Notebook containing Lists of Preachers of Novena to the Sacred Heart (1899-1957) and Sodality Day (1940-1954).

Handwritten notebook detailing the early history of the Australian Mission (one notebook appears to be missing).

Handwritten notebook detailing the early history of the Australian Mission (Victoria).

Notebook detailing the early history of the Australian Mission (in New South Wales).

Notebook of retreat notes by Fr Charles McKenna SJ, with index.

Series of notebooks written by Fr Willie Doyle SJ on retreats given and attended, and notes on missions, meditations, prayer, considerations, mortifications and triduums.

Notes by Fr Charles MacKenna SJ on ‘List of subjects in Retreat to Ours’; ‘Consid[eration]s’.

Notes complied from retreats given by Fr Michael Browne SJ at the Convent of the Sisters of Charity, Mount St Anne's, Milltown, Dublin.

Notes concerning the three vows of religion - poverty, chastity and obedience taken from the lectures of Fr George Byrne SJ, Master of Novices. The notes appear to be in the handwriting of Robert Nash SJ.

Notebook of notes from retreats given by Fr Patrick Duffy SJ.

Copybook containing notes on a Retreat given by Fr John Conmee SJ in Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare. Notes made by Fr John A. Byrne SJ.

Notes written by Fr Joseph Dalton SJ on the Sydney Mission.

Notice advertising a 3 day retreat for legal, medical and university students in the Ignatian Chapel, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Notice advertising a retreat for men engaged on night work in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Notice with instructions for the Station Master, (Great Southern Railways) to bear one 3rd class return ticket to Dublin to the bearer, to the House of Retreats, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

A file of notices and order of time for retreats conducted by Fr John Counihan SJ at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Statement prepared by Fr Bruno Wolnik SJ, on the number of religious in the Catholic Mission, Northern Rhodesia 'Pro Archivo S.C. de Propangand Fide'.

Óglaigh na hÉireann Week End Retreatants, with Fr Patrick Barrett SJ, Director of Retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, and Reverend R. J. Casey, Military Chaplain. By J. J. O'Reilly, 36 St. Thomas Tcr, S.C.R., Dublin. With names.

Order of the day for the mission, divided into summer time and winter time.

Copies of a publication entitled 'Our Australian Missions', 31 July 1896 (2 copies) and 1 September 1898

'Our Lady's Register' at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin containing the names and addresses of those attending retreats and the date attended.

Pamphlet written by Fr Henry Gill SJ entitled ‘Helps to vocal and mental prayer from the spiritual exercises of St Ignatius’, 2nd edition, published by the Irish Messenger Office.

Pamphlet “Fr. Willie” Father William Doyle, S.J. His World-wide Appeal and Favours Attributed to His Intercession, ‘Irish Messenger’ Series.

Handbook entitled 'Parish Sodalists Red Book' belonging to Fr John B Kerr SJ. Includes booklets, sample membership cards and sodality seals. The articles are aimed at a American audience. Includes 'An Introduction to the Sodalities of Our Lady' by Fr Douglas E. Daly SJ and 'Moderator's Manual for the St. Mary's Integrated Four-Year High School Sodality Program'.

A file relating to a petition signed by members of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary urging the Jesuit Fathers not to close St Ignatius College, Galway.

Photograph of Fr John O'Connor SJ with Jesuits Rupert Coyle, Patrick McGlade and Dermot O'Flanagan on villa, at Moy House, Lahinch, County Clare.

Photograph of Fr Leonard Sheil SJ, on a ladder while talking to a chippy (carpenter), on scaffolding. Taken for the 'Birmingham Post & Mail'.

Photograph of Irish Jesuits John Coyne, Daniel Meagher and Joseph McCarthy.

Photograph of group of retreatants at Our Lady’s Grotto, Rathfarnham.

Photograph of individuals in front of Our Lady’s Grotto, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. The priest front left maybe Fr Michael Sweetman SJ.

