Minutes of meeting for The Sodality of Our Lady Blessed Sacrament Section, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street. Includes register of members.

Attendance register for St Berchmans Sodality at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street. Entries are arranged under headings by day of the week and remarks, which include 'Sick', 'On vacation'.

Minutes of meetings of the Christian Doctrine Confraternity, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Notice with instructions for the Station Master, (Great Southern Railways) to bear one 3rd class return ticket to Dublin to the bearer, to the House of Retreats, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Letter to Irish Fr Provincial Cecil McGarry from Sr Mary Regis, Mercy Convent, Doon, County Limerick, following Fr Leonard Sheil's death. Encloses letters sent to her from Fr Sheil over a number of years and press-cuttings relating to him, in the hope they might be useful to the Society when writing Fr Sheil's biography. States ‘I thought I would like to do a little for him after all he did for me.…When he started his missions in England I used to make pictures & pieties to help him & send them to the different addresses. He sent me accounts of these missions…He never thought of himself, his aim was to use everything he could to bring souls to God… I have kept letters of his since 1939 & all the years of the war & until he wrote before Christmas to announce his illness’ (Aug. 1968, 4pp). Encloses seven letters from Fr Sheil, thanking her for sending badges and medals and discussing her health and his missions. Includes letter in which he remarks ‘…thanks so much for all your lovely pictures and things. They are immensely valued over here. Sometimes indeed religion is not valued, but I hope that these pictures etc. will make it impossible for them to forget the lovely things of Our Faith. One little boy brought five Protestant pals, mostly bigger than himself, to the mission at West Hartlepool. I have had many conversions of people years away from Mass and the Sacraments. Many others have rejected me. The [leak]age of the children when they leave school, & have no Catholic school, and no good parents, is frightful. I start missions again on January 8th at Coventry and near Northampton. They will be very tough, so help me with your prayers. I bless each house I enter, put them on their knees, if they don’t refuse, and instal (sic.) a holy picture’ (28 Dec. 19--, 2pp). Also includes photocopies of clippings on Fr Sheil from various English newspapers (n.d., 4 items).

Leaflet on 'The Men’s Sodality of Our Lady' and the Jesuits in Galway (1630-1768) and (1869-1969) which gives background history. Published by the Connacht Tribune.

Minutes of council meetings of the Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Ignatius, Galway. Refers to retreats and retreat directions, details members present and those proposed for membership.

28 September 1890-1 December 1912;
13 December 1912 - September 1937;
April 1946 - November 1951;
14 May 1961-14 January 1974;

Register of Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, Mary and St Aloysius, St Ignatius, Galway which details names, address and remarks of different guild members.

Handwritten register of attendance for the Congregation of the Children of Mary, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes name, address, date of reception and attendance.

Notes and letters from Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ relating to the St Joseph’s Young Priests Society, with regard to its income, expenditure and general policy. Fr Gwynn played an important part in the Society’s foundation and development (1927-49) and was Honorary Editor of its quarterly magazine Saint Joseph's Sheaf.

Material on retreats and the retreat house at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (removed from ledger folder). Includes:

• list of retreatants at Rathfarnham Castle and notice of opening of retreat house (1922);
• Honorary Secretary's Reports (November 1947-March 1949);
• list of house renovations (August 1949-August 1950);
• costings and receipts for work on the retreat house which includes glass, grotto, kneelers, lamp, radiators, roof, statutes and tabernacle (1949-1962);
• ‘History of Our Lady's Grotto, erected by D.U.T. Co. Employees 1925’ by Thomas Scally, ex-Superintendent. Includes references to the Jesuit school, St Francis Xavier, Lower Dorset Street, better known as Father Gaffney's school (1 April 1950);
• income and expenditure for Laymen's Retreat Association (1948-1953);
• newsletter of the Laymen's Retreat Association, Rathfarnham Castle entitled the Week End Echo (vol. 1-5, 7), (Christmas 1953-September 1955);
• handicap sweepstakes results for Laymen's Retreat Association at Rathfarnham Castle (1954-55)
• order of time for retreats for Chinese students at Rathfarnham Castle (4 April 1955);
• correspondence from Michael Scott, Architect, for drawings of the retreat house, Rathfarnham Castle (1955-57);
• income for retreat house at Rathfarnham Castle (1958-59);
• schedule of estimates for proposed decoration at Rathfarnham Castle (1958-1961);
• drawings, correspondence and accounts from James A. Doyle Architect, for works at the retreat house, Rathfarnham Castle (1959-1960);
• newspaper report of ‘Restoration of grotto erected in 1924 by D.U.T.C. men’ from Nuacht CIE (23 October 1964);
• notes on Laymen’s Retreat Association at Rathfarnham Castle, Christian Life Communities (CLC) seminar (21 April 1974);
• Guidelines for the constitution for the Laymen's Retreat Association & Christian Life Communities (CLC) (1977);
• notice of the restoration work done by the Association of Retreat Promotors for the Laymen’s Retreat Association (nd.);
• postcard with order of time on reverse of weekend retreats at Rathfarnham Castle and notice of non-attendance (nd.);

