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File of mission office material relating to Fr Daniel Louis Meagher SJ. Includes passport, photographs, personal record; announcement of death and correspondence between Fr Meagher and Frs Thomas Martin and Vincent Murphy, Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

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.

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 mission material relating to Fr Joseph Conway SJ. Includes passport, photograph, announcement of death, obituary, personal record and correspondence between Fr Conway and Frs Thomas Martin and Vincent Murphy, Irish Jesuit Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Mission material relating to Br Patrick Sherry SJ. Includes passport photographs, passports, personal record, announcement of death, and correspondence between Br Sherry and Frs Thomas J. Martin and Vincent Murphy, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland.

Mission Office material relating to Fr Edward Booth SJ. Includes photograph, personal record, medical details and birth certificate.

File of correspondence between Fr Denis Carroll SJ and his Irish Provincials.

Letter from Fr Ladislaus Zabdyr SJ, Chikuni, PO Chisekesi, Northern Rhodesia to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin concerning the news that the Irish Province is to send Irish Jesuits to Northern Rhodesia. Explains the situation in the mission. Remarks 'Any man that can be spared and is willing to come will be welcome because at any time one can expect that some one of those still at work here may break down…'.

Medical statement declaring Fr Maurice Dowling's fitness to work in the Northern Rhodesia mission by Dr Corboy, 11 The Crescent, Limerick.

A file relating to Patrick J. Benson, member of the Chikuni Mission who died in 1970. Includes documents relating to his entry to the Society in 1942.

Letter of congratulation from James Corboy SJ, Bishop of Monze, Zambia, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Fr Gwynn’s entrance into the Society of Jesus.

A file relating to Fr Daniel Byrne SJ concerning his entry to the Society of Jesus (1938) and his death following a car accident in Northern Rhodesia in 1964.

A file relating to two Irish Jesuit missionaries Frs Ernest Mackey SJ and Michael Garahy SJ who travelled to South Africa to conduct a mission in honour of the centenary celebrations in the Vicariate of the Western Districts of the Cape of Good Hope.

Publication by Fr Liam Browne SJ entitled 'The plateau Tonga: an introduction'.

A history of the Jesuits in Zambia: a mission becomes a province. Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 2003

The man called James Corboy : Irish Jesuit Bishop of Monze, Zambia. Messenger Publications, Dubline [Ireland], 2012

Small English-Tonga dictionary by Fr Bernard Collins SJ. Published by the Jesuits in conjunction with Zambian Publications Bureau, and printed by at Teresianum, Lusaka.

‘First Impressions of Zambia’ by Fr John T. O'Holohan SJ, Chikuni College, Chikuni Mission, Zambia.

Book entitled 'Tonga Grammar' by Fr Bernard Collins SJ, published by Longmans.

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.

File of correspondence between Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Dublin, Ireland and Monsignor Adam Kozlowiecki SJ (at various times Vicar Apostolic of Lusaka, Archbishop of Lusaka and Cardinal) Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia / Zambia. Includes letters from Fr Paddy Walsh SJ; signed postcard and photograph by Archbishop Kozlowiecki; correspondence on fundraising issues and finance.

File of correspondence from Irish Jesuits mainly in Chikuni and Choma, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) to Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Mission Office, Milltown Park (later Upper Sherrard Street), Dublin concerning the Chikuni Mission (administration, building plans, school life, finance, requests for supplies and general life there). Includes letters from Frs Dan Byrne, Arthur Clarke, Bernard Collins, Tom Cooney, Joseph Mary Gill, William Lee, Joe McCarthy, Tom McGivern, Louis Meagher, Des O'Loghlen, Charles O'Connor and Brian Sharkey.

• letter from Fr Joseph Mary Gill SJ indicating the work he has to do as a teacher as well as been Mission Procurator '...the farm is a big worry. There is something wrong with the cattle and five have just died and a number of the others are sick' (12 October 1950);
• statement by Fr Brian Sharkey SJ entitled 'Some highlights in missionary life for me' which outlines his time at the Chikuni Mission [1951];
• letter from Fr Tom Cooney SJ in which he describes the plant needed from Bord na Mona, 'the 60 K.V.A. would be rather large for Chikuni' (16 September 1953); - Chikuni Mission statistics for the year ending 31st December 1953; - letter from Fr Thomas McGivern SJ which includes plan of a map of the buildings at Chikuni (1 January 1954);
• letter in which Fr Louis Meagher SJ is frustrated with the lack of skills of those been sent out to the mission, 'Could it not be possible to arrange that the brother in Tullabeg be detailed off to give lesson to the scholastics once their names are made known for the missions' (29 September 1956);
• letter from Fr Des O'Loghlen SJ, Choma, Northern Rhodesia informing of the death of Fr Danny Byrne SJ (6 May 1964);
• account of the death of Fr Arthur Cox (11 June 1965).

