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Letter from Fr Joseph Hurley SJ seeking permission to visit his cousin

Letter from Fr Joseph Hurley SJ, St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, County Offaly to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ seeking permission to visit his cousin, Mother M. Teresa, St Louis Convent who is dying of cancer.

Hurley, Joseph, 1905-1984, Jesuit priest and Irish language editor

Letter from Fr Joseph Hurley SJ to Irish Fr Provincial concerning a letter he wishes to send to the Editor of the Irish Times

Letter from Fr Joseph Hurley SJ, St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, County Offaly to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ concerning a letter he wishes to send to the Editor of the Irish Times in reply to an 'attack' made on Fr Stephen Brown's book.

Hurley, Joseph, 1905-1984, Jesuit priest and Irish language editor

Gardiner Street ‘excursion’ to Lough Tay

Gardiner Street ‘excursion’ to Lough Tay. L-r: Fr Frank Browne SJ, P McGlade, N J Tomkin, Charles Farley, John Fahy, Matthew Devitt, J Keane and M Phelan taken at Mrs McGurk’s cottage, Lough Bray, Wicklow.

Minutes of meetings of Dublin Food Supply Society

  • IE IJA J/9/5
  • Item
  • 8 December 1916 – 6 March 1918
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Volume of minutes of committee meetings of the Dublin Food Supply Society (DFSS), a society with which Fr Thomas Finlay SJ was associated and whose object was the supply of cheap food to the poor of Dublin in difficulties due to either the Great War or the ‘local Irish situation’. Fr Thomas Finlay SJ, who had previously worked with Sir Horace Plunkett in the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, established the Dublin Food Supply Company (1916-1926) at a meeting in the Royal Hibernian Academy, Lincoln Place.

The following individuals became part of the Dublin Food Supply Company committee: Lady Frances Moloney (Chairperson) (in 1918, she became one of the founders of the Missionary Sisters of St Columban), Miss Conroy, Miss Janet Cunningham, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Cogan, Mrs O'Brien, Mr McKee, Mr Fallon, Mr Desmond O'Brien, Mr Cruise O'Brien, Mr Michael J. Dillon and Mr W.A. Ryan. It was agreed that 4 Killarney Street (later transferred to 10 Lower Gloucester Street) should be taken temporarily as a shop, from Monday 18 December 1916. The society had £137 in their account and Fr Tom Finlay SJ was able to source ten gallons of milk, Lady Moloney secured a half a ton of potatoes and Mr O'Brien, bags for the potatoes from IAWS. The milk crisis of 1917 resulted in the Corporation of Dublin requesting that the Dublin Food Supply Company take over the distribution of the milk supply previously provided by them. By 1918, depots where food and milk could be bought were located at: Grattan Street; Francis Street (later transferred to 88 Thomas Street); North King Street and Old Camden Street. By 1924, further properties were bought at Gloucester Place Upper; Middle Gardiner Street and No. 1 Pimlico, parish of St. Catherine, city of Dublin to ‘carry on business solely for the purpose of supplying to the poor, all or any manner of household supplies at such a price and no greater over and above the wholesale price as will cover rents and other costs of distribution’. In February 1925, the Dublin Food Supply Company was running a deficit and the falling off in trade due to the business depression resulted in the ceasing of operations in 1926.

Dublin Food Supply Society, 1916-1926

‘Memorandum of the Irish Medical Guild of St. Luke, S.S. Cosmas & Damien'

Copy of ‘Memorandum of the Irish Medical Guild of St. Luke, S.S. Cosmas & Damien. The Proposed Reorganisation of Irish Hospitals. Grave Problems for Catholics’ sent to Fr Thomas A. Finlay SJ:. ‘This memorandum on the state of the Hospitals is the work of a special Committee of the Guild of St. Luke set up to investigate the hospital-problem from the stand-point of Catholic interests’ (11pp). Encloses two explanatory charts (1p.).

‘Beatha Íde [480? – 569?]’

Material relating to the lives of saints and scholars, ‘Beatha Íde [480? – 569?]’ (7pp) with notes in another hand commenting on the text (4pp).

McGrath, Michael P, 1872-1946, Jesuit priest and Irish language scholar

‘Comhghall Naomhtha 517-602’

Material relating to the lives of saints and scholars, ‘Comhghall Naomhtha 517 – 602’ (8pp) and notes in another hand commenting on the text (6pp).

