Proposal, written in Latin [and submitted to Fr General in Rome] concerning the establishment of 'Studies'.

Proposal by Dr Ellis concerning the subject of a Charter for University College suggesting that it should be brought before the Archbishops and Bishops.

A file concerning a proposal for a new edition for Rodriquez’s ‘ “Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection” for use in English-speaking Countries.’.

Proposal to publish a quarterly review of 'Letters, Philosophy and Science' under the control of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.

Proposals on Juniorate and Theological Studies in the Irish Province and the responses of Fr General.

Estimates for the proposed lift at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin by Leonard and Donnelly, Builders and General Contractors (26 October 1955) and costings of purchase of life from Sheila Buildings of O'Connell Street and installation at Upper Gardiner Street by John Birch.

A file relating to a proposed new custom book for the novitiate of the Irish Province. Includes two bound copies of the new custom book.

A file relating to the provision of services at Rathfarnham Castle i.e. sanitation, water supply, general alterations to the structure of the building, provision of electricity supply, installation of a telephone.

A file relating to the purchase of Emo Park by the Jesuit Fathers from the Land Commission (for £2,000). Includes a plan of Emo.

A series of questions drawn up by [Fr Charles McKenna SJ] concerning the lease for Mungret College.

'The Nun at her Prie-Dieu' by Fr Robert Nash SJ.

Raffle ticket and notice seeking support for the new ball alleys at Mungret College.

A file relating to rates due on Rathfarnham Castle, an appeal by the Jesuit Fathers to be exempt from the rates and receipts for rates paid on the property.

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Rathfarnham Castle: A history. by Louise Walsh.

Reasons for requesting that the Hong Kong mission should revert to the normal government of the Society, under the Irish Fr Provincial.

Receipt for £30 received from Edward Dunn being one years interest on £500.

Receipts from stockbrokers M. Dillon & Son for purchases of various stocks by them on Fr Finlay’s behalf.

File of receipts, requests for masses, and bequests sent to Fr Charles Farley SJ, St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, (Province
Procurator). Includes receipts, postcards and letters from Frs Edward Boyd Barrett, James O'Connor, Joseph Flinn, A. Magne, Daniel J. Finn (from R.M.S Orsova on the way to Australia), James Creagh, James Farrell, John Ryan (Valkenberg), William Byrne, Bernard Page, John Nerney, C. Wishoff, Leopold Skarek, and Dr. Conway Dwyer, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin.

Recitations by Fr Robert Dillon-Kelly SJ which include: 'Jot it down';' Chincilla'; 'Spinning Wheel'; 'A wonderful boy of old, Limerick';' The Pilot of the Shannon'; 'Down with it'; and 'The Jesuit Trail'.

Typed recommendations on how to profitably manage the farm at Rathfarnham Castle.

A file relating to the Rectors of the Irish College in Rome by Fr John MacErlan SJ, 1 January 1628 - 6 December 1769. Includes biographical details.

Reference written by William E. Corbett, [ ] Engineer, Office of Public Works, for George ‘Sallery’ [Sillery], Overseer, who he found ‘honest…and attentive to the duties entrusted to him and has always does his works in a proper and substantial manner’.

List of references compiled by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ relating to the history of Clongowes Wood College, taken from 'The Clongownian'.

Regulations for the community issued by Fr Robert St Leger SJ, Vice Provincial, in compliance with an ordination of the Father General regarding Holy Poverty.

Regulations for unidentified house of formation in relation to the announcement of Communion days, Cases of Conscience etc., reporting of irregularities, retreats etc.

Regulations in relation to mealtimes, times of confessions, prayer, and Masses, dining out, accounts, cases of conscience etc.

Regulations issued by Fr John Curtis SJ in relation to meals, smoking, the purchase of newspapers etc., the receipt of presents, dining out, the hearing of confessions etc.

Parties:
Rev. John Conmee SJ, Provincial, St. Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin of the first part, Rev. Thomas Forde (Fr Stanislaus), St. Teresa's, Clarendon Street, Dublin of the second part and Ellen B. D. Griffen, Monasterevin, County Kildare of the third part.

Terms & Conditions:
In consideration of a sum of £800 left to the Society of Jesus for the training of a priest for the Foreign missions provided that the sum of money is accepted by the Society of Jesus in full satisfaction and discharge of the legacies mentioned in the will of the late Annie Catherine Fox.

Other:
Signed and sealed by John Conmee and Ellen B. D. Griffen.

