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Document announcing the appointment of George ‘Sallery’ [Sillery] as overseer over the three works ‘in or about Jamestown’ by William E Corbett.

Document signed by Father General Jean B. Janssens SJ appointing Fr Hilary Lawton SJ, Rector of Clongowes Wood College.

Document by Fr Joseph Dalton SJ, Mission Superior, on donations for churches and parishes made by Dr Vaughan, Archbishop of Sydney.

Document concerning new regulations on the type of apostolate work being carried out in China. The document was circulated at a General Congregation of the Society.

File of documents (found in the possession of Fr Francis Finegan SJ) concerning retreat, sodality groups and An Cór.

• Cullach Muire is Brighe, (1917 - 1920);
• Naomh Damhnait (1950 - 1955);
• An Cór (1950 - 1957);

Document concerning the question of the use of text books in Theological studies.

Document confirming the appointment of Fr Stephen Farrell as Extraordinary Confessor to Carmelite nuns at Blackrock, and to Mercy Sisters at Baggot Street, Rathdrum and Richmond.

Document confirming the granting of faculties to Fr Alfred Murphy SJ by Pope Pius IX for the blessing and giving indulgences to holy objects, e.g., rosaries etc. (In Latin).

Document containing three parts: I Observations of Fr General on Order of Studies; II Responses Regarding Each Stage of Studies; III Letter from Fr Provincial (Fr William Delany SJ) to Fr Assistant concerning the foregoing.

Document entitled ‘Notes on Third Level Chaplains presently appointed to the Technological Colleges of the Dublin Vocational Education Committee’. Gives details of chaplains in various V.E.C. institutions, including Bolton Street and Kevin Street.

Document entitled ‘Our Problem’, published by the Catholic Housing Aid Society. Outlines proposal to build a block of flats for old people and newly-weds. Lists societies and businesses who have donated funds.

Typescript document entitled ‘Testimonials of Doctor Michael F. Cox’ which details his qualifications and includes 15 testimonials from doctors and surgeons he has worked with or studied under. 10 original handwritten testimonials which appear in the typescripts testimonial are included.

Document entitled ‘What is your function, Father?’, produced by the Chaplains’ Office, Kevin Street College of Technology. Explores the roles of chaplains in the Colleges of Technology.

Document from Mr Daniel O'Connell SJ regarding the history and use of a Plössl telescope, which was in use at Clongowes Wood College SJ. Mr O'Connell was studying at Valenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands at this time, where they had been using a Plössl telescope, so he was able to get information to write this document on the history and use of such a telescope. Enclosed with this document is a handwritten set of notes about packing the instrument.

Copy of a document from Rome concerning studies in the Chinese language for Jesuit Missioners.

Document issued by Dr John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam, granting faculties to Fr Patrick Corcoran SJ.

Printed document issued by the Holy See with regard to Freemasons. (In Latin).

Document issued on behalf of Pope Leo XII (Manuel Fernández Varela, Commissioner of Crusade Council) regarding permission [for the residents of the Canary Islands] to eat meat in Lent. Refers to Don Diego Gartlan (In Spanish).

Document issued on behalf of Pope Pius IX, confirming the cult of Blessed Peter Faber SJ. (In Latin).

Document laying down rules for the community in SFX, Upper Gardiner Street in relation to diet and the daily timetable for prayer etc.

Document issued in Madrid (Manuel Fernández Varela, Commissioner of Crusade Council) listing Leo XII’s bulls and indulgences to subjects of Spanish King. Signed by Don Diego Gartlan. (In Spanish).

Document on the proposed Centre for Faith and Justice. Discusses different aspects of the Centre, including principal activities (‘social-science analysis, ethical, value-informed analysis and lived experience’) and personnel.

Document outlining the domestic duties of two Jesuit brothers: [Br.] Pat McGennis and Br. Farrell, in an unidentified boarding school.

