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IE IJA OLD/51
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Biographical material concerning David Woulfe SJ
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- 19[35] - 2007 (Creation)
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Biographical material concerning David Woulfe SJ. Includes
- typescript on his life, by Fr James Stephenson SJ (n.d., 13pp);
- correspondence collected by Fr Stephenson in the course of research for the article (19 February - 26 October 1953, 4 items) - letter from Mary, Hartfiled, Santo Amaro, Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal, Margaret Woulfe, Kerry and Joseph Ranson, Salamanca;
- notes and letter compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ on Fr Woulfe (1929, 4pp);
- reprint 'The Last Years of a Confessor of the Faith, Father David Wolf' from 'Archivium Historicum Societatis Jesu', vol. XV, 1946 (15pp);
- journal of notes made by Richard Woulfe, Dromlought, Lisselton, County Kerry, intended to comprise a ‘short and incomplete family history’;
- biographical notes on Fr Woulfe, copies of correspondence, letters contributed to various newspapers by Maurice Woulfe (5 Bolton Street, Clonmel) on Woulfe family history (1904 – 1928) and copies of letters of Dr T. Woulfe of Bruff, County Kerry (1923-1924) (25 November 1935, c76pp);
- draft typescript entitled ‘Unpublished Letter of Father David Wolf’ by Fr Manuel da Costa SJ (Portuguese Jesuit and historian). Foreword in English (3pp); letter (October 1568) in Latin to the Bishop of Killala, Redmond O'Gallaghair, written when Fr Woulfe was in jail in Dublin Castle, describing the events of 1566 – ‘68 (n.d., 24pp);
- article on David Wolfe SJ and
- article by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ, 'The Career and Problem of David Wolfe, 1528-1579? Jesuit, and Papal Commissary to Ireland', NMAJ, vol. 47, 2007, pp21-37.
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- Irish Mission of the Society of Jesus, 1542-1773 (Subject)
- MacErlean, John Campbell, 1870-1950, Jesuit priest, historian and archivist (Subject)
- Stephenson, James B, 1906-1979, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Gonçalves da Costa, Manuel, 1910-1997, former Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Wolfe, David, 1528-1578, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Davin, James, 1704-1760, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Morrissey, Thomas J, Jesuit priest, educationalist and historian (Subject)