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- 12 April 1842 (Creation)
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Letter from Fr John Grene SJ, Clongowes, to l’Abbé McDonald, [Fr John MacDonald SJ], Louvain. Gives news from Clongowes in relation to both the Community and school, including the progress of the Sodality, plays staged by the students, a meet of the provincial consultors etc. Also reports on Gardiner Street; the progress of building work in St Francis Xavier Church, and the Community there.
Also reports on political and social issues, including Daniel O’Connell’s activities in relation to Repeal, the campaign against landlords, the Lord Lieutenant’s policies, Peel’s new taxes. Refers to Belvedere, which he visited on a recent trip to Dublin, as ‘a splendid Mansion’. Also refers to a letter received from ‘Mr. Cooper of Calcutta’, which gives news of that part of the world.
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- Grene, John, 1807-1887, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- MacDonald, John, 1810-1893, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Belvedere College SJ, Dublin, 1832- (Subject)
- Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare, 1814- (Subject)
- O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, barrister, politician and nationalist leader (Subject)
- St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, 1832- (Subject)