Handwritten list of the Rectors of the Irish College in Poitiers, 1674-1762, by Fr John MacErlan SJ.

List by Fr John MacErlean SJ of the Rectors of the Irish College in Santiago de Compostela, 15 April 1613 - [ ] 1776

Notes on the Irish Colleges by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ, which includes reference to Jesuits at Salamanca, Seville, Lisbon, Rome and Santiago de Compostela, 1595-1767.

List of alumni in the Irish College, in Salamanca who entered the Society.

Brief list of deceased Rectors of the Irish College in Salamanca, 1646-[1790].

Brief notes of key dates in the history of the Irish College in Rome compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

List of students in the Irish College, Rome compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

Handwritten entries by Fr John MacErlan SJ of the catalogues (Catalogus Brevis) for Jesuits at the Irish College in Rome, 1635-1773, and a notebook on letters of interest in Rome, Italy, and whether to photograph or copy.

List of students and their progress in their studies and Holy Orders,11 June 1615-21 March 1682; 24 September 1736, by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

List of Masses said by obligation in the chapel of the Irish College in Lisbon, [1671-1705], by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

List of names for whom Masses were said by [Fr Matthew Gahan SJ].

Inventory and copies of an inventory of furniture left in the house and chapel in Athol Street, Douglas, Isle of Man by the late Fr Matthew Gahan SJ.

List of books for the Isle of Man.

Bound register of payment of fees by pupils of St Ignatius College, Galway, (1888 - 1904; 1903 - 1940). Contains handwritten information under the following typewritten headings; name; class; birth date; address; remarks and rate of payment of fees. Arranged chronologically and alphabetically.

Handwritten address book of pupils of St Ignatius College, Galway. Arranged alphabetically under the following headings: name; address; birth; parent/guardian; parents address. Earliest pupil born 1893-latest born 1912.

Various memoranda sent to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ. Includes lists of Irish Jesuit chaplains and their addresses; estimates for chaplain’s uniform; memoranda concerning the appeal for military chaplains serving at home and abroad and their origins and ‘Memorial to the Irish Hierarchy re Shortage of Catholic Chaplains.’ Includes:

• remembrance card for the 2nd Battalion of Irish Guards, attending mission in Cologne, January 1919;
• name card (O.H.M.S) for wounded man's kit, belonging to Lieut Sheil, No 2. Squadron, R.A.F. (Frac. skull);
• carte postale depicting Fr Frank Browne and Irish soldiers at Loudres, France, 30 October 1918;
• carte postale depicting Fr Jerome O'Mahony's altar, 23 September 1918;

Bound volume of the Church of St. Ignatius, Galway which lists the dead and Masses offered for them in the church.

Lined notebooks and journals with handwritten entries for notices to be read out at Sunday Mass at St Ignatius, Galway. Each entry is headed with the relevant Sunday’s Title, such as the ‘Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost’, the ‘First Sunday of Lent’ etc, or the name of the relevant Feast, ‘Palm Sunday’. Each volume contains announcements in relation to rosaries, benedictions, devotions, novenas, confessions, Mass times, arrangements for Feast Days. There are also announcements in relation to recent deaths in the parish, and requests for prayers for the repose of the souls of those recently deceased and of those whose anniversaries occur. Insert letter, incomplete, in 1912-1914 journal, from an Ursuline nun [Sullivan], and referencing Fr Robert giving a mission in Queenstown (21 August 1862).

2 July 1905 - 12 May 1907;
31 May 1908 - 13 February 1910;
4 August 1912 - 13 December 1914;
20 December 1914 - 16 July 1916;
23 July 1916 - 6 May 1917;
13 May 1917 - 9 February 1919;
16 February 1919 - 2 March 1922;
26 March 1922 - 15 August 1924;
7 September 1924 - 8 January 1928;

List of those professed of the four vows in the Society, between 1541 and 1705.

