Notion of Discourse in various religious subjects’ (1806); ‘A discourse on the 2nd Precept of Charity’ (1 July 1809); ‘novena in preparation for the festival of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – chiefly taken from the Italian of Father Charles Borge’; scholars’ retreat (1839); ‘A sermon on the Love of God’.

Address of the Catholic Parishioners of Kilrush to the Jesuit fathers

  • address of the Catholic Parishioners of Kilrush to the Jesuit fathers on the conclusion of the mission (27 May 1854);
  • a list of subscribers for the Jesuit mission (28 May 1854);
  • copy of pamphlets entitled ‘Blasphemy! Blasphemy! BLASPHEMY!! by ‘A Trinity Student’ on the moves ‘by the PARSON of Carrigaholt, and SECONDED by the “Ennis Freeman”…
  • notice ‘To Joseph F. Robbins, Vicar of Kilrush’ (23 May 1854).
  • details of missions given by Jesuits in Wexford and Killaloe, 1856 - 1858 taken from The Tablet;
  • missions in 1864 (a list by F. Haly);
  • missions of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus in Ireland in the year 1866 - 1868 by Fr Robert Haly SJ.

Fr Liam Browne SJ

Catalogue online 2047.

Browne, Liam, 1929-2017, Jesuit priest

Irish Jesuit Directory and Year Book

1st Edition 1928
(5’’ x 7 1/4’’)
Became 'The Irish Jesuit Year Book' from 1955 onwards.
Produced by the Irish Messenger Office, 5 Great Denmark Street, Dublin until 1962. In 1963 the Irish Messenger Office moved to 37 Lower Leeson Street.

The Irish Jesuit Directory and Year Book
Contents:

  • A yearly Calendar which includes the necessary directions for those who make use of the Missal at Mass. Gives the rank of feast; colour of vestments; prayers to be said and any special conditions etc. for each day
  • Obituaries (early years simply provide lists of the recent dead with date and location of death)
  • Directory of the Irish Province - lists each community in turn: names of residents; ‘Notes of the Year’; activities of each community.
  • Applications for Missions and Retreats and for the Erection of certain Sodalities etc.
  • Summary of the Society of Jesus and of their Foreign Missions (lists numbers in each province throughout the world).
  • Articles on: Society of Jesus Mission activities; Saints; priests; Jesuit publications/periodicals; new colleges/buildings/houses etc.; the Jesuit Seminary Fund; general Jesuit history; Jesuit scientists and musicians.
  • Alphabetical list of Jesuits in the Irish Province.

Index to the Irish Jesuit Directory, 1928 – 62 (6 3/4’’ x 8 3/4’’) and Supplementary Index to the Jesuit Year Book, 1963 – 1976

Jesuit Year Book

Copy of an image from the Jesuit Year Book on the occasion of Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ visitation to Northern Rhodesia.

An Timire

Box 15, 2
Documents relating to An Timire and FAS (1990-2005), including letter from Fr Alan McGuckian SJ, Belfast to Irish Fr Provincial John Dardis SJ outlining the current situation with the Irish language apostolate, An Timire and FAS (3pp, 04 October 2010), finance and budgets re: and An Timire and FAS letters from Eilis Ni Tharnaigh, Editor, FAS (2005).

Fr John J Moore SJ

Catalogue available 2048.

Moore, John J, 1927-2018, Jesuit priest and botanist

Fr Harry Naylor SJ

Catalogue available 2048.

Naylor, Harold, 1931-2018, Jesuit priest

Books taken from the Cruise Library, St Francis Xavier Community, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin

Books taken from the Cruise Library, St Francis Xavier Community, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin entitled 'Manuale Parvulorum' (1884), 'The Imitation of Christ' (1897) by Thomas A Kempis translated by Richard Challoner, D.D. and 'The Imitation of Christ' (1905) by Sir Francis R. Cruise. Some annotation by Cruise. Includes entry for Sir Francis R. Cruise in the Dictionary of Irish Biography and obituary from 'The Belvederian', 1912.

Fr John Elliott SJ

Research on Fr John Elliott SJ (11p), which includes copy of obituary from the Irish Province News (January 1943) and The Clongownian (1936 & 1943).

Elliott, John J, 1857-1942, Jesuit priest and chaplain

Memorandum outlining the history of University College, Dublin detailing origins and connection with the Jesuit Fathers

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

Volume entitled ‘O'Connell's Letter 1833’ presented to ‘the Jesuit Fathers of St. Francis Xavier’s Upper Gardiner Street...'

Specially bound volume entitled ‘O'Connell's Letter 1833’ presented to ‘the Jesuit Fathers of St. Francis Xavier’s Upper Gardiner Street For their Library. In grateful memory of much kindness received from them for nearly forty years’ from ‘W.L.' '. Includes colour poster of Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) and O'Connell's name and address (written in his own hand) attached to the frontispiece. Contains two letters:

4 April 1833
Letter from Daniel O'Connell, London to Richard Barrett, editor of the 'Pilot' newspaper, Suffolk Street, Dublin, to be published as an open letter to the people of Ireland. ‘This is the first of a series of Letters which I intend to publish on the present state and future prospects of our Country including the best suggestions I can give for regulating your conduct in the manner most calculated to mitigate the evils of the one and to insure the amelioration of the other.’ (Letter is divided into five envelopes, each containing nine pages. Franked 6 April 1833.) 45pp

Richard Barrett, editor of the Pilot was prosecuted by the government for having published on 8 April 1833, the last letter. He was tried and found guilty, imprisoned for six months and fined £100. During his imprisonment, O'Connell paid Barrett a total of £656, consisting of his £100 fine, £150 in American subscriptions and weekly sums amounting to £406.

18 February 1840
Private letter from Daniel O'Connell, 16 Pall Mall, London, to David R. Pigot, Solicitor General, concerning the Municipal Reform Bill. Letter published in full in Maurice R. O'Connell’s (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, Vol. VI, 1837-1840' (Blackwater Dublin for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1977) p.308/9 (2687a), where the source is given as ‘Jesuit Fathers, Gardiner Street, Dublin.’
2pp

Correspondence related to an incident at a dance at St Francis Xavier's Hall

  • IE IJA J/421/2
  • File
  • 30 November 1959 - 30 January 1960

    • Part of Irish Jesuits

File of correspondence related to an incident at a dance at St Francis Xavier's Hall, 29 November 1959, involving Michael P. Flynn, Station Sergeant, Garda Siochana and Mr Kevin O'Brien. Flynn is alleged to have used inappropriate language and both Flynn and Fr Troddyn (acting on behalf of O'Brien and himself) are seeking apologies.

Note from Dr Patrick Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, requesting a priest to conduct a retreat in the diocese of Kildare

Note from Dr Patrick Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, to [Fr] Joseph. Requests him to procure the services of a priest to conduct a retreat in the diocese of Kildare at the end of the year. Expresses his preference for a Jesuit priest.

Foley, Patrick, 1858-1926, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin

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