Handwritten record of finance at the residence of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Detailing expenditure and income of St. Francis Xavier's. (In Latin).

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.

Bound volumes with account of receipts from Promoters for Rosary Circles for the Apostleship of Prayer - 'The Holy League of the Sacred Heart of Jesus'. Handwritten entries which includes names and amount.

Receipts from Taylor Brothers, Stone & Marble Work, 25 Talbot Street and 6 Fairview Strand Works and Todd Burns & Co. Limited for payment of work on St Patrick's Chapel, candlesticks and marble altars at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes specification for marble altar.

Receipts for income and expenditure at the Jesuit community, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of receipts of dividends from investments by the Jesuit fathers in companies such as: The Dublin United Tramways Company, Limited; Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Limited; The Western Telegraph Company, Limerick; Ballinrobe and Claremorris Light Railway Co., Limited; Loughrea and Attymon Light Railway Co., Ltd.; Great Southern and Western Railway Co.; South Clare Railways Company; Limited.

Receipts for funeral expenses from B Farrell, Job Carriage Proprietor and Undertaker, 66 Marlborough Street, Dublin for the following Jesuits: Thomas Mahon; John Verdon; James Fottrell; Patrick Curran; Fr Browne.

Receipt of shares payments by the Jesuit fathers St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin towards £25 annuity to Mrs Brosnahan.

Receipt of cheque for work carried out at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin by William Conolly & Son Contractors, 38 & 39 Upper Dominick Street.

Receipt for the sum of £98 2s by Rev Charles Farley SJ from the National Bank Limited.

Receipt ‘to support 3 Messenger Father June + July’ for £31 2s 8 d.

'The Nun at her Prie-Dieu' by Fr Robert Nash SJ.

A file relating to the purchase of Emo Park by the Jesuit Fathers from the Land Commission (for £2,000). Includes a plan of Emo.

Volume of mainly pasted letters of Provincials’ Circulars to the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, with handwritten notes underneath. Index at front.

Volume of mainly pasted letters of Provincials’ Circulars to the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, with handwritten notes underneath. Index at rear.

Letters of Provincials’ Circulars to the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.

Volume of mainly pasted letters of Provincials’ Circulars to the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, with handwritten notes underneath. Index at front.

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.

Province file for Fr John A McAvoy SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record, testimonial letters, and application to join the Society.

Estimates for the proposed lift at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin by Leonard and Donnelly, Builders and General Contractors (26 October 1955) and costings of purchase of life from Sheila Buildings of O'Connell Street and installation at Upper Gardiner Street by John Birch.

A file relating to various proposals over the years to extend and add to the existing buildings at Mungret College. Includes plans. Includes an extensive file relating to the building of the swimming pool (10 October 1963 - 17 February 1965, 60 items).

Documents examining ‘the question of the advisability or otherwise of our…(the Irish Jesuit Province)…founding & running a Weekly Paper’ following Fr General’s letter asking the Provincial to “find out the views of ‘peritorum Patrum’ on this subject.” Includes copy of circular letter and questionnaire sent by the Provincial to sixteen ‘knowledgeable’ Jesuits and replies from the following Fathers: Patrick Connolly (Editor of 'Studies'), Michael Kirwan, John Ryan, Aubrey Gwynn (ADMN/3/18; 29; 40), Timothy Corcoran, Michael Egan, Edward Cahill, Joseph Canavan, Timothy Mulcahy (Editor of 'Madonna', 'Irish Monthly' and 'The Jesuit Directory'), Edward J. Coyne (See also ADMN/3/29; 39; 42; 57), John McMahon, George Roche, John Keane, Charles Doyle (includes two unsigned replies from Frs Stephen Brown and Charles Scantlebury). Also includes tables of summaries of the views expressed.

Printed list of the benefactors of the Church of Saint Francis Xavier, Gardiner Street for the years 1829, 1830, 1841 and 1850.

Printed circular letter from Fr Robert Kelly SJ to [clergy and prelates]. Urges the introduction of his Association of Prayer against intemperance. Refers to its rules, and to ‘the organ of the Association’, the Monitor. Also reports on its success in various dioceses of Great Britain and Ireland. Includes handwritten note from James Quinn, Archbishop of Brisbane, to Fr Kelly. Archbishop Quinn expresses his approval of Fr Kelly’s Association.

