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Copies of Archivum Hibernicum, published by: Catholic Historical Society of Ireland.
LXIII 2010
LXXIII 2020
LXXIV 2021

Offprint of an article published in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record by Frs. B. Egan, C. Giblin, C. McGrath OFM entitled 'Irish Students Ordained in Rome (1625 - 1710)'.

Photocopy of an article published in The Standard entitled 'Scots, Spanish, Irish.'

Marefoschi, Mario Compagnoni, and Clement. 1772. Relazione della visita apostolica del Collegio Ibernese. Roma: Nella stamperia di Marco Pagliarini.

Publication concerning Cardinal Marefoschi's visitation of the Irish College in Rome presented to Pope Clement XIV. Includes a Papal document of 20 September 1773 placing the college in new hands (the Society had been suppressed the month before). Includes two short MSS bound into the text. The book is annotated in pencil by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ, with inserts by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

Handwritten entries by Fr John MacErlan SJ of the catalogues (Catalogus Brevis) for Jesuits at the Irish College in Rome, 1635-1773, and a notebook on letters of interest in Rome, Italy, and whether to photograph or copy.

Circular from 27 scholastics studying philosophy at Roman colleges, which include Patricius (Patrick) M. Hughes and Guillelmus (William) O'Farrell.

Copy of letter from Dr Grant, Director of the Scottish College in Rome, to Sir Augustus Paget, British Minister to Italy. Writes in relation to the fate of the Roman College, and its status as a university for foreigners.

Copy of letter from Fr. James Maher, writing from the Irish College in Rome, to [ ]. Sends greetings from residents of the College. Refers to Dr. Cullen, and states that he may return to Ireland on account of his health. Discusses death, sin, and the love of Jesus Christ for man. Also refers to his addressee’s health and household.

Photocopies of extracts from the booklet 'The Irish College Rome' (The Irish Heritage Series: 64, 1989) showing a map of the college's various locations and a list of Rectors (1628 to the present day). Note: The college was under the control of the Society of Jesus from 1635 - 1773.

The Irish Jesuit College at Rome was established in 1628.

Irish Continental Colleges by Kyle J Betit, in 'The Irish at Home and Abroad"

Brief notes of key dates in the history of the Irish College in Rome compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

Notes by Fr John MacErlean SJ for a lecture on the Irish College in Rome (not delivered).

Letter from Fr Alfred Weld SJ, writing from Fiesole, to Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Confirms that the letters which the latter referred to had arrived, and refers to the travel plans of Fr Kelly and Fr. Mathew. Also refers to Dr Ricard's mission in England. Reports on a dispute with the Bishop of Salford (Herbert Vaughan) in relation to the opening of a school of the Society in Manchester. Gives an account of his own visit to Rome, including his attendance at a dinner in the Irish College on St. Patrick’s Day. Remarks that they have heard nothing from Milltown since coming to Fiesole. Refers to the success of the new Master of Novices.

Letter from Fr Torquatus Armellini SJ, writing from the American College in Rome, to the Irish Fr Provincial Nicholas Walsh SJ. Thanks the latter for the money order which he enclosed in his last letter. Discusses the matter of the payment of stipendia for masses. Refers to the suspension of the sale of a farm belonging to the Irish College in Rome. Reports that the Pope had made a decree in relation to the Venerable Fr. Antony Baldinucci SJ, saying that he ‘possessed the theological and cardinal virtues in grada heroico’. Asks Fr Walsh to communicate to him details in relation to the proposed painting of Blessed Peter Faber, and asks where it is to be sent. Reports that the Fr General is in Fiesole at present.

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John MacErlean SJ on various matters including:
– Fr MacErlean’s censure on a Society Appeal for Funds;
– the progress of his historical research, news from Rome and news about the Society in Australia;
– the establishment of the Society in Ireland including a ‘list of whatever documents exist to my knowledge regarding the establishment of the Society in Ireland…What exactly the establishment of the Society in Ireland means I do not know. It may be a question for a canonist to solve. The canonical succession of the New Society to the Old is disputed, and Rome has never decided the point’;
– the proposed purchase of a volume consisting of ‘the indexes of the first eleven volumes of the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum down to the 3rd volume of April’ and the binding which is ‘much older than the contents…the binding of a Missal that was presented to Father (Nicholas) Leynach in 1613 - 14 by Francis Bray, at a time when Fr Leynach was trying to establish a chapel or oratory of the Society in Clonmel’;
– the Irish College in Rome;
– lists of books the Province could present to ‘the library to be established for the use of the Coll(egium) Scriptorum and a ‘list of those members of our Province who might now or hereafter be fit to cooperate with the Collegium Scriptorum in the production of works’ and a
– ‘Brief Sketch of the Work of the Irish Jesuits from the foundation to the Suppression of the Society 1540 – 1773’ (11pp).

List of documents relating to the Irish College in Rome and other Irish Colleges in Europe, typed up by Fr John Hungerford Pollen SJ, with some seen by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ.

List of students in the Irish College, Rome compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

List of the Rectors of the Irish College in Seville, 20 August 1619-3 April 1767, and Rome, 1635-1772, by Fr John MacErlean SJ.

Letters, notes and telegrams to Fr John Conmee SJ from various individuals in Rome on the Cause of the Irish Martyrs.

Typed notes compiled by Fr Francis Finegan SJ on the medieval monastery and church of SS Trinit´Scottorum, Rome and Irish saints in Italy.

Notes compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ entitled 'Odd Papers and Notes from Rome and Spain.'

A file of notes compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ on the history of the Irish College in Rome.

Notes on the Irish Colleges by Fr Edmund Hogan SJ, which includes reference to Jesuits at Salamanca, Seville, Lisbon, Rome and Santiago de Compostela, 1595-1767.

Photocopy of the foundation document (1628) of the Irish College in Rome taken from ‘Strangers to Citizens: The Irish in Europe 1600 – 1800’ by Mary Ann Lyons & Thomas O'Connor (2008), p.70. Refers to Jesuit involvement in the college, ‘In 1635 the college came under Jesuit control, and students attended classes in the Collegio Romano, also run by the Society of Jesus’.

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.

Article by Rev. John Hanly published in the Proceedings of the Irish Catholic Historical Committee entitled 'Sources for the History of the Irish College, Rome', read at the Conferecne on Diocesan and Local History, Ester 1963, and reprinted from the Irish Ecclesiastical Record.