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The Irish Jesuits Vol.1: being a collection of articles on the history of the Irish Province, culled from various sources, mainly for the Jesuit Year Book.

File of handwritten sermon, retreat notes, considerations (Catholic University, 1862), Triduum and retreats. Includes long retreats at Cork (1860), Tullabeg (1861 - 1862; 1868 - 1871); Laval (1872 - 1875); Tronchiennes (1875 - 1877); Clongowes Wood College (1877) and meditations, attributed to the following Jesuits: Frs. Peter Kenney (Palmero), Aloysius Sturzo, Daniel Jones, Patrick Hughes, Charles Aylmer, John St. Leger, Robert St. Leger. Michael Kelly, Charles Plowden, John Cunningham, James Mullen, Alexander Kyan (with history of Kyan family), John Shine, Bartholomew Esmonde, Thomas Betagh, Patrick Bracken, P. O'Reilly, Stephen Farrell, Charles McKenna, Edmund O'Reilly, Pubrick.

Print of Fr Thomas Betagh SJ.

Photocopy of published text of a sermon preached by Rev. Thomas Burke, O.P. in aid of the evening and Sunday schools founded by Dr Betagh. The sermon was preached in SS. Michael and John's Church.

Manuscript by an unknown author concerning the Trinitarian Orphan Society founded by Fr Thomas Betagh in 1796.

Notes on the will of Fr John Austin by Fr Thomas Betagh contained in 'Directorium ad rite legendas horas canónicas missasque celebrandas' (Bernard McMahon Press, Dublin, with P. Wogan, & P. Bean, No. 23, Old Bridge, 1783). Includes:

• Memoranda of my Executorship under Mr Austin's will;
• accounts to Mary Ann Austin, daughter of Richard Austin deceased, apprentice to Mary Magennis,1784;
• accounts to Mary Austin, daughter of Joseph Austin, sent to Miss Mullaly's school 1785, travelled to Spain 1786. Returned from Spain without serving her indented time and arrived in Dublin, 15 May 1788;
• accounts to Francis Austin, son of Richard Austin, apprentice to a Glover, 1787;
• accounts Jane Austin, daughter of Joseph Austin, apprentice to Catherine Collins, Ribb and weaver, 1787;
• accounts Teresa Austin, daughter of Joseph Austin, apprentice to a Glover, but discharged for disagreeing with her mistress, 1787;
• accounts to Mathew Austin, son of Richard Austin, supported by the Patrican Society, dismissed by them as past the age allowed by their rules, under the care of a nurse in Saggart, 1790 ;
• accounts of sale of Fr Austin's books, 1797;
• cash expended on Mr Lisward's nurse, 1790;
• legacies bequeathed by Rev Mr Lisward's and discharged by me, 1791-1792.

Notes by Fr James Rabbitte SJ on the Betagh's of Mannin, County Mayo and Fr Thomas Betagh and other Jesuits after the suppression.

Notes from Hardiman's "Irish Ministry…" (1831) compiled by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on Fanny Betagh, wife of James Betagh of Maurin, County Mayo - the head of a branch of the ancient family of that name. Fanny was celebrated in a poem by Carolan.

Notes by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on transcripts by Fr John MacErlean SJ relating to Fr Thomas Betagh.

Unascribed note on some contents held at Clongowes Wood College SJ archives:

1. Identifies letters belonging to Jesuits Peter Kenney, Thomas Betagh, Charles Aylmer, Robert St Leger and Bartholomew Edmonde;
2. Letters to many of the above;
3. Will of Agnes Callaghan, 1767;
4. Bridget Graham's receipt and discharge of a Legacy bequeathed to her by John Austin;
5. A release from Mr Brady and wife, 1793;
6. Manuscript of "Redemption of Man";
7. Small "Treatise on Lent";
8. Analysis of the Bull "Per Alias" by Pope Pius VII;
9. Ten or eleven of Fr Cordara's letters and commentary on the Suppression of the Society;
10. "I Lamenti del Clero di Sicilia, diretti al Parlamento";
11. Some writings referring to the Sodality BVM.