McGrath, Michael P, 1872-1946, Jesuit priest and Irish language scholar

‘Fursa Naomhtha (580?-652-3 (16adh Eanair)'

Material relating to the lives of saints and scholars, ‘Fursa Naomhtha (580? – 652-3 (16adh Eanair) ‘ (8pp) and notes in another hand commenting on the ‘Fursa’ text and also on the text relating to St. Enda (Éanna) (5pp).

McGrath, Michael P, 1872-1946, Jesuit priest and Irish language scholar

‘De Mhaodhóg Fearna’

Material relating to the lives of saints and scholars, ‘De Mhaodhóg Fearna (550-60 – 624-32)’ (11pp) with notes in another hand commenting on the text (2pp).

McGrath, Michael P, 1872-1946, Jesuit priest and Irish language scholar

Article in 'The Commonweal'

Article from The Commonweal entitled ‘Father William Doyle, S.J.’ by Henry Longan Stuart.

Society of Jesus, 1540-

Notes made on Fr Willie Doyle’s early career

Notes made by [Fr Frank Browne SJ] on Fr Doyle's early career (n.d., 8pp), ‘missionary’ career from 1910 to 1915 (n.d., 17pp) and ‘military career’ (n.d., 11pp) and notes, including extracts from the book (n.d., 9pp).

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

Letter from Fr Willie Doyle SJ to Fr Charles Farley SJ

Letter from Fr William Doyle SJ, writing from Stonyhurst College, to Fr Charles Farley SJ. Reports on his search in the archives of the English Province for documents relating to the Irish Province. Undertakes to copy some early nineteenth century letters for Fr Farley.

Doyle, Willie, 1873-1917, Servant of God, Jesuit priest and chaplain

Letter from Fr Willie Doyle SJ to his aunt

Letter from Fr Willie Doyle SJ to his Aunt Jane. Refers to his ordination, and to his departure for Belgium the following day to complete his education in Belgium, and states that he may have a chance of going to Australia in the future. Also refers to his parents’ Jubilee celebrations.

Doyle, Willie, 1873-1917, Servant of God, Jesuit priest and chaplain

Letter from Fr John Mulderry

Letter from Fr John Mulderry, Chaplain, 61st General Hospital, Salonica referring to a letter received from [Father Provincial] ‘as
regards your queries I must candidly confess that my evidence (and I told them so in Clonliffe) rests solely an accounts given me by other Chaplains which accounts, rested on rumour...I should have thought the Society would have probed the matter to the bottom’.

Mulderry, John, Roman Catholic priest and chaplain

Letter to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Bishop Theodor Kramer, Würzburg, on sending Fr Gwynn a paper on the Cult of St Killian

Letter to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Bishop Theodor Kramer, Würzburg, on sending Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ a paper on the Cult of St. Killian (3pp). Includes copy of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ review of 'New Light on St. Killian' by J. Dienemann (Würzburg, 1955) the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record', 1957 (88, pp.1–16) ).

Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the ‘Council of Three Anglo-Irish Bishops (a.1324)’

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on:
– the ‘Council of Three Anglo-Irish Bishops (a.1324)’ being extracts from various texts (In Latin) (3pp);
– ‘Decree of Three Anglo-Irish Bishops (a.1324-5)’ being extracts from Rawlinson MS B. 484. fol.17 (a ‘miscellany of texts of Irish interest formerly in the library of Sir. James Ware, now among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Libraries’) (2pp).

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with regard to St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (mostly transcriptions from various Papal Bulls) with regard to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin:

  • ‘Comyn’s Original Prebends of St. Patrick’s (From Bull of Celestine III)’ (1p.);
  • ‘The Property of the Economy (ad communiam) of St. Patrick’s’ (1p.);
  • ‘Taxation List a.1227 of Prebends of St. Patrick’s, Dublin (from Alan’s Register)’ (1p.);
  • ‘St. Patrick’s Dublin. Bull of Pope Celestine III’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Charter of John Comyn establishing Collegiate Church of St. Patrick’ (Latin) (2pp);
  • Ordinance of John Comyn concerning Privileges of Salisbury’;
  • ‘Charter of Prince John granting Crumlin as Prebend to St. Patrick’s (May 2, 1193)’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Revised Version of John Comyn’s Charter’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Charter of Henry de Loundres adding Three Offices to the Chapter of St. Patrick’s’ (Latin) (2pp);
  • ‘Charter of Henry de Loundres a Dean to Chapter of St. Patrick’s’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Charter of Henry de Loundres exempting Prebends of St. Patrick’s from Procurations of Archdeacon and Dean’ (Latin) (1p.);
  • ‘Taxation of the Prebends of St. Patrick’s a.1227’ (Latin and English) (2pp) and ‘Charter of Luke on Privileges of Canons of St. Patrick’s’ (Latin) (1p.).

