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Lodgement receipts from The National Bank Limited in Fr Finlay’s account.

Rent and insurance receipts for 11 and 12 Gloucester Place, Dublin.

Covering letter, receipts and certificates for three sets of bonds and stocks, lodged in the National City Bank Ltd. for safe-keeping by Fr Thomas Finlay SJ: certificates for £1,200 Agricultural Credit Bonds, 1st Series; £1,075 Agricultural Credit Corporation Bonds, 2nd Series and £250 Dublin Corporation 5% Inscribed Stock.

Parties:
Rev. Thomas A. Finlay, 35 Lower Leeson Street, city of Dublin (the Settlor); 1st part.
Rev. Thomas A. Finlay, George O'Brien, 40 Northumberland Road, county Dublin, Doctor of Letters and Joseph Hugh Murray, 40 St. Kevin’s Park, Dartry Road, County Dublin, Esquire (the Trustees); 2nd part.

Preamble:
Fr Finlay is entitled to several sums of £1,075 and £1,228.10s 5% state-guaranteed mortgage bonds of the Agricultural Credit Corporation with which he wishes to establish a Rural Industrial Trust Fund.

Terms:
Fr Finlay transfers the money with a view to the formation of the Trust Fund, to the Trustees subject to a number of clauses, including that the Trustees apply the annual income arising from the bonds ‘in aiding or assisting in such manner as they shall consider most beneficial the poorer workers in Rural Industries…in any part of Ireland including Northern Ireland.’

Covering letter from Noel Purcell to Fr Finlay (30 December 1930, 1p.) and costs of solicitor Daniel Purcell & Son in account with Rev. Thomas A. Finlay in the matter of the conveyance settlement and appointment of trustees (29 December 1930, 1p.).

Holograph letters and one typewritten letter by Willie Doyle: as a schoolboy in Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire, England to his brother Bob and mother (30 May 1886 - 9 April 1887); as a Jesuit novice at St Stanislaus, Tullabeg, County Offaly to his mother and father, and sisters Mai and Lena (8 August 1891 - 9 July 1892); as a scholastic at Milltown Park, Dublin to his father and brother Bob (31 May - Christmas 1893) and to Brother Cahill on finishing his noviceship (8 June 1893) and at Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare to his mother and father, and brothers Bob and Charles (3 September 1894 - 23 August 1896).

File of holograph letters and typewritten letters by Fr Willie Doyle SJ concerning his ordination at Milltown Park (28 July 1907); tertianship at L’ Ancienne Abbaye, Tronchiennes, Belgium to his mother and father, his sister Mai and brother Charles (October 1907 - 21 July 1908); attending a mission in Great Yarmouth (20 April 1908); work as a minister at Belvedere College to his sister Mai (April - July 1909); at the Convent of St John of God, Wexford to his sister Mai (2 August 1910); at Enghien, Belgium to his father (2 - 14 October 1912); while giving missions in Clare, Cork, Limerick and Dublin and working at Rathfarnham Castle, to his father and sister Mai (20 March 1914 - 6 November 1915).

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.

Letter written by Fr Patrick Kenny SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin concerning Fr Joseph Hurley's conduct towards his work and spiritual duties.

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

Biographical information on Fr Leonard Sheil SJ. Includes:
– potted biography by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ (Irish Province Archivist, 1986-2019), (1984, 1p.);
– biography of Fr Sheil entitled 'Who Travels Alone' by Fr Robert L. Stevenson SJ (Dublin: C. Goodliffe Neale (Irel.) Ltd.) (1975, 56pp);
– photocopies from the 'Jesuit Year Book' of an illustrated article by Fr Robert L. Stevenson SJ entitled ‘Emigrants’ Priest: Fr. Leonard Sheil, S.J.’ (1969, 9pp) and an illustrated appreciation of Fr Sheil by Very Rev. Joseph Flynn, M.S.S (1969, 5pp).
Also includes appreciation of Fr Sheil by Very Rev. Joseph Flynn, M.S.S., printed in 'Irish Province News' (April 1968, 2pp).

