- IE IJA J/10/158
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- [1930]-[1980]
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Typescript on Abbot Stephen de Lexinton entitled ‘The Visitation of the Irish Cistercian Abbeys 1227-8-9.’
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Typescript on Abbot Stephen de Lexinton entitled ‘The Visitation of the Irish Cistercian Abbeys 1227-8-9.’
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Incomplete typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on what appears to be a history of the White Canons in Ireland up to the fifteenth century (pp. 9 – 18; 24 – 47).
Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the ‘Medieval Irish Annals’
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Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the ‘Medieval Irish Annals.’ Includes table of contents.
Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to the Annals of Ulster
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Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to the Annals of Ulster.
Photocopy of a draft typescript [by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ] entitled ‘Notes on the History of Ardmore’
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Photocopy of a draft typescript [by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ] entitled ‘Notes on the History of Ardmore.’
Text of a paper given by Katherine Simms on ‘The Origins of the Diocese of Clogher’
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Text of a paper given by Katherine Simms on ‘The Origins of the Diocese of Clogher’ (incorporating Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s notes on the origins of the Irish dioceses).
Simms, Katharine, historian
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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)’
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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).
Notes on ‘Richard Ledred, Bishop of Ossory (1317 –1360)’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Notes on ‘Richard Ledred, Bishop of Ossory (1317 –1360)’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, taken from the various Patent Rolls and Close Rolls of Edward II and Edward III.
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Corrected and amended typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘An English Franciscan in Kilkenny (Richard Ledred, Bishop of Ossory – 1360).’
Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Red Book of Ossory
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Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Red Book of Ossory.
Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with regard to St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
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Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ (mostly transcriptions from various Papal Bulls) with regard to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin:
Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad
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Letter and postcard to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Katherine Walsh-Strnad, relating to her research on Archbishop FitzRalph. Includes typed notes on Otto III. Also includes Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ’s wedding invitation to Katherine’s marriage to Dr Alfred Strnad at University Church in July 1976.
Walsh-Strnad, Katherine, -2011, historian
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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:
Letters and notes from Derek H. Turner to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Letters and notes from Derek H. Turner (Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, The British Museum) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning:
Turner, Derek Howard, 1931-1985, museum curator and art historian
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‘Preliminary notes’ (in an unidentified hand) on the Corpus Missal (n.d., 4pp); draft of an article by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘A Fifteenth Century Irish Missal: B.M., Egerton 2677’ (n.d., 3pp) and notes on the Lesnes Missal (n.d., 5pp).
Letter to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from William O'Sullivan containing extract from the Dowth Missal
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Letter to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from William O'Sullivan (Keeper of Manuscripts, T.C.D. Library) containing extract from the Dowth Missal from Archbishop Ussher’s notebook.
O'Sullivan, William, d 2000, Keeper of Manuscripts, Trinity College Dublin
Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘Brian Boruma and the Corpus Missal’
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Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘Brian Boruma and the Corpus Missal.’
'Chapter VII’ typescript entitled ‘Brian Boruma is buried in Armagh’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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'Chapter VII’ typescript entitled ‘Brian Boruma is buried in Armagh’ pp42 – 54 (13pp) by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
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Notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from 'the Annals of Innisfallen' (4pp); 'Chronicum Scotorum' (2pp); 'the Annals of the Four Masters' (1p.); 'the Annals of Tigernach' (7pp) and notes on 'Donncha Mac Brian' (2pp).
