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A nation of extremes: the Pioneers in twentieth-century Ireland.
Diarmaid Ferriter (
Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1999

Correspondence with Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin (mostly holograph letters from the Archbishop and copies of Fr. Provincial’s replies) on various matters. Includes letters concerning:

• the purchase of additional land from Mr Bewley adjoining Milltown Park, on which to build a secondary school (See also 1940s correspondence with Archbishop McQuaid);
• the question of the payment of workers for work on parochial and ecclesiastical buildings on Holy Days of Obligation;
• the Statement issued on behalf of the Hierarchy with regard to ‘the raising of military forces and the waging of war’ (persuading ‘young men not to join the new I.R.A. and kindred groups, or if they have joined, to disassociate themselves from such groups’);
• the proposed acquisition of new buildings on Eglinton Road (now the Province Curia, No. 87 Eglinton Road) for the Society to ‘relieve a certain congestion we are experiencing at present in our Dublin Houses’;
• the appointment of Jesuits to various ecclesiastical offices;
• the Commission considering the question of Licensing Laws;
• Jesuit Missions to the Irish in Britain (see also ADMN/3/62);
• the Technical Schools – ‘It is not in any sense an exaggeration to say that the assistance of the Society has made possible the establishment of a firm system of Religious Instruction, for the first time, in the Vocational and Technical Schools’ (letter of Archbishop McQuaid to Fr Provincial, 8 June 1959, 1p.) (see also ADMN/3/61);
• the formation of a committee to select candidates for beatification among the Irish martyrs (see also ADMN/3/24; 43; 48 and 49);
• the publication of spiritual books in Irish by the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary attached to Gardiner Street Church (see also ADMN/3/59 and 65);
• the appointment of Jesuit lecturers in University College Dublin;
• the proposal to establish a federation of the Sodalities of Our Lady in the Dublin Diocese.
  Also includes covering letter and copy of the minutes of the General Meeting of the Irish Actors’ Equity Association held on 27 April 1958.

Photocopy from 'The Irish Press' reporting on the annual meeting of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association.

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.

File relating to Fr John Mulligan SJ which includes correspondence relating to the Pioneer Association and his aunt's will (Miss K. O'Connor) in which Fr Mulligan is named as a beneficiary (9-16 January 1980, 7 items).

Hand bills advertising pantomimes in St Francis Xavier's Pioneer Hall, Upper Sherrard Street.

Instructions for the organisation of temporary pledge work.

List of members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police Total Abstinence League of the Sacred Heart. Gives names, address and rank.

Documents relating to the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart founded by Fr James Cullen SJ. Includes: correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial, the office of the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Charles McQuaid and Fr Seán McCarron SJ of the P.T.A.A.; memoranda concerning minutes of meetings, annual reports and statistics. Also includes edited text on Fr James Cullen SJ and documents relating to indulgences for Pioneers.

Printed documents with text, illustrations and illuminations. Certificates of Mrs Annie Long and Sister Marie Flynn, confirming their membership of the Limerick Crescent Centre of the Association.

Memoirs of Pádraig de Breit. (Patrick A. Brett).
Nationalist & Leinster Times, 197?

Notebook with handwritten entries, including reports of branch council and sub-committees meetings. Subjects of discussions at council meetings included the purchasing of pins and emblems, candidates for membership of the Association, violations of the pledge by members etc. Excursions and fundraising were among the subjects of the sub-committees meetings. Also includes several pages of accounts, as well as a list of people and their contact details to whom packets or letters were sent, as well as the cost of the postage.

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.

Group of 8 older pupils and Fr Richard Coyne SJ. Arranged in two rows - one standing, one seated - at the
main door of the College. Reverse states that the group includes Fr Coyne and Frank Thompson.

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

Pioneers I knew.

Handwritten ledger containing names, addresses and ages of children who were members of the Association. Information in table form and divided according to school attended, including St Munchin's Boys School, Thomond Gate; St John's Boys School, John Street; the Christian Brothers Boys School, Sexton Street, Broadford and Kilbane Schools, County Clare; Askeaton Schools, County Limerick.

Programmes for concert and dramas at St Francis Xavier's Hall, (Pioneer Hall), Upper Sherrard Street, includes Grand Easter presentation by Pioneer Choral and Dramatic Society.

Copy of letter from Fr Timothy Mulcahy SJ, St Francis Xavier's Church to Fr Peter Troddyn SJ on the rebuilding of St Francis Xavier's Hall (9 August 1954) and copies of letter from Fr Peter Troddyn SJ, St Francis Xavier's Church to Mr Leo Kenny, St Francis Xavier Pioneer Club on the move of premises for the club (11 December 1954) and the purchase of 27 Mountjoy Square East (17 February 1955).

Ledger-style notebook, divided into tables of folio size, with handwritten headings and entries. The tables contain the names, addresses, occupations and other information relating to applicants to the Sacred Heart Branch of the Association. Applicants are both male and female, and the date of their application is given. Other information includes the last date on which alcohol was consumed, the style of emblem awarded (e.g., pin or brooch), and whether approval for membership was given or not. Insertions consist of sheets of paper of various sizes, with names and addresses [of further applicants].

Souvenir Programme of the Pioneer Excursion to Killarney which included an address by Fr Joseph Flinn SJ, Central Spiritual Director of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association.

Statements regarding St Francis Xavier's Hall and Pioneer Club submitted by Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ (by request). Annotations in blue pencil were made by Fr Fahy. Includes typed inaugural address by Fr James Cullen SJ at opening of St Francis Xavier's Hall, Upper Sherrard Street, Dublin (2 March 1908); aims and objectives taken from minutes of Provincial Committee (17 March 1908).

A talk to Young Pioneers.