Document which briefly outlines the history of the beginnings of missions in Australia, Hong Kong and Northern Rhodesia.

Document relating to Robert St Leger's first vows and additional vows.

Handwritten document setting out the order of the day, and reading lists for an unidentified formation house. (In Latin).

Document signed by Emmanuel de Zuñiga SJ of the Society of Jesus in the Kingdom of Sicily granting permission to Frs Horatio Mont[ ], Robert St Leger, Bartholomew Esmonde, Paul Ferley and James Butler to celebrate Mass, hear confessions etc [in Sicily]. (In Latin; with seal attached).

Document in Latin signed by John Hyde SJ declaring his willingness to accept sub-diacanate.

Document written by Fr Patrick Bracken SJ regarding rules for Jesuit boarding schools. Quotes Frs Roothaan and Beckx. (In Latin).

Documenta de S. Patricio, hibernorum apostolo ex libro armachano. Pars seconda, Liber angueli, Confessio S. Patricii, Glossae, Index et glossarium hibernicum.

Polleunis, Ceutericket Lefebure, Bruxellis, 1884
Polleunis et Ceuterick, Bruxellis, 1889

Documents and letters relating to Fr John Hayes’ career before becoming a military chaplain. Includes:

• Letter of John Hayes to the Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ in reply to Fr Fahy’s instructions that Mr Hayes goes to Tullabeg (Novitiate), County Offaly on 1st September (Fr Hayes entered the Society on 1 September 1925) (5 August 1925, 1p);
• John Hayes’ confidential medical report, prepared by Dr M.S. McGrath for the Provincial (25 June 1925, 1p)
• ‘Informatio de Candidato’ – reports on John Hayes by five Jesuits for the Provincial (n.d., 5 items);
• Letter from Mr John Hayes SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ regarding his application to go on the Mission in Alaska (6 August 1932, 1p) and
• Copy letter to Mr John Hayes SJ from the Irish Fr Provincial Laurence Kieran SJ relating to ‘two faults…(that)…have been mentioned in the Informationes taken recently concerning you to which I must call your attention’ (26 July 1936, 1p);
• letter to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ from Fr Louis Lachal SJ, Loyola, Watsonia, Victoria, Australia (20 February 1945, 2pp) enclosing 'a letter for Frank Hayes, John's brother'...'The news of John's death was a big knock to those of us out here who knew him well'. Mentions Fr Victor Turner SJ in POW camp, Tokyo.
  See also CHP2/35 (43);CHP2/35 (44) and CHP2/31
• Dog collar identification for Rev. John Hayes C.F. RC, 199879. See CHP2/18

Documents concerning Archbishop McQuaid's objections to the formation of a Sandymount-Ballsbridge group of Muintir na Tíre and Fr Edward J Coyne's involvement with the establishment of such a group (See also ADMN/3/29; 37; 39; 57). ‘I am not convinced that this Association has yet proved that it deserves a place in this Diocese, in the country or in the City. Therefore, I have not sanctioned the formation of any group in the Diocese. I should be grateful, if you could give me any help in understanding the Sandymount- Ballsbridge movement.’ (6 November 1941,1p). Includes correspondence between the Archbishop, Irish Fr Provincial and Fr Coyne on the matter. Also includes letter to Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John Hayes, C.C.(Chairman) relating to Muintir na Tíre’s ‘Rural Week’ (29 November 1942, 2pp) and printed advertising leaflets and leaflets concerning National Appeals on behalf of Muintir na Tíre (1940s, 4 items).

A file concerning doubts over the suitability of Mr Lambert McKenna SJ and Mr John Casey SJ for ordination. The letters express doubts over the health of both priests and their ability to say the office each day and mass.

Documents concerning the editorship of ‘St Joseph’s Sheaf’, the magazine of the St Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society.

Documents containing accounts of Jesuit involvement in contemporary religious, political and social affairs, with reference to Limerick. Includes a letter (in Italian, and an English translation) from Fr David Wolfe SJ to the Cardinal Protector taken from 'Ibernia Ignatiana' (1880).

