Journal produced by the Irish Society/Juniors entitled 'Ar Aghaidh'. The journal is handwritten and contains essays, poems, songs and illustrations.

Journal of Fr Minister at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, with two inserts on work to be done to the house and grounds (1948; 1950).

Handwritten journal of Fr Minister at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin detailing the comings and goings of the house.

Jesuit Tertian fathers at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. With names.

Letters to Fr Stephen Bates SJ from and about Jesuit ex-students of the Crescent. Includes correspondence between Fr Bates and Fr James Finucane SJ, in which the latter attempts to identify subjects in various photos, and also gives information on the activities and careers of several ex-pupils. Also includes letters from Fr Peter Halpin SJ, which contain memories of his days as a pupil at the Crescent. Other correspondents also attempt to identify subjects in photos, write about their memories of their own schooldays, and give brief biographies of other ex-pupils, both lay and clerical.

Inventory of Rathfarnham Castle for Fire Insurance made out by Fr Thomas Shuley SJ. Inventory includes details of the furnishing and content of each room. Inventory of the kitchen area by Br Andrew Bannon SJ.

Interior photographs of Rathfarnham Castle including negatives of the stained glass windows in the Chapel.

A file relating to various insurance policies held by the Jesuit Fathers, Rathfarnham Castle including workmen's compensation insurance, main building and outhouses, contents, motor, public liability, fire insurance.

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A file containing information on the history of Rathfarnham Castle. Includes a photocopy of an article on Rathfarnham Castle by Alistair Lindsay, Senior Architect, OPW from Interfuse (Autumn 1994, 4pp).

A file containing information on the history of Rathfarnham Castle. Includes a photocopy of a chronological timeline, ‘Notes on Rathfarnham’ from the Irish Jesuit Directory and a photocopy of ‘Rathfarnham Castle and some of its former owners’ published in Memorials of the Irish Province, Part 1, Centenary Year 1814 – 1914.

Information on Rathfarnham Castle, written by Fr Senan Timoney SJ for OPW guides.

Information notice concerning the history of Rathfarnham Castle Dublin

Individuals praying at grotto at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin - College Studios.

Individual at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin with Fr Patrick Barrett SJ.

Historical note on Rathfarnham castle. Includes a postcard with a note by Fr Richard Coyne SJ concerning the historical note and remarks that he left a copy with Mrs Carter, 12 Doddervale. Continues 'The housekeeper asked if I were from the castle and if I wanted to see the picture...The housekeeper said they were expecting another priest...to call to see the picture. I had mentioned at my last visit that Fr Rector might be interested in seeing it.' (2 September 1972, 1 item).

Historia Domus for Rathfarnham Castle for the year 1971 - 1972.

Historia Domus (House history) and Litterae Annuae (Annual letters) for Rathfarnham Castle. References to seismograph, a plane (Royal Flying Corps, Tallaght) crash landing on the boundary with the golf course [1916]. List results and prizes gained by Jesuits studying at University College Dublin (1913 - 1922).

Handwritten monthly accounts of costs of food and supplies for retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (includes bread, butter, sugar, milk, tea and jam).

Guestbook for those on retreat at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Group photographs of Jesuits (named) at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

• 'PP 3i Anni Rathfarnham 1941-2';
  Back row, l-r: Patrick Harper, John O'Shaugnessy, Thomas O'Callaghan, Brian McMahon, Michael O'Mahony, Gerard McLaughlin, James Kelly, Peter McSeamais. Middle row: Liam McElligott, Michael O'Meara, Terence Sheridan, Scozzeri, - Van Bogrt, Fergus Cronin, Denis Gilmore, Brendan Brennan and Peter Buschman. Front row: George Carroll, Aidan Ennis, Charles O'Conor, Henry Keane, Gerard Golden, Gerard Perrott and John Williams. Names given in 1970, of those who have died on reverse.

• 'Autumn 1914', Juniors at Rathfarnham;
  Back row, l-r: John Farrell, Aubrey Gwynn, Thomas Moore, Denis Hayes and Colin McKillop. Middle row: Robert McCarthy, Michael Kelly, Paul O'Dea, Charles Scantlebury, Noel Burke-Gaffney, Donal McCarthy. Front row: Eddie Bourke, Charles Molony, John Ryan, Jeremiah Higgins and Kieran Ward.

• [1958]-[1964];
  Jesuit brothers including, l-r Andre Bannon, - John Adams, Edward Keogh and Fitzgerald at Rathfarnham Castle.