Photograph of individuals praying at Our Lady’s Grotto, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Photograph of Scholastics from a house of formation, perhaps Tullabeg, at villa, Castlebellingham, County. Most individuals are named.

Group of thirteen boys dressed formally, with medals on lapel. In three rows, taken outdoors by Keogh Bros. Ltd. Names are printed.

Photograph of Milltown Park villa to Ballytrent, County Wexford.

Group of twenty-three boys dressed formally, with medals on lapel. In four rows, taken outdoors by Keogh Bros. Ltd. Names are printed. Some boy appears to be wearing shamrocks [St Patrick's Day]. Senior sodality members, St Ignatius, Galway.

Black and white photograph taken in the Sodality Room, St Ignatius, Galway with Fr Edward Masterson SJ and six other pupils seated
around a table. 17th century pictorial map of Galway City in background.

Photocopy of photograph from 'The Evening Herald 'of the congregation in St Francis Xavier's Church at the annual Novena of Grace.

Photograph of the mission community, Zambia. Names on rear, given by Fr John Fitzgerald SJ (25/06/2010).
Seated L - R: Colm O'Riordan, Louis Meagher, Sean McCarron, Thomas Byrne, Jim Corboy, Des O'Loghlen, ?, John Fitzgerald.
1st row: L - R. Barney Collins (?), Eddie O'Connor, Tom McGivern, Joe McDonald, Teddy O'Brien (?), Joe Conway, Bob Kelly, Tommie O'Meara, Danny Byrne, Charlie O'Connor and Shaun Curran.
Back row: L - R. Sean O'Connor, ?,?, Des O'Connell, Fred Moriarty, Pat McDuff, Brother Joseph Duda, Jim Carroll, Br. McKinney, ?, Br. Charlie O'Connor, Paul Brassil, Jim Dunne, Paul Cullen, ?, Paddy Sherry.

Photographic album by Fr Stephen Bates SJ. The photographs depict Jesuits and outdoor scenes such as on villa at:

• Ballytrent, Wicklow (1929 and 1930);
• Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (1928);
• Gormanstown (1928);
• Clydagh, County Galway (1926, 1927);
• the play 'Pinafore', Mungret College, Limerick (1931);
• Lough Bray, Wicklow (1928);
• Aloysus Dando, Donald Roset and John Moran, Jersey (17 March 1929);
• Milltown (1928);
• Cliffs of Moher (1933);
• Ballydavid, Kerry (1935);
• Kilkee, Clare (1933);
• Killarney, Kerry (1932 and 1945);
• Waterville, Kerry (1931 and 1932);
• Caragh Lake, Kerry (1932);
• Clongowes Wood College, Kildare (1932);
• Clane, Kildare;
• Prosperous, Kildare;
• Maynooth, Kildare;
• Mount Brandon, Kerry;
• Killaloe, Clare (1943 and 1945);
• Keeper Hill, Tipperary (1944 and 1945);
• Quin Abbey, Clare (1944);
• Lough Derg;
• Sacred Heart Church, Limerick;
• Long Avenue, Limerick;
• Manister Abbey, Limerick;
• Junior Rugby Team, Crescent, Limerick (1944 and 1945);
• Dromore Lake, Limerick (1945);
• aeroplanes at Rineanna, Clare (1946);
• Tramore, Waterford (1946);
• new College extension at Crescent (January 1946);
• Crescent rugby City Cup winners (1946) and match at Mardyke, Cork (1947);

Group photographs of retreatants at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, and Rome, Italy with Fr John F O'Connor SJ, 1964.

• Photograph of the Villa house at Falcarragh, County Donegal with "Clongowes Villa at Falcarragh 1914 (centenary year; we got an extra week on that account!) Photo by Fr Dom Kelly"" written on the back.
• Photograph of the Villa house at Falcarragh, County Donegal with "Clongowes Villa at Falcarragh Co Donegal 1914. Horn Head in distance" written on the back.

• Photograph of the seascape from the grounds of the Villa house at Moville, County Donegal with "Clongowes Villa at Moville 1913" written on the back.
• Photograph of the Villa house at Moville, County Donegal with "Clongowes Villa at Moville 1913" written on the back.