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Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Brown SJ from Laurence Gillooly, C.M., Bishop of Elphin (a member of the Senate of the Royal University) – ‘I write now to let you know, that at our Committee Meeting when the question of the Fellowships came to be considered, the opinion expressed by his Em(inence) was in perfect accord with the resolution of the Committee. That was on Tuesday at 2 o’c(lock). There was no intimation that he had previously entertained, not to say, communicated to you, a different opinion…Dr. Woodlock…was requested at the close of our Meeting, about 5 o’c(lock) to give you official information of our views respecting the Fellowships…and I had no doubt, neither had any other member of Committee, but he had done so…the selection of the Candidates for the two Fellowships in question was generally supposed to have been deferred by the Senate to his Eminence – and for that as well as other reasons he expected his choice would be approved and so did the other members of the Ep(iscopa)l Committee.’ Includes original envelope addressed to Fr Brown. (See J11/46; pp.197 – 199)
Gillooly, Laurence, 1819-1895, Vincentian priest and Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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'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
Notes made by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ concerning Fr Gerard Hopkins's books
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Notes made by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ concerning Fr Gerard Hopkins's books. Includes:
– memorandum recording an inquiry into ‘the annotated books of Hopkins’ from a Dr. James Cotter, New York, in summer 1976, ‘I wrote to him (Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ) June 21st 1977…I received no acknowledgement. He was on a visit to…Inishannon, Co. Cork’ (n.d., 1p.);
– ‘1st Memorandum re Hopkins’ Books. Sept. 8th…1976’ noting how Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ spent a summer examining all the books in the library in 1947; how Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, on becoming Province Archivist in 1975 ‘received a few enquiries about these books. Nobody in the community knew anything about them’, how he wrote to Fr Bischoff about the matter. ‘In August 1976, I found ten of these books in the lower shelf of the press immediately outside my room. I have identified them and list is herewith. There was a typed note…(by)… Fr Gwynn in the press (See J11/17) stating that the books belonged to or were used by Hopkins. I made a card index of all the books…I have marked H those certainly connected with Hopkins.’ (8 September 1976, 1p.);
– ‘2nd Memo’: ‘At present certainly identified with Hopkins 5, probably 2’ and lists them (8 September 1976, 1p.)
McGrath, Fergal P, 1895-1988, Jesuit priest
Copy of letter from Fr Fergal McGrath SJ to Fr Anthony Bischoff SJ concerning the books
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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
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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 an article by Vivien Igoe, entitled ‘Thee, God, I come from, to Thee I go…’
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Photocopy of an article by Vivien Igoe, entitled ‘Thee, God, I come from, to Thee I go…’ on Fr. Hopkins’s life and works, from the 'Columban Mission' (pp.19 – 25).
Igoe, Vivien, Joycean scholar
‘Caves of Ice: Diaries 1946 - 1947: James Lees-Milne’
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Copy of page from ‘Caves of Ice: Diaries 1946 - 1947: James Lees-Milne’, edited by Michael Bloch. Reference to Gerard Manley Hopkins on Tuesday 23 July 1946.
Photocopy of novice journal which mentions Fr Hopkins at Loyola House, Dromore, County Down
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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).
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Conmee, John S, 1847-1910, Jesuit priest
Letter to Fr John Conmee SJ from the poet Aubrey de Vere
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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
Letter to Fr John Conmee SJ from Fr Lalor SJ in Petworth, England
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Letter to Fr John Conmee SJ from a [ ] Lalor SJ in Petworth (an English Jesuit house) thanking Fr Conmee for writing to him following the death of a mutual friend, Fr Michael Waters SJ in Upper Gardiner Street on 22 November 1895.
Material to Fr John Conmee SJ from various individuals in Rome on the Cause of the Irish Martyrs
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Letters, notes and telegrams to Fr John Conmee SJ from various individuals in Rome on the Cause of the Irish Martyrs.
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Letters to Fr John Conmee SJ from various religious order regarding the Cause of the Irish Martyrs.
Diary of William White as in schoolboy in Mungret College, Limerick
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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’
Retreat and prayer notes used by Fr William White SJ
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Retreat and prayer notes used by Fr William White SJ.
Letter from Rita (cousin) to Fr William White SJ
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Letter from Rita (cousin), Ballkealy, Tullow, Carlow to Fr William White SJ.
Blank report card for student at Preparatory school of Belvedere College SJ
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Blank report card for student at Preparatory school of Belvedere College SJ.
'A Diary or Jottings' by Fr James F. Murphy SJ
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'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).
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Sutton, William A, 1847-1922, Jesuit priest
Diary of Fr William A Sutton SJ
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Diary of Fr William A Sutton SJ
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Diary of Fr William A Sutton SJ
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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.”
