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Week-End Retreat, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. With Fr Patrick Barrett SJ, Director of Retreats - Keogh Brothers Ltd.

Verses by a retreatant, S. O'B. on the grotto of Our Lady of Loudres¸ Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Department of Defence Retreat Group at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Mounted remembrance of the retreats of the men of the Traffic Department, A.G.S. & Co., Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Retreat conducted by the Rev Henry Croasdaile SJ.

Shelbourne Hotel Staff, Dublin - first retreat at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Includes Frs T Ward and J McLoughlin and Br John Loftus SJ. With names - F.M. Cox.

Catholic Young Men's Society with Fr Patrick Barrett SJ at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin - College Studios.

Villa (holiday) journal for Irish Jesuit scholastics (Juniors).

Milltown Park, Dublin, 1907;
Redford House, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1908;
Ashby, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1909;
Ivanhoe, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1910;
Rochfort House, Portland Road, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1911;
Bayview, Wicklow, County Wicklow, 1912;
Bayview, Wicklow, County Wicklow, 1914;
Warrenpoint, County Down, 1915;
New Brighton, Monkstown, Dublin, 1916;
St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, 1917;
St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, 1918;
St Joseph's, Laytown, County Meath, 1919;
Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare, 1920;
Bayview House (Mrs McPhail), Wicklow, County Wicklow, 1921.

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Leonard Sheil SJ, various Jesuits and others relating to Fr Sheil’s work in the Jesuit church in Galway. Includes:
– letters from Fr Sheil and the Secretary of the International Catholic Girls’ Protection Society (Veritas House, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin) regarding radio broadcasts for Irish emigrants in England and an appeal for funds for the I.C.G.P.S. (see also J16/6) (7 November 1941 - 6 June 1942, 3 items);
– letters from Fr Hugh Kelly SJ (Rector, Rathfarnham Castle) and Fr Patrick O'Kelly SJ (Director of the Pioneers Association) reporting complaints about Fr Sheil’s behaviour with regard to the content of his lectures to secondary school girls, his running of the Sodalities in Galway and his comments to a young girl who came to him for religious instruction (17 November - 20 December 1942, 4 items);
– letters from Fr Sheil, Fr Hugh Kelly SJ and the Superior of the Presentation Convent, Dundrum, County Tipperary requesting permission for Fr Sheil to give various lectures and retreats and to act as Special Confessor to the nuns of Dundrum Presentation Convent (26 January - 24 May 1943, 3 items) and
– letter from Fr Sheil enclosing a list of his sodality work in Galway, to help his successor, ‘I have tried all these two years to get these works into such order that anyone could carry them on, but I have not had the time. Many details of organization have still to be put into practice. The walls are built but the roof is not yet on. However there is plenty of brains and holiness among the men and women engaged in the work. If I could have any wish where obedience is concerned, I would wish to stay with them’ (8 August 1943, 3pp).

Letters and report to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Leonard Sheil SJ concerning missions in Spain, comparisons with missions in Britain and Ireland and the possibility of Fr Sheil’s working in South America. Includes:
– letter from Fr Sheil to the Irish Fr Provincial seeking permission to go to Spain to study Spanish missions in order to adapt certain practices for use in Britain (7 September. 1961, 4pp);
– copy of a ‘Report on Missions in Spain’ following a visit by Frs Shiggins and Sheil who attended five missions around the country (n.d., 4pp);
– letter from Fr Sheil to the Irish Fr Provincial in which he discusses certain Spanish customs which could be used on Missions in Britain. Remarks that he will send the Provincial a report ‘on the meetings I now hold with Protestant clergymen after missions in Ireland’ and that he has sent in ‘full reports on our missions in Britain’ ‘almost every year for ten years’. Also mentions a new member of the mission staff, Fr Kevin Laheen SJ – ‘You will be glad to know that Fr Laheen on this his first mission did very well. He preaches well and his musical voice was a help to O'Beirne and I. I need not tell you that O'Beirne preaches very well, and is a wonderful companion on a mission. He sleeps badly’ (Fr Gerry O'Beirne) (23 March 1963, 3pp) and
– letters seeking permission to go to Spain (and Italy) as a supply priest (25 May 19?? – 30 November 1965, 4 items).

Handwriiten register of attendance for the Sodality of University College, Dublin.

Material relating to Fr John B Kerr SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

Minutes of council meetings of the Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Ignatius, Galway. Refers to retreats and retreat directions, details members present and those proposed for membership.