Mounted photographs of those on retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. A Jesuit(s) is in front row.

A file of photographs, of landscapes and a house, of villa (holiday) at Mornington, Victoria.

Portrait of Fr Patrick Barrett SJ, Director of Retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin - College Studios.

Postcard from Fr Tom Counihan SJ, Retreat House, Rathfarnham Castle to Fr Martin Cryan SJ asking him to contribute to a retreat at Rathfarnham.

Prayer card for the souls of deceased members of the Garda Síochána Sodality, based at St Francis Xavier's Church, and calendar of names of deceased members.

Pray leaflet entitled ‘Aspiration and Prayers for a happy death’ for the Arch - Confraternity of the Bona Mors, St Ignatius Church, Galway.

Programme for a day retreat for engaged couples at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Programme for a day retreat for ladies at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Programme for a retreat for Belvedere College Union during Holy Week at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Programme for a retreat for Clongowes Wood College at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Published letter from Fr Michael Watson SJ, St Patrick's College, Melbourne, Australia to the novices of the Irish Province concerning missions given by the fathers in Australia in various parts of the country.

Register for Apostleship of Prayer, St Ignatius Church, Galway giving names, address and date.

Register for the Holy League of the Sacred Heart, Daily Mass, at St Ignatius Church, Galway giving name and address.

Handwritten register of attendance for the Congregation of the Children of Mary, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes name, address, date of reception and attendance.

Handwriiten register of attendance for the Sodality of University College, Dublin.

Register of Men's Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, Mary and St Aloysius, St Ignatius, Galway which details names, address and remarks of different guild members.

Register of retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin containing the names and addresses of those attending retreats and the date attended.

Handwritten alphabetical register of names (male), 1933 - Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Supplementary register containing names of all live members transferred from old register up to 13 November 1932.

Handwritten alphabetical register of male names of all live members transferred to supplementary register 1942 - Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Men, Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Stamp, Jan. 1937 indicates lapsed members and these are not in 1937 Guild Books. First date of admission is November 1894. Index to sections (Patron: St Patrick, St Kevin...) given on inside page.

Handwritten register of names (male), Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Dates of enrolement 1933 onwards until 1967.

Handwritten register of lapsed members of the Sodality of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, 1939-1944.

Bound handwritten register of the female and male members of the Apostleship of Prayer and Confraternity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Includes lists of promoters; inserts of a Certificate of Enrolment to the Apostleship of Prayer of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1877); list of books in library used for different subjects: Latin, Greek, Theology, Physics, German, Jesuitica, Mathematics. English Literature, Periodicals and Religion (1633-1918).

With signatures and practice handwriting by Daniel Leap[e], Bolart, Clara, King's County, 9 October 1912 and James Dolan, Roscommon.

Handwritten register of the Apostleship of Prayer and of the Crusaders of the Blessed Sacrament, St Ignatius College, Galway. Details list of classes, Spiritual Directors, President, Secretary, Treasurer, Promoter and members. Includes loose inserts of notes on; the Apostleship of Prayer; souvenir of reception for the Crusaders of the Blessed Sacrament; certificate of membership of the Apostleship of Prayer; list of members of the Apostleship of Prayer Cumann Brigid 1946.

Handwritten register of the Boy’s Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Ignatius, Galway. Details that ‘there is no record…of the date or circumstance of its establishment’ however ‘there is in existence a recording of the Sodality during 1887-1888 and subsequent years’. Includes member’s names and signatures and notes from meetings.

'Register of the Sacred Heart' at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin containing the names and addresses of those attending retreats and the date attended.

Register of the Sodalities, Confraternities and Associations of the Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Register of the Sodalities, Confraternities and Associations of the Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, detailing name, when founded, whom for, time of meetings, dates of retreats and location of meetings.

Register of the Sodality of the Holy Angels, Mungret College, Limerick. The register details names and addresses of all boys who were in the Sodality on September 1914 until February 1962 and the date received into the Sodality. Includes a list of directors of the Sodality from the foundation in 1891 to 1956.