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

Correspondence between Fr Leonard Sheil SJ and Irish Fr Provincial Laurence J. Kieran SJ on the content of Fr Sheil’s mission sermons. Includes:
– censors’ judgements on the manuscript of a sermon on ‘Sin’ by Fr Sheil (Jun 1936, 2 items); copy of summary of censors’ judgements (n.d., 2pp) and letter from Fr Sheil to the Irish Fr Provincial after receiving the censors’ reviews (24 June 1936, 2pp);
– letter from Fr Sheil in which he explains his delay in sending the Irish Fr Provincial the texts of his sermons, ‘My delay, and indeed serious negligence, has not been due, I think, to wilful disobedience, or to the opinion that they did not need censoring, but to this. I have eight fully written sermons in my drawer at present, but my dissatisfaction with them has caused me to cross out and amend lines and pages, so that none of them are yet in fit condition to send.…also…between missions my head is so tired that I am loathe to work.’ Also refers to the Sodality and the Legion of Mary (see J16/3) (12 Oct. 1936, 2pp);
– copy letter to Fr Sheil from the Irish Fr Provincial calling attention to Fr Sheil’s ‘want of prudence and discretion’ and warning him that if he continues ‘on present lines’ he may be ‘removed from the mission staff and given work in a College. With a view to rendering such a change unnecessary I forbid you in future to speak in the pulpit on questions of sex or, on general, matters relating to the VI commandment, without having first submitted your MS to the Socius for censorship. I wish also that you give up mentioning in public estimates or conjectures regarding the number of Irish emigrants who lose the faith or give up its practice’ (24 Jan. 1938, 2pp);
– note from Fr Sheil to the Irish Fr Provincial in which he lists the topics of his sermons that have been passed by the censor (12 Mar. 1940, 3pp);
– letter from Fr Tom Counihan SJ to ‘Fr. John’ in which he refers to Fr Sheil’s sermons, ‘You should have heard his sermons on sin, temptation, holyhour, family life & Holy Communion to feel utterly ashamed of the twaddle neither here nor there (sic.) No Scripture, no sound reasoning & abundance of crudity & naked realism…It is very unfortunate & I am not at all comfortable when I have to hand over an out-church to his tender mercies!’ (15 May 1940, 2pp) and
– copy letter from the Irish Fr Provincial to Fr Sheil in which he states, ‘I have been regretfully obliged to change you from the mission staff, and it is only fair that you should know the reason of this change. From information I have received from many different quarters it seems clear that you are greatly lacking in prudence in the things you say; and I cannot help thinking that if you were allowed to continue working as a missioner you would land both yourself and the Society into serious trouble…you allow your zeal to get the better of you with the result that you act contrary not only to the advice of your colleagues but also to that of your Superiors. I am afraid also that your knowledge of theology is very much wanting in accuracy…As to your work in Galway in the coming year, I must forbid you to preach anything in the Church without first having shown the MS to Fr Rector…’ (30 Jul. 1940, 2pp).

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.).

Letters and notes, mostly from Professor Patrick Fitzgerald to Fr Leonard Sheil’s Superiors, concerning Fr Sheil’s’ cancer. Includes:

• letters from Prof. FitzGerald (Fr Sheil’s surgeon) to Irish Fr Provincial Brendan Barry SJ, informing him of Fr Sheil’s condition (4 items);
• letter from Fr Sheil (St. Mary’s Open-air Orthopaedic Hospital, Finglas, Dublin 11) to the Irish Fr Provincial, quoting Prof. FitzGerald’s opinion that it would ‘be better’ for Fr Sheil to get back to work, ‘physically, psychologically and morally!’ (2 Mar. 1966, 1p.) and
  – letter from Fr Sheil to Fr Brendan Lawler (Irish Fr Provincial’s Socius) seeking help in arranging his trip to Dublin to see Prof. FitzGerald (9 Feb. 1967, 1p.)

File of materiel relating to Fr Joseph Kavanagh SJ including: correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials; his work at St Joseph's East Wall and St Kevin's, Harrington Street, Dublin: catalogue entry: obituary and correspondence relating to his death in a motorcycle accident.

File relating to Fr Denis P Kennedy SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, and application to join the Society.

Letter from Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ, Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare, to Mary Lentaigne, Great Denmark Street, Dublin (23 July 1871) concerning his nephew Victor, and money paid on Victor's behalf by Irish Fr Provincial to support his studies in Spain, England and Belgium (enclosed account from Milltown Park, Dublin, 6 May 1871), and brief biography of Fr Joseph Lentaigne SJ by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ ([1995], 1p).

