1st Edition 1928
(5’’ x 7 1/4’’)
Became 'The Irish Jesuit Year Book' from 1955 onwards.
Produced by the Irish Messenger Office, 5 Great Denmark Street, Dublin until 1962. In 1963 the Irish Messenger Office moved to 37 Lower Leeson Street.
The Irish Jesuit Directory and Year Book
Contents:
- A yearly Calendar which includes the necessary directions for those who make use of the Missal at Mass. Gives the rank of feast; colour of vestments; prayers to be said and any special conditions etc. for each day
- Obituaries (early years simply provide lists of the recent dead with date and location of death)
- Directory of the Irish Province - lists each community in turn: names of residents; ‘Notes of the Year’; activities of each community.
- Applications for Missions and Retreats and for the Erection of certain Sodalities etc.
- Summary of the Society of Jesus and of their Foreign Missions (lists numbers in each province throughout the world).
- Articles on: Society of Jesus Mission activities; Saints; priests; Jesuit publications/periodicals; new colleges/buildings/houses etc.; the Jesuit Seminary Fund; general Jesuit history; Jesuit scientists and musicians.
- Alphabetical list of Jesuits in the Irish Province.
Index to the Irish Jesuit Directory, 1928-62 (6 3/4’’ x 8 3/4’’) and Supplementary Index to the Jesuit Year Book, 1963-76.
First editor, Fr Thomas F Ryan SJ.