Diary of Fr William A Sutton SJ
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Diary of Fr William A Sutton SJ
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Diary of Fr William A Sutton SJ
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Letter to Fr William A Sutton SJ from Fr Herman Walmesley SJ congratulating him on behalf of Fr General, on the Golden Jubilee of his entrance into the Society.
Walmesley, Herman, 1850-1927, Jesuit priest
Letters to Fr William A Sutton SJ from Judge Thomas Webb
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Letters to Fr William A Sutton SJ from Judge Thomas Webb, author, scholar and fellow Baconian.
Letters to Fr William A Sutton SJ from Walter Begley
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Letters to Fr William A Sutton SJ from Walter Begley (Greencroft Gardens, Hampstead, London, England).
Letters to Fr William A Sutton SJ from William [Smedley]
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Letters to Fr William A Sutton SJ from William [Smedley] (CheyneWalk, London).
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A file containing two letters written by ‘1st Censor’ and ‘2nd Censor’ to Irish Fr Provincial concerning “Our Life of Grace”. Handwritten notations written by [Rev. George O'Neill SJ] query some of the censor’s points and correct others.
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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.’.
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Casey, Dermot M, 1911-1997, Jesuit priest
Biographical information on Rev James Cullen SJ
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A file containing biographical information on Rev. James Cullen SJ. Includes notes written by Fr Fergus O’Donoghue SJ.
Letters from Fr James A. Cullen to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ, concerning his noviceship
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A file of letters from Fr James A. Cullen to Irish Fr Provincial James Tuite SJ, concerning his noviceship. Includes a letter in which Fr Cullen remarks ‘If I might have a month or five weeks for vacation...I would prize it as it might strengthen my body and soul.’. Continues ‘I am very anxious for many reasons that my noviceship should be on the continent.’ (2 June 1881, 4pp). Includes a letter to Rev Tuite SJ thanking him for organising a place in the Novitiate of Arlon, Belgium (14 July 1881, 4pp).
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Kane, Robert I, 1848-1929, Jesuit priest
Biographical information on Rev. Robert Kane SJ
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A file containing biographical information on Rev Robert Kane SJ.
Certificate conferring Sub-Deacon on Fr Robert Kane SJ
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Certificate conferring Sub-Deacon on Fr Robert Kane SJ.
Certificate conferring Deacon on Fr Robert Kane SJ
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Certificate conferring Deacon on Fr Robert Kane SJ.
Certificate conferring Priesthood on Fr Robert Kane SJ
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Certificate conferring Priesthood on Fr Robert Kane SJ.
Memento of Priesthood from Charles Mulcahy SJ to Cyril Power
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Memento of Priesthood from Charles Mulcahy SJ to Cyril Power.
Mulcahy, Charles, 1874-1954, Jesuit priest
Letters to Cyril Power congratulating him on the completion of his first vows
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A file of letters to Cyril Power congratulating him on the completion of his first vows.
Mulcahy, Charles, 1874-1954, Jesuit priest
Panegyric on Fr Thomas A. Finlay SJ following his retirement from office in the University
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Panegyric on Fr Thomas A. Finlay SJ following his retirement from office in the University.
Finlay, Thomas A, 1848-1940, Jesuit priest and economist
'Actus Generalis ex Universa Theologia'
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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
Settlement from Miss Evelyn Egan to Fr Peter Finlay SJ
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Parties:
Evelyn Egan, Sion Hill Convent, Blackrock, County Dublin, Spinster: 1st part.
Rev. Peter Finlay SJ, Milltown Park, Milltown, County Dublin;
Daniel Purcell, 45 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, Solicitor: 2nd part.
Terms:
Miss Egan appoints Daniel Purcell and Fr Finlay as trustees and transfers £436 4% debenture stock of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company to the trustees, to be held by them, subject to the following conditions: they shall pay one-fifth of the annual income of the trust fund to the parish priest of Tullamore, county Offaly and one fifth to the Superioress of the Tullamore Convent of Mercy, for the furnishing and upkeep of the parish church ‘now being erected in the town of Tullamore’; one-fifth annually to the St. Vincent de Paul Society; one-fifth to the ‘Police Aided Childrens’ Clothing Society in the City of Dublin for its general purposes’ and one-fifth to the Homestead District Nursing Association of No.22 Lincoln Place. If Miss Egan withdraws at any time from the Dominican Order she shall be at liberty to revoke all or any of the trusts, and the trustees shall transfer the trust fund to her.