Vol. 1, No.1 June 1898 – Centenary year, Part II 1814 – 1914
(For circulation among Ours Only)
Contains Obituaries
Index
Handwritten index biographical notices in the Memorials of the Irish Province and general index. Compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

1. Vol. 1, No.1 June 1898
   ‘A Short History of the Irish Province Part I, From its foundation under St. Ignatius down to the year 1626’;
   ‘Memoir of Father Peter Kenney, S.J.’;
   ‘Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died in Clongowes up to 1826’;
   University College Results;
   Catalogus Hib A.. 1752 in Missione Hibernica’.

2. Vol. 1, No.II June 1899
   ‘Biographical Sketch of the Rev. T. Betagh’;
   Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died in: Clongowes, from 1826 to 1869 Tullabeg, previous to the year 1874;
   Notes on the lives of early Irish Jesuits written in 1877 by Fr John Curtis SJ;
   ‘Voyage to Palermo and Back’ by Fr Charles Aylmer SJ;
   ‘Fr Edmund J O’Reilly’ by Fr Matthew Russell SJ;
   ‘An Old MSS Catalogue of Clongowes, 1820-1821’;
   Chronological list of Jesuits connected with the Irish Mission from 1550-1779;

3. Vol. 1, No.III June 1900
   ‘Memoirs of the Suppression and Restoration of the the Society of Jesus in Ireland’ by Fr Bracken SJ’;
   ‘Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
   Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died at: the Residence, Gardiner Street from 1845 to 1895. Belvedere College from 1855 to 1892;
   ‘Some manuscript catalogues of Clongowes, 1823, 1824, 1825 - 1834, 1837 and 1839’;

4. Vol. 1, No.IV June 1901
   ‘Memoirs of the Suppression and Restoration of the the Society of Jesus in Ireland, Part II’ by Fr Bracken SJ’;
   ‘Vale Novitiorum’;
   ‘Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
   Brief Memoirs of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society who Died at: University College, Dublin, from 1889-1893.

5. Vol. 1, No. V June 1902
   ‘Short History of the Australian Mission’;
   ‘Some Irish Worthies S.J.’ by Edmund Hogan SJ;
   Memoirs of Fathers who Died at Milltown Park, from 1865 to 1887;
   ‘Further Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
   ‘Two letters, 1813, 1814’ written by Fr Charles Aylmer.

6. Vol. 1, No. VI January 1903
   ‘Memoirs of Fr Alfred Murphy SJ’;
   ‘Some Early Irish Jesuits’;
   ‘Testimonies to Fr Peter Kenney SJ’;
   ‘A Short History of Irish Province Pt.1’(Fr Grene).

7. Vol. 1, No. VII June 1903
   ‘A Short History of Some Early Irish Jesuits (continued)’ by Rev. J. McDonnell SJ;
   ‘A contribution towards a History of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, from its Revival soon after the year 1800. Part II’ by Fr John Grene SJ.
   ‘Some Letters in Jesuit Archives in Ireland’;
   Memoir of Father P.E. Duffy, S.J. Part I.

8. Short Memoirs of the Early Irish Jesuits down to the year 1840
   by Fr Joseph McDonnell SJ, 1903

9. Centenary Year, 1814-1914, Part I
   ‘The Irish Province 1814-1914’;
   ‘Rathfarnham Castle and some of its Former Owners’;
   ‘First Dublin residence, George's Hill, 1812’;
   ‘Brief Chronological Notes, 1829-1914’;
   Necrologia: 1900 to December 1913.

10. Centenary Year, 1814-1914, Part II
    ‘The Irish Province 1814-1914’;
    ‘Milltown Park and and some of its Owners’;
    ‘Brief Chronological Notes, Milltown Park, 1858-1914’;
    ‘Irish Province, 1860-1914, Brief Chronological Notes’;
    ‘Gardiner Street, 1860-1914, Brief Chronological Notes’.