Photocopy of report from the 'Daily Nation' regarding the end of the annual retreat for the Dublin Metropolitan Police held in St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Report of the first 25 years of the Retreat House at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, 11 March 1922 - 10 March 1947.

Report on the mission in Australia written by the Superior of the Mission Fr Jeremiah Sullivan SJ.

Report written by Fr Tom Counihan SJ on various retreats held at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Retreat and prayer notes used by Fr William White SJ.

Retreat and sermon notes attributed to Fr William Flynn SJ in the main. One document refers to Easter Sunday, 1 April 1866, [Fr.] James Butler [SJ]. References to sermons at St Beuno's, Wales, Mungret, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Galway.

Retreat group at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin with Fr Patrick Barrett SJ - Central Studios.

Retreat Group, including some members of the staff of the L. M. & S. Railway Co. with Frs Patrick Barrett, Dr Naughton (Lord Bishop of Killala), Richard Devane, Michael Garahy and Canon O'Boyle, College Studios, 31 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. With names.

Retreat Group, Traffic Department, A.G.S. & Co., Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Keogh Brothers. With names.

Retreat groups at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin with various Jesuits - Br Byrne and Fr Patrick Barrett SJ.

2. L-r: Br John Adams, Fr Joe Erraught, Irish Fr Provincal Brendan Barry, Jack McDonald and Ted McAsey [1962]-[1968];

Retreat Library at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin with portrait of Fr Willie Doyle SJ in the background – photograph by Gay O’ Brien

Retreat notes compiled by Mr Michael Egan SJ.

Retreat register containing the names and addresses of those attending retreats at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin and the date attended for the Sacred Heart Register Mona Mors Record.

Retreat register for Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Retreat register for Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin containing the names and addresses of those attending retreats and the date attended.

Copy of 'Rules of the Library' of the Association of the Children of Mary, Upper Gardiner Street. Includes six rules: 6th. - The members are requested to keep the Books covered with paper (c.1900) and ‘Rules’ (c.1909).

Scrapbook of the Sodality Academy, Rathfarnham Castle. Contains newspaper cuttings mainly from the Irish Catholic relating to the work and history of various sodalities in Ireland. Insertions include further newspaper cuttings and the anonymous draft of an article entitled ‘Devotion to our Lady in the Sodality’.

Scrapbook with calendars of St Francis Xavier's Church, Upper Gardiner Street for Lent (1896-1957), November-Advent-January (1896-1934) and May-June-July (1896-1957) including calendars for Novena to the Sacred Heart.

File of handwritten sermon, retreat notes, considerations (Catholic University, 1862), Triduum and retreats. Includes long retreats at Cork (1860), Tullabeg (1861 - 1862; 1868 - 1871); Laval (1872 - 1875); Tronchiennes (1875 - 1877); Clongowes Wood College (1877) and meditations, attributed to the following Jesuits: Frs. Peter Kenney (Palmero), Aloysius Sturzo, Daniel Jones, Patrick Hughes, Charles Aylmer, John St. Leger, Robert St. Leger. Michael Kelly, Charles Plowden, John Cunningham, James Mullen, Alexander Kyan (with history of Kyan family), John Shine, Bartholomew Esmonde, Thomas Betagh, Patrick Bracken, P. O'Reilly, Stephen Farrell, Charles McKenna, Edmund O'Reilly, Pubrick.

William Joseph Gabriel Doyle was born (1873) at Melrose, Dalkey Avenue, Dalkey, county Dublin. Known as Willie, Billie or Sloper (a comic book hero of the time), he was the youngest of seven children of Hugh Doyle, registrar of the insolvency court, and Christine Doyle (née Byrne). Growing up, Willie was devout, caring and cheerful. Educated at Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire, in 1891 Willie followed his older brother Charles into the Jesuits. After two years as a novice, he taught at Clongowes Wood College, where he produced The Mikado and founded the school magazine, The Clongownian. His Jesuit formation included periods in Belgium and England, and further teaching at Clongowes and Belvedere Colleges. After ordination at Milltown Park on 28th July 1907, Willie began work as an urban missionary and retreat giver in Ireland. His positive attitude made him a great success, and he travelled all around the British Isles. He was also the author of best-selling pamphlets on retreats and vocations.