• [1958]-[1964];
  Back row, l: Anthony Baggot, Ned Keogh, John O'Connor, Gabriel McKinney, Liam O'Hara, Joseph Osborne, William Glanville, Roderick Greaney, Anthony McShera, James Fitzgerald. Middle row: Albert Kelly, Patrick Brady, Joseph Cleary, James Priest, Frank Roe. Seated: Andrew Bannon, John Adams, Charles O'Conor, Fergal McGrath, Patrick McNamara.

Group photograph of the Jesuit community at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. - check if copy of:

Photograph of the Rathfarnham Castle community on the occasion of Fr John Swain's visit.

IE IJA FM/RATH/273/31, Mounted photograph of Very Rev. Fr. Assistant and Community, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (See attached names given by Fr Hugh Duffy SJ, 2014).

Group of retreatants at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Group at the entrance to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. The Irish and Vatican flags are flying. Includes Jesuits, l-r Bob Thompson, Tony Baggot, Matthew Meade, Paddy Doyle, George Fallon, Seán Ó Duibhir and Jim Fitzgerald.

Group at the entrance to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Includes Fr Matthew Meade SJ.

Grotto erected by employees of the Dublin United Tramways Co., Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin - Independent Newspapers. With committe names.

Glass plate negative of the [Jesuit community] outside the main entrance, Rathfarnham Castle, possibly for the visit of the Fr John J McMahon SJ, 1962.

File relating to Fr William T Stephenson SJ, including application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, catalogue entries, memorial card and book by Fr Stephenson entitled, 'Jesus Christ: Yesterday Today and For Ever: Easy Meditations on the Gospel' (90pp, 1969).

File relating to Fr William Saul SJ, including application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and catalogue entries,

A file relating to Fr William R Prendergast SJ, including application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, catalogue entries, memorial card and an album of black and white photographs (Jesuit life, villa, school and family photographs (1916-1950).

Material relating to Fr William Hogan SJ, including admission details, catalogue entry, and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincial.

Fr William Doyle SJ, Chaplain - by Keogh Brothers Ltd., 124 St Stephens Green West and 75 Lower Dorset St, Dublin. On reverse is written Rev. C. Doyle, Presbytery, Upper Gardiner Street.

A file relating to Fr William Dargan SJ, including biographical information, black and white photographs, birth certificate and stole with the initials W.D. (William Dargan) and the date of his ordination, 31 July 1935.

File relating to Fr Thomas J O'Donnell SJ including memorial card, photographs, catalogue entries, application to join the Society and correspondence relating to his time spent in India and at Vatican Radio.

Material relating to Fr Thomas F O'Sullivan SJ including correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, personal record, memorial card and application to join the Society.

Material relating to which Fr Sydney C Lennon SJ includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

File containing material relating to Sean Noonan's admission to the Society and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials relating to mission work, the provincial congregation and his final illness.

File containing Richard Maguire's admission papers and correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials relating to retreat and mission work and his time as chaplain at the Royal Hospital of the Incurables, Donnybrook, Dublin.

File relating to the admission of Richard Brenan to the Society of Jesus and subsequent professional life including correspondence relating to retreat work and from a sabbatical year at the École S. Louis de Gonzague, 12 rue Franklin, 75016, Paris. Includes a relic of St Francis Xavier, inherited by Fr Richard brenan SJ (1979).

A file relating to Fr Patrick Coffey SJ. Includes biographical information, correspondence, concerning his health during his early years in the Society and correspondence during his time in England working in parishes in Birmingham and London.

A file relating to Fr James T Casey SJ including biographical information.

File containing MacSeumais’ admission papers and correspondence with his Irish Fr Provincials from post-war Germany, Pakistan, England and the United States. Photograph included.

A file relating to Fr Gerald Brangan SJ. Includes biographical information and correspondence concerning his time in Zambia.

File containing papers relating to Francis Hennelly's admission to the Society of Jesus; his initial studies; family visits; time as a teacher at Clongowes Wood College; periods of residence at Mungret, County Limerick; St Ignatius College, Galway; Tullabeg, County Offaly; Gardiner Street, Dublin; ongoing illness and death.

A file relating to Fr Eugene A Ward SJ. Includes application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, catalogue entries, extensive correspondence relating to Fr Ward's work in America.

Obituary of Fr Denis Gilmore SJ taken from 'The Australian Dictionary of Jesuit Biography 1848 - 1998', by David Strong S.J., 1999, pp120.

Includes papers copies of photographs of Fr Denis Gilmore sent by email by Archivist, Society of Jesus, Australia, May 2011.