Crusaders of Mary

File containing Richard Maguire's admission papers and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials relating to retreat and mission work and his time as chaplain at the Royal Hospital of the Incurables, Donnybrook, Dublin.

Register for the Confraternity of the Bona Mors at St Ignatius Church, Galway giving names, address and date. With insert notes.

Letter from Fr Edward F Garesché SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.

Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters. Includes letters concerning:

• Polish scholastics coming to Ireland to study;
• the censuring individual scholastics;
• financial matters of the late Fr Henry Browne SJ;
• the taking of villas during wartime;
• a report on Irish theologians in Hong Kong;
• the question of censorship of various publications (See also ADMN/3/1 and 23);
• the question of Jesuit support for the Catholic Association for International Relations;
• a proposal by Fr Patrick J Connolly SJ to open a Jesuit school in Dartry;
• the Secret Instruction of the Holy See: Normae Quaedam De Agendi Ratione Confessariorum Circa VI Decalogi Praeceptum;
• the prohibition of female characters in plays produced by scholastics;
• comments on Director’s Service from Sodality reports of summer 1944 (See also ADMN/3/65 and 74);
• the publication of a book entitled Selected Writings of Father Ledochowski (See also ADMN/3/44);
• an invitation to the Irish Fr Provincial to the inauguration of President Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh (see also ADMN/3/43 and 76) in June 1945, signed by Taoiseach Éamon de Valera;
• relations with the Confederación Nacional de Congregaciones Marians;
• the proposal to purchase Crawfordsburn Estate, County Down (see also ADMN/3/6);
• the Chair of Education in University College, Dublin and
• some suggestions about choirs in the Province.

The spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius. A new translation by Thomas Corbishley SJ.

Bound volume with alphabetical index and lined pages. Handwritten entries. Includes names and addresses of members, a brief history of the sodality in the College, including the names of the Directors from 1874 onwards. Also includes the minutes of monthly meetings of Promoters from August 1944 to March 1954.

Includes the text of prayers to be recited daily by the Associates, a list of indulgences granted, and the format of a Bona Mors ceremony.

Announcement of retreat for the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart and the Apostleship of Prayer at the Sacred Heart Church, Limerick, on 'Sunday evening, Nov. 3rd' (no year given),

Abridgment of the book entitled 'Bona Mors'; claims to offer 'what is only required to become a member of the congregation, and to partake in prayers with multitudes of pious associates. Includes prayers to be said at public meetings, and during private devotions.

Page of handwritten information taken from the Catalogues of the Irish Province, including the entries (in Latin) in relation to the individual Directors of the Sodality from the year 1874 to 1898.

Notice of an annual retreat for the 'Ladies' Association of St. Vincent De Paul' for Sacred Heart Church, Limerick. Printed leaflet announcing the retreat, which is to be conducted by Fr Isaac Moore SJ.

Handwritten lists of names of people (both laypeople and religious sisters) to be enrolled in the
archconfraternity.

Typed document by unknown author and addressed to the Fr Rector proposing arguments in favour of the formation of an Irish-speaking sodality.

Information includes time and date (year not given), and list of selected films to be shown. States that funds are in aid of the Pope Pius XII's charities.