Notice which has been taken out of its frame previously hung in the Jesuit community, Gardiner Street, which indicates the 'Religious duties obligatory on all members of the staff who live in the house'. Details times of mass and communion. Indicates that 'repeated violations of any of the above regulations particularly with regard to attendance at daily mass, will incur dismissal from the Service'. Signed by Fr Frank Browne SJ, Superior of the Gardiner Street Community.

Parties:
Esther Gibson, Sandymount, County Dublin and John Philip Nolan, Solicitor, Upper Abbey Street, city of Dublin.

Property:
7 Sackville Street, city of Dublin

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent of £113.15 (late currency), £105 sterling to be paid in equal quarterly payments on1st March, 1st June, 1st September and 1st December. John Philip Nolan may quit the premises at the end of any fifth year of the term providing six months notice has been given.

Signed and sealed by the parties

Parties:
Patrick Nolan, Tobacconist, Sackville Street, city of Dublin and Jonathan Carr and Charles Kohler, Merchant Tailors, 7 Lower Sackville Street, city of Dublin.

Property:
7 Sackville Street, Parish of St. Thomas, city of Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent of £163.13 (late currency), £151.1.3 sterling paid in four quarterly payments on 1st March, 1st June, 1st September and 1st December.

Other:
Signed and sealed by the parties

Parties:
Richard Donovan Esquire, Tralee, county Kerry of the first part, Humphrey Donovan Esquire, Tralee, county Kerry of the second part and Gerald Fitzgibbon, Merchant, Tralee, county Kerry of the third part.

Property:
Farm and lands of Derrymore, Barony of Corkaguiney, County Kerry

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent charge of £30 during the period of Humphrey Donovan's novitiate studies until his ordination to be paid yearly on 1 March.

Other:
Signed and sealed

A file relating to repairs to the weir at Willbrook, Rathfarnham, Dublin and the pond at Rathfarnham Castle. Includes quotations from contractors for the work.

'Reply to Dr Gregg’s Sermon'.

Copy of a report on the Chinese mission written in French relating to a suitable mission district for the Irish Jesuit mission in China. Includes a document on the same subject prepared by Fr Tom Cooney SJ.

Reports on Jesuit Studies in the Irish Province.

A file relating to research carried out by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on his family tree.

A file relating to research carried out by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ on the history of Rathfarnham Castle.

Responsa ad Epistolae R.P. Provincialis, die 20 December 1902 - St Ignatius Galway.

Responses of some Irish Jesuit priests to Fr General's observations on the order of Studies.

Results of students attending Mungret College, Limerick.

Review of Fr Edmund Hogan SJ books Latin-Irish Patrician Documents from the Book of Armagh and the Codex Bruxellensis. The review is written in French.

Review of Fr Thomas Morrissey's biography of Fr Peter Kenney SJ from the 'Irish Times'.

A file relating to the revision to the Custom Book of the novitiate of Irish Jesuit Province, including a letter from Fr John J Coyne SJ, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois to the Irish Fr Provincial, with copy of Custom Book.

A file relating to the road widening scheme at Rathfarnham and work carried out by Dublin Corporation on part of the boundary wall of Rathfarnham Castle and the subsequent problems that arose due to the Corporation's failure to complete the work. Includes a letter from Tom Bacon, Solicitor (acting on behalf of the Jesuit Fathers), 9 Clare Street, Dublin to Fr McDonald SJ Remarks 'This matter has taken a new and interesting turn... Mr Beausang (Dublin Corporation).. .explained his predicament. Apparently in his final anxiety to get the work through he agreed our terms without obtaining any additional estimates as to the cost... Mr Beausang states that there is a deficiency of at least £7,000...There is no fund out of which this deficiency can be met...Mr Beausang's first suggestion was that the Jesuit Fathers would make a grant to the corporation of half the increased cost namely £3,500. When he was told that this was out of the question it was then suggested that you might disclaim the acquisition money £2,000.' (11 October 1956, 3pp).

‘A Bill for the further Repeal of Enactments imposing Pains and Penalties upon Her Majesty’s Roman Catholic Subjects on account of their Religion’.

Rules and ordnance's for University College, Dublin, printed by John F. Fowler, 3 Crow Street

File of handwritten documents setting out rules and regulations for juniors and scholastics in Irish Jesuit formation colleges. Relates to Masses, prayer, timetables, dining, recreation, personal freedom, villas etc.

Rules for lay boys at Mungret College, Limerick.

