Reports on Jesuit Studies in the Irish Province.

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

Report on the condition of sanitation services to Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Part of a report on how Theological Studies are managed in an unidentified Theological College. An accompanying note in English suggests that the College may be St Beuno's, and that the writer may be Fr Edmund O’Reilly. (In Latin).

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

Report of the two days' debate held in Dublin Corporation on the Charter for the Catholic University.

Handwritten report written by Rev Dr James Gartlan, Vice-Rector for the session 1858 - 1859 of the Catholic University for the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland.

Report describing the establishment of the Tertianship in Rathfarnham because of the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

Report by Fr John Henry Newman relating to offences of two students at the University, Molloy and Mulholland. Relates to Molloy leaving the premises without leave.

He was threatened with rustication by John Henry Newman for absconding one night from University House to go to a party.

Regulations made by the Father General in response to the Vice-Provincial's visit and his report thereon. The rules concern the regulation of timetables in relation to ‘the duties of the day’, such as prayer, meditation, Masses, confessions etc., as well as mealtimes. There is an emphasis on obedience to authority, as well as economy, and a certain amount of disengagement from secular life. It is noted that the ‘Spirit of the Rule…is quite inconsistent with unnecessary visits to persons of the other sex’.

Rector's report (John Henry Newman) for the Catholic University submitted to the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland for the year
1854 - 1855.

File of material relating to the proposed development of Jesuit land at Rathfarnham Castle. Includes planning application, appeal, and letters from local residents and from Andrew Devane, architect, and Donal Ó Buachalla, auctioneer.

Preliminary planning report by Delaney MacVeigh and Pike, Planning Consultants, regarding the lands of the Jesuit Fathers at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

Pamphlets relating to 'University Education, Ireland 1849 - 1918', with a catalogue compiled by Brendan Woods SJ, May 1989, (4pp). Includes:

• Address of the Catholic University Committee to the people of Ireland, 1850, (12pp, 2 items), (Ir.082.4158/T32B);
• Catholic University, Dublin. School of Engineering, 1855-56, 2 items, (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Rules and Regulation of the University (Catholic University), 1856, (34pp), (Ir.082.4158/LI55);
• Scheme of Rules and Regulations, afterwards to be adapted to University use. 9 May 1856, (55pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• The Rector's Report, Catholic University, for the year 1856-1857, 1858, (35pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Calendar of the Catholic University for the year 1854-58, 1860, 1860, (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• The Rambler, Vol. III New Series, May 1860, Part VII. The Catholic University of Ireland, (10pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• The Catholic University Charter, 1862, (33pp, 2 copies), (Ir.082.4158/T42A);
• Report of the Dean and Faculty of Science of the Catholic University of Ireland, Session 1857-1858, 1858, (40pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Report of the Catholic University, 1863, (6pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• The financial exigencies of Ireland before and after the legislative union, 1864, (26pp), (Ir.082.4158/L179);
• Notes on "University Education in Ireland", 1865, (45pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Catholic University of Ireland. Instruction for students desirous to enter as interns or externs resident in Dublin, 1865, (11pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• A free inquiry into the Education Question by John McEvoy, 1866, (45pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Constitution and statutes of the Catholic University of Ireland, 1869, (79pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Catholicity and Progress: An essay which obtained the prize offered by the Solicitor-General of Ireland to the Literary, Historical, and Aesthetical Society of the Catholic University written by Charles Dawson, 1869, (21pp), (Ir.082.4158/L195);
• Academical course and examinations of the Catholic University of Ireland in the faculty of Philosophy and Letters, 1873, (30pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Report on the present condition of the Catholic University, 1873, (26pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• Intellectual Resources of Ireland. Supply and Demand for and enlarged system of Irish University Education. by Robert D. Lyons, London, 1873, (84pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Report on the Catholic University, 1875, (28pp), (Ir.082.4158/T59B);
• A National university for Ireland. A speech. by Isaac Butt, 1876, (24pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Catholic University of Ireland. Academical Course. Programme of Examinations. Examination Papers 1875, 1876, (75pp), (Ir.082.4158/T53B);
• On the study of mental philosophy by Catholic students in the Royal University of Ireland by Rev. James Kavanagh, 1885, (28pp), (Ir.378.415/T130);
• Address given by the J.F. Whittington Howley, auditor of the Literary and Historical Society, University College Dublin, on Prussian Education: A history and a lesson, 15 November 1889, (23pp), (Ir.082.4158/T121A);
• Prize Essay on Love of Nature in English Poetry by Patrick Morgan MacSweeney, M.A., winner of the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English prose composition, Royal University of Ireland, 1896, (52pp), (Ir.082.4158/T74B);
• Irish University Education: An academic study by J.P. Pye, 1897, (41pp), (Ir.082.4158/T42B);
• Catholic Higher Education in Ireland by Thomas Arnold, 1897, (17pp), (Ir.082.4158/T130);
• A University for Catholics in relation to the material interests of Ireland by Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick, 1898, (72pp), (Ir.082.4158/T130);
• University College, Dublin. Rules and Ordinances. [1903], (14pp), (Ir.082.4159/T30B);
• Statement of Proceedings in reference to the Disorder on Degree Day, 27th October 1905, The Royal University of Ireland, 1906, (30pp), (Ir.082.4159/T30B);
• University College, Dublin. Prospectus [1908], (4pp), (Ir.082.4159/T30B);