Prayer to Our Lady by E.C Donnelly from the 'Ave Maria', J Schafer Publisher, 23 Barclay St, New York.

Prayer of the Church against famine or pestilence.

Prayer leaflet entitled ‘League of Prayer’, from St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin: ‘Thousands of our fellow-countrymen, thousands of our co-religionists in France and Belgium, thousands who, though they do not profess our Faith, are united to us by ties of friendship and interest, are exposed to every danger, and hardship, and suffering, that must attend the present war’.

Handwritten prayer entitled 'My Favourite Solitude'.

Prayer card for the souls of deceased members of the Garda Síochána Sodality, based at St Francis Xavier's Church, and calendar of names of deceased members.

A file relating to the postponement of Fr Arthur Little’s last vows. Includes a letter from Irish Fr Provincial, St Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr Little outlining the reasons behind the postponement (27 December 1932, 1p).

Poster detailing the times of Easter ceremonies in St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Poster advertising a Solemn Triduum in St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street to celebrate the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society of Jesus.

Postcards of the Altar-piece, Ignatian Chapel and the Shrine of St Francis Xavier, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of postcards and notes from the artist, Evie Hone to Fr Daniel Shields SJ (29 September 1941-11 August 1952) in which pleasantries are given and items of news, ‘I expect you heard that Michael Healy died last Mon. I feel very sad for myself but he could not have recovered to work’ (29 September 1941). Evie Hone writes from Kilkenny, Paris and Rathfarnham, Dublin. This material was found in the room of Fr Daniel Shields SJ after his death. Includes a newspaper cutting with an image of Evie Hone and her last stained-glass window, an obituary and a colour sketch of Mary and Child, by Evie Hone.

In 'Studies: An Irish quarterly review', Vol. XLVI, pp. 377-378, Autumn, 1957, Fr Daniel Shields SJ reviews ‘A tribute to Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett’.

Postcard from Fr John J. Coyne SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr Richard Devane SJ concerning a memo prepared by Fr. Devane. Remarks that it is '...just what I wanted and have been wanting for quite a long time...'

Postcard from [ ] , St. Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Fr Hurley granting permission to him to acquire a new typewriter.

Poem entitled 'The Pious Painter'.

Plan of the heating arrangements at the presbytery of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, by Maguire & Catchell Ltd, Engineering Contractors, Dublin. Shows ground floor and basement floor plan.

Documents and objects relating to a pilgrimage to Rome by Irish pilgrims in connection with the jubilee of his holiness, Pope Leo XIII. Includes travel documents; diary of journey; pilgrim's enrolment certificate for Michael Mulraney, 21 Mid Gardiner Street, Dublin, medals of Pope Leo XIII and green maniple with harps.

Photographs taken at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin of Fr John Counihan SJ and groups of retreatants.

File of photographs related to the visit of the relic of St Francis Xavier’s at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street. Includes dignitaries such as Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, Sean T. O’ Kelly, President of Ireland.

File of photographs related to statutes, altars, side chapels, within St. Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes images, postcards.

Large photographs of the interior of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin at the time of Jesuit Missions.

Folder of photographs of the interior of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street church and community.

Group of photographs of the interior and exterior of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes: father’s library; a view of the residence; organ; main statue on entrance; first installation of loud speakers; father’s refectory; St. Joseph side chapel; St. Patrick’s altar; battery switches; Suffering of Christ mantle statue; St. Aloysius altar; the garden.

Photographs of stewards, Eliza and Johnnie Monaghan, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin

Photographs of St Francis Xavier’s Church and Residence at Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes photographs of various chapels and alters in the church interior as well as the residence garden.

Photographs of mass at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin and on Mountjoy Square. Includes Fr Phillip Hartnett SJ, and cardinals at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Two photographs of lay groups associated with St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Both taken outdoors, names are on the rear of photograph with Fr Quigley SJ.

Photographs of Hong Kong missionaries. Most of the individuals are identified. Inlcudes a letter from Br E Connolly, Secretaritus Missionum, Borgo S. Spirito, Roma, Italy to Fr John Coyne SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin enclosing a list of photograph in their archives of missionaries on the Hong Kong mision.