Rules of the debating society for Jesuit juniors at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

‘De votes et virtutibus’. Document on rules regarding vows and virtues for Irish Jesuits

Sacristan's manual for St Mary's, Emo, County Laois.

Sacristan's manual for St Mary's, Emo, County Laois.

Sacristan's manual for St Mary's, Emo, County Laois.

Sacristan's manual for St Mary's, Emo, County Laois.

Safe travel pass issued for Kevin Richard Stanislaus Nolan, by the German military authorities to travel from Bad Orb, through Holland to England. Kevin Nolan was a brother of Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ, and had been a solicitor in London. On the eve of the First World War, he travelled to Bad Nauheim, Germany to undergo treatment for a heart condition. He was arrested as a spy, imprisoned however later released. He died in November 1918. See 'The Clongownian', 1919, p.308. Material hand in by Margaret Doyle, Archivist, Clongowes Wood College, 9 January 2017.

A file relating to the Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat Memorial Fund inaugurating by Rev. Mother Thunder in 1909. Includes a list of students in the Apostolic School who were assisted by this fund (1909-1974).

Document detailing the sale of Clongowes [to the Jesuit Fathers].

Parties:
John Taubman, Proprietor of the Estate of the Nunnery, Parish of Kirk Bradden and Rev. Myles MacPharlan.

Property:
Plot of ground in the Parish of Bradden, part of the estate of the Nunnery on the high road from Douglas to Castletown to be used as a site for a Roman Catholic chapel.

Terms & Conditions:
In consideration of a sum of five shillings and the reserved rent of one shilling.

Sample application letter, form and prospectus from the Rector, Clongowes Wood College SJ sent to prospective parents.

Sample letter and form signed by the Fr Vincent Byrne SJ, Rector, Clongowes Wood College SJ to parents/guardians concerning the re-opening of the College (1p). The letter gives clear indication about travel arrangements from Kingsbridge Station Dublin, and Cork, Belfast and Galway Stations, and cautions that any boy who does not return may have his name struck from the roll. Attached also is a pro forma form to be signed by parents/guardians, indicating that their son has not suffered from, or been exposed to any contagious or infectious disease (1p).

Sample of a contract of agreement between the Rector, Clongowes Wood College SJ and a lay teacher.

Sample questions on education from the University of London - in preparation for the Clongowes Cert.

Schedule of costs incurred by the Jesuit Fathers re: St Francis Xavier’s Schools (66 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin) to Maxwell Weldon & Co. Solicitors.

Schedule of costs incurred by the Jesuit Fathers re: Mrs. Donnelly deceased, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin to Maxwell Weldon & Co. Solicitors, and Michael Horan will.

Schedule of papers belonging to the O'Callaghan property in 13 Cork Hill. Bridget O'Reilly, nee O'Callaghan, mother of Fr Edmund O'Reilly SJ. Fr O'Reilly's mother Bridget, was a co-heiress of her father's estate in Clare.

A schedule, prepared by Fr Lambert McKennanSJ of letters to Fr Matthew Russell SJ.

Scheme for Juniorate classes in the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.

Scheme for Mungret College approved by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, with pencil annotations.

Minutes of School Attendance Committee meetings in Galway City, which references parents served with notices for failure to send children to school. Includes list of members of the board - no Jesuit involved. Note on front 'Has nothing to do with house but came to us probably through Fr A. O'Reilly. His uncle Canon Nestor was chairman at the end'. Index at rear of volume, and two inserts from parents outlining reasons for failure to send to school (1926).

Programmes, newspaper notices, invitations, tickets, and reviews relating to theatricals, including comedies, tragedies, operettas, librettos and pantomimes, staged by pupils of the Sacred Heart College. Includes a bound copy of a programme for the Crescent College pantomime of 1901, presented by 'Miss Claire Hanrahan in 1955' to the Crescent College. Also includes some correspondence, including a letter from Fr William Lockington SJ (16 February 1907; 1 page) a [draft] letter in Irish advising participation in a festival of Gaelic drama (nd.; 1 page), for which there is also a newspaper review from 10 March 1945. Reviews of the three pages staged in the years 1858, 1963 and 1964 are to be found respectively in three copies of 'Our Catholic Life', a quarterly magazine of the Diocese of Limerick. Some correspondence re. plays and performances is also included.

Text of a sermon preached by Rev. John Hughes SJ entitled 'Waste Products of Modern Civilisation' on behalf of The Magdalen Asylum, Gloucester Street, Dublin'.