Draft assignment from Miss Evelyn Egan to Fr Peter Finlay SJ
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The first two parties (Miss Evelyn Egan to Fr Peter Finlay SJ) assign certain shares and securities unto the trustees ‘to pay the income and dividends arising there from to Catherine Gargan during her life…’
Subsmission to the Catholic Defence Society
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Circular letter from the honorary secretary of the Council of the Catholic Defence Society for comment. Handwritten notes by Fr Finlay on 'Scheme for the Constitution and Government of the Catholic Union of Ireland [1905] (11pp).
Finlay, Peter, 1851-1929, Jesuit priest and theologian
'The Church and her marriage laws'
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Pamphlet ''The Church and her marriage laws'' by Fr Peter Finlay SJ. Irish Messenger Series, Dublin.
Finlay, Peter, 1851-1929, Jesuit priest and theologian
Correspondence relating to Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s life-long friend Fr Thomas J. Fullerton
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Correspondence relating to Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s life-long friend Fr Thomas J. Fullerton. Includes:
– letters from Fr Fullerton to Fr Gwynn (17 September 1971 – 1975, 3 items);
– note to Fr Gwynn from Gearoid Cr[ookes], Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, following Fr Fullerton’s death in 1976, enclosing four letters Fr Gwynn wrote to Fr Fullerton from 1916 and 1932. Includes references to Fr Gwynn’s brother Edward Lucius’ departure for Australia, his brother Denis (a soldier who had just been gazetted to the 5th Munsters at the Curragh) (18 November 1916, 4pp), political and social events at home and academic life in U.C.D. (16 April 1932, 2pp).
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Letter from Irish Fr Provincial to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the occasion of the 60th anniversary
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Letter from Irish Fr Provincial Cecil McGarry SJ to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Fr Gwynn’s entrance into the Society of Jesus.
McGarry, Cecil, 1929-2009, Jesuit priest
Letter of congratulation from the Jesuit Curia in Rome
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Letter of congratulation from the Jesuit Curia in Rome on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s entrance into the Society.
Dezza, Paolo,1901-1999, Jesuit priest and Cardinal
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Letter from Thomas Bacon of J.G. O'Connor and Co., solicitors, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ following the death of his sister Sheila. Encloses a copy of Mrs. Moorehead’s will dated 8 November 1978, in which she bequeaths £1,000 to Fr Gwynn; an oil painting of ‘Cattle in Berkshire’ by Walter Osborne and the water-colour sketch of Fr Gwynn as a boy, also by Osborne, to the National Gallery; a lithograph of her grandfather William Smith O'Brien; a poem of his written in Kilmainham Jail and a signed poem by Thomas Francis Meagher, to the Municipal Art Gallery (5pp).
Bacon, Thomas, solicitor
Postcard sent to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ by Harold G. Leask
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Postcard of Boyle Abbey sent to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ by Harold G. Leask on a dig at the Lough Gara crannóg.
