File of mission material relating to Fr Geoffrey Murphy SJ. Includes announcement of death. death certificate, personal record; passport photographs; and correspondence between Fr Geoffrey Murphy SJ and Frs Thomas J. Martin and Vincent Murphy, Mission Office, Dublin.

File of material relating to Fr Henry O'Brien SJ, Includes passport, personal record and correspondence between Fr Henry O'Brien SJ and Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland.

File of mission material relating to Fr John Foley SJ. Includes announcement of death; personal record; obituary; sermons, articles and correspondence between Fr Foley and Frs. Thomas O'Brien, Vincent Murphy and Thomas J. Martin, Mission Office, Dublin.

File of mission material relating to Fr John Moran SJ. Includes passports; passport photographs of Fr Moran; announcement of death; obituary; personal record; and mainly correspondence between Fr Moran and Frs. Vincent Murphy and Thomas J. Martin, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of mission material relating to Fr Kevin O'Dwyer SJ. Includes passport, passport photographs, photographs, personal record, announcement of deate, memorial card, obituary, newspapers articles, and correspondence between Fr O'Dwyer and Frs Thomas J. Martin and Vincent Murphy, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland.

File of mission material relating to Fr Liam Egan SJ. Includes announcement of death; funeral mass pamphlet; and correspondence between Fr Egan and Frs Thomas J. Martin, Vincent Murphy, Thomas O'Brien and Francis Keenan, Mission Office, Dublin.

File of material relating to Fr Michael Moloney SJ. Includes death certificate, announcement of death;, and correspondence between Fr Moloney and Fr Vincent Murphy SJ, Jesuit Missions, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of mission material relating to Fr Patrick Finneran SJ. Includes passport photographs; announcement of death; death notice; mortuary card; personal record; correspondence between Fr Finneran and Frs Vincent Murphy, Thomas O'Brien and Thomas J. Martin, Mission Office, Dublin.

File of mission material relating to Fr Patrick Grogan SJ. Includes photographs; announcement of death; personal record; and correspondence between Fr Grogan and Fr Thomas J. Martin, Mission Office, Dublin.

Mission material relating to Fr Patrick McGovern SJ. Includes announcement of death, obituary, personal record, and correspondence between Fr McGovern and Fr Thomas J Martin SJ, Mission Office, Dublin.

File of mission material relating to Fr Roger Maguire SJ. Includes photograph; personal record; and correspondence between Fr Maguire and Fr Thomas Martin SJ, Irish Jesuit Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of mission material relating to Fr Seamus Doris SJ. Includes passport photograph; personal record; announcement of death; homily; and correspondence between Fr Doris and Frs Thomas J. Martin and Thomas O'Brien, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of material relating to Fr Seán Turner SJ. Includes obituary, personal record, travel details, photograph, letter from Fr Turner to Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Mission Office, Dublin (27 August 1949) and a letter from Jim Turner, Sligo to Irish Fr Provincial (6 February 1972).

Mission material relating to Fr Terence Sheridan SJ. Includes passport photograph, photographs, personal record, announcement of death (December 1970), list of executors of will, newspapers articles on court case involving Fr Sheridan relating to a publication entitled ‘Outlook’ and correspondence between Fr Sheridan and Frs Thomas J. Martin and Vincent Murphy, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland.

File of mission material relating to Fr Timothy Doody SJ. Includes passport photograph; identity papers; personal record; announcement of death; obituary; Ten Yuan Held Bank Note - The Bank of Ming Tung - Currency for the Other World (1941); ‘residence and identity card issued by puppet government in Shanghai’; invitations to weddings; and correspondence between Fr Doody and Frs Thomas J. Martin, Vincent Murphy and Thomas O'Brien, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

File of correspondence between Fr William Merritt SJ (Limerick and Hong Kong) and Fr Thomas J Martin SJ, Mission Office, Dublin.