Documents on Jesuits' property rights in relation to the Crescent House. Handwritten notes regarding the position of the community in relation to Maunsell's house, in light of the fact that no rent had been paid since 1907. Includes a quoted opinion of Fr Masterson on the matter, and some extracts from legal documents in Latin.

Documents regarding the controversy surrounding the regulation that men who taught in the school should not be timetabled to say the morning Masses in the Church. Includes a statement signed by Fr Michael McGrath SJ, on the subject, as well as a letter from the latter to Fr O'Mara.

Documents regarding the standard carried by the Munster Fusiliers, which bore an image of the Sacred Heart. Includes a handwritten note from Fr William Kane SJ to the Doyles 'concerning the appositeness of the Sacred Heart emblem on the standard made by Limerick women for Munster Fusiliers in the 1914-18 war."

Documents regarding Thomas Wheeler's entrance into Holy Orders. (In Latin)

File of documents related to Fr Andrew O'Farrell SJ sermons in Irish and English, translation of Gilbert Keith Chesterton ‘Don Juan of Austria’, and newspaper report on the annual mass at Galway University College.

File of documents related to Mungret Apostolic School, on the right of the Society of Jesus to the lands and buildings of Mungret College and the question at issue between the Lay College and the Apostolic School of Mungret.

File of documents related to retreats given by Jesuits which includes: ‘A short catechism for the instruction for those who are preparing to make their first Communion’- Addressed to Parents’ (12 January 1767); ‘A sermon on the duties of parents to their children (1803); ‘Analysis or General Notion of Discourse in various religious subjects’ (1806); ‘A discourse on the 2nd Precept of Charity’ (1 July 1809); ‘novena in preparation for the festival of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – chiefly taken from the Italian of Father Charles Borge’; scholars’ retreat (1839); ‘A sermon on the Love of God’.

File of documents related to Sodality history and surveys. Includes 'Sodality Conference, 1955', 'A Sodality Venture: St Francis Xavier's Boys' Club' by Charles Molony SJ, '350 years - The Irish Sodalities 1598 - 1948' by Rev. E. O'Connor SJ, 'Memorandum on Sodalities of Our Lady in Ireland, 1958', Extracts from 'A History of the Society of Jesus' by Fr William Bagert SJ, 'General report on Irish Sodalities, 1966', 'The Sodality of Our Lady in Ireland', 'Sodalities of Our Lady: Survey: May 1967', 'The Sodality of Our Lady in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century' by Rev. E. O'Connor SJ, 'Report on the present state of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin in Ireland' by T F Ryan SJ, 'Nursing Sodalities', 'Common Sample Commentary Constitution for a Diocesan Sodality Federation', 'Sample Constitution and By- Laws for Union of Adult Sodalities', 'Popes who were Sodalists', calendar of 'Sancti et Beati Sodales Mariani' and record of donations from the sodality to Pope Pius XII, 1954.

File of documents related to the medical registration of Michael F. Cox, Hillsgrove Lodge, Kilmore, Drumsna, County Leitrim to the Branch Medical Council for Ireland. Includes receipt of £5 fee for registration and forms for change of residence on medical register and entitlement to a copy of the medical register.

Documents relating to ‘The Archbishop’s Planning Commission for Third Level Colleges under the City of Dublin Vocational Education Authority’, which was established to investigate the ‘religious, educational, emotional and intellectual needs of the students’ and to ‘determine the policy to be pursued and the measures to be taken for the adequate religious education of Catholic students attending Third Level Courses in the Colleges of the City of Dublin Vocational Education Group’. Includes a report of the Commission (4 May 1971, 11 pages).