List of print portraits of Fr Thomas Betagh copied from the National Library of Ireland's catalogue of prints. Includes a photocopy of a print of Fr Betagh.

Letter from Thaddeus Brzozowski to Thomas Betagh.

Letter from Fr Thomas Betagh to Fr Marmaduke Stone SJ. Relates that four years previously Fr Callaghan had discussed with Archbishop Troy the fund of the ex-Jesuits in Ireland. Refers to a letter from Cardinal di Pietro to Troy on the matter, of which a copy is transcribed on the same document.

Unsigned letter in [Fr. Betagh's handwriting] to [ ] Fortescue congratulating him on his success. Remarks 'nothing but the R. Catholick Bill can carry me to Dublin, and that, I fear, will not be agitated.' Discusses the expensive chapels in poor monasteries on the continent.

Juris Canonici Theoria et Praxis ad forum tam Sacramentale quam Contentiosum, tum Ecclesiaticum, tum Seculare. Opus exactum non solum ad normam Juris Communis & Romani, sed etiam Juris Francici : Authore Joanne Cabassutio Aquisextiensi, Congregationis Oratorii Domini Jesu Presbytero. Editio postrema ab ipso Authore recognita & aucta

Instructions for the gaining of Indulgences, to the congregations established in Jesuit colleges.

Fr. Thomas Betagh, S.J.

Copy of letter from Cardinal di Pietro to Fr Marmaduke Stone SJ. Refers to the appeal made by the prelates of Ireland to Rome in relation to the will of the late Fr Richard Callaghan. Claims that the latter, according to an oath sworn on 23 August 1793, should have left his property to Fr Betagh, and not to Stone. Demands that Stone transmit to Rome an authentic copy of the Pope’s alleged rescript, by which Callaghan believed himself to legitimately free to dispose of the funds of the ex-Jesuits in favour of Stone (In Italian). Letter appears on same document as a copy of the reply to it from Fr Stone, and a copy of an excerpt of a letter from Fr Stone to Archbishop Troy.

Copy of a typescript entitled ‘Past and Present. Mainly a Retrospect’ by Fr Joseph McDonnell SJ [from the Memorials of the Irish Province?], concerning Fr Thomas Betagh SJ and the history of the early Restored Society of Jesus in Ireland. Incomplete.

Biographical sketch of Fr John Austin, with note on first page ‘This brief Memoir of the Rev. John Austin SJ was sent to Canon Conlan, P.P. St Michan’s, Dublin, by Mr. Edward Evans, July 14, 1900’ ([1900], 5pp), typescript entitled ‘Father John Austin SJ 1717 - 1784’ probably by Fr Francis Finegan SJ (n.d., 2 copies, 4pp each), pamphlet entitled 'Rev. John Austin, S.J.' by Dr George A. Little, Irish Messenger Office (1960) and article on John Austin and Thomas Betagh.

Biographical notes on the last Jesuits of the Suppression and some founders of Clongowes Wood College SJ (16pp). Includes a brief overview of "The Sixteen Founders" (1p).

Biographical notes on Fr Thomas Betagh SJ including:

• Biographical skecth from 'The Irish Magazine, and Monthly Aslyum for neglected biography (March 1811);
• 'The Life of Revered Pious Predictions of the late Very Rev. Dr Betagh..' compiled by Mr Francis Daniel, printed and sold by C.M. Warren, 8 Tight Street, 1832;

Account book of Irish Jesuit property. Includes a description of the finances of the Irish Mission account, written by Fr John Fullam SJ. Remarks 'In 1760 this mission had in Paris a capital of £1000 ster. including the deposits of individuals and what belonged to different residences. By the persecution which ensued the whole was nearly despaired of when by Fr Crookshank's activity and cleverness about half that sum was recovered and transmitted to Ireland where Mr Ward placed it as occasions presented.'