Material relating to Fr James Moloney SJ which includes a letter from Fr Moloney SJ, Mungret College, Limerick to Irish Fr Provincial concerning hid position as Minister in Mungret. Remarks that the position does not suit him and ask to return to Dublin (12 March 1971, 1p). Includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record, and application to join the Society.

Material relating to Fr Paul P O'Dea SJ, including his mother's (Mrs Bridget O'Dea) will.

File of material relating to Fr Pearse O'Higgins SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, personal record and application to join the Society.

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

Material relating to Fr Thomas F O'Sullivan SJ including correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, personal record, memorial card and application to join the Society.

Catalogue entry and obituary for Fr George Roche SJ. Book by Fr Roche entitled ‘The Divinity of Jesus Christ’ (1916) published by the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, Dublin. Taken from the Jesuit community library, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin (November 2012).

File relating to Fr William Saul SJ, including application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and catalogue entries,

A file relating to Fr James G Tormey SJ, including application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and catalogue entries.

File containing papers relating to Francis Hennelly's admission to the Society of Jesus; his initial studies; family visits; time as a teacher at Clongowes Wood College; periods of residence at Mungret, County Limerick; St Ignatius College, Galway; Tullabeg, County Offaly; Gardiner Street, Dublin; ongoing illness and death.

File containing admission papers for Edward Keogh; brief correspondence concerning professional duties and a copy of ‘Low Tide’, Br Keogh’s collection of poetry.

File containing material relation to Gerard A McLaughlin's admission to the Society, his teaching positions at Crescent College, Limerick and Belvedere College, Dublin, and notice of his death.

Catalogue entry, obituary, and correspondence concerning Fr Gerard Guinane SJ. Includes letters relating to his nomination to the board of the IRFU (10 May - 17 June 1968, 4 items).

File containing Fr Brian R Scallan's admission papers and correspondence from his time as curate in the Dublin parishes of Edenmore and Marino.

File containing material relating to Br Andrew Williams's admission to the Society and subsequent correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials.

File containing Jack Smyth's admission papers and brief correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials concerning work at St Francis Xavier’s Church, Upper Gardiner Street, the Church of the Sacred Heart, the Crescent, Limerick and as Assistant Director of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association.

Retreat journals kept by Fr Edward J Coyne 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

File of receipts, requests for masses, and bequests sent to Fr Charles Farley SJ, St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, (Province
Procurator). Includes receipts, postcards and letters from Frs Edward Boyd Barrett, James O'Connor, Joseph Flinn, A. Magne, Daniel J. Finn (from R.M.S Orsova on the way to Australia), James Creagh, James Farrell, John Ryan (Valkenberg), William Byrne, Bernard Page, John Nerney, C. Wishoff, Leopold Skarek, and Dr. Conway Dwyer, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin.

Letter from Sr Mary of St Mary Magdalene of Pazzi Lawson, Prov. Superioress of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Limerick, to Fr Stephen Farrell SJ. Encloses a receipt for the gift of £100 from an anonymous donor, and received through Fr Farrell (included).

Document confirming the appointment of Fr Stephen Farrell as Extraordinary Confessor to Carmelite nuns at Blackrock, and to Mercy Sisters at Baggot Street, Rathdrum and Richmond.

File of Irish mission office material relating to Fr Thomas FitzGerald SJ. Includes passport photographs; announcement of death; personal record; correspondence between Miss Eva Fitzgerald, Patient, Waterford County and City Infirmary, Waterford (sister of Fr Thomas) and Fr Provincial regarding her application for assistance from the Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association; and correspondence between Fr Fitzgerald and Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Mission Office, Dublin.

Photograph of Fr Leonard Gallagher SJ addressing the audience, at the annual meeting of the Pioneers, held at the Theatre Royal

Black and white group photograph at the ordination of Fr Richard Gallagher SJ with the Gallagher family at Milltown Park, Dublin. Includes: Back row; Maud, Leonard, Jenny. Centre; Frank, Cecilia, Ursula, Rose, Roland. Front row; Mary Archibald (Aunt), James,-, Richard, Mrs James (All Gallaghers). Photocopy with names on reverse.