Draft chapters by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of the book he was working on before he died 'The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries'

Draft chapters by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of the book he was working on before he died 'The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries'. Incomplete – first three chapters are missing. Includes:

  • draft table of contents (2 different drafts, 1p. and 4pp);
  • preface (3pp);
  • list of abbreviations (2 drafts, each 2pp);
  • chapter 4 ‘The Origins of the See of Dublin’ (2 different drafts: 47pp and 4pp footnotes; 37pp);
  • chapter 5 ‘Lanfranc and the Irish Church’ (2 different drafts: 53pp, 3pp footnotes and 1p. of editing notes; 36pp (pp.57 – 92) and 4pp footnotes);
  • chapter 6 ‘Gregory VII and the Irish Church’ (5pp incomplete, and 4pp footnotes);
  • chapter 7 ‘Saint Anselm and the Irish Church’ (34pp and 2pp footnotes (p.27 is missing) );
  • chapter 8 ‘Six Irish Papal Legates (1101 – 98)’ (82pp and 10pp footnotes);
  • chapter 9 ‘The First Synod of Cashel (1101)’ (54pp and 4pp footnotes);
  • chapter 10 ‘The Synod of Rath Breasail (1111)’ (29pp and 3pp footnotes);
  • chapter 11 ‘Saint Malachy and the See of Armagh (1121 – 37)’ (56pp and 4pp footnotes);
  • chapter 12 ‘The Synod of Kells’ (35pp and 3pp footnotes (p.17 is missing) );
  • chapter 13 ‘The Irish Dioceses after the Synod of Kells’ (105pp; 9pp footnotes and 7pp editing notes (1968 – 1969) );
  • chapter 14 ‘Irish Cistercian bishops and the Anglo-Norman invaders’ (43pp and 6pp footnotes);
  • chapter 15 ‘Epilogue’ (7pp and 3pp footnotes) (partly typescript and partly holograph);
  • ‘Appendix A: An Arrouaisian Breviary from St. Mary’s Abbey, Trim’ (9pp and 1p. footnotes) and
  • ‘Appendix B: A New List (c.1600) of Medieval Irish Dioceses’ (14pp; 1p. footnotes and 1p. editing notes).

Letter to Fr Gerald Manley Hopkins SJ from Cardinal John Henry Newman in reply to birthday wishes and the state of the country

Letter to Fr Gerald Manley Hopkins SJ from Cardinal John Henry Newman, following Fr Hopkins's letter for the Cardinal's birthday in which Fr Hopkins commented on the state of the country. The Cardinal replies, ‘Your letter is an appalling one, but not on that account untrustworthy. There is one consideration however, which you omit. The Irish Patriots hold that they never have yielded themselves to the sway of England and therefore never have been under her laws, and never have been rebels. This does not diminish the force of your picture, but it suggests that there is no help, or remedy. If I were an Irishman, I should be (in heart) a rebel. Moreover, to clinch the difficulty the Irish character and taste is very different from the English.’

Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890, Saint, Roman Catholic Cardinal, theologian, and educationist

Letter to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ from Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ concerning the holograph manuscript of Hopkins’s St Thecla

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

Bound volume entitled ‘Poems’ by Richard Watson Dixon

Bound volume entitled ‘Poems’ by Richard Watson Dixon containing: 'Lyrical Poems', Copy no. 12 of 105 printed (Oxford: H. Daniel) (1887, 62pp); 'The Story of Eudocia & Her Brothers', Copy no. 10 of 50 printed (Oxford: Henry Daniel) (1888, 35pp); 'Odes and Eclogues', Copy no. 9 of 100 copies printed (Oxford: Henry Daniel) (1884, 37pp).