Typescript copy of ‘Catalogus Chronoligicus Ibernorum Societatis Jesu. Patrum ac Fratrum’ from 1550 to 1811. With information under the following headings: name; date and place of birth; date of entry into the Society; grade; date (and place) of death.

Chronological lists of Irish Jesuits and their year of entry into the Society, from 1550 to 1799. No indication of compiler or sources, possibly the work of Fr John Rabbitte SJ.

List of admissions by Fr John MacErlean SJ, to the Society from 1556 onwards, with some biographical information (mainly dates of entry, profession of fourth vows, death etc.) (45pp). Includes:
– list of the Rectors of the Irish College, Salamanca, from its foundation in 1592 to 1871 (1p);
– lists of Jesuits of the Old Society and their date and place of death/departure (c15pp) and
– extracts from catalogues of various Provinces (c20pp).

Notes compiled by Fr James Rabbitte SJ (Custodian of the Province Archives, 1924 - 1930), on the history of the Society of Jesus in Ireland. Some inserts in the hand of Fr Edmund Hogan SJ. Includes lists of:
– Superiors of the Irish Mission (7pp);
– residences of the Old Society in Ireland (1p);
– ‘Summary of Work Abroad’ (1p);
– Summary of literary works by Jesuits of the Old Society (5pp);
– schedule of Jesuit writers and professors (5pp and 6pp);
– distinguished preachers (1p);
– those who suffered for the faith (2pp);
– aliases/variants on surnames (2pp);
– ‘Vestiges of the Old Soc(iety)’ (5pp);
– names of writers (arranged alphabetically) and of their works (c60pp) and
– some Jesuit schools of the Old Society (6pp).

List of deceased Jesuits, on the Irish Jesuit mission to Australia, 1866-1898.

List of Jesuit Fathers in Australia and the illnesses they are suffering from.

Index of those have died in the Australian Mission between 1923 and 1926.

Copy of the 'Province News' (Australia) containing the obituaries of Australian Jesuits (many Irish born or entered Irish Province).

List of melodies for schools and mission. Includes a note remarking that the words did not accompany the table of contents. Asks for the words to be included in Fr Dalton's bill and box.

Memoranda and notes relating to chaplains and lists of those serving as chaplains. Includes:
– Memorandum on 'Emergency Arrangement for Irish Army Chaplains', Clongowes Wood College, 1939;
– Draft of letter sent by Irish Fr Provincial to Frs Thomas O'Donnell, James Bates, [James] Stephenson and Leo Donnelly; inquiring if they would be willing to ‘work for God as a military chaplain’ (n.d., 1p.);
– Note listing names of first two ‘batches’ of chaplains and the dates of their departures from Dublin (n.d., 1p.)
– Lists of ‘Volunteers for post of Army Chaplain’ (17 February 1942, 2pp, n.d., 1p.).

Three sets of "Division" Extern Examination papers in Religious Knowledge held at Clongowes Wood College SJ Christmas 1902, including:

1. Division I paper (1p);
2. Divisions II, III and IV (2pp);
3. Division V (2pp).

Results of House Examinations held in Clongowes Wood College SJ 1868 and 1870.

List of books sent from the Library at Clongowes Wood College SJ to the new house of studies at North Frederick Street Dublin.

Lists of ‘Irish Dioceses from Rath Breasail to Kells’ (6pp); ‘Bishops with Sees not Identified’ and ‘Diocesan Sees of 1152, not in Rath Breasail’ (1p.).

List detailing the location of Jesuits in Ireland, 1540-1809. Complied by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

List of those admitted to Society’s English province, including Irishmen, from 1803 on. (In Latin).

List of Jesuits and their date of arrival in Ireland, 1554-1637.

Photocopy of list of archives in Milltown Park concerning Fr John Coyne SJ.

List of Priest's retreats by Fr Edward J Coyne SJ.

Two copies of 'List of deceased members of the Clongowes community'. Includes date of death, place of death and place of burial. (1-6).

List of vigils before the Blessed Sacrament at Clongowes Wood College SJ.