28 September 1890-1 December 1912;
13 December 1912 - September 1937;
April 1946 - November 1951;
14 May 1961-14 January 1974;

Register of Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, Mary and St Aloysius, St Ignatius, Galway which details names, address and remarks of different guild members.

Obituary for Fr Thomas Shuley SJ from the 'Irish Province News' (July 1965) and small photographic album belonging to Fr Shuley with thirteen images of the west of Ireland while on villa [1916-1930].

Handwritten notebook detailing the early history of the Australian Mission (Victoria).

Notebook detailing the early history of the Australian Mission (in New South Wales).

Report on the mission in Australia written by the Superior of the Mission Fr Jeremiah Sullivan SJ.

A file of letters from the Superior of the Australian Mission Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ, St Patrick's College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Fr Daniel Jones SJ (Socius) concerning the Australian Mission and the work being carried out.

Notes written by Fr Joseph Dalton SJ on the Sydney Mission.

Handwritten notebook detailing the early history of the Australian Mission (one notebook appears to be missing).

Published letter from Fr Michael Watson SJ, St Patrick's College, Melbourne, Australia to the novices of the Irish Province concerning missions given by the fathers in Australia in various parts of the country.

Notice advertising a retreat for men engaged on night work in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Photocopy of report from the 'Daily Nation' regarding the end of the annual retreat for the Dublin Metropolitan Police held in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Calendar for the annual retreat for the officers and men of an Garda Síochána, Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Photocopy of newspaper report of the Golden Jubilee of the Young Men's Sodality at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Calendar of the Young Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Prayer card for the souls of deceased members of the Garda Síochána Sodality, based at St Francis Xavier's Church, and calendar of names of deceased members.

Souvenir of the Novena of Grace, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Register of the Sodalities, Confraternities and Associations of the Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, detailing name, when founded, whom for, time of meetings, dates of retreats and location of meetings.

Souvenir of the Jubilee of the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street.

Leaflet of the 'Novena of Divine Grace in Honour of St Francis Xavier' at the church of St Francis Xavier, Dublin.

Handwritten account for the sodality of B.V.M - Lorcán Ua Tuathail (In Irish). Includes a list of those who attended a week-end retreat conducted in Irish by Fr Michael McGrath SJ (1872-1946), 29 - 31 January 1916. This Irish retreat was arranged with M. Colman, 1 Edward Terrace (sic) Dalkey.

Handwritten register of attendance for the Congregation of the Children of Mary, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes name, address, date of reception and attendance. See also CM/GARD/2/2/3/14

Report written by Fr Tom Counihan SJ on various retreats held at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Programme for a retreat for Clongowes Wood College at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Copy of article by Fr Matthew Meade SJ, on 'Rathfarnham Retreat’ in Interfuse No. 8, March/April 1980.

Scrapbook of the Sodality Academy, Rathfarnham Castle. Contains newspaper cuttings mainly from the Irish Catholic relating to the work and history of various sodalities in Ireland. Insertions include further newspaper cuttings and the anonymous draft of an article entitled ‘Devotion to our Lady in the Sodality’.

Handwritten monthly accounts of costs of food and supplies for retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (includes bread, butter, sugar, milk, tea and jam).

Guestbook for those on retreat at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Photograph of individuals praying at Our Lady’s Grotto, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Notice with instructions for the Station Master, (Great Southern Railways) to bear one 3rd class return ticket to Dublin to the bearer, to the House of Retreats, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Letters from Fr Patrick O'Mara SJ, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ concerning the taking of a retreat provided he can have a rest beforehand and his commission to join an Irish regiment as a chaplain in World War One.

Letter from Fr Ladislaus Zabdyr SJ, Chikuni, PO Chisekesi, Northern Rhodesia to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin thanking him for sending two Irish Jesuits to the mission. Asks if more men can be spared for work in the mission. Includes a copy of a reply remarking that more men cannot be spared.

Letters written from Jesuits in Northern Rhodesia to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ.

• Includes a letter from Fr Patrick J O'Brien SJ (one of the two Jesuits sent out to Northern Rhodesia by Irish Fr Provincial) remarking 'The situation here is desperate. There is no other word to describe it. It was already critical when the first appeal was made to the Irish Province. And while Fr Patrick J Walsh SJ and myself were waiting for a boat to come here, 3 fathers died. Since then we have lost a fourth…' (7 January 1948, 2pp).
• Includes a letter from Fr Patrick J O'Brien SJ, PO Box 125, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia to Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ thanking him for agreeing to send two more Jesuits to the mission (Fr Maurice Dowling SJ & Fr Daniel Shields SJ, although Fr Joseph Gill SJ subsequently went in Fr Shield's place) (7 April 1948, 2pp).