Non-annotated book owned by Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ.

Dixon, Richard Watson, 1833-1900, English poet

'Poems' by Henry Patmore

'Poems' by Henry Patmore (Coventry Patmore’s son) (Oxford: Henry Daniel). With note by Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ (7 June 1947) ‘Although this contains no Hopkins autograph, it undoubtedly was his copy, sent to him by Patmore. C.f. The Further Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins.’ Includes compliments slip ‘Hastings: Easter, 1884 With Coventry Patmore’s compliments.’ With stamp of University College, St. Stephen’s Green and St. Ignatius’ College, S.J. Dublin.

Non-annotated book owned by Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ.

Patmore, Henry, 1860-1883, poet

'Eros and Psyche. A Poem in Twelve Measures' by Robert Bridges

'Eros and Psyche. A Poem in Twelve Measures' by Robert Bridges (London: George Bell & Sons). With stamp of University College, St. Stephen’s Green and St. Ignatius’ College, S.J. Dublin.

Non-annotated book owned by Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ.

Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930, poet laureate

Copy of letter from Fr Fergal McGrath SJ to Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ concerning the books

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

‘The Manuscripts of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ by Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ

Photocopy of an article ‘The Manuscripts of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ by Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ, from 'Thought', (Vol. 26, No. 103, Winter 1951 - 2) supplied by Dr Norman White (English Department, U.C.D.) on 9 February 1989, pp.551- 580.

Bischoff, Anthony, 1910-1993, Jesuit priest and academic

Photocopy of novice journal which mentions Fr Hopkins at Loyola House, Dromore, County Down

  • IE IJA J/11/60
  • Item
  • 15 & 26 September 1887
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Photocopy of pages from the Novice Journal (Beadle) at Tullabeg (IE IJA FM/TULL/55, early part of journal; deals with Loyola House, Dromore, County Down), which references the arrival at Dromore of Fr Hopkins ‘from Dublin to make his Retreat’ (15 September) and ‘Rev[eren]d Fr Rector came to evening recreation accompanied by Fr Hopkins whom he introduced to the Novices (26 September).

Letter to Fr John Conmee SJ from the poet Aubrey de Vere

Letter to Fr John Conmee SJ from the poet Aubrey de Vere, Curraghchase, County Limerick in reply to Fr Conmee’s letter thanking de Vere for sending him some of his father’s sonnets, “…but for a mistake on the Publisher’s part they would have been forwarded to you long since. They form part of a volume now out of print, which my Father published as long ago as 1842 entitled ‘A Song of Faith’ and consisting chiefly of poems illustrative of the Apostles’ Creed”. Discusses some of his father’s poems, the nature of poetry and reflects ‘It is really marvellous to think what might be done for the Catholic cause and for the moral and intellectual well-being of the country by even a few first-rate Catholic literary works. Perhaps the next generation may give us a Catholic Coleridge to write Philosophy, a Catholic Wordsworth to be our Poet, a Catholic Scott to illustrate Ireland as Scott illustrated Scotland in his Novels, and a Catholic Historian to undo all the mischief done by the erroneous Tradition. Four such writers would do a marvellous work in the next thirty years; and there seems no reason why Ireland alone might not provide them all, if only the ability so constantly running to waste among us were at once properly developed and disciplined.’

De Vere, Aubrey Thomas, 1814-1902, poet and author

Diary of William White as in schoolboy in Mungret College, Limerick

  • IE IJA J/14/3
  • Item
  • 11 January - 3 September 1930
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Diary of William White as in schoolboy in Mungret College, Limerick. Includes his last entry before leaving to join the Society of Jesus on 3 September 1930 – ‘Fr. Hanrahan Went home on 9 oc Bus I was at 10 oc Mass. Say (sic.) Mrs. Par[le] etc. Mother Paul. Left for Emo at 1.45. Good bye’

'A Diary or Jottings' by Fr James F. Murphy SJ

  • IE IJA J/15/1
  • Item
  • 25 December 1889 - 1 November 1892
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