List of days on which talk is permitted, for the Clongowes community, at breakfast, drawn up by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, Rector, Clongowes Wood College SJ.

List of community expenses at Clongowes Wood College SJ c.1870.

Intermediate Examination results from Clongowes Clongowes Wood College SJ, 1887-1899. Printed by Leinster Leader Printing Works, Naas.

List detailing numbers of hours teaching per week. The list is divided into the Fathers, Scholastics and Laymasters.

List of boys who entered the Society of Jesus from Clongowes Wood College SJ and St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg.

Petition signed by all pupils of Clongowes Wood College SJ and submitted to the Fr James Brennan SJ, Rector and Irish Fr Provincial James Murphy SJ, requesting that students be allowed to engage in the study of the Irish language, "if not as one of the examination subjects, at least during some part of the ordinary class and study time" (11pp). Contains lists of the members of each class in Clongowes who have signed this petition

Results of public examinations held at Clongowes Wood College SJ 1912, including :

• National University of Ireland Matriculation;
• National University of Ireland Entitled to Matriculate on Senior Grade Intermediate Results;
• National University of Ireland University College Entrance Scholarship;
• National University of Ireland Civil Service Scholarship;
• National University of Ireland County Council Scholarships;
• Intermediate Examinations Medals;
• Intermediate Examinations Exhibitions;
• Intermediate Examinations Prizes;
• Intermediate Examinations Composition Prizes;
• London Chamber of Commerce
• Academical Distinctions of Past Students, National University : University College Dublin, Scholarships and Degrees
• Academical Distinctions of Past Students, National University : University College Cork, Scholarships
• Academical Distinctions of Past Students, Oxford - Trinity College
• Academical Distinctions of Past Students, Cambridge, Christ College
• Solicitors Apprentices' debating Society Awards
• University College Legal and Economic Society Awards
• King's Inns Debating Society Award

Document entitled 'Reasons for not publishing the names of students in the Intermediate Honour Result List 1902, 1903, 1904':

1. The original intent was to allow Catholics to avail of themselves of the Nutting Bursaries at Trinity College Dublin, and these no longer exist.
2. Setting school results in competitive comparison does a great injustice to small schools of great merit.
3. The rivalry engendered by such lists brings unhelpful pressures on clever students, often to the serious injury of their healths.

Academic distinctions of Old Clongownians 1930-1938. Refers mainly to Awards and Examination Distinctions at Universities and in the Legal professional bodies

Distribution of time for the scholars of Clongowes Wood College SJ for Summer Term 1830

List of "The Annual Academical Exercises" Clongowes Wood College SJ, July 1870. "Academical Exercises" are divided into "Schools". This document states at the end "The Academical Exercise will terminate at two o'clock and at three the distribution of "Premiums" will take place. In each "School", Premiums will be given to such Gentlemen as have obtained pre-eminence in any of the various species of composition appropriate to their respective Schools, viz :- Greek, Latin, French and English".

Amount of grants paid to Clongowes Wood College SJ by the Intermediate Education Office, 1 Hume Street, Dublin 1887-1916. The period relates to the 30 year tenure of Fr James Daly SJ as Prefect of Studies.

Amount of grants paid to Clongowes by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, 1901-1915. A note has been added indicating a grand total, when added to the grant from the Intermediate Board, during the period 1889-1916

Chronology of the Literary and Historical Society from 1856/7 to 1913 compiled by Arthur Cox.

A file of printed lists of clothing required by each novice for St Mary's, Emo and previous to this, for St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly.

List of subscribers names (benefactors) for the new chapel, Gardiner Street, Dublin (31 July 1830)

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

List of the names of the Fathers who attended the 29th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus.

Bound volume containing a list of subscribers and amounts paid to 'The Irish Monthly'.

List of recent results for St Ignatius College SJ, Sea Road, Galway, for examinations at the Royal University Matriculation, South Kensington, Intermediate, Junior and Preparatory Grade.

Lists of articles and sermons produced to celebrate the fourth centenary of the foundation of the Society of Jesus.