Documents relating to Fr Austin Hartigan's service as military chaplain. Includes:
– certificate appointing Fr Hartigan chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Land Forces (Temporary) (12 January 1916, 1p.);
– letters written to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ by Fr Hartigan while serving in Mesopotamia with the Connaught Rangers (20 March 1916 – n.d., 5 items);
– documents relating to Fr Hartigan's death in Amara on 16 July 1916 (from jaundice) (27 July 1916 - 15 August 1918, 12 items).

Documents relating to Fr John FitzGibbon SJ during his time serving as a chaplain attached to 23rd and 16th Field Ambulance, B.E.F., France. Includes letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr FitzGibbon (14 March 1916 – [April 1918], 19 items) and documents relating to Fr FitzGibbon’s death in action on 18 September 1918, including official letters from General Headquarters, British Armies in France, solicitors’ letters and official certificate of death (20 September 1918 – 25 May 1919, 16 items).

Documents relating to Fr John Gwynn's service as a chaplain attached to the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards, B.E.F., France. Includes:

• letters written by Fr John Gwynn volunteering to be a chaplain (23 August – 8 November 1914, 2 items);
• documentation dealing with Fr Gwynn's appointment as a military chaplain (9 November 1914 - 16 March 1915, 9 items) including the certificate appointing him chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Land Forces, (Temporary) (16 March 1915, 1p.);
• certificate of safe conduct with attached photo of Fr Gwynn (4 July 1915, 1p.);
• letters and notes sent to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ (n.d., 3 items);
• official letters sent to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ following Fr Gwynn’s death in action on 12 October 1915 (11 October 1915 – 19 September 1921, 23 items);
• pamphlet 'A Great Irish Chaplain: Father John Gwynn SJ' by John Bithrey SJ (n.d., 20pp);
• material on centenary of Fr Gwynn's death - the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton celebrated Mass at the Sacred Heart Church, Caterham, Surrey, England where the Irish Guards have erected a tablet in Fr Gwynn’s memory (11 October 2015).

Documents relating to Fr Joseph Flinn’s time as a chaplain attached to VI Corps Rest Station North, 10th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the Munster Fusiliers, the 60th and 88th Brigade, R.G.A., B.E.F., France. Includes: certificate appointing Fr Flinn Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Land Forces (Temporary) (22 March 1917, 1p.);
– letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Flinn written from the Front (31 January 1917 – 10 October 1918, 21 items).

Documents relating to Fr Michael Pelly's time as a chaplain. Includes Fr Pelly's ‘British Military Identity Document’ with photograph (December 1943, 1 item) and photocopy from a newspaper [Irish Independent?] of an article on the ‘Mass of Reparation said in Monte Cassino Ruins’ by Fr Pelly (1944, 1p).

Documents relating to Fr Richard Kennedy SJ as a Japanese prisoner of war in Taiwan. Includes:
– cutting from The Times listing Fr Richard Kennedy SJ as a POW (1 December 1942, 1p.);
– postcard from Fr Richard Kennedy SJ in a POW camp in Taiwan to Fr Provincial (1943);
– letters from Fr Kennedy’s brother, Denis P. Kennedy SJ to Irish Fr Provincial, informing him of letters received by Fr Kennedy’s family (13 July, 30 September 1944, 2 items).

Documents relating to the 1832 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1835 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1838 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1841 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1844 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1847 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1856 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1862 Provincial Congregation. Includes Acta Congregatione Procuratorum.

Documents relating to the 1865 Provincial Congregation. Includes Acta Congregatione Procuratorum.

Documents relating to the 1868 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1883 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1886 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1889 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1892 Provincial Congregation. Includes Letter from Fr. Alfred Murphy SJ to [ ] regarding a Provincial Congregation prior to a General Congregation (3 April 1892).

Documents relating to the 1896 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1899 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1902 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1906 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1910 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1913 Provincial Congregation. Includes notes by Fr Peter Finlay SJ as Province Procurator to consult with the Fr General [1905-1917].