Letters written from Jesuits in Northern Rhodesia to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ.

• Includes a letter from Fr Patrick J Walsh SJ, PO Box 87, Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia referring to the imminent opening of the secondary school in Chikuni. Remarks that without Frs Dowling and Gill they would not have been able to open the school. Remarks that they are still waiting for the rains to come so that the maize crop can be sown (4 January 1949, 4pp).
• Includes a letter from Fr Patrick J Walsh SJ, PO Box 87, Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia describing the difficulties of the mission while it remains under complete control of the Polish Province (30 October 1949, 3pp).
• Includes a letter from Fr Patrick J Walsh SJ, PO Box 87, Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia concerning the possibility of the Irish Province taking over the Lusaka Prefecture. Remarks that he would welcome the development as long as it was entirely independent of the Polish Jesuits (5 December 1949, 4pp).

A file of letters written during the year 1950 relating to the Chikuni Mission, Northern Rhodesia. Includes numerous letters relating to the announcement that eight Irish Jesuits are to be sent to the Chikuni Mission and the need for these men to learn the language (Chitonga). Many letters express concern over the lack of preparations being made for their arrival and a reluctance to comply with Fr General's instructions that all eight men are to be housed together for one year to obtain a firm grasp of the language.

• Includes a letter from the Apostolic Delegation, PO Box 468, Mombasa to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ concerning the division of the mission between the Irish and Polish Jesuits. Advises Fr Byrne to send a suitable Jesuit to Northern Rhodesia to take on the role of Vicar Apostolic of Lusaka when the division takes place (12 June 1950, 1p).
• Includes a memorandum by Fr John Collins SJ concerning Bantu courses in London University (nd, 2pp).
• Includes a photograph published in the Irish Independent of the nine Irish Jesuits (eight priests and one brother) before their departure for Chikuni, Northern Rhodesia (19 July 1950, 1p).
• Includes a letter from Fr Brian MacMahon SJ to Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ announcing their safe arrival in Lusaka (7 August 1950, 2pp).
• Includes a letter from Fr Patrick J Walsh SJ describing a trip he and Fr Louis Meagher SJ made in the Zambesi Valley (22 September 1950, 2pp).
• Includes a letter from Fr Brian McMahon SJ, Chikuni Mission PO Chisekesi, Northern Rhodesia to Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ describing the school system here and the training colleges for African teachers (2 October 1950, 7pp).

Memorandum on the ecclesiastical administration of the Chikuni Mission in the Vicariate of Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia.

Statement prepared by Fr Bruno Wolnik SJ, on the number of religious in the Catholic Mission, Northern Rhodesia 'Pro Archivo S.C. de Propangand Fide'.

A file of letters written during the year 1952 relating to the Chikuni Mission, Northern Rhodesia.

• Includes a letter from David Matthews, Archbishop of Apamea, Apostolic delegate, Delegatio Apostolica, PO Box 468 Mombasa to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ concerning the proposed boundaries of the Vicariate of Lusaka to be given to the Irish Province. Includes a free hand map of the area (9 January 1952, 3pp).
• Includes a letter from Fr Patrick J. Walsh SJ, PO Box 125, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia to Irish Fr Provincial informing him that the building of the residence at the regiment Church has begun. Refers to Mau Mau in Kenya and remarks 'It is likely that in the next few years we shall see similar developments in central Africa. There is a great spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction among the Africans here and there is quite a bit of Communist propaganda going on - especially through the African Congress' (29 November 1952, 1p).

A file of letters written during the year 1956 relating to the Chikuni Mission, Northern Rhodesia.