Leask, Harold Graham, 1882-1964, architectural historian and archaeologist
Letters from Prof. Ross Hoffman of Fordham University, New York
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Letters from Prof. Ross Hoffman of Fordham University, New York, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Denis Gwynn on personal matters, mainly his work, health and family and discussions on various American Presidents, the Pope and the Church. Includes:
– letter describing his work on arriving at the Manuscript Room in Sheffield Central Library to unpack and sort ‘three boxes (each about 2' by 2' by 8”) of unsorted (Edmund) Burke papers…they are largely the originals of the published letters, but there is also a rich collection of unpublished letters of Earl Fitzwilliam to Burke in the 1790’s and a few other fairly important letters that never have been printed…I am, it seems the first person to examine them since their delivery here…you can imagine how exciting is the experience of turning up, for example, original letters from George III to Rockingham…It is but one of scores, probably hundreds, of museum pieces that are usually kept under lock, key, and glass…collectors would pay fabulous things for these things…There is no one else in the room and I am in a constant state of exaltation, surely this is an experience that comes once in a life-time to one historian in a thousand.’ Also refers to the bomb damage in Sheffield, following the War (1 May 1949, 2pp);
– letter describing his work transcribing the Burke letters – ‘The whole body of documents runs to about 230 letters between 1759 and 1776…they throw a great deal of new light on Anglo-Irish relations, or rather upon Mr. Burke’s idea of those relations’ and his ‘projected book on Burke and the New York Agency, which really is becoming a large work on Burke and the Origins of the American Revolution’ (30 June 1950, 1p.);
– letter to Denis Gwynn concerning a book on Burke and Barry correspondence and his book on Edmund Burke and Charles O’Hara (28 March 1952, 2pp);
– letters on the publication of his books on Edmund Burke and Charles O’Hara and Burke, New York Agent (1956);
– lengthy commentaries on: the American (both internal and external policy, including the Korean and Vietnam Wars and race relations) and British political situations; the awarding of an honorary degree from the National University on him; his book on Lord Charles Rockingham, The Marquis (1973) and
– references to a portrait of Edmund Burke by James Barry in the National Gallery (24 March – September 1973, 4 items).
Also includes letters written by James White, Director of the National Gallery to Fr Gwynn, concerning the portrait which was presented to Trinity College Dublin and ‘is in the Andrew’s Room in the Provost’s House’ (23 August, 4 September 1973, 2 items);
Includes letter to Fr Gwynn from Prof. Hoffman’s daughter, Mary Ellen Flinn, following her father’s death on 16 December 1979. Encloses a memorial card (3 January 1980, 2pp).
Hoffman, Ross John Swartz, 1902-79, American historian, author and educator
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Geoffrey Scott, O.S.B., Douai Abbey, Reading
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Geoffrey Scott, O.S.B., Douai Abbey, Reading, following Neville Hadcock’s sudden death on 2 January 1980. (Neville had donated some material to the Library before his death, while his books were sold at auction)
Letter of invitation to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Donal McCartney, U.C.D.
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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
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Gilbert Laithwaite
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Gilbert Laithwaite (an Old Clongownian, 1907-1911) to whom Fr Gwynn frequently sent his publications.
Laithwaite, Sir, John Gilbert, 1894-1986, Irish-British civil servant and diplomat
Photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Photographs of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Card of Walter Osborne portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’
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Card published by the National Gallery of Ireland, of the Walter Osborne (1859-1903) portrait of ‘Master Aubrey Gwynn’ (age 6). (Osborne was Fr Gwynn’s god-father). Portrait was presented to the Gallery in 1979 by Fr Gwynn’s sister.
National Gallery of Ireland, 1854-
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Letter from James White, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning his sister, Mrs. Sheila Moorehead’s offer or a portrait of her brother, Denis to the Gallery.
White, James, 1913-2003, director of the National Gallery of Ireland
Text of a poem by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Mr Michael Sweetman SJ
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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
Reply for sending of Christmas card by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich
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Reply for sending of Christmas card by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.
Ó Fiaich, Tomás, 1923-90, Cardinal Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh
Christmas card from Alice Gwynn
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Christmas card from Fr Aubrey Gwynn sister-in-law, Alice Gwynn.
Gwynn, Alice, 1904-1991
Birthday cards for Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s 90th birthday
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Birthday cards for Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s 90th birthday. Includes card signed by 46 Jesuits in Milltown Park and card from Bishop Hanson and his wife (former Bishop of Clogher).
Letter from Robin Gwynn, New Zealand to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ
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Letter from Robin Gwynn, New Zealand (Fr Gwynn’s first cousin once removed, on his father’s side) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, concerning the future custodian of the Gwynn family papers (i.e. who should it be and where should the papers be kept). At the time Mercy Simms was the custodian.
Gwynn, Robin
Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Brian Leveck’s The Civil Lawyers in England
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Handwritten notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Brian Leveck’s The Civil Lawyers in England (1603-1616), (Oxford, 1972), on the Gwynne family as lawyers in London and clergy in Holyhead c.1600 – 1640.