Documents relating to the 1915 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1920 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1923 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1927 Provincial Congregation. Includes photograph (Fr Peter Finlay SJ) at Procurators Congregation, Rome, 1927 - with names.

Documents relating to the 1930 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1933 Provincial Congregation.

Documents relating to the 1938 Provincial Congregation.

Documents, including miscellaneous correspondence relating to the Cause of the Irish Martyrs.

Documents relating to the death of the Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledóchowski, General of the Society on 13 December 1942. Includes: copies of cuttings from various Irish newspapers (11 - 19 December 1942, 12 items); calling cards received by the Irish Fr Provincial (includes card from William T Cosgrave) (8 items) and telegrams and letters of condolence sent by the Bishop of Raphoe, various religious congregations and organisations, William T Cosgrave, the Papal Nuncio, Dr John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin and the Lord Mayor of Dublin. (Includes full list of those who sent messages of sympathy) (14 - 23 December 1942, 39 items).

Documents relating to the identification of boys and others in various photographs. Includes letters to Fr Stephen Bates SJ in this regard, and presumably in answer to his request for assistance in identifying people, as well as handwritten notes based on information gleaned from others. Also includes reference lists of boys identified in various photographs, dating from 1890-1907.

Documents relating to the preparation of the new Catechism for use in schools. Includes correspondence between the Irish Provincial and the Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid and copies of observations and suggested alterations to the Catechism made by various Jesuits including Frs. Denis Nerney, Edward Coyne and Paul O'Dea.

Documents relating to the series 'Scriptores Latini Hiberniae' published by the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. Includes:
– notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the background to the series (12 November 1977, 1p.);
– printed advertisement for the series including a list of volumes and prices (n.d., 4pp);
– memorandum by Prof Ludwig Bieler (Acting Editor of the series) on a new edition of the complete works of Scottus Erriugena (10 August 1964, 1p.);
– ‘Scriptores Latini Hiberniae Directions for Contributors’ (n.d., 8pp);
– memorandum on some of the publications produced in the series and the uncertain future of the series as a result of financial difficulties (n.d., 3pp);
– letter from Prof Bieler to Fr Synan (Director of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies) inquiring as to the possibility of financial assistance for the series (15 May 1976, 2pp).

Documents relating to the Stowe Missal and Tallaght. Includes:

• holograph text entitled ‘The Stowe Missal in Tallaght’ pp.2-14 (n.d., 13pp);
• fragment (3pp) and
• typescript entitled ‘Decline of Tallaght’ pp.11 – 20 (n.d., 10pp).

Documents relating to the Visitation of the Irish Mission by Fr Fidelis Grivel SJ in 18[17]. Includes:

• ‘Monita P. Grivel Visitatoris’ (18[17], 18pp);
• letters from Fr Grivel to Fr Charles Aylmer SJ (whom Fr Grivel appoints as Superior of the Mission), with note on letter of 1[4] March 1820, ‘Chief letters of F. Grivel as Visitor’ (in Italian) (12 October 1817 - 28 March 1820, 9 items);
• letters from Fr Grivel to Fr Aylmer, with note on top letter ‘Less important letters Fr. F. Grivel, Visitor’ (in Italian) (9 October 1817 - 19 June 1820, 8 items);
• translated letters to Fr Grivel from various Jesuit Fathers, including Frs Charles Aylmer, Peter Kenney, Bartholomew Esmonde, Patrick Moran, James Butler, and Charles Fraser, originally in the Archives of the French Province. (In Italian) (4 August 1817 - 20 March 1820, 25 items). Includes copy of prospectus in English on Tullabeg – ‘Tullybeg ’‘Elementary School’ ‘Revd. Robert St Leger, Principal’ (August 1818, 2pp).

Documents relating to the Visitation of the Irish Province by Fr Robert Fulton SJ, Visitor in 1888. Includes three versions of the Memorial of the Visitation:

• printed version ‘Memoriale Visitationis Provinciae Hiberniae ab. A.R.P.N. approbatum A.D. 1888’ (2pp);
• handwritten transcriptions of same (3 items, 4pp each) and;
• handwritten English translation of same (6pp).

