Letters to Fr Bartholomew Esmonde SJ
- IE IJA J/471/5
- File
- 28 June 1810 - 4 October 1850
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file of letters to Fr Bartholomew Esmonde SJ. A brief précis to the letters is included in the file.
Letters to Fr Bartholomew Esmonde SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file of letters to Fr Bartholomew Esmonde SJ. A brief précis to the letters is included in the file.
Letters relating to Fr Denis Murphy's work on behalf of the cause of the Irish Martyrs
Part of Irish Jesuits
A file of letters relating to Fr Denis Murphy's work on behalf of the cause of the Irish Martyrs. Includes Fr Ryan, Reginlad Walsh O.P., Fr John Morris SJ, Percy Barron (Cistercian Priest), Sr Benedict Maria, Gilbert Dolan (Benedictine monk), J Clement Fowler (Benedictine monk),
Copy transcripts relating to documents on Fr John Stritch SJ and Irish mission
Part of Irish Jesuits
Copy typescript transcripts, mostly relating to documents (1640-1661), supplied by Fr John MacErlean SJ, in Jesuit archives, on Fr John Stritch SJ and Irish mission.
Part of Irish Jesuits
Letter from Máire Ní Bhriain (Máire O'Brien), 43 Mespil Road, Dublin to Fr Edward Cahill SJ concerning the resignation of her post in Madrid after the signing of the Treaty and '...on receiving Gavan Duffy's "Free State" instructions - the carrying out of which would have been entirely against my principles.' Remarks that she was then offered a job on '...Fine Ghaedheal by my former "boss"...Bob Brennan and we are working together very harmoniously linking up the Irish race. Our Free State friends are...trying to smash us as they would smash the Republic and every Irish institution but we are going come out on top in spite of them.
O'Brien, Máire, 1882-1958, republican activist, civil servant and translator
Material relating to Fr John Mallin SJ
Part of Irish Jesuits
File of material relating to Fr John Mallin SJ including short CVs (1942; 1965; 1974), documents regarding entry to the Society (details of baptism and medical reports), medical reports, small number of letters written from Germany by Fr Mallin (1963-66) and Spain (1973-74) and obituary from the 'Irish Province News' (April 1977).
Photographic slides of sites of Jesuit interest in Barcelona, Rome, Manresa and Spain
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Photographic slides of sites of Jesuit interest in Barcelona, Rome, Manresa and Spain produced by Fr John Purcell SJ.
Letter from M. J. Aloysius Murphy, Castilleza de las Cueta, Sevilla, Spain to Fr Frank Browne SJ
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Letter from M. J. Aloysius Murphy, Castilleza de las Cueta, Sevilla, Spain to Fr Frank Browne SJ requesting permission to reprint Fr Browne’s article on Lismore Castle in a school magazine).
Murphy, M. J. Aloysius
Draft typescript of an unpublished book by Fr Leonard Sheil SJ concerning his travels in Spain
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Draft typescript of an unpublished book by Fr Leonard Sheil SJ concerning his travels in Spain, with an emphasis on Catholics murdered in the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939). States in the preface ‘This is an account of motorcycling 12000 miles through Spain, with special reference to spots where priests and nuns suffered for their faith in 1936 and 1937.’ Includes holograph preface and footnotes (4pp); ‘Index of Tales with Sources for Persons mentioned in order of their mentioning’ (3pp); map of Spain and Portugal with Fr Sheil’s routes marked in pen (10cm x 9cm) and draft typescript (first three pages are missing) (originally 192pp).
Letters and report to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Leonard Sheil SJ concerning missions in Spain
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Letters and report to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Leonard Sheil SJ concerning missions in Spain, comparisons with missions in Britain and Ireland and the possibility of Fr Sheil’s working in South America. Includes:
– letter from Fr Sheil to the Irish Fr Provincial seeking permission to go to Spain to study Spanish missions in order to adapt certain practices for use in Britain (7 September. 1961, 4pp);
– copy of a ‘Report on Missions in Spain’ following a visit by Frs Shiggins and Sheil who attended five missions around the country (n.d., 4pp);
– letter from Fr Sheil to the Irish Fr Provincial in which he discusses certain Spanish customs which could be used on Missions in Britain. Remarks that he will send the Provincial a report ‘on the meetings I now hold with Protestant clergymen after missions in Ireland’ and that he has sent in ‘full reports on our missions in Britain’ ‘almost every year for ten years’. Also mentions a new member of the mission staff, Fr Kevin Laheen SJ – ‘You will be glad to know that Fr Laheen on this his first mission did very well. He preaches well and his musical voice was a help to O'Beirne and I. I need not tell you that O'Beirne preaches very well, and is a wonderful companion on a mission. He sleeps badly’ (Fr Gerry O'Beirne) (23 March 1963, 3pp) and
– letters seeking permission to go to Spain (and Italy) as a supply priest (25 May 19?? – 30 November 1965, 4 items).
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Material relating to Br Edward Maher SJ.
Maher, Edward, 1901-1982, Jesuit brother
Letter from Mr Timothy Moloney (Centro Irlandes, Lerida, Spain) concerning his thesis
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Letter from Mr Timothy Moloney (Centro Irlandes, Lerida, Spain) concerning his thesis and Denis Gwynn’s manuscript on William Smith O'Brien.
Touhill, Blanche, historian