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A file relating to Joseph Hurley's entry to the noviceship.

Letter from Timothy Hurley (father of Joseph Hurley), Rusnacahara NS, Ahakista, Durrus, Bantry, County Cork to Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin concerning his son's progress in Tullabeg. Refers to his contribution towards his son's upkeep.

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.).

Material relating to Fr Michael J O'Reilly SJ, including correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, personal record and application to join the Society.

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Bernard Page SJ written during his time as a chaplain with the No. 2 Cavalry Field Ambulance, B.E.F., France. Includes letter of complaint to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ (12 April 1917, 6pp) re Fr Page and Fr Page’s replies (22 – 30 April 1917, 3 items).

Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Cork in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:

• notes by Fr John MacErlean SJ (n.d., 73pp);
• letters from T.J. Walsh, C.C., South Presbytery, George’s Quay, Cork to Fr MacErlean on the Jesuits in Cork in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (the second with annotations by Fr MacErlean) (3, 11 February 1948, 2pp);
• transcripts of extracts from various sources concerning the seventeenth century Cork Jesuits, made by Fr MacErlean (n.d., 4pp);
• typescript by unknown Jesuit entitled The Jesuits in Cork, (n.d., 2pp);
• historical notes and lists of Jesuits in Cork made by [Fr P. O’Kelly SJ?] (n.d., 7pp) and
• ‘Sermon on the Sacred Heart, attributed to Fr Nicholas Barron (1719-1784) preached to the Presentation Sisters, Cork. Original with the Sisters in Cork’. Typescript transcript (11pp) and photocopy of the handwritten text, with signature of Fr Barron (14pp).

Biographical material on Dominic Collins SJ, martyred in Youghal, County Cork on 31 October 1602. Includes:
– copy of a typescript by Fr Bryan C. Fennelly SJ on Br Dominic Collins SJ (n.d., 5pp);
– copy of an Appeal by the Youghal Martyrs’ Memorial Committee to raise a memorial for Br Dominic Collins SJ (n.d., 2pp) ;
– photocopy of a cutting from the 'Southern Star' concerning Br Dominic Collins SJ (26 December 1959, 1p.) and
– article by Fr Francis Finegan SJ entitled 'The Beatifies Martyrs of Ireland (6) Dominic Collins' in Irish Theological Quarterly 65 (2000, 9pp).

Letter from John Edward Pigot, Cork to John [Mitchel] concerning legal matters. Discusses news from home.

Parties:
Thomas Waters, Esquire, Carrigdoone, Blackrock, County Cork and John Waters of Montenotte, County Cork of the one part and Rev. Timothy Kenny, S.J., Rev. Thomas Kelly, S.J. and Rev. John Verdon, S.J., Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Terms & Conditions:
Payment of £1,888 on 31 December by Thomas Waters and John Waters to the parties of the other part and £1,000 plus interest to be paid at a later date provided 6 months notice is given.

A file relating to the Burses founded in the Apostolic School, Mungret College but given to All Hallows. Includes note explaining the provenance of the correspondence (25 September 1977) and documents such as; Lord Emly Burse (January 1883, 2 items); Boyce Burse (23 June 1905 - 10 October 1910, 5 items); Michael Leahy bequest (20 October 1909 - 31 May 1912, 4 items); Madeline Josephine M. Sampson Burse (St. Marie Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, 3 May - 6 June 1913, 2 items); Canon Doyle Burse (24 October - 28 November 1922, 5 items); letter from Fr O'Donnell SJ to Fr Edward Cahill SJ relating to ‘De Jure Burses’ (12 September [ ], 4pp).

Correspondence between Fr J. O'Leary PP, Dunmanway, Cork and Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ concerning a donation from Fr O'Leary for the Chinese mission.

File containing Fr Seán Ó Catháin's admission papers and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials concerning his role as head of the Education Department, University College Dublin and later supply work.

Letter from Michael Curtin, Parochial House, Cloyne, County Cork certifying that John Hyde was confirmed by Dr Browne on 14 May 1921.

Letter (written in Irish) from John Hyde, Ballycotton, County Cork to Fr [ ] concerning the results of his Intermediate Examination.