Gwynn, Aubrey, 1892-1983, Jesuit priest and academic
Genealogical notes relating to Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-great grandfather sent by Mercy Simms
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Genealogical notes relating to Fr Gwynn’s great-great grandfather, Rev. John Gwynne and his wife Catherine Rolleston, sent to Fr Gwynn by Mercy Simms (his cousin).
Simms, Mercy, 1915-1998
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Note from Rev. Eric Fair, Larne, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ containing the inscription on the font in the Church in Larne, commemorating the Rev. Stephen Gwynn (Fr Gwynn’s great-grandfather) and his wife Mary (Stevenson), erected by his children and family in 1878.
Poem by Stephen L. Gwynn entitled ‘We That Are Old’ beg
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Cutting from the 'Times' of a poem by Stephen L. Gwynn entitled ‘We That Are Old’ beg. 'We that are old have little will To linger on'. Ten verses and copy of same written out by Fr Aubrey Gwynn (2pp).
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, author, politician, and soldier
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from H. George Fletcher, Director of Fordham University Press
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from H. George Fletcher, Director of Fordham University Press, concerning Fr Gwynn’s efforts in providing the publishers with ‘a photograph of the Burke portrait…for Professor Hoffman’s The Marquis’ and their gift of certain books to the library in Milltown Park.
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Letters and royalty statements from publishers Russell & Russell Inc., New York, who reissued 'Roman Education' in 1964. ‘As you know, the book has never been protected by copyright in the United States and is, therefore, in the public domain in this country. Nevertheless, it is our practice as a courtesy to the author to pay a royalty on all copies sold.’ (29 January 1964, 1p.)
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Letter to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from publishers the Clarendon Press, Oxford, concerning Russell & Russell’s reissuing of 'Roman Education'. ‘As he says in his letter of 29 January 1964 a loophole in the Unites States copyright law enables books published here (UK) before 1957 to be reprinted there (US) without authorisation – though not to be exported into countries where this loophole doesn’t exist. Naturally he didn’t say that practically all American publishers regard it as unethical to take advantage of this loophole, for various reasons, and especially because it is liable to create the situation in which we now find ourselves.’
Letters from Longmans Group Ltd. concerning the publication of 'Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland'
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Longmans Group Ltd. (formerly Longmans Green & Co. Ltd.) concerning the publication of 'Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland' by Fr Gwynn and Neville Hadcock. Includes copy of the agreement between the publishers and Fr Gwynn for the book signed on the company’s behalf (6 November 1953, 4pp).
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Letters from publishers, the Clarendon Press, Oxford to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning his latest book which their Delegates say needs complete revision – ‘the book is not strictly a unified history but a series of disconnected and overlapping studies, which have been published separately already except for chapters XIII and XIV. They have much interest for specialists in the subjects concerned, though not for the general reader or for undergraduates.’
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Correspondence concerning Madame Regina Łukasiewicz’s accusations of the theft of her late husband’s papers by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Prof. E. O'Doherty of U.C.D. (her late husband was Jan Łukasiewicz, Professor of Mathematical Logic at the Royal Irish Academy (a special professorship) ). Madame Łukasiewicz was suffering from ‘paranoid psychosis with delusions of persecution’ and was admitted to St Vincent’s Private Mental Home for a number of weeks until Fr Gwynn helped to arrange her removal to the house of her nephew in England. The papers had in actual fact, been deposited by herself in the R.I.A. Library in 1956. Documents include:
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Mrs. E. Bunto[n], Barbados Public Library, with extracts
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Mrs. E. Bunto[n], Barbados Public Library (2 items), enclosing extracts from the Minutes of the Council of Barbados with reference to the Irish in the West Indies (8pp).
Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Richard Southern on various academic and personal matters
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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Richard Southern (Balliol College, All Souls College and St. John’s College Oxford), on various academic and personal matters, including the arrangements for Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to lecture at Oxford in March 1962.
Southern, Sir, Richard William, 1912-2001, medieval historian