Documents relating to the Visitation of the Irish Province by Fr William Power SJ, from 9 July 1921 to the end of September 1922. Includes:

• memorandum ‘Puncta quaedam ad Instructionem particularem Visitatoris Hiberniae’ (n.d., 4pp);
• ‘Relatio Visitationis Factae Provinciae Hiberniae a Reverendo Patre Gulielmo Power a die 9 Julii 1921, usque ad finem Septembris 1922’ (19[22], 17pp);
• ‘Memorial of the Visitation of the Irish Province made by Revd. Wm. Power from July 9th 1921 to the end of September 1922’ (19[22], 11pp) and
  – pamphlet entitled ‘Letter addressed to the Fathers and Brothers of the Irish Province by the Very Rev. William Power, S.J., Visitor’ (17 Sep. 1922, 8pp).

Documents relating to the Visitation of the Irish Vice-Province by Fr Charles Brooke SJ in 1842. Includes [copy] letter containing Fr Visitor’s views on the proposal to establish a Novitiate at Tullabeg (22 Sep. 1842, 2pp) and [copy] letter from Fr Brooke to the Vice-Provincial, Fr Robert St Leger SJ concerning Tullabeg’s large debts and the proposal to establish a Novitiate at the College, with the Novices undertaking to ‘take some part of the teaching of the scholars’ (1 Oct. 1842, 3pp).

Documents relating to the wording of forms of charitable bequests to the Society. Includes examples of different bequest forms, memorandum for Irish Fr Provincial on charitable bequests and letters to Irish Fr Provincial on the matter.

Documents reviewing Fr Henry Gill ’s publications and contributions to the various fields of physical science. Includes: copy of argument [addressed to his superiors in the Society of Jesus] for staying at his present position in Dublin, rather than joining the Australian Mission (2pp); copy ‘List of Papers describing original research work, with some opinions on same’ (with handwritten amendments) (5pp); copy ‘List of Articles in Reviews’ from 1897 to c1911 (with handwritten amendments) (2pp) and copy extracts from correspondence comprising testimonials in favour of Fr Gill from former professors (2pp).

Copies of documents sent to the Province entitled 'China. Secretive Directives on how to Destroy the Church' from International Fides Service.

Documents, comprising encyclicals and open letters to all prelates, including those in Ireland, issued by Pope Pius IX. Includes an encyclical on the political upheavals in the Italian states, an appeal for support in defence of the Papal states (18 June 1859, 15pp), and a ‘Decretum’ re. the rights of religious orders, a copy of a decree regarding the receiving of novices, and the admittance to professions in the Society (28 January 1850; 2pp).

Dom Columba Marmion by Dom Raymond Thibaut O.S.B.

File of material related to domestic arrangements for the Jesuit community in Galway. Items include: customs regarding the use of intoxicating liquors (May 1959); General Chapter notices which comment on issues in the house such as the lack of punctuality for dinner; ‘Order of Time’ (1969); notice for all visitors; appointment of House Consultors (26 August 1969); how to facilitate the smooth operation of accounts (16 April 1970), domestic arrangements for community and visitors (November 1971); record of Christmas gifts and cards received by the community, church services over Christmas and Christmas Day menu (1968-1971).

Dominic Collins: Irish Martyr Jesuit Brother

Donation envelopes for a charity sermon in aid of St. Francis Xavier's poor schools, Lower Dorset Street, Dublin.

Typescript of copies relating to donations made to the Irish College in Poitiers, 21 February 1735 - 3 June 1740, perhaps collated by Fr Francis Finegan SJ from the Jesuit archives, Rome, Italy.

Donncha Ó Murchú S.J. 1833-1896: agus Cuis ár Mairtíreach