Mission office material relating to Fr Thomas O'Brien SJ including correspondence on support for a Zambia student, announcement of Jesuit deaths, annual report for Jesuit Mission Office (1989) and leaflet for funeral Mass for Fr Thomas O'Brien SJ

A file of medical reports for candidates for the Chinese mission.

Documents relating to the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart founded by Fr James Cullen SJ. Includes: correspondence between the Irish Fr Provincial, the office of the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Charles McQuaid and Fr Seán McCarron SJ of the P.T.A.A.; memoranda concerning minutes of meetings, annual reports and statistics. Also includes edited text on Fr James Cullen SJ and documents relating to indulgences for Pioneers.

Material relating to Fr Seán Ó Catháin SJ, including catalogue entries and memorial cards, letters from Fr Michael Browne SJ, and off print of articles by Fr Ó Catháin SJ.

Documents relating to a report prepared by the Irish Fr Provincial for Fr General on the activities of the Irish Province for ‘the promotion of Catholic Action’. Includes covering letter and questionnaire sent out by the Irish Fr Provincial to Jesuit houses and individuals with detailed replies from: St Francis Xavier’s, Upper Gardiner Street; Milltown Park, Dublin; Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin; St Stanislaus’ College, Tullamore; St Mary’s, Emo Court; University Hall, Hatch Street; Belvedere College; Clongowes Wood College; St Ignatius’ College, Galway; Sacred Heart College, Limerick; the editors of the following periodicals: 'Madonna', 'The Messenger of the Sacred Heart', 'An Timire' (The Gaelic Messenger), and 'Studies'. Also includes handwritten draft report entitled ‘The Society of Jesus in Ireland and Catholic Action’ (Summer 1936) and final printed Latin version 'De Actione Catholica in Hibernia'.

Letters, reports and copies of newspaper articles on Opus Dei, and an address given by Fr Denis P Kennedy SJ.

Letters to the Irish Provincial on various matters. Includes letters concerning:

• Polish scholastics coming to Ireland to study;
• the censuring individual scholastics;
• financial matters of the late Fr Henry Browne SJ;
• the taking of villas during wartime;
• a report on Irish theologians in Hong Kong;
• the question of censorship of various publications (See also ADMN/3/1 and 23);
• the question of Jesuit support for the Catholic Association for International Relations;
• a proposal by Fr Patrick J Connolly SJ to open a Jesuit school in Dartry;
• the Secret Instruction of the Holy See: Normae Quaedam De Agendi Ratione Confessariorum Circa VI Decalogi Praeceptum;
• the prohibition of female characters in plays produced by scholastics;
• comments on Director’s Service from Sodality reports of summer 1944 (See also ADMN/3/65 and 74);
• the publication of a book entitled Selected Writings of Father Ledochowski (See also ADMN/3/44);
• an invitation to the Irish Fr Provincial to the inauguration of President Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh (see also ADMN/3/43 and 76) in June 1945, signed by Taoiseach Éamon de Valera;
• relations with the Confederación Nacional de Congregaciones Marians;
• the proposal to purchase Crawfordsburn Estate, County Down (see also ADMN/3/6);
• the Chair of Education in University College, Dublin and
• some suggestions about choirs in the Province.

Letters, mostly to Irish Fr Provincial discussing the declining circulation 'An Timire', the Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart and proposals to issue the magazine on a quarterly, rather than monthly basis.