• Includes a memorandum concerning the Teacher Training College, namely the adaptation and expansion of Chikuni as the Training College and the building of a new secondary school near Lusaka ([ ] 1956, 1p).
• Includes a first draft for presenting the Inter Racial Catholic Institute to the public ([ ], 2pp).
• Includes a letter from the Commissioner of Taxes, PO Box 126, Causway, Southern Rhodesia to Coghlan Welsh and Guest, Solicitors acting on behalf of the Irish Jesuits, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia concerning the change of status of Lusaka from Prefecture Apostolic to Vicariate Apostolic under the care of the Society of Jesus. Discusses the financial implications of this (March 1956, 2pp).
• Includes a letter from Fr M. Schurmans SJ, Visitor, Lusaka to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ concerning the juridical division of the Lusaka Mission. Remarks 'I think the only alternative left would be that the Irish Province take over the whole mission from the Polish' (19 November 1956, 4pp).

General Annual Histories of the Chikuni Mission with sections on Religious and Intellectual Life, Ministry and Health.

The Isle of Man Mission material details the building of chapels and schools in Douglas and Castletown by Fr Matthew Gahan SJ (1782-1837) and his work on the island. Born in Dublin, he entered the Society at Hodder, Lancashire, England in 1805 and left for the Isle of Man in 1826. He had previously spent 3 months on the island in 1817 and 1825. When he died there in February 1837, the Jesuit mission to the island ended.

A file of notices and order of time for retreats conducted by Fr John Counihan SJ at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Postcard from Fr Tom Counihan SJ, Retreat House, Rathfarnham Castle to Fr Martin Cryan SJ asking him to contribute to a retreat at Rathfarnham.

Typed manuscript of an outline for a long (30 day) retreat. Includes a drawing of Tullabeg, County Offaly.

Notebook of notes from retreats given by Fr Patrick Duffy SJ.

Notebook of retreat notes by Fr Charles McKenna SJ, with index.

Notes by Fr Charles MacKenna SJ on ‘List of subjects in Retreat to Ours’; ‘Consid[eration]s’.

Handwritten texts of sermons given by Fr John Conmee SJ and notes relating to the Tridium and Retreats.

Letter from Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning the newly founded ‘lectureship in Ancient History in U.C.D.’. ‘I feel that you will be very much disappointed when I ask you… to present yourself as a candidate; for I know that you wish to go to China. Do try to forgive me when I ask you to do something that pleases you less.’

Notes and letters from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to the St Joseph’s Young Priests Society, with regard to its income, expenditure and general policy. Fr Gwynn played an important part in the Society’s foundation and development (1927-49) and was Honorary Editor of its quarterly magazine Saint Joseph’s Sheaf.

Documents relating to the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Legion of Mary, mainly concerning the relationship between the Society of Jesus and the two organisations.

Lists of spiritual books suitable for distribution by Directors at Diocesan Retreats.

Bound volume containing an alphabetical list of Irish Jesuit retreat preachers and the groups to whom they gave retreats.

Letter from Dr David Moriarty, Bishop of Ardfert, to Dr Edmund O'Reilly SJ. Informs him of the arrangements for a retreat for priests to be held near Killarney, to be facilitated by O'Reilly. Refers also to a synod to be held.

Letter from Dr Richard A. Sheehan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, to Irish Fr Provincial Fr Patrick Keating, Hopes that the latter can send one or more Jesuit priests to conduct the clerical retreats in his diocese. Asks specifically for Fr Cullen SJ.

Letter from Bishop of Meath, Matthew Gaffney to Irish Fr Provincial James F Murphy SJ. Asks him to designate a priest to give the diocesan retreat in the following July if he (the Provincial) cannot do it. Includes note written by the Provincial stating that he promised that Fr [Reidy] would give the retreat if at all possible.

Letter from Dr John Keys O’Doherty, Bishop of Derry, to Fr James F Murphy SJ. Writes in relation to retreats for the clergy, which he hopes Murphy will conduct, or at least arrange, in July.

Account book of the Irish Jesuit Province. Includes an alphabetical index.

A file of lists of members of the following guilds connected to St Ignatius, Galway:
St. Francis;
St. Joseph;
Sacred Heart;
St. Peter;
St. Nicholas;
St. Bridget;
St. Ignatius;
St. Brendan;
St. Aloysius;
Blessed Virgin Mary.

Anonymous paper on ‘The Mens’ Sodality of Our Lady and the Jesuits in Galway’.

File of group photographs and negatives belonging to Fr Pádraic Ó Brólcháin SJ. Includes:

• Juniors Villa, Gormanstown Castle, County Meath, 1930;
• Juniors 1932;
• Juniorate 1933;
• Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, 1933;
• Irish speaking villa to Roundstone, County Galway [1935] and [1936];
• Clongowes Wood College villa in Glengarriff, County Cork, 1938;
• Milltown Park, Dublin [1940 - 41].

