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Chronology of Fr Edward Sydes’ life.

Disputation theses from Milltown Park, Dublin.

Print out of personal history.

Group photograph of Irish members of the Society of Jesus. Includes:
Edward Dillon (1);
J Dwyer (2);
Mulcahy (3);
Sullivan (4);
John Fallon (5);
? (6);
? (7);
Esmonde White (8);
Michael McGrath (9);
McEgan (10);
? (11);
Joseph Flinn (12);
? (13);
? (14);
? (15);
Egan, J (16);
? (17);
? (18);
? (19);
Patrick O'Brien (20);
Patrick O'Mara (21);
Michael Garahy (22);
Patrick Connolly (23);
Bart Coghlan (24);
Ermest Spillane (25);
? (26);
Gus O'Kelly (27);
James Maher (28);
William O'Keefe, (29);
Edward Sydes (30);
Richard Murphy (31);
William Lockington (32);
? (33);
? (34);
Thomas Wheeler (35);
Patrick McGrath (36).

Group photograph of Irish members of the Society of Jesus. Includes:
Br Michael Naughton; Br Joseph Mulvany; Joseph Lamsfus; William Kelly; Laurence Potter; Mulcahy; Thomas O'Dwyer; Gaspar van Spaendonck; Ernest Spillane; Bart Coghlan; Patrick Connolly; Michael Garahy; Timothy Corcoran; Esmonde White; Sydes, D.; Kelly; Patrick O'Brien; Joseph Healy; William Lockington; M Maher; Fallon; O'Meara; Edward Dillon; John Egan; Joseph Flynn; Gus Kelly; Patrick McGrath; Michael McGrath; Andy MacErlean; Thomas Wheeler; Albert Power; John MacErlean; Henry; William Kelly; John Hughes; Eugene Browne; Peter Finlay; William Flynn; Andrew Rorke.

Letter from Fr Jeremiah Sullivan SJ, St Ignatius College, Riverview, Sydney to Fr Thomas Wheeler SJ concerning the voyage to Australia and news from Riverview. Refers to retreats given by Fr Edward Sydes and Fr Tom Walsh. Remarks '...(they) are Sydney's great rival preachers...(Fr Walsh) is to give a retreat to the St. Vincent de Paul Society this week and is styled on their posters and handbills as "one of the most attractive and eloquent of the younger Jesuits" '.

Letter from Mary Sydes (sister of Fr Edward J. Sydes SJ) c/o Fr Robert J. Little SJ, Manresa, Kensington Terrace, Brisbane to Irish Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ concerning the death of her brother while serving as a military chaplain. Asks Fr Nolan if the Society of Jesus would waive their right to a military pension on behalf of Fr Sydes so that she could claim it.
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Letters from Fr Edward Sydes SJ to Fr John Ryan SJ. Includes a letter discussing wills of Jesuits with specific reference to members of the Society in Australia.

A file of letters from Fr Edward Sydes SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ concerning his work in Australia.

Letters and telegrams to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from the Senior Chaplain (R.C.), Australian Imperial Force, [Fr Thomas King] and Frs William Feran and John H Wright, Farm Street, London concerning Fr Sydes’ death in London on 15 November 1918 as a result of bronchitis and thrombosis.

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan SJ from Fr Sydes written just before and during his appointment as chaplain serving with the 2nd Australian Division, A.I.F, in France.

Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters. Includes letters concerning financial matters and;
– a complaint about an individual Jesuit with regard to his behaviour while conducting a retreat for nuns (See also ADMN/3/36);
– a draft deed of trust for the Father Delany Exhibition (See also ADMN/3/13);
– the health and financial affairs of various scholastics;
– the proposal for the establishment of a [school] at Tullabeg by the Society of Pious Missions;
– a conference of Jesuit Fathers in Chicago for the purpose of adopting a Provisional Constitution of the ‘Frequent Communion Guild’;
– requests for money from various individuals;
– the campaign to appoint a Catholic Director to the Board of Directors of the Clogher Valley Railway (the Society are shareholders in the Railway);
– the appointment of Jesuits to various offices;
– a petition to the British government ‘to show mercy to Roger Casement’;
– a proposed portrait of Archbishop Walsh by Sir John Lavery;
– a profit and loss account of the Irish Monthly for year ending 31 August 1914 (See also ADMN/3/20; 66; 67);
– the work of St. Joseph's Young Priests (See also ADMN/3/53);
– lists of locations of Retreats and names of priests giving Retreats for 1912 and 1913 (See also ADMN/3/36; 41);
– suggestions for Retreats given by Jesuits, by Dr Patrick Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1896-1926) and memorandum on the scheme to establish a small lending library in Milltown Park for priests (See also ADMN/3/12; 38).

Obituary of Fr Edward Sydes SJ, who died 15 November 1918, taken from 'Letters and Notices', Vol.35, January 1919 and Fr Bernard Page SJ, born in India, raised in Australia.

Photocopy of an extract from 'Letters and Notices', January 1919, of an obituary of Fr Edward Sydes SJ.