Includes photograph of visit of Fr General Pedro Arrupe SJ to Wah Yan College

File of photographs belonging to Fr Joseph Conran SJ which includes:

• family photographs Fr Joseph Conran SJ;
• stamp guild of St John de Britto, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, with Fr Joseph Conran SJ, c.(1955);
• Children of Mary in garden of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, looking onto Upper Sherrad Street;
• and his sister (been waked), Sheila Eva Conran, who died in 15 July 1921, 11 years old, Victoria Street, Armagh.

Mounted photographic prints of the exterior and entrance steps to St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Mounted photograph of the interior of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin the view is towards the choir.

Photograph of the façade of St Francis Xavier's Church and Residence, Upper Gardiner Street taken in summer time. In foreground local children and group with two members of the order of the Sisters of Charity.

Photograph of the exterior of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Photocopy of photograph from 'The Evening Herald 'of the congregation in St Francis Xavier's Church at the annual Novena of Grace.

Includes, front row: l-r: 1., 2. Paddy Doherty, 3. John Coyne, 4., 5. Tim Mulcahy, 6., 7. Peader MacSeamus, 8.,. Includes a name, George Courage on the rear.

Mounted photograph of Fr John Bannon SJ by W.G. Moore, 11 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin.

Photograph of four priests at the altar at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes Papal Nuncio Dr Gaetano Alibrandi and Fr Joe Gill SJ.

Photograph of Christie Breen who 'became house porter - 1925' at Gardiner Street.

Photograph of a portrait of Fr John Bannon SJ by Frank Gavin, which hung at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street.

Photograph case with portrait of Jesuit inside. No date or reference.

Photocopied front cover and inside pages of: 'Handbook of the History of Philosophy’ by Dr Albert Stockl translated by Fr Thomas A Finlay SJ (initially June 1887), January 1903 - located at St. Francis Xavier Community Library, Upper Gardiner Street.

A file relating to a petition signed by members of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary urging the Jesuit Fathers not to close St Ignatius College, Galway.

A file relating to permission granted by Fr General Wlodimir Ledóchowski SJ and the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Matthew Cullen, for the establishment of a Jesuit house at Emo, County Laois.

Pensions and rents payable to the Pioneers, Jesuit Foreign Missions. Includes correspondence between Fr Thomas Martin SJ, Jesuit Foreign Missions, 28 Upper Sherrard Street, Dublin, Fr McCarron SJ (Pioneers), Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin and Fr Troddyn SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street.

File including papers concerning Conor Naughton's admission to the society, jubilees and death.

Pamphlet of a pray entitled: 'A Profession of Faith in the Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Lady' with the dedication St Francis Xavier's, Dublin.

Pamphlet of a sermon by Rev. Henry Marshall, missionary apostolic and priest of the archdiocese of Dublin at the church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin on the festival of the Most Holy Name.

Description of the origins of the Dublin residence of Jesuit fathers and the establishment of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street. Includes reference to the artworks, statutes and renovations undertaken in Frs Gaffney and Walshe's time.

Original correspondence with title page 'Litterae et Documenta', which gives an index to the following:

• 17 December 1858, reply of Dr MacEvillly, Bishop of Galway to Vice-Provincial Joseph Lentaigne;

• 15 April 1859, grants permission to preach, establish a college etc..(copy by Fr Robert Haly SJ 15 April 1859);

• 5 June 1858, Altare Maius Ecclesia Sti. Patricii in oppodo Galviae Privilegiatum designatur;

• 2 August 1860, Dr MacEvillly, Bishop of Galway, grants permission for the erection of Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Convent, Taylor’s Hill;

• 2 February 1863, copy of faculties to hear Confessions granted by Dr MacEvillly, Bishop of Galway;

• 18 February 1863, faculties to hear Confessions granted by Dr MacEvillly, Bishop of Galway to Fr Stephan Farrell;

• 17 January 1871, Fr Nicholas Walsh SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin to Fr Murphy re: Dr Nulty and examination for faculties to hear Confessions;

• 23 March 1874, Fr Alfred Murphy SJ re: faculties of Regulars to hear Confessions outside their own Churches;

• 6 August 1880, Fr Philip O'Connell SJ to Bishop re: Diocesan regulations;