'A Diary or Jottings, from day to day of events, especially 1 Nov. 1892 regarding the Society and, in particular, this (Irish) Province, which may prove interesting &, perhaps, even useful when The Writer shall be many years dead and gone.’ Found enclosed is a typed note (n.d., 2pp) by an unknown Jesuit (possibly Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, Irish Province Archivist 1975-1986) giving brief biographical details of Fr Murphy. Also comments on the contents of the diary, ‘Some interesting things recorded are: the initial history of all the houses of the province: the story of the setting up of Milltown as a Coll. Max.: the dispute with the Bishop of Meath (Dr Nulty) over faculties for fathers at Tullabeg: the biographies of various S.J.s (and, e.g., reference to W. Coyne, later father of Fr Eddie Coyne and to Charles Kennedy a benefactor of the province): the account of the great storm of 1890/1 and of the influenza epidemic which swept over Europe from Russia. Minutiae of the day-to-day life, customs, studies and so on, and the final account of the Provincial Congregation (June 1892) after Fr General’s (Anderledy) death are also of interest and some historical value.’ Enclosures includes extracts from diary kept in Tullabeg, 1856 (9pp).

Diary of Fr William A Sutton SJ

  • IE IJA J/18/15
  • Item
  • 27 December 1912 – 15 January 1913
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Diary includes entry which states “It seems to me that this Diary would be worth printing after my death. Not all, most of it I think. Readers would profit by it, & ought to be much interested as well as I can judge. In the first place it is no ordinary record of spiritual struggle in one who had much to contend with…but in much has been blessed. This latter part, beginning about last October is a kind of consummation or crowning record in which I have tried to compress results of life struggle. In many ways I seem like one who has safely come into port after long sailing on stormy, dangerous seas in quest of some ‘golden harbour’…In the second place there is a great deal throughout Diary of matter, which is as good & valuable from a literary point of view as anything I ever wrote, & I have been much & sincerely praised by competent critics for much that I have written. All my writings except this Diary have consisted of contributions to magazines, 'Irish Monthly', 'Month', 'New Ireland Review', far the most, but there were good things too from this pen to other Catholic periodicals, 'Lamp', 'Irish Ecc(lesiastica)l Record' (not much; I got £4 at end of one year fr(om) Editor for two or three short articles), 'Ave Maria', dont remember more. To 'Baconiana' I contributed several articles, all very favourably received.”

Letter from Rev. George O'Neill SJ to Irish Fr Provincial concerning an article written by Fr Phelan about Canon Sheehan

Letter from Rev. George O'Neill SJ, 35 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin to Irish Fr Provincial concerning an article written by Fr Phelan about Canon Sheehan. Remarks that the article was sent to him as a reader for the Catholic Truth Society ‘I reported strongly against its publication thinking it lamentable from many points of view. The other reader and the Hon. Sec. were equally unfavourable.’.

'Actus Generalis ex Universa Theologia'

Actus Generalis ex Universa Theologia, die 30 Junii 1893, (defendet P. Josephus Jouanen). Defence by Josephus Jouanen of his theological studies. at the Aula Maxima, University College. Includes letters to Fr Peter Finlay SJ concerning his organisation of the ‘Grand Act’ (a theological debate) which took place in the Aula Maxima of University College, Stephen’s Green on 30 June 1893 (4 May-16 July 1893, 9 items) and newspaper extracts concerning ‘The Grand Act’ (29 June-1 July 1893, 3 items).

Jouanen, Joseph, 1860-1952, Jesuit priest

Letter of invitation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Donal McCartney, U.C.D.

Letter of invitation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Donal McCartney, Prof. of Medieval Irish History, U.C.D. (and Dean of the Faculty of Arts) to the reception celebrating 70 years of the Faculty of Arts in U.C.D. – ‘it would be a great honour for us if one of our best-remembered Deans were to attend.’

McCartney, Donal, Professor

Photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ

Photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

  • memoiral card for Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ;
  • Aubrey Gwynn SJ at Louvain, July 1920;
  • two photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with a bishop/archbishop outisde of cathedral at [Würzburg];
  • Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with a religious siters outside church;
  • Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with members of Civil Service Branch of [St Joseph's Young Priests Society], Joe Robinson, Michael J O'Neill and Archie Roberts [1950];

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

Text of a poem by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Mr Michael Sweetman SJ

Text of a poem by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Mr Michael Sweetman SJ, Beadle of Milltown Park, written on returning a cricket bat sent to him by Mr Sweetman, for Fr Gwynn’s fiftieth birthday. Recorded and donated by Fr Kevin Laheen SJ (January 1998).

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

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