All photographs include Fr. Pádraic Ó Brólcháin S.J.

Bound handwritten register of the female and male members of the Apostleship of Prayer and Confraternity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Includes lists of promoters; inserts of a Certificate of Enrolment to the Apostleship of Prayer of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1877); list of books in library used for different subjects: Latin, Greek, Theology, Physics, German, Jesuitica, Mathematics. English Literature, Periodicals and Religion (1633-1918).

With signatures and practice handwriting by Daniel Leap[e], Bolart, Clara, King's County, 9 October 1912 and James Dolan, Roscommon.

Handwritten register of the Apostleship of Prayer and of the Crusaders of the Blessed Sacrament, St Ignatius College, Galway. Details list of classes, Spiritual Directors, President, Secretary, Treasurer, Promoter and members. Includes loose inserts of notes on; the Apostleship of Prayer; souvenir of reception for the Crusaders of the Blessed Sacrament; certificate of membership of the Apostleship of Prayer; list of members of the Apostleship of Prayer Cumann Brigid 1946.

Register for Apostleship of Prayer, St Ignatius Church, Galway giving names, address and date.

Register for the Holy League of the Sacred Heart, Daily Mass, at St Ignatius Church, Galway giving name and address.

Notebooks with handwritten entries related the minutes of committee meetings of Our Lady’s Girls’ Club. The insertions details expenses for 1951. Includes two black and white photographs of girls’ club members at an outing at the beach.

Letter from Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (Superior), St Ignatius College, Galway to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ concerning a school site the Bishop of Galway wishes to obtain from the Corporation. Remarks that the Bishop asked that all Sodalities pass a resolution supporting his position. Refers to the situation as very difficult. Remarks 'We all disliked the proposal (that all Sodalities pass a resolution) supporting his position intensely, but felt that we must yield to the Bishop's wishes.'

Altar in the chapel at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin - College Studios, 31 Westmoreland Street, Dublin.

A. G. S. Group - Retreatants at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. With Fr Patrick Barrett SJ, Director of Retreats - by Keogh Brothers Ltd.

Retreat Group, including some members of the staff of the L. M. & S. Railway Co. with Frs Patrick Barrett, Dr Naughton (Lord Bishop of Killala), Richard Devane, Michael Garahy and Canon O'Boyle, College Studios, 31 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. With names.

A telegram from Pope Pius XI to Fr Patrick Barrett SJ, Director of Retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, blessing all those making a retreat at Rathfarnham. In Latin.

Knights of Loyola, Sports Cohort at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

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.

C.I.E. Employees’ Week-end Retreat, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Road Passenger Section. Includes Frs Michael Sweetman, John McDonald, Joseph Erraught (Director of Retreats), Br John Adams - Independent News.

Knights of Loyola and L. M. & S. Railway Co. with Fr Patrick Barrett SJ at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin - College Studios.

A.O.H. (Ancient Order of Hibernians) Donnybrook, with Fr Patrick Barrett SJ, Director of Retreats, at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. College Studios.

Booklets entitled 'Apostolic Constitution: Bis Saeculari, on the Sodality of Our Lady', 'Apostolic Constitution on the Sodality of Our Lady' and the 'Address of Pope Pius XII'.

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.

Villa (holiday) journal for Irish Jesuit scholastics (Juniors).

Kinnagh Hill, Killiney, County Dublin, 1922;
Bayview House, Wickow, County Wicklow, 1923;
'Elton' & 'Albany', Kilcoole, County Wicklow, 1924;
Clydagh Hotel, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1925;
Clydagh Hotel, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1926;
Clydagh Hotel, Greystones, County Wicklow, 1927;
Gormanstown Castle, County Meath, 1928;
Castlebellingham, County Louth, 1929;
Charleville House, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, 1930;
Gormanstown Castle, County Meath, 1932;

Villa Rules for Irish Jesuit Vice-Province dating from 1837 - quotes Fr General Roothaan, and the Irish Vice Provincial Joseph Lentaigne SJ (vice-prov 1858). Also includes a Daily Order of Time.

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

Copy of 'La Vie Spirituelle. Ascétique et Mystique', Vol. XIX, No. 3 containing an article on Fr. Doyle by F. de Lanversin (p.323-341).