• Irish Juniors at Rathfarnham, 1931
• Tullabeg, 1933
• Riverview, May 1935
• On board SS Mosel, 1937
• Ordination at Milltown Park, 1940
• Theologian Group, Milltown Park, 1940
• Tertianship at Rathfarnham, 1941
• St Aloysius College, c.1954
• Pymble, 1961

Pass issued by Willie Chamberlain, Inspector General, Dublin Metropolitan Police for Fr Daniel Joseph Flinn SJ, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin to travel around Dublin in May 1916, and catalogue entry for Fr Flinn SJ (1930).

Material relating to which Fr Conal K Murphy SJ includes correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials and curia, personal record and application to join the Society.

File relating to Fr Charles C Scantlebury SJ, including application to join the Society, certificates, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, catalogue entries, passport, photographs, obituary, pass to travel around Dublin during 1916 and memorial card.

File containing Fr Brian R Scallan's admission papers and correspondence from his time as curate in the Dublin parishes of Edenmore and Marino.

File containing ordination papers, biographical material and some letters relating to Fr Brian J Cullen SJ.

Copy form from Dublin County Council concerning the rating of new buildings constructed at Rathfarnham Castle (the Retreat House) (The new rate was set at £469.10.0).

First group of boy retreatants at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Senior Grade, North Richmond Street, Dublin - Keogh Brothers. With names.

A file relating to the publication 'The Rock'. Includes financial details of the publication and letters relating to the political nature of some of the articles.

File relating to Fr Terence Sheridan SJ, including correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, catalogue entries, photocopies of newspaper cuttings, and photographs.

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

A file relating to Fr Peter M Troddyn SJ. Includes correspondence concerning his appointment as acting editor of 'Studies' following advice to Fr Roland Burke Savage SJ from his doctor to be relieved of this position (20 - 22 December 1967, 2 items). Includes correspondence concerning the publication of a manuscript by Fr Francis Finegan SJ 'The Jesuits in Ireland 1598-1773 (17 December 1973-13 December 1974, 6 items, and 6-15 March 1976, 3 items), correspondence concerning a memorial fund in honour of Dan Chambers, and ex pupil of Mungret who died in a car accident (December 1977 - 16 January 1978, 4 items). Including application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, memorial card and catalogue entries.

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

File relating to Fr Patrick J Walsh SJ concerning his work in Africa, his health, application to join the Society, correspondence with Irish Fr Provincials, catalogue entries, photograph and obituary.

File entitled Missions in Britain 1950s containing eleven sections: Introductory letter from Fr Leonard Sheil SJ (20 February 1960, 5pp);

• report for Irish Fr Provincial (8 January 1958, 8pp);
• list of places and dates of Irish Missions in Britain 1949 - 1959 (19[59], 6pp);
• copies of commendatory letters (7 November 1953 - 24 November 1958, 3 items);
• Report for Irish Fr Provincial on Missions 1958 - January 1959 and cuttings from the [Irish Independent] on the Mission Campaign in Britain by Fr Leonard Sheil SJ (20 January 1959, 3 items);
• three ‘typical’ reports on three 1959 Missions for the Bishop of Ferns (1959, 4pp);
• ‘Account of an Ideal Mission for the Bishop of Ferns’ by Fr Sheil (n.d., 7pp);
• press articles by Fr Sheil describing the Missions (September - October 1958, 6 items);
• photographs of Birmingham and Westminster Cathedrals, Brompton Oratory, photographs of ‘children of the Irish’ (13 items) and
• map of England indicating the routes of Fr Sheil’s motorcycle travel (1 item).
  Also includes booklets and advertising leaflets for the Missions (7 items) and memorandum for Irish Fr Provincial by Fr Sheil containing suggestions for better organisation of the Missions (1959, 2pp).

Parties:
William Thomas, Earl of Clancarty, Garbally, County Galway, John Earl of Strafford, Hardmonsworth, County of Middlesex, Thomas Conolly, Castletown, County Kildare, Elizabeth Pakenham and Helen Pakenham, Spinster, Coolure, County Westmeath of the one part and Francis Blackburne, Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin.

Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
Yearly rent of £123.6.6 in two equal payments on 25 March and 29 September.

Other:
Signed and sealed by the parties.

Farm account of Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

A file relating to the establishment of a summer school of Irish for Jesuits and discussions concerning where the summer school should be located.

Entrance to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. The Irish and Vatican flags are flying.

Handwriiten poster 'Elogium Sepulcrale Sancti Ignatii'

Copy of draft recommendations and of final report prepared by the Committee on the Price of Building Land for Robert Molloy T.D., Minister for Local Government.