Letter from F McGovern, Provincial Archivist, Society of African Missions, SMA Fathers, Blackrock Road, Cork to Fr Senan Timoney SJ, Provincial Secretary, Society of Jesus, 87 Eglinton Road, Dublin 4 concerning material from the SMA archives relating to Fr William Kane SJ, during his time as Chief Justice of Nigeria.

Xerox copy of Sir James Marshall's personal diary kept while he and William Kane were in Nigeria organising a judicial system for the country.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Liam Ó Buachalla, Cork, relating to the history of the diocese of Cork and Cloyne; - the Uí Toirdhealbhaigh ‘the subsept to which Brian Ború, the Ua hEnna’s and Ua hAailgenis belonged’;

• the O Sealbhaig family and numerous other points with regard to Fr Gwynn’s article ‘Bishop of Cork in the Twelfth Century’ in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record (July 1950);
  his work helping ‘to edit a voluminous…(manuscript)…History of Diocese of Cork left by the late Canon Cahalane’;
• the history of Cloyne from the ninth to the eleventh centuries;
• Nehemias, Bishop of Cloyne who died in 1149;
• the Arrouaisians in Cork (see also J10/153; 195; 227; 228).
  Encloses typescript notes by Ó Buachalla entitled ‘Diocese of Cloyne’ (n.d., 4pp).

Memorial card for Mary Egan, mother of Fr Michael Egan SJ.

File of correspondence between Fr Charles Daly SJ and his Irish Provincials.

File of handwritten sermon, retreat notes, considerations (Catholic University, 1862), Triduum and retreats. Includes long retreats at Cork (1860), Tullabeg (1861 - 1862; 1868 - 1871); Laval (1872 - 1875); Tronchiennes (1875 - 1877); Clongowes Wood College (1877) and meditations, attributed to the following Jesuits: Frs. Peter Kenney (Palmero), Aloysius Sturzo, Daniel Jones, Patrick Hughes, Charles Aylmer, John St. Leger, Robert St. Leger. Michael Kelly, Charles Plowden, John Cunningham, James Mullen, Alexander Kyan (with history of Kyan family), John Shine, Bartholomew Esmonde, Thomas Betagh, Patrick Bracken, P. O'Reilly, Stephen Farrell, Charles McKenna, Edmund O'Reilly, Pubrick.

Letter from Irish Fr Provincial Charles O'Conor SJ to Dr John Ahern, Bishop of Cloyne, requesting permission to open a Jesuit house in his diocese upon the successful purchase of a property in East Ferry, Cobh, county Cork. Includes two responses from Bishop Ahern refusing this request.

A file of letters to Dr Charles Russell concerning his book on the Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti, 'The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti; with an introductory memoir of eminent linguists, ancient and modern', Longman, Brown, and Co, London, 1858

The letters offer praise and compliments to Dr Russell and suggestions for a second edition of the book. The following is a list of the people who wrote to Dr Russell concerning his book on Cardinal Mezzofanti:

25 March 1859; George [ ]

7 June 1858; P. J. [Aerts]

17 April - 7 May 1855; Edward Badely

23 August 1866; L'Abbe Blanchot

19 January 1859; [ J. B. Borrcho]

4 February 1863; F. C. Brooke

25 August - 3 November 1858; Lord Broughman

11 July 1860; A. Bruni SJ

16 October 1858; [ ] Bunsen

6 May 1858; L. Major Cavagnari

13 April - 26 August [ ]; John Dalberg Acton (Lord Acton)

3 [ ] 1858; Luigi Da Via

22 December 1859; Joseph Barnard Davis

n.d.; Auguste Donnet

19 May [ ]; James E. Doyle

11 February 1859; [Fernando]

21 April 1958; Goodwin Son & [ ]

5 May 1858; Thomas Grant

5 October - 1 December 1858; Imperial Austrian Legation

19 - 28 April 1860; Evan Jones

4 July 1858; Pierre Le Croix

23 April 1858 - 9 March 1860; Longman Brown and Company

6 May 1858; E. C. Lewis

[1858]; Henry E. Manning (later Cardinal)

