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Letter from [ ] Wray Liverpool to Dr Charles Russell concerning William Bliss and his conversion to the Catholic religion

Letter from [ ] Wray (mother-in-law of William Bliss), Liverpool to Dr Charles Russell concerning William Bliss and his conversion to the Catholic religion. Appeals to Dr. Russell '...to suggest to him that there are natural as well as moral rights of others which ought to be considered as well as his own religious and legal rights.' Refers to William Bliss' desire to have all of his children brought up in the Catholic faith 'To be thus bereft of her children one by one, will break the mother's heart; it will certainly not win her to her husband's religion; and will necessitate proceedings which will create domestic discord and probably bring this scandal before the world.' Concludes 'There is another matter which also has a bearing upon this case, which, for his own sake, should not come before the public. I allude to his extreme excitability of temper which not infrequently has made my daughter fear for her own personal safety. I have plenty of witnesses to prove this.'

Letter from Fr Charles O'Connor SJ to Fr Rector, St Mary's, Emo describing how the Society became beneficiaries in the will of Rebecca Codd

Letter from Fr Charles O'Connor SJ, Clongowes Wood College, Naas, County Kildare to Fr Joseph Dargan SJ, Rector, St Mary's, Emo describing how the Society became beneficiaries in the will of Rebecca Codd and the items that were left to the Society in her will.

O'Connor, Charles E, 1920-2014, Jesuit priest

Fr James Butler SJ

Notice of Fr James Butler SJ (from Dr Oliver's account, p 218).

Butler, James, 1790-1820, Jesuit priest

Will of John C. Mackey

A file relating to the will of John C. Mackey, Nenagh, County Tipperary, father of Fr Ernest Mackey SJ in which he names his son as one of his beneficiaries (one fifth of his property).

Material relating to Jesuits in Athlone, County Westmeath in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Material relating to Jesuits in Athlone, County Westmeath in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:

  • extract from the Journal of 'The Old Athlone Society' comprising an article entitled 'The Jesuits and Athlone In The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', by Fr Francis Finegan SJ, p.77 – 83 (1970-71, 8pp);
  • typescript entitled ‘Residentia Athloniensis’ concerning early references to a Jesuit house in Athlone, c.1605 by Fr Patrick O'Kelly S (19 October 1961);
  • letter from W.W. English, Old Athlone Society to Fr Francis Finegan SJ (9 October 1971);
  • list of Jesuits from the Meath diocese 1563 - 1773 and
  • biographical notes of Jesuits born in Meath diocese post 1773.

Finegan, Francis J, 1909-2011, Jesuit priest

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

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

Letter from Fr Matthew Gahan SJ, Isle of Man to Fr Patrick Bracken SJ, 2 January 1837

From Fr Matthew Gahan SJ in the Isle of Man to Fr Patrick Bracken SJ in Tullabeg, County Offaly. Complains that the latter’s request that ‘the place in Castletown’ not be sold was untimely, and announces that he is to rent it out. Believes that the mission should be given up, but does not think it possible. Refers to his bad health, and asserts that he believes that he is ‘very soon to meet death’. Also refers to the bad state of the chapel. Asserts that he would rather be dismissed from the Society, which, he believes, has been betrayed, than ‘be made the foot ball of any Vicar Apostolic’.

Gahan, Matthew, 1782-1837, Jesuit priest

Circulars from Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ relating to Extraordinary Permissions renewed by Fr General

Circulars from Provincial Thomas Byrne relating to Extraordinary Permissions renewed by Fr General granting leave to accept stipends for various purposes; the notice of congregations for the beatification of Fr. Peter Olivaint; fundraising for the Gregorian University; the order for the removal from libraries, and subsequent destruction, of a recent work by Fr. Emile Delaye entitled Qu’est-ce qu’un Catholique (Paris 1950).

Byrne, Thomas, 1904-1978, Jesuit priest

Fr James Lynch SJ

Catalogue available 2042.

Lynch, James, 1920-2012, Jesuit priest

Fr Seán Murray SJ

Catalogue available 2038.

Murray, Seán, 1922-2008, Jesuit priest

Fr Frank M Shaw SJ

Obituary, sonnets of Our Lady by Fr Francis Shaw SJ.

Shaw, Frank M, 1881-1924, Jesuit priest and chaplain

Fr John McAuley SJ

Catalogue available 2042.

McAuley, John, 1923-2012, Jesuit priest

Holograph letters by Fr Frank Browne SJ

  • IE IJA J/7/79
  • File
  • 26 January-5 February 1919
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Holograph letters by Fr Frank Browne SJ to his brother, Fr William Browne on slides and photographs that he has sent him with his new camera, his time in Germany and leave.

Browne, Francis M, 1880-1960, Jesuit priest, photographer and chaplain

Letters from Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s first cousins, written in response to Fr Gwynn’s request for genealogical information

  • IE IJA J/10/79
  • File
  • July 1974 - April 1975
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

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).