Letters and report to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr Leonard Sheil SJ concerning missions in Spain, comparisons with missions in Britain and Ireland and the possibility of Fr Sheil’s working in South America. Includes:
– letter from Fr Sheil to the Irish Fr Provincial seeking permission to go to Spain to study Spanish missions in order to adapt certain practices for use in Britain (7 September. 1961, 4pp);
– copy of a ‘Report on Missions in Spain’ following a visit by Frs Shiggins and Sheil who attended five missions around the country (n.d., 4pp);
– letter from Fr Sheil to the Irish Fr Provincial in which he discusses certain Spanish customs which could be used on Missions in Britain. Remarks that he will send the Provincial a report ‘on the meetings I now hold with Protestant clergymen after missions in Ireland’ and that he has sent in ‘full reports on our missions in Britain’ ‘almost every year for ten years’. Also mentions a new member of the mission staff, Fr Kevin Laheen SJ – ‘You will be glad to know that Fr Laheen on this his first mission did very well. He preaches well and his musical voice was a help to O'Beirne and I. I need not tell you that O'Beirne preaches very well, and is a wonderful companion on a mission. He sleeps badly’ (Fr Gerry O'Beirne) (23 March 1963, 3pp) and
– letters seeking permission to go to Spain (and Italy) as a supply priest (25 May 19?? – 30 November 1965, 4 items).

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 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).

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.

A file relating to correspondence of bequests made to Irish Fr Provincial regarding the Hong Kong and China missions.

• Perpetual burse in memory of Fr WM. Doyle SJ in the new seminary in Hong Kong (1936);
• Perpetual burse in memory of Fr Walsh SJ in Hong Kong (1936);
• Memorial burse in memory of Fr Fegan SJ in China (1936);
• List of burse money for the education of Chinese Jesuits (13 September 1940);
• Statement of accounts for quarter the Ricci Mission Unit (1 July - 30 September 1943).

File containing correspondence between Donal Ó Buachalla, Fr Patrick Doyle SJ and others relating to the sale of a portion of land at Rathfarnham Castle, the gift of 5½ acres of land as a public park to Dublin Corporation and communication with the office of public works relating to purchase of land at Rathfarnham for the construction of a government department building. Also includes statement issued by the Jesuit Fathers on the sale of the land and indications of the charitable uses of the purchase money.

A file relating to the controversy between Dr Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick and Mungret College concerning the admission of lay boys to the College. The file contains manuscript material written by Fr Thomas Morrissey SJ. In a summary he remarks that the Bishop saw the presence of lay students at Mungret 'as a threat to his seminary' (nd, 1p). Includes correspondence, and prospectus for Mungret College, 1882, Annual reports of the Irish Apostolic School, Mungret, 1889 and 1895.

Circular issued by the Family Housing Association Limited . This Association established by Old Boys of Clongowes and this is an appeal for donations for their work. It includes a list of the Committee of the Association.

Material relates to the life and work of Charles Kennedy and to a lesser extent, James Kennedy. Includes large amount of correspondence and receipts, 1871-1901;

Material related to Jervis Street Hospital. Includes correspondence, report wills, plans, fundraising committee meetings, 1876-1902;

Wills, land details on property on Capel Street, Mountjoy Square; correspondence between Charles Kennedy and business associates, friends and relations including Chief Baron Christopher Palles. Wills and receipts related to Laurence, Richard and James Devereux, Distillers, Wexford Distillery, Kilkenny and land in Wexford. Receipts including from the Royal Yacht Club, the Smithwicks in Kilkenny. 1875-1884;

Material relates to a nephew of Charles Kennedy, Charles Doyle (wife, Lizzie Doyle, and daughter Rosetta). Charles Doyle appears to be a serial conman (at one stage changes his name to Edward Gerard) and Charles Kennedy corresponds with fellow family members in Ireland and abroad, priests in the UK and Citeaux, France and reformatories about Charles Doyle’s criminal behaviour and imprisonment in Austria, the U. S. and France. Chief Baron Christopher Palles was a brother-in-law of Charles Doyle.1872-1899;

Correspondence between Rosetta Doyle, Youghal, Fermoy, Killarney and Taunton, Somerset and her grand uncle, Charles Kennedy, 151 Capel Street and 17 Mountjoy Square, Dublin.

Correspondence between Lizzie Doyle, Youghal, Cork and her uncle, Charles Kennedy, 151 Capel Street and 17 Mountjoy Square. Relates to her time as a student at the Loreto convent, Youghal and issues such as family matters, school fees; 1875-1889.

Biographical details and appreciation of Fr John Ryan SJ taken from the report of the President of University College Dublin.

Annual report of the Apostolic School of Ireland, 1884 - 1885. Contains a sketch of the organisation of the Apostolic school, various extracts from the school diary and letters from the Rev. W. Ronan SJ to the fathers and students of Mungret College.