Bound volume containing an alphabetical list of Irish Jesuit retreat preachers and the groups to whom they gave retreats.

Lists of places which obtained Diplomas of Aggregation to the Primae Primariae: Includes date of aggregation, date and by whom.

Notebook ‘Irish Jesuits of the Penal Days’ compiled by an unknown Jesuit. Includes a table of contents on a loose page and a calendar of events in the Irish Society 1542-1822. Separate typewritten page lists 'Jesuit writers of Penal Days'.

Notebook containing list of ‘Books of Old Irish Mission’ at Milltown Park, Dublin and list of 'Relics of the Old Society in Ireland' by Fr John MacErlean SJ, from notes by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ (4pp).

List of Rectors, Vice-Rectors and Superiors of St Ignatius, Galway, 1859 - 1959.

Statistics relating to Scholastics of Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.

Number of departures from the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus before and after vows.

Comparative numbers of Priests, Scholastics and Brothers in the five colleges - Clongowes, Belvedere, Galway, Crescent and Mungret.

List of deceased member of the Galway community with date of death, place of death and place of burial, 1902 -1933.

A file of lists of members of the following guilds connected to St Ignatius, Galway:
St. Francis;
St. Joseph;
Sacred Heart;
St. Peter;
St. Nicholas;
St. Bridget;
St. Ignatius;
St. Brendan;
St. Aloysius;
Blessed Virgin Mary.

List of deeds (1847-1913) relating to Rathfarnham Castle. Passed by Mr Lawson, of Messrs. J.B. Lawson, Solicitors, 9 Ely Place, Dublin to the Rector, Fr Eric Guiry SJ.

A file relating to the golden jubilee of Rathfarnham Castle - 50 years as a Jesuit house. Includes lists of first Jesuits at Rathfarnham Castle, invited guests, letters from those who attended the celebrations including Éamon de Valera, President of Ireland and John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin. Includes a letter from Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop's House, Dublin 9 to Fr Fergal McGrath SJ remarking that he will not be able to attend the lunch after mass 'You will not miss my speech, I assure you, and the Province does not need to be told what I think.' (6 September 1963, 1p).

Alphabetical list of promoters of weekend retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Bound list of retreat promoters, from Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

A file relating to the Layman's Retreat Association, Rathfarnham Castle. Includes a description of a weekend retreat held in Rathfarnham by one of the participants, Joseph S. Considine (nd, 5pp).

Bibliographical references to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Bound volume containing a list of benefactors and the amounts donated to Rathfarnham Castle.

List of volunteers for the Chinese mission.

List of Chinese names of Irish Jesuit mission personnel.

Bound volume containing a list of documents, compiled by Fr John Grene SJ held in Milltown Park, Dublin in 15 small metal boxes. Insert index to 8 tin or metal boxes, sorted by Fr James Rabbitte (April 1926).

Bound volume containing documents transcribed/translated by Fr John Grene SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin.

Pp1-68: State of the Society in Ireland 1641-1650, by Fr John Young SJ;
Pp 69-70: A prophecy of Fr Julius Mancinelli SJ, 1606;
Pp 70-106: Annual letter of the Irish Mission, January 1669-December 1674, by Fr Stephen Rice SJ;
Pp 107: Copy of letter addressed by Supreme Council of Kilkenny to Fr Mercure Verdier SJ, Visitor of the Society of Jesus in Ireland;
Pp 108-120: De Arte Logica Carmen Didactium, 1825 by Francis Mahony (Fr Prout);
Pp 121-149: Annual letters of the Irish Mission, 1619-1620;
Pp 149-158: Life of Br James Murphy, Scholastic, 1839-1869;
Pp 159-414: Julius Cordera De Suppressione Socitatis Iesu. Opus nodum prolo commissum.

List of documents reproduced in the summarium for the process of Irish Martyrs.

Suggested names for the different categories of Martyrs (i.e. Bishops, Secular Priests, Laity etc.).

Lists of potential names submitted as part of the cause of the Irish Martyrs.

