Irish Jesuits 1560 - 1814 Vol.2.

The Irish Jesuits Vol.1: being a collection of articles on the history of the Irish Province, culled from various sources, mainly for the Jesuit Year Book.

Documents examining ‘the question of the advisability or otherwise of our…(the Irish Jesuit Province)…founding & running a Weekly Paper’ following Fr General’s letter asking the Provincial to “find out the views of ‘peritorum Patrum’ on this subject.” Includes copy of circular letter and questionnaire sent by the Provincial to sixteen ‘knowledgeable’ Jesuits and replies from the following Fathers: Patrick Connolly (Editor of 'Studies'), Michael Kirwan, John Ryan, Aubrey Gwynn (ADMN/3/18; 29; 40), Timothy Corcoran, Michael Egan, Edward Cahill, Joseph Canavan, Timothy Mulcahy (Editor of 'Madonna', 'Irish Monthly' and 'The Jesuit Directory'), Edward J. Coyne (See also ADMN/3/29; 39; 42; 57), John McMahon, George Roche, John Keane, Charles Doyle (includes two unsigned replies from Frs Stephen Brown and Charles Scantlebury). Also includes tables of summaries of the views expressed.

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.

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 – 1976

File relating to Fr James B Stephenson SJ, including application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, catalogue entries and memorial card.

Biographical information on Fr Leonard Sheil SJ. Includes:
– potted biography by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ (Irish Province Archivist, 1986-2019), (1984, 1p.);
– biography of Fr Sheil entitled 'Who Travels Alone' by Fr Robert L. Stevenson SJ (Dublin: C. Goodliffe Neale (Irel.) Ltd.) (1975, 56pp);
– photocopies from the 'Jesuit Year Book' of an illustrated article by Fr Robert L. Stevenson SJ entitled ‘Emigrants’ Priest: Fr. Leonard Sheil, S.J.’ (1969, 9pp) and an illustrated appreciation of Fr Sheil by Very Rev. Joseph Flynn, M.S.S (1969, 5pp).
Also includes appreciation of Fr Sheil by Very Rev. Joseph Flynn, M.S.S., printed in 'Irish Province News' (April 1968, 2pp).