File of material relating to Fr Richard J Kennedy SJ. Includes personal record; passport photographs; photographs; article entitled ‘What I saw of the Red Terror in China’ (1954); newspaper clippings on the arrest, ‘trial’ and release of Fr Kennedy in Canton (1953); certificate of post-war credit and financial statements from the Midland Bank Limited and correspondence between Fr Kennedy and Fr Thomas J Martin SJ, Mission Office, Dublin.

Mission office material relating to Fr Donald Lawler SJ. Includes personal record; passport; passport photographs; photographs; mortuary card; documents concerning the estate of Fr Lawler; and correspondence between Fr Lawler and Frs Thomas J Martin and Vincent Murphy, Mission Office, Dublin.

Mission office material relating to Fr Gerard Casey SJ. Includes photographs, photographic plate, announcement of death and correspondence between Fr Casey and Fr Thomas J Martin SJ, Mission Office, Dublin.

Mission office material relating to Fr Matthew Corbally SJ. Includes passport, photographs, announcement of death, personal record; and letter from Fr Corbally to Fr Thomas J. Martin, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin and Mission Office staff, and Online obituary taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives: https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/M-Corbally.htm

Mission Office material relating to Fr Thomas Ryan SJ. Includes photographs, announcement of death, obituaries, personal record; review of ‘Jesuits Under Fire’ (1943-4), proofs and illustrations of ‘Jesuits Under Fire’ by Fr Ryan; correspondence between Fr Coyne, St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland and the publishers of ‘Jesuits Under Fire’; censorship judgements, book requests and receipts for the book; article entitled ‘The Church in China’ (1950); and correspondence between Fr Ryan and Fr Thomas J Martin SJ, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland.

File of misson material relating to Fr Patrick Toner SJ, Includes passport; passport photographs; photographs; personal record; and correspondence between Fr Toner and Fr Thomas J. Martin SJ, Mission Office, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland.

Photographs taken by Mr Thomas Martin SJ, while in Hong Kong.

1. Original Kodak envelope for negative prints.
2. Small boy in doorway
3. Fisherman with hat pulling rope
4. Woman with small children on tree lined avenue.
5. Outdoor Mass.
6. Bearded priest gives food to children.
7. Chinese novices sitting in rows
8. Small shrine
9. Bearded priest gives food to woman and baby
10. Woman and small child on tree lined avenue.
11. Portrait of elderly woman.
12. Children playing under a tree.
13. Group with telescope.
14. Street Festival Scene.
15. Elderly man smoking opium.
16. Working in paddy fields.
17. Chinese Temple
18. Church on the sea.
19. View of church exterior.
20. Church façade with rickshaw driver.
21. Side view of Chinese temple.
22. Portrait of priest.
23. Group of students.
24. Exterior view of Chinese mansion.
25. Street signs.
26. Residence by the sea.
27. View of Temple through doorway.
28. Details of Chinese architecture.
29. View of Train station?
30. View of urban coastline with spire in foreground.
31. Priest disembarking from ship.
32. Group of Chinese students.
33. Church spire.
34. Group of Chinese students.
35. Four men with trophy.
36. Nine men with trophy.
37. View of city and coast from a height.
38. View of the harbour from a height.
39. Group of students.
40. Two Jesuits greeted by a Chinese man.
41. Women walk by roadway carrying baskets.
42. View of church spire and water.
43. Man in doorway contemplating landscape.
44. Men holding carrier with animals.
45. Still life with can, scythe and fishing net?
46. Portrait of priest and bishop.
47. Men at work in a paddy field.
48. School group with trophies.
49. Exterior view of apse of church.
50. Group at viewing point over city.
51. Photograph of priest.
52. Spire of church.
53. Man with load walking down tree-lined avenue.
54. Man in paddy field.
55. View of train station?
56. Broken jar.
57. Photographs of Portrait of Joseph Lo Pa Hong with original envelope (3 items).
58. Ferry boat by quay.
59. Group at viewing point over city.
60. Sampans under Pear River Bridge, Canton with original envelope (2 items).