Typescript copy of sermons by Fr Hugh Kelly SJ preached at Gardiner street church on the occasion of the reception there and veneration of the right arm of Saint Francis Xavier.

'Shadow of the Cross', 'Crossroads', 'Temptation', 'My Importance', 'Don’t Read This', 'The First Christmas Present' and 'St. Joseph on Trial' by Fr Robert Nash SJ.

Material related to shares given to Fr John Bannon SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin in order for masses to be said for Mr Edward McDonough, Balmarino, Drogheda.

Short biography of Fr William Ronan SJ by Rev. James F. Cassidy, BA entitled 'A Saintly Irish Jesuit'.

Solicitor costs from Maxwell, Weldon & Co., 40 North Great George’s Street, Dublin to the Jesuits, Upper Gardiner Street related to the account of sale of 1 Upper Gardiner Street.

'Some reminiscences of the College of the Sacred Heart, Crescent Limerick of October 1864 and of Aug. 1884 - to August 1887' by Fr James Daly SJ. Addressed to Fr Potter. Account of his visit with his father to the Crescent in 1864, before entering the Society, and an account of later years spent there.

Souvenir of a Men's Mission conducted by Jesuits Timothy Halpin, Daniel Roche, Michael Garahy and Michael Saul at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

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

Illustrated Souvenir of the Triduum for the coming of the reliquary containing the right arm of St Francis Xavier to Gardiner Street Church, 9-12 December 1949.

Souvenirs for Mission Sunday (1933), for the Triduum to mark the fourth century of the St Francis Xavier’s landing in Japan in 1549 (1949), for the fourth centenary of the death of St Francis Xavier (1952).

Two copies of souvenirs for the sodality day at Saint Francis Xavier's Church for 1949 and 1950.

Speculations of Fr John Fahy SJ concerning the possible (or impossible) ways of dealing with the complaints that had been made about the way the Apostolic School and its funds and pupils had been treated. This seems to have been written prior to the Decree of Propaganda in June 1921.

Spiritual notes made by Fr Thomas A. Finlay SJ (mostly for retreats).

A file relating to the stained glass windows and wooden benches for the chapel at Mungret College - stain glass from Duhamel-Marette, Évreux, Eure, France and benches from The Limerick Warehouse Compnay.

Statement and a copy of a statement by Fr Matthew Gahan SJ describing the events surrounding his decision to go to the Isle of Man to administer to the Catholic population on the island and his work on the island. Lists names of people who supported him financially and the amounts paid.

Statement concerning a sum of money bequeathed by Mr. Marley to Dr Joseph Dixon, Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland for daily mass.

Statement concerning the marriage settlement between Patrick Nolan and Mary Anne Dunn and Edward Dunn's (father of Mary Anne Dunn) agreement to settle £1,000 on his daughter as a marriage portion.

Statement of title of Messrs Butler to obtain Fee Farm Grant concerning Butlers Trusts, Milltown Premises, Dublin.

Statement (in Latin) issued by the Vatican to Religious Orders concerning the Sacred Congregation for Seminaries and University Studies.

Statements regarding St Francis Xavier's Hall and Pioneer Club submitted by Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ (by request). Annotations in blue pencil were made by Fr Fahy. Includes typed inaugural address by Fr James Cullen SJ at opening of St Francis Xavier's Hall, Upper Sherrard Street, Dublin (2 March 1908); aims and objectives taken from minutes of Provincial Committee (17 March 1908).

Status of the Hong Kong Mission.

Status Temporalis for Mungret College.

Stock and shares bought by Miss Cantwell, 12 Belvedere Place, Dublin bequeathed to Fr John Bannon SJ.

‘De Studiis Juniorum’. Document in point form re. the studies of Juniors in Ireland and Australia. (In Latin).

Circular letter from the honorary secretary of the Council of the Catholic Defence Society for comment. Handwritten notes by Fr Finlay on 'Scheme for the Constitution and Government of the Catholic Union of Ireland [1905] (11pp).

Suggestions, submitted by the Trustees, Lord Emly and others for a new scheme for Mungret.

A file relating to a sum of money from Edwin Richard Windham Quin, 3rd earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl to be lodged with the Sisters of Mercy, Stanhope Street, Dublin in honour of an agreement between Fr Stephen Farrell SJ, Helen McCarthy and Margaret Sweetman, Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Stanhope Street, Dublin.

Summary of the contents of archives of the College of St Patrick, Salamanca c.[1880]-[1930], and notes on a visit to the Diocesan Archives, Salamanca, by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ, 26 October 1983.