Carte postale from Fr Richard Gallagher SJ, Catholic Mission, Shiu-Hing, West River, China to Mrs M. A. Archibald (aunt), 16 Lower Gardiner street, Dublin, describing Chinese students and his teachings.

Photographs of Fr John Hannon SJ.

Pamphlet written by Fr Thomas Hurley SJ entitled ‘Remember the Holy Souls’ published by the Irish Messenger Office.

Pamphlet entitled ‘The power of prayer’, translated from the French of Fr H Ramiere SJ into English by Fr Thomas Hurley SJ. Published by the Irish Messenger Office.

Notebook belonging to Br Albert Kelly SJ in which he writes notes on ‘Mass’.

Typescript copy of sermons by Fr Hugh Kelly SJ preached at Gardiner street church on the occasion of the reception there and veneration of the right arm of Saint Francis Xavier.

Material relating to Fr Richard J Kennedy SJ including correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

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

Mission office material relating to Fr Donald Lawler SJ. Includes personal record; passport; passport photographs; photographs; mortuary card; documents concerning the estate of Fr Lawler; and correspondence between Fr Lawler and Frs Thomas J Martin and Vincent Murphy, Mission Office, Dublin.

Material relating to Fr Thomas Martin SJ which includes some correspondence referring to his time as a chaplain in the Second World War, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record, death certificate and application to join the Society.

File of material relating to Fr Michael Moloney SJ. Includes death certificate, announcement of death;, and correspondence between Fr Moloney and Fr Vincent Murphy SJ, Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of mission material relating to Fr Dermot Murphy SJ. Includes photographs, personal record and correspondence between Fr Murphy and Frs Thomas Martin and Vincent Murphy, Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of mission material relating to Fr Joseph McCarthy SJ. Includes passport, passport photographs, personal details, obituary, next of kin details, account of Fr McCarthy’s death (13 January 1986), Curriculum Vitae, and correspondence between Fr McCarthy and Frs Thomas Martin and Vincent Murphy, Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Letter from Fr Joseph McSweeney SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin to the Irish Fr Provincial concerning the death of his mother.

Material relating to Fr John J Neary SJ, including catalogue entry, correspondence regarding his time in Hong Kong and biographical information.

File of material relating to Fr Henry O'Brien SJ, Includes passport, personal record and correspondence between Fr Henry O'Brien SJ and Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland.

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.

Details of Fr Daniel O'Connell's next-of-kin.

File of correspondence between Fr Kevin O'Dwyer SJ and his Irish Provincials. Material relates to his time in Australia, York,
Limerick, London, Amsterdam, Nova Scotia, Montreal, New York, Iowa and Singapore.

Mission material relating to Fr Daniel Byrne SJ. Includes passport photographs; announcement of death; mortuary cards; personal record; obituaries; newspaper articles and correspondence between Fr Byrne and Fr Thomas Martin SJ, Irish Jesuit Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin and other Irish Jesuits.

Text of radio appeals by Fr Tim Mulcahy SJ, on the occasion of World Sodality Day, on behalf of the Society of St Vincent de Paul (4th November [ ]) and High Park Convent, Drumcondra, Dublin (10 September [ ]).

File of material relating to Fr Frank McDonagh SJ. Includes personal record and passport details.

File of correspondence between Fr Colm Ó Riordan SJ and Frs. Tom O'Brien and Vincent Murphy, Irish Jesuit Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Relate to health issues, weather and travel plans.

Francis O'Farrell's admission papers and correspondence with his Irish Fr Provincials from the Pontifica Università Gregoriana, Rome.

Personal information sheet for Fr Kevin Quinn SJ (c.1962) and newspaper clipping from 'The Times of Zambia' concerning mineworkers and the Brown Report. Fr Quinn was part of the Commission which investigated the mining industry in Zambia. Includes M.A.thesis by Kevin Quinn SJ entitled 'The Industrial Realtions Act, 1946', University College Dublin, 1952, 187pp.

File of notes for holy hour ceremonies by Fr Patrick O'Mara SJ on various religious topics such as the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Reunification of Christendom, each of which is divided into four quarters, a series of prayers and aspirations and a final blessing and consecration.