Documents on Jesuits' property rights in relation to the Crescent House. Handwritten notes regarding the position of the community in relation to Maunsell's house, in light of the fact that no rent had been paid since 1907. Includes a quoted opinion of Fr Masterson on the matter, and some extracts from legal documents in Latin.

A file relating to the alleged discovery of a woman's skeleton behind panelling in one of the rooms in Rathfarnham Castle. Includes correspondence between Fr Fergal McGrath SJ and Fr Gregory Ffrench SJ concerning the matter (14 May 1968 - 17 May 1968, 3 items).

Diploma of membership of the Laymen's Retreat Association (CLC).

Diaries concerning the taking over of Rathfarnham Castle by the Society of Jesus, describing the various maintenance work carried out to make Rathfarnham habitable for the community.

File relating to the development of Jesuit property at Rathfarnham Castle. Includes correspondence relating to the appeal for planning permission, the building development at Rathfarnham, the road improvement scheme, and meetings with officials from Dublin Corporation; maps and plans, valuations of the property, accounts of negotiations with developers and their proposals. Main correspondents include Frs Patrick Doyle, Cecil McGarry, and Andrew Devane, Donal Ó Buachalla and Tom Bacon.

Material on William Hughes who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 6 June 1896
Entered: 9 October 1914
Left: 9 August 1929

Material on Patrick C Byrne who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 4 November 1911
Entered: 3 September 1930
Left: 23 November 1933

Material on Michael J Byrne who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 8 August 1910
Entered: 18 August 1935
Left: 24 February 1944

Material on John Doyle who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 11 March 1910
Entered: 19 September 1927
Left: 11 March 1930

Material on Kevin Peakin, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.

Born: 6 April 1913
Entered: 14 September 1931
Left Society of Jesus: 12 May 1939

Material on Kevin Ó Catháin, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.

Born: 23 June 1909
Entered: 26 September 1927
Left Society of Jesus: 18 June 1931

Material on John Cahill who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 1 March 1911
Entered: 1 September 1928
Left: 19 June 1931

Material on James Kent, who departed the Society of Jesus as a novice.

Material on James Carey who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 11 December 1903
Entered: 26 September 1923
Left: 19 June 1928

Material on Henry Maguire, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a brother.
Born: 31 March 1913
Entered: 23 September 1932
Left: 8 December 1942

Material on George Macauley, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 18 November 1909
Entered: 1 September 1928
Left: 28 November 1930

Material on Francis X. McMahon, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 28 November 1908
Entered: 2 March 1928
Left: 29 January 1931

Material on Colman Byrne, who departed the Society of Jesus as a brother novice.
Born: 7 June 1919
Entered: 8 March 1939
Left:

Material on Colm Barry, who departed the Society of Jesus, as a scholastic.
Born: 29 November 1906
Entered: 1 September 1924
Left: 17 June 1929

Department of Defence Retreat Group at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Parties:
John Marquis of Ely of the first part, The Honorable John Henry Loftus (Lord Viscount Loftus) of the second part and John Hare, esquire, Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin of the third part.

Property:
Rathfarnham House, Parish of Rathfarnham, Barony of Newcastle, County Dublin.

Terms and Conditions:
For the life of John Marquis of Ely.

Other:
Signed and sealed by Ely and Loftus.

Declaration signed by Francis Henry Blackburne concerning the lands at Rathfarnham prior to its sale. Includes a map of the demesne.

Bound volumes entitled 'Dawning Day', compiled by the Juniors in Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin containing articles, poems and songs on the various missions - China, India and Australia. Binding is loose on 'Dawning Day', 10th edition. Includes photographs of Frs Edward Bourke, Gerald Kennedy and George Byrne, Mr Richard Harris, Mr John Moran, Wah Yan College, the graves of Frs Saul and McCullough.

Custom book for the Jesuit Juniorate at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, at university and on holiday (villa).

Custom book for the Jesuit Juniorate at Rathfarnham Castle, with insert notes on the Jesuit tertianship.

Crumlin - D.U.T. Clubs - Mount Brown. St. John Bosco Boys retreat with Fr Henry Croasdaile SJ and Br Byrne.

Cromwell’s Fort - lounge for retreatants, at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin - Gay O'Brien.

Copy of Country Life (vol. CLXXII no. 4438) containing an article on Rathfarnham Castle by Edward McParland.

File containing correspondence mainly between Fr Patrick Doyle SJ, Donal Ó Buachalla, Andrew Devane and Gabriel Byrne, Engineer of Euro–Irish Securities, relating to the Rathfarnham road widening scheme, the possible conversion of South Wing of the Castle and the Junior House for light office use, and the formal offer for the purchase of land for Rathfarnham Village By-pass from Dublin Corporation.