Spiritual notes and letters belonging to Fr Willie Doyle SJ. Includes typewritten notes on ‘Samuel’, ‘Acts of Immolation’, ‘The Prayer of Christ’; spiritual letters.

Pamphlet written by Fr Henry Gill SJ entitled ‘Helps to vocal and mental prayer from the spiritual exercises of St Ignatius’, 2nd edition, published by the Irish Messenger Office.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Cecil McGarry from Sr Mary Regis, Mercy Convent, Doon, County Limerick, following Fr Leonard Sheil's death. Encloses letters sent to her from Fr Sheil over a number of years and press-cuttings relating to him, in the hope they might be useful to the Society when writing Fr Sheil's biography. States ‘I thought I would like to do a little for him after all he did for me.…When he started his missions in England I used to make pictures & pieties to help him & send them to the different addresses. He sent me accounts of these missions…He never thought of himself, his aim was to use everything he could to bring souls to God… I have kept letters of his since 1939 & all the years of the war & until he wrote before Christmas to announce his illness’ (Aug. 1968, 4pp). Encloses seven letters from Fr Sheil, thanking her for sending badges and medals and discussing her health and his missions. Includes letter in which he remarks ‘…thanks so much for all your lovely pictures and things. They are immensely valued over here. Sometimes indeed religion is not valued, but I hope that these pictures etc. will make it impossible for them to forget the lovely things of Our Faith. One little boy brought five Protestant pals, mostly bigger than himself, to the mission at West Hartlepool. I have had many conversions of people years away from Mass and the Sacraments. Many others have rejected me. The [leak]age of the children when they leave school, & have no Catholic school, and no good parents, is frightful. I start missions again on January 8th at Coventry and near Northampton. They will be very tough, so help me with your prayers. I bless each house I enter, put them on their knees, if they don’t refuse, and instal (sic.) a holy picture’ (28 Dec. 19--, 2pp). Also includes photocopies of clippings on Fr Sheil from various English newspapers (n.d., 4 items).

Correspondence between Fr Leonard Sheil SJ and Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ concerning the relationship between the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Legion of Mary.

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial, mostly from Fr Leonard Sheil SJ, relating to his Mission work throughout Ireland. Includes:

• letters concerning a Retreat given by Fr Sheil in Killorglin, County Kerry, a lecture in Cashel, County Tipperary and Missions in Cobh, County Cork and Harrington Street, Dublin (24 November 1943 - 7 August 1945, 6 items);
• letter from Fr Sheil offering to ‘go to any country where…I would be of use in the service of God, Africa, Australia, China or the Continent.’ Also seeks permission to become the Spiritual Director of the International Catholic Girls’ Protection Society (see also J16/5). ‘Their work (they are some thirty years in existence in Dublin) was chiefly the meeting and protecting of girls travelling, especially to England. Now it includes a registry office of which the object is to find work for girls in Ireland and so obviate the necessity of going to England.…They hope to start a small training hostel for domestics. The Archbishop is very favourable.…I have given their radio broadcast for the past five years, bringing in £100 more or less each year. The work of the Spiritual Director would be to attend the monthly meeting of the Committee…and on these occasions to give what assistance he can as a priest.…In favour of it,…it offers a field of work for youth; and…perhaps no class of youth needs help more than the young country girl, perhaps from a convent orphanage, who comes to Dublin to domestic service…’ (21 Feb. 1946, 3pp);
• letter from Socius Fr John Coyne SJ to the Irish Provincial relating to a report in the 'Irish Press' of a lecture on ‘Friends of Soviet Russia’ given by Fr Sheil to the Ringsend C.Y.M.S. in which Fr Sheil referred to Dáil Éireann members as ‘frightful loafers’. Encloses clipping of report (2 Dec. 1946, 1p.) and letter from Fr Sheil to Fr Coyne explaining the circumstances of the lecture (n.d., 2pp);
• letter from Fr Sheil reporting on a number of young men who wish to join the Society and his activities on a recent visit to the North of Ireland (2 Apr. 1947, 4pp) and
• letter to the Irish Provincial Fr Thomas Byrne SJ from Dr Edward Doorly, Bishop of Elphin stating ‘Father Sheil did not give any offence worth mentioning and further…he gave a splendid Retreat to the priests’ (18 May 1949, 1p.).

Leaflet on 'The Men’s Sodality of Our Lady' and the Jesuits in Galway (1630-1768) and (1869-1969) which gives background history. Published by the Connacht Tribune.