Volunteering as a military chaplain in First World War, Fr Doyle was sent to France with the Royal Irish Fusiliers in early 1916. Within days of his arrival at the Front, he showed himself outstanding in the work of a chaplain. Lt Col HR Stirke noted that Fr Doyle was ‘one of the finest fellows that I ever met, utterly fearless, always with a cheery word on his lips and ever ready to go out and attend the wounded and the dying under the heaviest fire’. Present at the battles of the Somme and Messines, Fr Doyle was killed during the third battle of Ypres on 16th August 1917, while going to the aid of a wounded man near Frezenberg. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial, Belgium. Fr Doyle was awarded the Military Cross, and he was put forward for the Victoria Cross posthumously but did not receive it. Writing to Willie’s father, Hugh, in December 1917, Major General WB Hickie remarks that: ‘I could not say too much about your son. He was loved and reverenced by us all. His gallantry, self sacrifice and devotion to duty were all so well known and recognized. I think that his was the most wonderful character that I have ever known.’

Shelbourne Hotel Staff, Dublin - first retreat at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. Includes Frs T Ward and J McLoughlin and Br John Loftus SJ. With names - F.M. Cox.

Medals for:
Prefect of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Ignatius, Galway;
Congregation of the Holy Angels;
Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Ignatius, Galway for R. Fr[ancis] Mullery, 2nd July 1871.

Handwritten account for the sodality of B.V.M - Lorcán Ua Tuathail (In Irish). Includes a list of those who attended a week-end retreat conducted in Irish by Fr Michael McGrath SJ (1872-1946), 29 - 31 January 1916. This Irish retreat was arranged with M. Colman, 1 Edward Terrace (sic) Dalkey.

The Sodality of Our Lady, an association formed by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and approved by the Holy See, was a religious body which aimed at fostering in its members an ardent devotion, reverence and filial love towards the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary & St Patrick was canonically erected in the Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street on 1st May, 1853. Members of a sodality would attend devotions in the evening time or at weekends.

The material documents the creation of sodalities in Ireland from 1863 to 1960. This is known as ‘aggregation to the Primae Primariae’ and sodalities were formed in many colleges, convents, hospitals, parishes, and schools. Sodality booklets and newsletters provide background and history to the work of sodalities in Ireland.

Documents relating to the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Legion of Mary, mainly concerning the relationship between the Society of Jesus and the two organisations.

Copies of the Sodality Prayer and a leaflet explaining the 'Sodalists Daily Examination' by Fr Joseph A. Sommer SJ.

Souvenir of the Jubilee of the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Church of St Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street.

Souvenir of the Novena of Grace, St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

Two copies of souvenirs for the sodality day at Saint Francis Xavier's Church for 1949 and 1950.

Spiritual notes and letters belonging to Fr Willie Doyle SJ. Includes typewritten notes on ‘Samuel’, ‘Acts of Immolation’, ‘The Prayer of Christ’; spiritual letters.

St John Ambulance Brigade in Eire Retreat at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin with Br Albert Kelly SJ, Fr Patrick Barrett SJ, Assistant Commissioner P. J. MacNamara and District Commissioner G. W. Belton.

St Josephs Young Priests Society, D.U.T. Co Branch. Retreat House, Rathfarnham Castle. With names. Includes Frs O'Donnell, Henry Croasdaile, Joy, Aubrey Gwynn and Br Byrne - J. Merriman & Son.

Summary of account by Leonard and Donnelly, Builders and General Contractors for works undertaken at 27 Upper Sherrard Street in late 1953 (removing decaying timers, new coal house and sundry works) (11-16 January 1954). The Jesuits obtained vacant possession on number 27 in 1953 and put it into good condition for use (mainly) as a Sodality centre.