Typewritten lists of directors of various sodalities in the Sacred Heart College, Limerick and the years in which each held that position. Sodalities include the Sodality of the Sacred Heart (1873-1945), the Sodality of the Bona Mors (1874-1954), the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary (various) (1865-1949), and the Ignatian Sodality (-1955).

Photograph of Ignatian Sodality presentation to Br James Priest SJ, on the occasion of his Golden Jubilee.

Group of student members, with Fr John Barragry SJ and another unidentified person. The students include Michael Kelly, Frank Hayes, PJ Hogan, Gerald Gaynor and John McGrath.

Photograph of a group of ladies, possibly sodality members, Limerick.

Retreat notes compiled by Mr Michael Egan SJ.

Souvenir and leaflets of the Novena of Grace, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Groups of student sodality members with sodality directors Fr James Gubbins SJ and Fr John A. Deevy SJ: 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933 - all of which appeared in the SHC magazine of the relevant year. Among the members are Michael Kelly, Frank Hayes, Jim Gould, Gerald Gaynor, PJ Hogan, John McGrath, Gerard Riordan. Photographs appeared in the SHC magazine in the relevant years.

Copy of letter from John J. McDonald & Company Solicitors to W.J. Healy Esq., 52 Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin on the dishonouring of cheque for £3, presented to Milltown Park, Dublin as payment for a Retreat attended at Milltown Park.

Records of both Religious and Private Retreats held at Milltown Park, Dublin which includes names, addresses and payments. Reference to retreats for Priests, Catholic Commercial Club, Clongowes Recent Past, Belvedere Recent Past, Mungret College Past Pupils, Old IRA, Department of Finance, Drapers, Irish Speakers…

15 August 1892 - 20 November 1911;
15 September 1913 - 18 April 1921;
1921-1929;
20 January 1930 - 19 February 1938;
5 March 1938 - 23 December 1949;
7 January 1950 - 16 October 1959;
May 1959 - March 1968;

• includes souvenir of Retreat at Milltown Park, Dublin;
• list of retreats at Milltown Park, Dublin (1881; 1953; 1954; 8 January - 30 April 1968);
• revised order of time for three-day retreat, school retreat and Belvedere College retreat;
• admittance card for retreats at Milltown Park, Dublin with Order of exercises on the reverse;
• call for funds for Milltown Park House of Retreat - renovation and decoration of chapel (23 July 1926).

Handwritten account for the sodality of B.V.M - Lorcán Ua Tuathail (In Irish). Includes a list of those who attended a week-end retreat conducted in Irish by Fr Michael McGrath SJ (1872-1946), 29 - 31 January 1916 at Milltown Park, Dublin, a retreat card belonging to Ó Monacháin (James McCann SJ) Milltown Park, Dublin. This Irish retreat was arranged with M. Colman, 1 Edward Terrace (sic) Dalkey. Many of those who attended became TD's - Cathal Brugha, Sean O'Kelly, and were involved in the 1916 Rising.

Copy Lease:
Lessor: Mary Anderson of the Crescent Limerick
Lessee: Richard Hartigan, Peter McCarthy and Hugh O’Brien Moran, trustees of the Ignatian Sodality of The Crescent College, Limerick.
Property: Plot of land containing 3 acres, 2 roods and 10 perches in Boherbuoy in the parish of Saint Michael, city of Limerick.
Terms and Conditions: Property let for 50 years at an annual rent of £13-5-0.
Date: 11 August 1911
Size: 4pp

11 May - 7 December 1920
Two letters by John J. Dundon solicitors relating to the plot of land known as ‘The Crescent Field’, the first a query relating to its legal status, the second addressed to Rev. L.B. Potter S.J., Rector of the Crescent, regarding its sale.
2 items

1915
Agreement made between The Great Southern and Western Railway Company and Richard Hartigan, Peter McCarthy and Hugh O’Brien Moran, acting as trustees for the Ignatian Sodality the Crescent College Limerick, relating to the insertion of a gateway in land leased to the Sodality which is adjacent to the Limerick Railway terminus.
4pp and map