File of writings on religious topics by Fr Patrick O'Mara SJ consisting of notes for retreats and missions and lectures to sodalities and apostleship of prayer meetings.

Calendar for St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street; pamphlets containing hymns and prayers; invitation to the centenary celebrations of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin and St Patrick in the Ignatian Chapel.

Photograph of the quays and Four Courts, Dublin.

Photograph of Our Lady's Grotto, Milltown Park grounds.

Letters from Fr Maurice Wolfe SJ, Paray-le-Monial, France to Fr Aloysius Sturzo SJ in relation to the former's request that he be accepted into the Irish Province.

Letter from Dr W. Scallan to Fr Alexander Kyan SJ. Voices his concern over the further detention of Fr Kyan’s brother in a ‘Lunatic Asylum’, and states that he wishes to withdraw the authorisation which he originally gave for his detention.

Copies of two letters from Fr Alexander Kyan SJ to Dr. Scallan. The first refers to Scallan's letter of 13 September. Refers to his [Fr. Kyan's] brother Howard's removal to Dr Duncan's, and assures him that he has been a frequent visitor. Refutes the suggestion that his brother is being detained. (15 September 1859). In the second letter Fr Kyan requests that Dr Scallan should send him ‘no other impertinent letters’. (9 January 1860). There is also a note at the bottom of the page stating that Howard was removed from Dr Duncan’s on 29 December 1859, and that ‘James sailed for Liverpool’ on 16 January 1860.

Handwritten information sheet in relation to the Association of Prayer. States that letters, applications etc must be addressed to Fr Kelly SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Adds that no money is demanded, but offerings are accepted.

Five versions of a printed leaflet outlining the aims and organisation of the Association of Prayer against intemperance.

Holograph letter from Patrick Maxwell of 37, North Great George's Street, Dublin to Fr Patrick Hughes SJ. Reports that he met with Mr. [Montfort], and it was agreed that Fr Hughes/the Society would pay off the entire amount. Adds that he had a [ ] deed prepared.

A file relating to Fr Arthur Little SJ’s health. Includes a letter from Dr George A. Little (Fr Arthur Little SJ’s brother). Remarks ‘Dr Albert Fagan examined him and agreed with me regarding his condition, namely that it should be operated on without too much delay.’ (7 February 1946, 1p).

Application by Mr Richard Ingram SJ for sub-diacanate.

Marriage settlement between Patrick Nolan and Mary Anne Dunn (Edward Nolan's parents).

Statement concerning the marriage settlement between Patrick Nolan and Mary Anne Dunn and Edward Dunn's (father of Mary Anne Dunn) agreement to settle £1,000 on his daughter as a marriage portion.

Parties:
Patrick Nolan, Tobacconist, Sackville Street, city of Dublin and Jonathan Carr and Charles Kohler, Merchant Tailors, 7 Lower Sackville Street, city of Dublin.

Property:
7 Sackville Street, Parish of St. Thomas, city of Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent of £163.13 (late currency), £151.1.3 sterling paid in four quarterly payments on 1st March, 1st June, 1st September and 1st December.

Other:
Signed and sealed by the parties

Parties:
Esther Gibson, Sandymount, County Dublin and John Philip Nolan, Solicitor, Upper Abbey Street, city of Dublin.

Property:
7 Sackville Street, city of Dublin

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent of £113.15 (late currency), £105 sterling to be paid in equal quarterly payments on1st March, 1st June, 1st September and 1st December. John Philip Nolan may quit the premises at the end of any fifth year of the term providing six months notice has been given.

Signed and sealed by the parties

Parties:
William Napoleon Nolan, Esquire, Lower Dominick Street, city of Dublin and Thomas Henry Kohler, Merchant Tailor, 7 Lower Sackville Street, city of Dublin.

Property:
Dwelling house on Lower Sackville Street

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent of £151.1.4 sterling to be paid in four equal payments on 1st March, 1st June, 1st September and 1st December.

Black and white image of Fr Henry Fegan SJ taken from a publication, mortuary card and photograph taken by C. and L. Walsh, 55, Lower Mount Street, Dublin .