Note by Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ concerning Fr Dan Donnelly SJ and his MS on the war years in Hong Kong.

Note relating to contacts for air and sea passages to Hong Kong.

Notes by [ ] on the invitation of the Bishop of Singapore to open a University hostel in Singapore and notes on Irish Jesuits working in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Notes concerning the death of Fr Daniel Donnelly SJ's mother including funeral arrangements.

A file containing notes on issues relating to the Hong Kong mission, discussion points for the Superior of the mission and an agenda for Irish Fr Provincial concerning various issues relating to the mission.

Notice of death and online obituary taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, accessed 18 November 2011. https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/D-Lawler.htm

Obituaries of Fr Richard Gallagher SJ taken from an Irish newspaper, a Hong Kong Jesuit publication and online obituary, taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, accessed 14 August 2009. https://archives.catholic.org.hk/

Obituary of Fr Richard J Kennedy SJ taken from the 'Macau-Hong Kong Province Letter' 285, 8: 1986.

Online obituary for Fr Gerard Casey SJ taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, accessed 23 September 2011. http://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/GH-Casey.htm

Online obituary taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, accessed 28 September 2011. http://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/M-Cryan.htm

Online obituary of Fr Thomas F Ryan SJ taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, accessed 23 November 2011. https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/T-Ryan.htm

Online obituary taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, accessed 16 September 2011. http://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/E-Bourke.htm

Online obituary taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, accessed 23September 2011.

https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/J-Carroll.htm

A file relating to the opening of the senior division of the Wah Yan College, Kowloon.

Centre for Catholic Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Signed by Fr James Hurley SJ.

Pamphlet entitled 'The Irish Jesuits in China'.

Panoramic postcard containing views of the harbour at Hong Kong. Annotations on reverse by Fr John Neary SJ pointing out significant features.

Permission from the Colonial Office for four priests to apply for passages to Malaya, Borneo and Hong Kong.

Typed copy of the petition sent by the Society of Jesus in Portugal to the Pope seeking his approval for the foundation of a school run by the Society of Jesus in Hong Kong.

Photograph depicting a view of Hong Kong harbour and Kowloon.

Photograph of a Chinese woman holding a baby.

Photograph of group of Jesuits talking outside a residence in Northern Rhodesia. The car belongs to a Franciscan according to the writing on the reverse of the photograph [Not Northern Rhodesia, but Irish Jesuits at Hong Kong in 1930s].

Photograph of Jesuits at house warming in Northern Rhodesia [Not Northern Rhodesia, but Irish Jesuits at Hong Kong in 1930s].

Photographic album with original and copy inserts of scenes from Hong Kong, Canton and China. The copy photographs (seem to be mass-produced and touristic) have numbers in the bottom left hand corner, with white handwritten captions, for example, 'A chair at Hong Kong', while original photographs are often described on reverse with pencil, 'The Seminarians 1926', and underneath in light pencil. The first number of photogrpahs are missing. The album appears to contain a large number of photographs of Franciscans in China and of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Inc. (Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers), and some Jesuits. Includes: the consecration of Bishop Valtorta [with the] Band from the Salesian Industrial School, Macao (1926); Fr Crochet SJ and his Chinese flock; Bishop Wittner OFM and his Chinese priests; seminarians of the regional seminary at Tatungtu, Shansi; Fr Netto; Fr Pradel with lepers at Sheklung; Fr Nugent (Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America), Ningpo, Fr Gleeson, Frs Driscoll, Malone and Murphy (Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America). The Irish element to the album may perhaps why it ended up with the Irish Jesuits.