14 May-10 September 1920
Letter to B. Kelly, 66 Careysfort Avenue, Blackrock, county Dublin, from John J. Dundon, solicitor, concerning the sale of land in Limerick by the Ignatian Sodality to members of the Society of Jesus; Proposal and authorisation by a special meeting of the Ignatian Sodality for the sale.
3 items

Assignment:
Parties: (1) Richard Hartigan, Peter McCarthy and Hugh O’Brien Moran (2) Reverend Lawrence B. Potter, Reverend Jerome C. O'Mahony, Reverend Patrick J. Kennedy and Reverend Charles Byrne.
Property: A plot of ground once owned by Mary Anderson measuring 3 acres, 2 roods and 10 perches which bounded in the north side by the Railway premises.
Assignment: In consideration of the sum of £800, Hartigan, McCarthy and O’Brien Moran assign the property to the members of the Jesuit community.
Date: 4 December 1920
Size: 4pp

1942
Ground plan for the Compulsory Purchase Order of the Carey’s Road Area in the County Borough of Limerick.
1 item

22 October 1945-5 December 1947
File relating to the Compulsory Purchase Order of part of The Crescent playing field near the railway by Coras Iompair Eireann, the Irish bus company, which was leased to the Jesuits by Rose Ellen Pearse for a period of 50 years from 1911 onwards. Includes correspondence between Dundon and Treacy, Solicitors, Limerick, and the Reverend Redmond Roche, Rector of the Crescent College, estimates of the existing value of the property and opinions of counsel relating to the legal status of the land.
12 items

26 August 1952 - 11 May 1956
Material relating to the compulsory purchase order of part of the playing field leased by the Jesuits from Nellie Pearse in the Carey’s Road Area by Limerick Corporation. Includes letters concerning details of the order from John J. Dundon, solicitor.
12 items

7 July 1960
Land registry map of the playing field at Rosbrien, with registered owners Reverend Fergal McGrath and Reverend Cyril Power.

27 October 1870-12 April 1893
Will and probate of William Ryan of Newenham Street, city of Limerick. Ryan grants the administration of his estate to his brother Matthew and bequeaths his assets to be shared equally among his children.
3 items

26 November 1892
Letter to ‘Mr. Murphy’ from Fr Thomas Kelly SJ, Gardiner Street, Dublin, containing some legal instructions regarding the assignment of Dan Doyle’s lands in trust to individual Jesuits.
2pp

Lease:
Lessors: Reverend Laurence B. Potter, Reverend Charles Byrne, Reverend Patrick J. Kennedy and Reverend Daniel Roche, Sacred Heart College, The Crescent, Limerick.
Lessee: Michael Doyle of New Street, Limerick city.
Property: Piece of ground in Newenham street adjoining Richmond place or The Crescent in the parish of Saint Michael in Limerick city now or lately in the occupation of the lessee.
Terms and Conditions: Term of 99 years at an annual rent of £25.
Date: 21 August 1923
Size: 4pp

1940
Draft assignment by Reverend Charles Byrne of Belvedere College, Reverend Patrick J.Kennedy of Lower Leeson Street, Dublin and Reverend Daniel Roche of the Sacred Heart College, The Crescent, Limerick of Reverend Fergal McGrath, Reverend Michael Browne, Reverend James Gubbins and Reverend Cyril Power as new trustees to that piece of land in Newenham street, Limerick, which was lately in the possession of Michael Doyle, builder and contractor.
2pp

6 January 1913
Letter and response to query to Fr Stanislaus MacLoughlin of the Jesuit Community, The Crescent, Limerick, from James Rogers Solicitors relating to the tenancy of Peter Maguire, now deceased, on Jesuit land.
2 items

22-24 February 1963
Two letters to Fr Frank Finegan SJ from Fr Stephen Bates and Fr Francis Joy respectively concerning a court case involving the purchase of houses by the Jesuit community at the Crescent.
9pp

Leaflet on Order of retreats at the House of Spiritual Exercises, Milltown Park, Dublin, with sketch of Milltown Park, Dublin.