A file containing biographical details on Fr Aloysius Sturzo SJ including recollecting by a Jesuit in 1933 (when a novice in 1873), list of Italian Jesuits who came to Ireland in 1860.

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.

Lists of works by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ with annotations.

List of names of the elementary class (30) at Hodder, possibly pupils of Robert Haly SJ. Haly was a novice at Hodder from 1814 - 1816).

List of names of scholars (72) at Clongowes, possibly pupils of Robert Haly SJ. (Fr. Haly spent his regency at Clongowes from 1816 - 1825).

Letters, telegrams, memoranda and notes relating to Belgian refugees in Ireland. Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ was a member of the Distribution Committee ‘appointed by the Local Government Board to look after the welfare and distribution of the Belgian Refugees arriving in Dublin’. Most of the letters comprise offers to house refugees or concern schemes to aid them, both physically and spiritually. Includes:
– letter from Dr Bernard Coyne, Bishop of Elphin (1913-1926) to Lady Moloney seeking her assistance in the securement of a disused barracks in order to provide shelter for Belgian refugee families (21 Oct. 1914, 1p.);
– bills from drapers and household stores for items purchased for the refugees;
– letters relating to troubles between Protestants and the Catholic refugees in Portadown;
– letters to Fr Nolan from refugees and members of the Belgian Refugees Committee;
– lists of names and locations of refugees in Ireland and names and addresses of people who housed refugees.

On 17 October 1914, the Father Provincial of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, Thomas V. Nolan, received a letter from the Local Government Board to go down to the North Wall at 7.30am on the 18th and meet the 100 Belgian refugees ‘and one hundred each of the following days’. This was due to ‘a few of your Order, who speak Flemish’. Subsequently, the Irish Provincial became a member of the Distribution Committee which looked after the welfare and distribution of refugees arriving in Ireland. The Irish Jesuits received offers to house the refugees and organised schemes to aid them, both physically and spiritually.

Lists of spiritual books suitable for distribution by Directors at Diocesan Retreats.

File entitled Missions in Britain 1950s containing eleven sections: Introductory letter from Fr Leonard Sheil SJ (20 February 1960, 5pp);

• report for Irish Fr Provincial (8 January 1958, 8pp);
• list of places and dates of Irish Missions in Britain 1949 - 1959 (19[59], 6pp);
• copies of commendatory letters (7 November 1953 - 24 November 1958, 3 items);
• Report for Irish Fr Provincial on Missions 1958 - January 1959 and cuttings from the [Irish Independent] on the Mission Campaign in Britain by Fr Leonard Sheil SJ (20 January 1959, 3 items);
• three ‘typical’ reports on three 1959 Missions for the Bishop of Ferns (1959, 4pp);
• ‘Account of an Ideal Mission for the Bishop of Ferns’ by Fr Sheil (n.d., 7pp);
• press articles by Fr Sheil describing the Missions (September - October 1958, 6 items);
• photographs of Birmingham and Westminster Cathedrals, Brompton Oratory, photographs of ‘children of the Irish’ (13 items) and
• map of England indicating the routes of Fr Sheil’s motorcycle travel (1 item).
  Also includes booklets and advertising leaflets for the Missions (7 items) and memorandum for Irish Fr Provincial by Fr Sheil containing suggestions for better organisation of the Missions (1959, 2pp).

List of Missions to be given in Britain in Autumn 1955.

Lists of contents written on scrap paper and envelopes which detail papers previously held in the basement of St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes document entitled ‘Archives of the Irish Province’ with box numbers.

List of Jesuit shares in companies with amount in dividend and income tax, ‘Arthur Guinness & Co.’.

List of pamphlets and booklets written by Jesuits on the lives of saints, with details of publishers and date of publication.

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

List of candidates proposed for membership of the Sodality of Our Lady Help of Christians, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes members from Dublin establishments such as Pim Bros, McBirney's, Todd, Burns and Co. Ltd, Henry Street Warehouse, Arnotts, Clery and Co.

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.