Photographic album of the (the new) Wah Yan College, Hong Kong. The photographs have typewritten captions. Includes: various buildings, exteriors, interiors and landscape photographs of Wah Yan College, Queen's Road East, Hong Kong: opening day ceremonies of the new college (27 September 1955); Irish Jesuits Frs John Carroll, Richard Harris, Matthew Corbally, Richard Gallagher, Donald Lawler, Thomas Ryan, Timothy Doody, James McAsey, Herbert Dargan, Patrick Toner, Edmund Sullivan and Cyril Barrett; Monsignor Lorenzo Bianchi, Bishop of Hong Kong; Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham and Lady Grantham; Professor Gordon Brown.
Includes photographs of Fr Gallagher's jubilee dinner ar Ricci Hall.

A file of black and white photographs of Fr Patrick Joy SJ, his friends and [members of his family]. Many of the photographs depict Fr Joy in Hong Kong. Includes:

• ordination of Jesuits in Hong Kong;
• blessing children in Malacca during St Francis Xavier centenary celebrations [1949];
• week-end retreats;
• Penang Hill (1949);
• hostel site, Kings Road, Hong Kong (October 1953);
• Petaling Jaya;
• Peel Road, Kuala Lumpur (1958);
• Mrs [Tempairy] and Winnie, Red Lodge, Oakwood Lane, Leeds, England;
• Irish Jesuit scholastics in two rows. Patrick Joy, front row, extreme right. Aubrey Gwynn, back row, second from left [1912]-[1924].

Black and white photographs of Fr Richard Gallagher SJ on his voyage to China and photographs of China.

• 'Shadow of 'Mongolia' on bank of Canal (Suez) about 7.30', 5 October 1927;
• 'Monsoon in China Sea', 20 October 1927;
• 'Cecilia, Two [ ] The Coolie is wearing a mackintosh D' [1928] - [1938];
• Fr Richard Gallagher SJ at his desk [1928] - [1938];
• Fr Richard Gallagher SJ in Ireland [1945]-[1947];
• 'Left to right standing - Father H. Morris, Con Lynch, M O'Flanagan, Mosignir Collins, Monsignir Crowley. Seated Fr Michael Sheehy, Fr Tom Lynch';
• 'At a party given for Fr Dick by two lawyer friends' [1950] - [1962];

Photographs in possession of Fr Thomas Byrne SJ including:

• individual photographs of Fr Thomas Byrne SJ (4 items);
• group photograph including Frs Laurence Kearns, Thomas Byrne, Br - , - , - , Sean McCarron, - , at Dollymount, Manresa, Dublin [1948]-[1952);
• photographs of Fr Thomas Byrne SJ visiting schools in Asia (2 items);
• group photograph of Fr Thomas Byrne SJ with others, in white cassocks;
• group photograph of Irish Jesuits in Zambia, including Fr Thomas Byrne SJ in centre, with Bishop James Corboy SJ;
• group photographs of Irish Jesuits in Hong Kong (although Fr Thomas Byrne SJ, Superior of the Hong Kong Jesuits, 1957-1960, these photographs postdate that time (5 items);

Photographs of Hong Kong missionaries. Most of the individuals are identified. Inlcudes a letter from Br E Connolly, Secretaritus Missionum, Borgo S. Spirito, Roma, Italy to Fr John Coyne SJ, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin enclosing a list of photograph in their archives of missionaries on the Hong Kong mision.

Includes photograph of visit of Fr General Pedro Arrupe SJ to Wah Yan College

Photographs of the Hong Kong mission. Includes group photos of the community at Loyola House. Included in those present are Fr Donald Lawler SJ, Fr Chambers OFM, Fr D’yalla (Milan Mission) and Mr Basto (Architect of “Loyola”). Also includes group photos of schoolboys.

Copy of picture from the Daily Mail newspaper depicting a view overlooking Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.

Plan of a building belonging to the Jesuit mission in Hong Kong.

Points discussed and agreed between Irish Fr Provincial John R. MacMahon SJ and Fr Patrick Joy SJ (Superior of the Hong Kong mission) concerning financial arrangements for the mission.