A file relating to villas (holidays) taken by the Juniors (at Milltown Park and St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly) and community at Milltown Park. Includes rules for the villas and accounts. Menus used by Milltown Park community while on villa (holiday), for theologians and juniors (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Supper), regulations, order of time, expenses, use of radio and letter from Fr Patrick Kenny SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin to Fr Coyne SJ giving his opinion on the purchasing of Hampton Hall as a permanent villa house. Recommends that Hampton Hall should not be purchased (1945).

Agreement between Frederick Best and Reverend Thomas G O'Meara SJ for the rental of ‘Hampton Hall’ to serve as the summer villa residence (11 May 1950).

Place of Milltown Park community villa vary: Ballytrent, County Wexford (1902), Mungret College, County Limerick (4 -21 July 1903) and Greyfort (1905).

Juniors' Villa from St Stanislaus College to Milltown Park, Dublin (1903, 1-16 July 1904, July 1905).

Mounted photograph of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John Berchmans (Altarservers) in the garden of The Crescent, Limerick.

Photograph of the Sodality of Saint John Berchmans in the garden of The Crescent, Limerick.

Photographs of Milltown Park, Dublin villa (holiday) group:

1. Milltown Park villa to Ballytrent, County Wexford, 1902.
   Back row: - , Cuthbert Meyer, -, Edmond Downing, Richard Golding, James McCann, William Byrne, Charles Bert, Dominic Connell, Charles Cooksey, Jerome O'Mahony, George Roche, Lambert McKenna, -; Front row: James Crook, Peter Flynn, Patrick Bartley, Tony Wunsch, Patrick Power, Thomas Wheeler, John Keane, -, Eustace Boylan, Martin Doring.
2. Milltown Park community picnic at Glencree, 1925 (found in papers of Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, sitting fourth from left);
3. Milltown Park Philosophers villa to Ballytrent, County Wexford, July 1921:
   Back row: Donal McCarthy, Eddie Bourke, Jeremiah Hayes, Edward Coyne. Middle row: Paul Healy, Thomas Perrott, Mattie Bodkin, Fergal McGrath, Kenneth McKillop, Edward Andrews, Charles Scantlebury and Thomas Hehir. Seated John Calter, John Ryan, Fr John Keane SJ (villa master) and Patrick O'Kelly. With a signed copy As Gaelige;
4. Postcards of holiday/Major villa Group - Villa 'at home' Milltown Park, 1941, 2 copies;
5. Milltown Park villa group at Courtown, County Wexford, 1948;
6. Milltown Park villa to Ballytrent, County Wexford, 1902. 'See other copy. Frs George Byrne, Wilfred Ryan, JOHN Bourke and Thomas Anthony Walsh are in same position. Fr Charles Cuffe is now against the tree. Closest to Fr Cuffe is Fr Peter Dwyer who was in Australia during 1st war'.

Register of the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception for Women and Girls at the Church of the Sacred Heart Limerick.

A file relating to the expenses of villas taken by the Limerick Jesuit community.

Letter from Fr Willie Doyle SJ, College of the Sacred Heart, The Crescent, Limerick to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Nolan SJ concerning the establishment of a house for workingmen's retreats. Asks Fr Nolan to loan him Cliff House establish his proposal.

Record book detailing expenses, programme and meals of the Belvedere College SJ community on villa (holiday) at Derrynane Lodge, Waterville, County Kerry. The Villa Master was Fr Rector Nicholas J Tomkin SJ, 2-21 July 1902.

Letter from Fr Rector Nicholas J Tomkin, Belvedere College SJ to Irish Fr Provincial James Murphy accompanying the Record book detailing expenses, programme and meals of the Belvedere College SJ community at Derrynane Lodge, County Kerry. The Villa Master was Fr Rector Nicholas J Tomkin SJ.

Correspondence relating to rules for "Villa" to be enforced by the Villa Master:

• letter from Fr Socius John Coyne SJ to Villa Master Fr Denis P Kennedy SJ sending on a document from Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ regarding rules to be enforced and observed whilst on Villa;
• generic letter from Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon on rules for Villa, as per the communications of Fr General Wlodimir Ledóchowski SJ;
• letter from Fr John Coyne SJ, Socius to Villa Master Fr Gerard McLaughlin SJ regarding rules to be enforced and observed whilst on Villa.