Copy of letter from Fr Redmond Roche SJ, Belvedere College, Dublin to Fr Eustace Boylan SJ, Canisius College, Mona Vale, Pymble, NSW, Australia regarding the biographer of Fr Henry Fegan SJ by Fr Boylan and its suitability for publication.

A file relating to Fr John Coyne's translation of 'Christian Prayer in its Course through the Centuries' by Josef Andreas Jungmann SJ. Includes correspondence with the publishers and Josef Andreas Jungmann. The translation was published by Paulist Press, New York posthumously. Includes a typed manuscript of the translation.

File of material relating to Fr John Coyne SJ taken from the Mission Office, 28 Upper Sherrard St (12 July 2011). Includes photographs; personal record; and correspondence between Fr Coyne and Fr Thomas J Martin, SJ Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

A file of letters from Fr Laurence Kieran SJ, Clongowes Wood College, Naas, County Kildare to Fr Richard Devane SJ concerning his campaign for cinema censorship. Encourages him and wishes him success.

Parties:
Michael Kavanagh, Merchant, New Row, City of Dublin and William Dwyer, Gentleman, Usher's Quay, Dublin.

Property:
House and premises in New Row, city of Dublin.

Terms & Conditions:
For a term of 46 years, yearly rent of £100 to be paid in two even instalments on 25 November and 25 May.

Marriage settlement between Richard Kavanagh and Sarah Archbold (parents of Fr Michael Kavanagh SJ).

Letter from Ann Archbold, Elizabeth Archbold and Mary Archbold to Michael Kavanagh and son concerning payment of bills of exchange and promissory notes '...that have been passed by Elizabeth Archbold and son to you...'

A file of material collected by Fr John Grene SJ on the life of Mr James Murphy SJ, a scholastic who drowned whilst on villa (holiday) at Poulaphuca, County Wicklow. The contributors provide information of his life as a student at Clongowes Wood College and later as a novice in the Society.

A file of genealogical notes compiled and collected by Fr Timothy Corcoran SJ on his family. Includes letters, from Margaret Ryan, 14 Grand Street, Pokepsie, New York, U.S.A. to Fr Corcoran concerning other relatives in America (18 October 1931), Rody Dwan, Lisnagonoge, Thurles, County Tipperary (1 June 1915) and John D Corcoran, Williamsport, Ohio, U.S.A. (24 January 1929) ; genealogical notes on Corcoran of Clontaffe, parish of Killea (1766-1842) and of Honeymount, parish of Rathnaveoge, Ikerrin (1855-1929) and Curraduff, parish of Killea, Ikerrin, (1855-1929), 1p; copies made by Fr Timothy Corcoran SJ of family relatives in census material, 1821, 6 June 1841, at the Public Record Office, Dublin, (16 April 1916, 24 December 1917), 2pp; copies of originals at Lisnagonoge, Thurles, County Tipperary (25 August 1915), 1p; notes by Fr Timothy Corcoran SJ from the Public Record Office, Dublin (March 1914) on the numbers of peoples in townlands related to him - Rathnaveoge, Honeymount, Gurteen in 1821 census; inscription in Monsea burial ground and photocopies of newspaper clippings (1911).

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.

Memorandum on Milltown Park library, Dublin.

Summary of money spent on library periodicals at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

From Fr William Stack Murphy SJ, St Mary’s, Lebanon, Kentucky, U.S.A. to Fr Patrick Bracken SJ. Thanks him for the books that were brought out by Dr Litton. Refers to the fact that Fr Peter Kenney SJ had been appointed Rector of Palermo. Asks Fr Bracken to arrange for a subscription to be made to the 'London Tablet'. Refers to the Teetotalism and Partial Abstinence campaign in the US. Answers Daniel O'Connell’s views on America’s tradition of slavery. Gives a brief outline of the establishment of the school (St Mary’s in Kentucky).

Letter from Fr John Curtis SJ to Fr Patrick Bracken SJ, Sends his condolences on the death of Br Patrick Byrne SJ. Also refers to the Society’s funds and property, including their past interests on the Isle of Man.

Br John Baptist Byrne SJ entry into the Society of Jesus and difficulties he encountered as a novice, ultimately leading to his decision to become a brother in the English Province. Includes detailed correspondence concerning his difficulties and the various attempts to find a suitable position for him in the Society.