Sketch plan for residence at Kasiya, Zambia by J. McCarthy M.P.T.A.A (nd.) and working drawings for extension to the Jesuit Fathers at Monze, Zambia drawn by W.F.F.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning Fr Arthur Cox, who died in Zambia on 11 June 1965 following a car crash. Includes: letter from Fr Cox to Fr Gwynn describing how Fr Cox is settling in to his new life in Monze and learning new languages (21 December 1964, 2pp);
– letter from Bishop James Corboy SJ with reference to Fr Cox (23 February 1965, 1p) (see also J10/18);
– letter from Fr Frank O'Neill SJ describing the circumstances of Fr Cox’s death (16 June 1965, 3pp);
– letter from Bishop Corboy following the first anniversary of Fr Cox’s death (17 June 1966, 1p.). Includes ordination and memorial card of Fr Cox.

Aubrey Gwynn and Arthur Cox at UCD together.

Catechism written by Fr Bernard Collins SJ, published by the Commerical Press Ltd., Lusaka.

Two identical medals - St Ignatius Christus Imperat, Chikuni, Zambia.

Translation by Fr Daniel L. Meagher SJ of a booklet by Archbishop Henry Streicher SJ entitled 'The Martyrs of Uganda.'

Copy of an image from the Jesuit Year Book on the occasion of Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ visitation to Northern Rhodesia.

Booklet entitled 'St. Ignatius Parish 50 Years in Zambia'.

Photograph of Jesuits at house warming in Northern Rhodesia [Not Northern Rhodesia, but Irish Jesuits at Hong Kong in 1930s].

Photograph of group of Jesuits talking outside a residence in Northern Rhodesia. The car belongs to a Franciscan according to the writing on the reverse of the photograph [Not Northern Rhodesia, but Irish Jesuits at Hong Kong in 1930s].

Brief Latin list of membership of sodalities in Zambia, ‘Elenchus Triennalis Congregationum et Consociationum’.

Booklet entitled 'Irish Jesuits Among the Mild Batonga' by Rev Joseph McSweeney SJ published by the Irish Messenger Office.

Material relating to Fr Bernard P Collins SJ entry to the Society of Jesus, biographical information and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials.

Correspondence on Fr Thomas Cooney's health and suitability for missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (1952-1953).

File containing Robert Thompson's admissionpapers and correspondence with irish Fr provincials covering his time in Zambia, at Rathfarnham Castle and Tullabeg and his parish work at Clane, County Kildare and Moycullen, County Galway.

File containing Kevin Quinn's admission papers and brief correspondence from his time in Lusaka, Zambia and at the College of Industrial Relations.

File of mission material relating to Fr Patrick Benson SJ. Includes passports; vaccination card; photographs; personal record; announcement of death; key, copy of birth and death certificates; university certificates; correspondence between Fr Benson and Fr Thomas Martin, Irish Jesuit Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Material relating to Fr Laurence M Kearns SJ containing admission details, his work within the Society (chaplain in the Second World War, communications and media work in Zambia and Lesotho, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials. Includes biographical information.

Material relating to Fr Michael Moloney SJ which includes correspondence describing his work in Australia and Zambia and includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

Province file for Fr Seán J McCarron SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

File containing Fr Thomas O'Meara's admission papers and brief correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials including letters from his time as a missionary in Zambia.

File containing Colm Ó Riordan admission papers and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials concerning his missionary work in Zambia.

Material relating to Fr Joseph B Conway SJ including details of entry to the Society of Jesus, catalogue entry, photograph and correspondence.

Mission material relating to Fr Maurice Dowling SJ. Includes announcement of death; personal record; mortuary card, and correspondence between Fr Dowling and Fr Thomas Martin SJ, Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Admission, early life in the Society of Jesus and correspondence of Fr William Lee SJ,with his Irish Fr Provincials from time in Zambia concerning his work at Gonzaga College, Dublin and in the Milltown Institute.

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

Material relating to Fr Dermot J Murphy SJ which includes correspondence concerning his work in Zambia and his health. Includes black and white passport size photographs, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

File relating to Fr Patrick J Walsh SJ concerning his work in Africa, his health, application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, catalogue entries, photograph and obituary.

Three typed copies of a manuscript by Fr.Joseph Moreau SJ entitled 'The Chikuni Mission. How it Came to be Started in 1905' (31pp & 3pp notes. The fourth copy, has on the title page '(not to be published whole or in parts without Fr Moreau's consent.) + approbation!.' (36pp). This copy has handwritten translations of words on reverse page.