File relating to Pat Boland, caretaker, Rathfarnham Castle. Includes correspondence relating to his house at 178 Rathfarnham Road and a letter congratulating him on his retirement.

A file of correspondence relating to general education issues in Ireland and more specific education issues relating to Jesuit colleges. Includes correspondence relating to the establishment of a colleges/schools commission including draft terms of reference (14 December 1930 - 18 January 1931, 5 items).

Correspondence relating the seismic observatory at Rathfarnham Castle and to the transfer of the ‘O’Leary Seismograph’ to the museum at Maynooth College. Includes letters by Fr Richard E. Ingram SJ, Dr Thomas Murphy, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and Irish Fr Provincial Patrick Doyle.

Correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial and various Jesuits regarding an incident which took place at the graveyard in Bodenstown, County Kildare during a Republican procession from Sallins to the grave of Wolf Tone, in which Fr Daniel Fitzgibbon SJ played a prominent role in preventing an outbreak of violence.

Correspondence mainly between Irish Fr Provincial, Fr Leonard Sheil SJ and the English Provincial, relating to Fr Sheil’s Mission work in England. Includes:
– incomplete letter from Fr Sheil to the Provincial referring to a Mission he and Fr Robert L. Stevenson SJ are to give in Peterborough, ‘We will run one mission in a hostel, and another in the church at the same time. There are 180 Irish in the hostel; and there are believed to be about 400 in lodgings around the town. We may, or may not, be able to get at them.’ Also describes his recent travels on the Continent (third page of letter is missing) (12 Sep. 19--, 2pp);
– letter from Fr Sheil to the Provincial describing a ‘country mission in Northampton’ where he “was told to take a different village every day, say Mass in some Catholic house, visit every house – Catholic or no, and ‘hold a service’ on the village green in the evening” (2 September 19–, 7pp);
– covering letter and note (January 1953, 2pp) from Fr Sheil to the Provincial enclosing a memorandum entitled ‘Relations between Irish and English Jesuit Missioners’ (n.d., 3pp);
– covering letter from Fr Sheil (13 April 1953, 1p.) to the Provincial, enclosing a letter he received from the Archbishop of Cius and English Apostolic Delegate following Fr Sheil’s report to him of 1952 Mission work. The Archbishop writes ‘I have read with deepest interest the reports sent to me by the Reverend Father L. Sheil, S.J. and I have informed the Holy See of all the splendid work that has been accomplished. For this most necessary apostolate, certainly the Delegate of the Holy Father must send a cordial blessing in the name of His Holiness and he is confident that, with God’s help, more and more will be achieved for those who stand so much in need of the ministry of their own priests’ (9 April 1953, 1p.);
– copy letter from the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne to the English Fr Provincial Desmond Boyle SJ, regarding Fr Boyle’s ‘wishes concerning the activities of the Irish Mission staff in England’. States ‘I have…instructed Father Leonard Sheil to confine his activities in future to Camp Missions during the autumn months, and, once he has fulfilled his programme in London this autumn, to approach no parish priest about a parish Mission nor to accept any parish Mission without a specific request from Father Farrell.…I think he (Fr Sheil) has done good work for the Irish in England, some of which, such as the Confraternity in Birmingham, may be of permanent worth. But whatever good he has achieved is due in no small measure to the co-operation of the English Province and the support he received from the English parish clergy’ (22 Apr. 1953, 1p.);
– Fr Boyle’s reply thanking Fr Byrne for his co-operation and stating ‘I only hope that we of this Province have not seemed too difficult or dog-in-the-manger-ish. The position was getting rather confused and it seemed desirable to regularize it. Your mission Fathers have done wonderful work in England, and I am quite sure that Fr Sheil will be approached either directly or through Fr Farrell for further missions’ (29 Apr. 1953, 1p.);
– letter to Fr Sheil from Dr James Staunton, Bishop of Ferns in which he remarks ‘I was glad to know that you are going to St. Wilfrid’s York, and I hope your Fathers and yourself will be invited to give many missions in the secondary modern schools, and pioneer in this sphere’ (20 Aug. 1958, 2pp);
– letter to the Provincial from Fr Sheil describing the work of two Irish chaplains in London – Fr Cullen in Warwick Street and the chaplain in Bayswater (Sep. 1967, 2pp).
Also includes list drawn up by Fr Sheil of Jesuits who ‘should give a very good priests’ retreat’ (n.d., 2pp).

A file of correspondence between Brother Gabriel, De La Salle College, Churchtown and Fr Richard Coyne SJ, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin concerning the history of Rathfarnham Castle.