• 1888, Memoriale Visitationis Provinciae Hiberniae (1 ms. copy, 2 printed copies) and letter from Father Provincial Timothy Kenny to Fr Hughes regarding memorial (27 July 1888);

• 25 December 1890, Father Provincial Timothy Kenny SJ gives extract from a letter from Father General dated 20 October 1890;

• 15 April 1907, Unum Altare in privatis sacellis domorum Soc. Iesu Privilegiatum designari potest;

• 28 August 1914, Vote of sympathy from the Board of Guardians, Galway Union, on occasion of the death of Father General;

• 8 September 1914, Vote of sympathy from the Council of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sodality on occasion of the death of Father General;

• 15 May 1919, Vote of sympathy from the Board of Guardians, Galway Union, on occasion of Fr Donovan’s death;

• 16 May 1919, Fr Henry Foley SJ to Mr Mullery, Secretary, the Board of Guardians, Galway Union;

• 10 February 1923, Fides Matrimonii Contracti a Lettia Monica Leatham, quae in Ecclesia Catholica (Jesuit) an. 1898 baptizata est. and

• 1810-1896, Necrologia Provinciae Hiberniae Soc..

Correspondence between Fr Dan Dargan SJ and architects and building and civil engineering contractors relating to changes in the oratory at St Francis Xavier's.

A file of photocopies of obituary notices for Fr John Bannon SJ.

Notice relating to the relics of King Edward the Confessor.

Notice advertising a retreat for men engaged on night work in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Notice advertising a 3 day retreat for legal, medical and university students in the Ignatian Chapel, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Handwritten notes relating to the history of St. Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street (note: not in chronological order and incomplete), starting in 1849.

Handwritten notebook on Thomas à Kempis possibly belonging to Sir Francis R. Cruise.

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.

Handwritten notes by J.J.C. on the life of St Peter Canisius (incomplete).

Notebook with lists of preachers of the Seven Words of Good Friday and the Novena of Grace from 1842-1957.

Hardback notebook of newspaper clippings and handwritten notes entitled ‘Miscellanea’. Taken from newspapers related to religious sermons; letters; statistics; list of persons admitted as postulants for the Society in Ireland 1801 - 1809; authors useful for the study of Italian.

Notebook of costs taken from the Gardiner Street Bursarship, surrendered by Fr Andrew Henry Rorke SJ to Fr Charles Farley SJ.

Notebook detailing annuities and dividends payable by St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Notebook containing Lists of Preachers of Novena to the Sacred Heart (1899-1957) and Sodality Day (1940-1954).

Notebook containing details of collections made in order to help paying off the debt of the church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street.

Notebook (XXXII) belonging to Fr John Curtis SJ containing the accounts of the property of the Irish Vice Province of the Society of Jesus and other details including title deeds etc.

Notebook belonging to Fr Henry King SJ containing spiritual notes.

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

Note on Dr John Esmonde who was hanged on 14 June 1798 for having taken part in the fight at Prosperous.

Note indicating the Nos 23 & 25 Gardiner Street are under lease from 1877 for a period of 900 years and details yearly rent.

Note from Paul Newell OSA (Augustinian), R.C. Clergyman recommending Patrick Read as a lay brother in the Society.

Note from Fr Dick Coyne SJ, Jesuit House, Rahan, Tullamore, County Offaly to Fr Joseph Conran SJ informing him of the papers (exam
certificates) and photographs found in Tullabeg which he has forwarded on.

Note concerning long table days at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Note bequeathing £100 from Charles J. Blake, Heath House, Maryboro[ugh], County Laois to the Superior, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Note advertising the Annual Retreat for St Joseph's Young Priests Society which was conducted by Fr John Murphy SJ at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Photocopy of newspaper report on an address given by Fr Bernard Vaughan SJ to the Sodality of Our Lady Help of Christian, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Photocopy of newspaper report of the Golden Jubilee of the Young Men's Sodality at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

A file of newspaper cuttings reporting the deaths of Frs Henry Lynch, James Murphy and Patrick Leonard.

Newspaper clippings from various Irish and British newspapers of the Eucharistic Congress, June 1932 which occurred in Dublin. The large folio has pasted newspaper clippings collected and presented to the Gardiner Street Library by Fr William Gwynn SJ, 3 December 1942.