Photograph of ‘Most Holy Father’, Pope Pius X

Photograph of ‘Most Holy Father’, (Pope Pius X ) with the inscription ‘The community + Pupils of St. Ignatius College, Galway, Ireland humbly prostate at the feet of Your Holiness beg you to grant them the Apostolic Benediction and plenary Indulgence in ‘Articulo Mortis’’. Papal embossment seal.

Letters to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ and Vice-Provincial Fr John Coyne SJ from Fr General John Baptist Janssens SJ

Circulars and letters to Irish Fr Provincial Michael O'Grady SJ and Vice-Provincial Fr John Coyne SJ from Fr General John Baptist Janssens SJ, Fr Joseph Bolland SJ, English Assistant, Fr Friedrich Schwendimann SJ and others. Includes letters concerning the appointment of Iacobus Martegani as Italian Assistant (14 January 1955); the use of contraceptive devices by married couples (19 May 1955); the fourth centenary of the death of Ignatius Loyola (31 July 1955); the situation of the Society of Jesus in Poland (28 January 1957).

Janssens, Jean-Baptiste,1889-1964, Jesuit priest and Father General

Letter from Irish Fr Provincial to Fr Joseph Dargan SJ, Rector, St Mary's, Emo thanking him for sending Fr O'Connor's letter regarding the Codd bequest

Letter from Irish Fr Provincial Cecil McGarry SJ to Fr Joseph Dargan SJ, Rector, St Mary's, Emo thanking him for sending Fr O'Connor's letter regarding the Codd bequest. Remarks that he is going to offer the library, the portraits and the bust to Clongowes Wood College.

McGarry, Cecil, 1929-2009, Jesuit priest

Letter from Fr Matthew Gahan SJ, Isle of Man to Fr Patrick Bracken SJ, 27 January 1837

From Fr Matthew Gahan SJ in the Isle of Man to Fr Patrick Bracken SJ in Tullabeg. Declares that he would not think he should cross the Channel (back to Ireland) in his current state of health, and furthermore that he would only leave if the person who was to supply for him had been there for a time. Refers to the debts owed by him to various people. States that he would rather ‘die in a ditch’ before yielding to ‘a Judas like trick on the part of Dr Briggs [Bishop of the Northern District]’.

Gahan, Matthew, 1782-1837, Jesuit priest

Fr John A Byrne SJ

Catalogue entry for Fr John A Byrne SJ (1930) and photocopy of obituary (July 1961)

Byrne, John A, 1878-1961, Jesuit priest

Material concerning the Jesuits in New Ross, County Wexford in the seventeenth century

Material concerning the Jesuits in New Ross, County Wexford in the seventeenth century. Includes:

  • notes by Fr John MacErlean SJ (4pp);
  • letters from a Patrick Donovan, Upper Rosbercon, New Ross to Frs Matthew Meade and John MacErlean seeking information on the history of the Jesuits in New Ross, in particular the book of carols ‘A Pious Garland’ compiled by Fr Luke Wadding SJ, and information on Fr Hosschius Sidronius (31 January - 3 March 1948, 3 items, 18pp);
  • notes by Diarmaid Walsh, Coolcull House, Taghmon, County Wexford to Fr Stephenson (10 November 1971);
  • extract of an O.S. map indicating the site of the seventeenth century Jesuit church in New Ross (no scale given) and
  • note by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ on the Jesuit presence in the town of Wexford (14 June 2000, 1p).

MacErlean, John C, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist

Letter from Otho Fitzgerald, Carton, County Kildare to Dr Charles Russell congratulating him on his election as President of Maynooth College

Letter from Otho Fitzgerald, Carton, County Kildare to Dr Charles Russell congratulating him on his election as President of Maynooth College. Includes a biographical note written by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ (former Irish Province Archivist).

FitzGerald, Lord Otho, 1827-1882, soldier and politician

Probate of Henry Alexander Donovan, The Square, Listowel, County Kerry

Administration (intestate) in the High Court of Justice, Ireland, Kings Bench behalf of Henry Alexander Donovan, The Square, Listowel, County Kerryh Division (Probate) deceased bachelor assigning his estate to his brother and only next of kin, Edmund William Donovan SJ, St Ignatius College, Galway. Two pendant wafer seals attached.

Fr John Redmond SJ

Catalogue available 2041.