Postal district map of Kwangtung District. Scale 1:300000.

Copy of the a preliminary report on the construction of new buildings at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong by Philip Will Jr.

A file of press clippings from the 'Irish Press' and 'Irish Times' concerning the safe return of Irish Jesuits from Hong Kong following the Japanese surrender.

A file relating to a questionnaire circulated by the Sacred Propagation of the Faith in order to obtain up to date information for the Dictionary of Missions.

Reasons for investing money in Hong Kong rather than in Europe.

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

Report by Fr Patrick Joy SJ (Superior of the Hong Kong mission) on interviews he had in Rome with various officials concerning the future of the Hong Kong mission.

A report by John Gannon SJ sent to Irish Fr Provincial on Chinese education and a proposal to establish a centre for Chinese students. Includes a covering letter.

A file relating to requests received from the Hong Kong mission for financial assistance.

Revisors reports of the Chinese mission.

Ricci Hall: a decade 1929-1939

Ricci: Souvenir record of the silver jubilee of Ricci Hall, Hong Kong University 1929-1954.

Status of the Hong Kong Mission.

Manuscript by Fr Eddie Bourke SJ, 'Steering neutral in troubled waters: Hong Kong 1941-1945', as a sequel to 'Jesuits Under Fire'. With explanatory letter to Fr Fergus Cronin SJ.

Summary of the Annual Letters from the Hong Kong mission, including a summary of the Apostolates in each house in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaya.

Telegram announcing the death of Fr Seán (John) Turner SJ and online obituary taken from the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, accessed 10 July 2009. https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/J-Turner.htm

Telegram from Fr Eddie Bourke, SJ concerning masses said. Requests money.

File of telegrams concerning the Hong Kong mission and departure to and arrival of Jesuits in Hong Kong.

A file of telegrams from Fr Albert Cooney SJ to Irish Fr Provincial concerning the Hong Kong mission.

Text of a MS by Fr Harold Naylor SJ on the Jesuits in Hong Kong 1926-2000. Includes a floppy disc containing the text.

The Shield, Wah Yan College, Kowloon magazine.
Volume 9 - July 1961;
Volume 29 - 1980-1981;
Volume 42 - 1993-1994;

The Star - War Yan College Hong Kong magazine.

Thomas F. Ryan SJ : from Cork to China and Windsor Castle 1889-1971.
Columba Press, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, 2010

Documents for Ireland and Hong Kong.

• House Histories (Historia Domus);
• Annual Letters (Litterae Annuae);
• Lives of those who have died (Summarium vitae defunctorum);
• Province Accounts (Status temporalis trienalis domorum et arcarum Provinciae);
• Index of authors and books published by Ours (Index auctorem et librorum a Nostris editorum).

Typed manuscript by Fr Edward Bourke SJ entitled ‘Steering neutral in troubled waters Hong Kong 1941-1945’. Includes letter from Fr Bourke to Fergus, possibly, Fr Fergus Cronin SJ, in which he explain the idea behind the manuscript, ‘to have something ready if a sequel to Jesuits Under Fire was to be published (book by Fr Thomas Ryan SJ on the Jesuits in Honk Kong during the Second World War).

Typescript entitled 'Steer Neutral in Troubled Waters, Hong Kong 1941 - 1945' describing the experience of Irish Jesuits during the Japanese occupation by Fr Eddie Bourke SJ. Not related to Fr Thomas Ryan's 'Jesuits Under Fire'.

Wah Yan College Kowloon 50th anniversary magazine.

Wah Yan College, H.K, 75th anniversary album 1919-1994.

Why Hong Kong?

A file relating to the will of Canon Roche and money he left for the education of students for foreign missions.

File relating to the work of Fr Harold E Craig SJ in China and India. Includes correspondence concerning difficulties with Fr Craig in both missions and his recall to Ireland.