Photograph of the Jesuit community of Belvedere College on holiday (villa) in Bundoran, County Donegal. In two rows, outside:
Back row, l-r: - , John R MacMahon, Patrick O'Kelly, - , - ;
Front row, l-r, seated: - , Charles Scantlebury, Patrick Morris, John M O'Connor.

Report from Rathfarnham Castle SJ on the Belvedere College SJ 4th, 5th and 6th Year retreats, giving the facts and some ideas as to why these Retreats had not gone well.

Handwritten alphabetical register of names (male), 1933 - Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Supplementary register containing names of all live members transferred from old register up to 13 November 1932.

Handwritten alphabetical register of male names of all live members transferred to supplementary register 1942 - Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Men, Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Stamp, Jan. 1937 indicates lapsed members and these are not in 1937 Guild Books. First date of admission is November 1894. Index to sections (Patron: St Patrick, St Kevin...) given on inside page.

Handwritten register of names (male), Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Dates of enrolement 1933 onwards until 1967.

Handwritten register of lapsed members of the Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, 1939-1944.

Material relating to Fr John B Kerr SJ which includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

The Isle of Man Mission material details the building of chapels and schools in Douglas and Castletown by Fr Matthew Gahan SJ (1782-1837) and his work on the island. Born in Dublin, he entered the Society at Hodder, Lancashire, England in 1805 and left for the Isle of Man in 1826. He had previously spent three months on the island in 1817 and 1825. When he died there in February 1837, the Jesuit mission to the island ended.

Many Jesuit Provinces had missions in China before 1926 when the Vicar Apostolic of Hong Kong, Fr Henry Valtorta (1883-1953), invited the Irish Jesuits to his vicariate. In October 1926, Frs George Byrne (1879-1962) and John Neary (1889-1983) left Dublin for Hong Kong, which became a Mission for the Irish Province. They were joined, in early 1927, by Fr Daniel Finn (1886-1936) from Australia and later by Frs Richard Gallagher (1887-1960), Patrick Joy (1892-1970) and Daniel MacDonald (1891-1957).

The initial work of the mission concentrated in Hong Kong, with some teaching in Canton and Macao. Their works involved: reviving the Catholic journal, ‘The Rock’; the opening of a hostel (Ricci Hall) for Chinese Catholic students at the University of Hong Kong (1929-); their involvement in the Regional Seminary, Aberdeen, Hong Kong (1931-1964), Wah Yan College, Hong Kong (1932-) and Wah Yan College, Kowloon (1952-). Some lecturing occurred in the university, in areas such as archaeology, education, engineering, and geography. In Canton, Frs Michael Saul (1884-1932) and Joseph McCullough (1892-1932) died from cholera. Hong Kong was under Japanese occupation 1941 - 1945. The Irish Jesuits organised a school for refugees from Hong Kong in Macao and the Regional Seminary was also moved to Macao. Wah Yan College was closed in 1941 and reopened in 1945. Fr Thomas Ryan’s account “Jesuits under Fire in the siege of Hong Kong 1941” deals fully with this time.

After World War Two, the Irish Jesuits established a language school, student centre and parish in Canton. They were expelled by the Communists in [1953]. Wah Yan College grew and developed and further works included the foundation of a university hostel at Kingsmead Hall, Singapore and at Xavier Hall, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Other works of note that Irish Jesuits had a hand in establishing and running in Hong Kong include: the Hong Kong Housing Society (1938); Wah Yan Relief Association (1938); Shoeshine Boys Club (1952-1962); the Credit Union Movement (1962); Rehabilitation Centre for the Handicapped (1962); Catholic Marriage Advisory Council (1963); Road Safety Association for Schools (1964); Industrial Relations Institute (1968); Chinese Opera in English (1960s); Fisherman’s Children School (1960s) and Welfare for Police in the Training School. In 1966, Hong Kong became a Jesuit Vice-Province and in 1985, the Province of Macau-Hong Kong was established. Today, Hong Kong is a unit within the Chinese Jesuit Province.

Over a hundred Irish Jesuits have served in Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore - 30 of whom are buried in St. Michael’s Cemetery in Hong Kong and two in mainland China.