Redmond, John, 1924-2011, Jesuit priest

Fr Bernard Page SJ

File of photographs belonging/taken by Fr Bernard Page SJ:

  • Boys at Clongowes
  • Jesuit villa house, Rossdhu, Moyard, Connemara, Galway (1906)
  • Celtic Cross and Round Tower, Monasterboice, Louth
  • Cong Abbey, Mayo
  • Murrisk Abbey, Mayo
  • Achill Head, Mayo
  • Burrishoole Abbey, Mayo
  • Lord Ardilaun’s seat, Ashford, Cong, Mayo
  • Ashford Castle, Cong, Mayo
  • Milltown Villa group (1909)
  • Distant view of Muilrea, Mayo
  • Distant view of Croagh Patrick, Mayo
  • Jesuits Matthew Davitt, Thomas Wheeler and Joseph Wrafter
  • Jesuit on horseback, ready to climb to Crucachan, [Roscommon or Kerry]
  • Jesuit on top of Crucachan, [Roscommon or Kerry] - Back row: Mr William Hackett, Mr Frank Browne, Mr Patrick Connolly. Front row: Mr John O'Connor, Fr Vincent Byrne, Mr John Byrne and Fr McCormack.
  • Cromwell’s Fort, Inisboffin
  • Connemara cattle, Galway
  • Connemara school, Galway
  • Connemara landscapes, Galway
  • Diamond Mountain, Connemara, Galway
  • Killary bay, Mayo & Galway
  • Glendalough, Mayo
  • Ballinakill bay and Kylemore Pass
  • Salruck and Little Killary, Galway
  • View from Rossleague, Letterfrack, Galway
  • Villa House, Rossleague, Letterfrack, Galway (1907)
  • Jesuit villa group, Rossleague House, Letterfrack, Galway (1907). Back row: Bernard Page, Frank Browne, John O'Connor and James Dillon-Kelly. Front row: Frs James Whittaker, Lambert McKenna and Frederick Gill.
  • Ordinations at Milltown Park (31 July 1907)
  • Letterfrack, Galway
  • Lough Fee, Galway
  • Lough Fee and Lough Muck, Galway
  • Kylemore Castle, Galway
  • St Kevin’s Bed, Glendalough, Wicklow
  • Fr Vincent Byrne and Mr Flynn and Barraghy next to the Old oratory on Croagh Patrick, Mayo
  • Mr James McCann SJ driving a car
  • Front of Belvedere House, Belvedere College SJ, Dublin
  • Interior of Belvedere House, Belvedere College SJ, Dublin
  • Belvedere College cycling club trip with Mr Frank Browne to Mellifont Abbey, Louth
  • Bellerive, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  • Botanical gardens, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  • Schoolboys with Archbishop of Melbourne, Thomas Carr Taken in 1/45 of second while archbishop was speaking to boys by same BFP

Page, Bernard F, 1877-1948, Jesuit priest and chaplain

Fr Seamus Ward SJ

Catalogue available 2041.

Ward, Séamus, 1935-2011, Jesuit priest

Appointment of Fr Frank Browne SJ as an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class

  • IE IJA J/7/8
  • File
  • 14 March & 25 August 1919; 14 September 1921
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Documents found among the papers of Fr Willie Doyle SJ (with whom Fr Browne briefly served as chaplain), collated by Fr Charles Doyle SJ, concerning Fr Frank Browne SJ. Includes telegrams to Robert Browne, Bishop of Cloyne (14 March & 25 August 1919) concerning Fr Browne & circular letter from the War Office to Fr Browne, St Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, informing him of his appointment as an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class ‘as from 1st Sept. 1921 on which date your commission as a temporary Chaplain to the Forces ceased to have effect.’ (14 September 1921).

British Army, 1660-

Aubrey Gwynn asking his father to become a Jesuit

Letter from Aubrey Gwynn to his father asking for leave to become a Jesuit ([June 1910], 4pp) and his father’s reply, urging him to wait at least until Aubrey reaches twenty-one before he makes such a momentous decision (20 June [1910], 4pp).

Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic

Diary of Fr William A Sutton SJ

  • IE IJA J/18/8
  • Item
  • 28 January 1888 - 14 June 1889; 18 September 1894; 22 January 1901; 12 November 1912
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Includes entry dated 18 September 1894 which reads: ‘I have read all diary up to this. It has done me good intellectually and spiritually. I see what kind of life I have led.…Worry, hoping, struggling, trying again, thinking, prayer, trying to be humble, wishing to be holy, compromising or compounding with obstacles, determined to avoid deliberate sin of all kinds with God’s grace,…much to endure mentally & bodily, feel responsibility of office very much, studying same books as well as matters connected with new duties. I suppose such will always be my life’ (1p.).
Also includes entry dated 22 January 1901 which reads, ‘I have read all diaries up to this.…I think I will begin keeping it again. Kept it up to about year ago I think pretty regularly. Life much the same. Health much better.…This is my sixth year as Superior at M(ill)town Park. Hopes it lasts.’
Also includes entry on last page dating to 12 November 1912 which reads ‘Have read D(iary) fr(om) beginning to here.…Had given up keeping diary for years, but last month began again though not on the same lines. My idea was to put down day by day what I had come to, what I thought, what I tried to be, to take stock of myself in all my bearings, as a kind of statement of what all my experiences had made me. I have written more in this kind of diary…since Oct. 1st than perhaps in a whole year of ordinary kind. I began with repugnance, I soon got some facility & even liking for such writing. I have never felt the joy that writers feel so often in using their steel pen, though I have written a good deal.…The eight years I was at Mungret 1903 – 1911 I taught Lat(in), Greek, English, most pass, a good deal honours too of English (I, II Arts) & all the University classes in Latin fr(om) Matric. to B.A. incl..…In the resumed diary I was putting down all about humility etc., etc., as if it were almost something new, a better way etc., & I find I’ve been always at it. But I really think I am better at it now, for I have learnt to recognise that I am all out-of-joint & therefore much better able to get on, feeling how infinitely better off I am than I deserve to be, how others better, how grateful I ought to be (& try to be) to be in God’s house, a member of the Society, how silly to find fault with what wise & holy men have appointed. Health all along much the same, discomfort, no positive pain, at times not easy to be patient or cheery with, but on the whole I am splendidly off here & dont wish ever to be elsewhere.…I think I may say I never was so well off & so peaceful & so come to anchor as I feel here & have felt since coming, but especially this second year & most since I took up D(iary) again.’

Assignment for lands of Newtown, Castlebancroft and Fazakerlys, County Dublin

Parties:
Anne Archbold, Elizabeth Archbold, Mary Archbold, Spinsters, City of Dublin of the first part, Sarah Kavanagh, Widow of the second part and Gerald Archbold and Michael Hanrahan of the third part.

Property:
Lands of Newtown, Castlebancroft and Fazakerlys, County Dublin.

Terms & Conditions:
To secure a payment of £1,600.

Other:
Signed and sealed.

Letters from Cardinal Cullen to Fr John Curtis SJ granting permission to Fr Curtis to preach and lead devotions

A file of letters from Cardinal Cullen (by his the amanuensis and secretary Patrick Moran) to Fr John Curtis SJ granting permission to Fr Curtis to preach and lead devotions at the Pro-Cathedral, in particular on the feast of the Sacred Heart. Also grants permission for the Association of the Tabernacle and Poor Churches to be affiliated to the main association in Brussels.

Cullen, Paul, 1803-1878, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and cardinal

Photograph of Jesuit community at St Ignatius, Galway

Photograph of the community at St Ignatius, Galway, at the time of Fr John J McMahon’s visitation (Visitor is missing from photograph). Taken outdoors in three rows by Yann Studios, 3 Mainguard St, Galway. Includes the following Jesuits:
Top row, from left: Fr Michael Morahan SJ, Fr Senan Timoney SJ, Fr Richard Butler SJ, Fr Sean O'Duibhir SJ, Fr Paddy Tyrrell SJ, Br Michael Crowe SJ.
Middle row: Fr Peader Feeney SJ, Fr Patrick O'Kelly SJ, Br Andrew Colgan SJ, Fr Andrew O'Reilly SJ, Br Francis Bonfield SJ, Fr Jim Christian SJ, Fr Bob McGoran SJ.
Front row, sitting: Fr Joseph O'Connor SJ, Fr Paul Leonard SJ, Fr Pearse O'Higgins SJ (Rector), Fr Michael McGrath SJ, Fr Kieran Ward SJ, Fr Francis McSwiggan SJ.

Yann Studios, photographers

Letter from Fr Denis Murphy SJ to Fr Ryan concerning religious called to give evidence on behalf of the cause of the Irish Martyrs

Letter from Fr Denis Murphy SJ, Milltown Park, Milltown, Dublin to Fr Ryan concerning religious called to give evidence on behalf of the cause of the Irish Martyrs. Remarks 'Those have promised to come on Thursday will occupy two days at least on giving their evidence. The Roman people will think nothing of our proceedings if we don't spin these out to some length.'

Photographs of Fr Richard Gallagher SJ on his voyage to Hong Kong and photographs of Hong Kong

Black and white photographs of Fr Richard Gallagher SJ on his voyage to China and photographs of China.

  • 'Shadow of 'Mongolia' on bank of Canal (Suez) about 7.30', 5 October 1927;
  • 'Monsoon in China Sea', 20 October 1927;
  • 'Cecilia, Two [ ] The Coolie is wearing a mackintosh D' [1928] - [1938];
  • Fr Richard Gallagher SJ at his desk [1928] - [1938];
  • Fr Richard Gallagher SJ in Ireland [1945]-[1947];
  • 'Left to right standing - Father H. Morris, Con Lynch, M O'Flanagan, Mosignir Collins, Monsignir Crowley. Seated Fr Michael Sheehy, Fr Tom Lynch';
  • 'At a party given for Fr Dick by two lawyer friends' [1950] - [1962];
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