17 June 1858; Patrick F. Moran (later Cardinal)

25 May 1858; John Morris

[ ] 1858; A. Pezzanat

5 - 10 May [1858]; E. H. Reeves

19 April 1852; James Roche

2 March 1858; James Hope Scott

12 May 1858; [ ] Shilman

15 June 1858; W. H. Smyth

[1858]-[1859]; James Spencer Northcote

5 May 1858; A. P. Stanley

15 [ ] 1856; Franco Venditti

9 May 1858; Dr. [Wals]

19 April 1855; Charles Ward[ ]th

29 March 1858 - 12 February 1863; Thomas Watts

[1857]; Vladimir Petcherine

Letter from Fr Donal O'Sullivan SJ, La Retraite, Western Road, Cork to Irish Fr Provincial welcoming the Emo community to visit Tullabeg.

Copy of the birth certificate of Hillary Francis Lawton.

Newspaper articles, The Cork News and The Evening Echo, on the display at the Titanic Experience, Cobh, Cork.

Fees for Robert Browne at St Colman’s College, Fermoy, with envelope (W Browne, Main Street, Charleville, Cork).

Holograph letters to Fr Robert Browne (later bishop of Cloyne), uncle of Fr Frank Browne SJ, appointing him Professor at St Colman’s College, Fermoy from the President, St Colman’s College, William Fitzgerald (4 July 1875) and as Canon of Cloyne diocese from the bishop of Cloyne, John MacCarthy, (7 April 1887).

Fr William Browne with two religious sisters (perhaps one his sister) at the Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, Cork.

Fr Frank Browne SJ on his ordination day at Milltown Park, Dublin with his family (Robert Browne, bishop of Cloyne, sisters, brother, niece and nephews).

Individuals gathered outside St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Cork (Daniel Mannix, coadjutor bishop of Melbourne) and The Palace, Spy Hill, Cobh, County Cork, which includes Daniel Mannix, coadjutor bishop of Melbourne, and Robert Browne, bishop of Cloyne.

Clock and shrine to Our Lady under station clock at Cobh Railway Station, Cork. Caption by Fr Frank Browne SJ on reverse.

Covering note and postcard sent from the Front by Fr Willie Doyle SJ, to Sister M. Anthony, St Mary’s of the Isle, Cork. Possibly Sr Anthony (Margaret) O’Rahilly (1872-1921).

File containing material relating to Sean Noonan's admission to the Society and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials relating to mission work, the provincial congregation and his final illness.

A file relating to Fr Patrick Coffey SJ. Includes biographical information, correspondence, concerning his health during his early years in the Society and correspondence during his time in England working in parishes in Birmingham and London.

Documents on Fr Joseph Ignatius O'Halloran SJ, includes note on his being at Cork in 1765, by Fr John MacErlean SJ (1p) and biographical sketch extracted from 'Worthies of Thomond' Third Series, collected and edited by Robert Herbert, Limerick, 1946 (2pp).

Note by Fr John MacErlean SJ regarding two novices in the Province of Belgium in 1611. Summarises that Stephan Goulding, Cork, second year novice, is a diligent student while Peter Halling, first year novice in which he was mediocre in every respect, has in the future, promise. (In Latin).

Letters from Michael Walsh, Skibbereen, County Cork to Fr Robert Haly SJ concerning his wish to join the Society as a lay brother.

Letter from [ ] D. Murphy, Cork Club, Cork to Fr William Ronan SJ concerning a scheme for Mungret and objections to the scheme that must be considered by the Judicial Commissioners. Gives advice 'I do not think you can do better than make use of the ready talent and quick wit of Charlie Doyle, who beside being an old Jesuit boy, has a local knowledge which will stand him in good stead'.

A file of letters from Fr William Ronan SJ to members of the community and the Apostolic students at Mungret concerning his fund-raising trip to America.

A file of correspondence relating to the University Bill and the affiliation of Mungret College following University changes in Ireland. Includes a summary of University Examinations (Royal University) taken by students in Mungret.

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