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A file of letters to Cyril Power congratulating him on the completion of his first vows.

A file of letters from members of the Clongowes Wood College SJ community (mostly) to Irish Frs Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ (1912-1922), Fr John Fahy SJ (1922-1931) and Fr John R MacMahon SJ (1941-1947) as follows :

1. Letter from Mr Edward F Ryan SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ concerning a request to Mr Ryan's mother by the Rector of Clongowes Wood College, Fr Nicholas J Tomkin SJ that outstanding debts be paid to Clongowes for his brother's education at Clongowes. Mr Ryan was a scholastic on Regency at Clongowes at this time (7pp);
2. Letter from Fr Matthew Devitt SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ concerning a letter he had received from The Parish Priest of St Patrick & St Brigit, Clane County Kildare, Rev James Colgan, and this letter is attached. Fr Devitt was lecturing in Milltown Park Sj at the time (7pp);
3. Letter from Fr John Neary SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ thanking him for the number and selection of books which Fr Noland had sent to Fr Neary for the boys (10 September 1913, 5pp);
4. Letter from Mr Matthew Bodkin, Clongowes Wood College SJ, to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ seeking admittance to the Society of Jesus. This letter is dated 27 May 1914, and on 31 August 1914, Mr Bodkin entered the noviceship at St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg (6pp);
5. Letter from Mr Henry A Johnson SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ responding to the Provincial's request that he study Irish. Mr Johnson is suggesting that he sped some time in Galway, in order to get a good start. Mr Johnson was a scholastic at Clongowes Wood College SJ on Regency at this time (27 May 1914, 4pp);
6. Letter from Fr William O'Keeffe SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ suggesting that since the current Prefect of Studies Fr James Daly is to be absent, then Fr Provincial should appoint Fr Dominic Kelly SJ as "full" replacement Prefect of Studies, rather than that task being shared by Fr Kelly and Fr Rector, Nicholas J Tomkin SJ (September 1914, 4pp);
7. Letter from Fr David Gallery SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ representing his misgivings about Fr Provincial's desire to send him to Malta. Fr Gallery perceives it as some sort of "punishment" for an unknown transgression (21 June, 1915, 4pp);
8. Letter from Fr Victor Lentaigne SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ thanking him for his letter on the occasion of his 50th anniversary as a Jesuit (30 September 1915, 2pp);
9. Letter from Br James Donoghue SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ requesting permission to visit his family in Dublin (18 August 1916, 3pp);
10. Letter from Fr John A Byrne SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ fulfilling his obligations as a House Consultor (8 January 1920, 6pp);
11. Letter from Fr Martin Corbett SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ suggesting a change in the current custom of ordering and buying goods and supplies for the College. Fr Corbett was Procurator of Clongowes at the time (21 January 1920, 2pp);
12. Letter from Fr Thomas Shuley SJ to Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ fulfilling his obligations as a House Consultor (5 January 1925, 3pp);
13. Letter from Fr Michael Meaney SJ to Irish Fr Provincial John Fahy SJ fulfilling his obligations as a House Consultor and Prefect of Studies. In this he raises a general question about gossip mongering in the community and Province and its damaging effects. He also encourages Fr Provincial to send Mr Maurice Dowling SJ and Mr Matthew Bodkin, current Regents to Theology. In the case of Mr Bodkin, Fr Meaney suggests that an unhelpful relationship between Mr Bodkin and the Rector, Fr John Joy SJ, is having a negative effect on Mr Bodkin (29 June 1926, 6pp);
14. Letter from Fr Charles Barrett SJ to Irish Fr Provincial John R MacMahon SJ concerning the "Clongowes Certificate" and its recognition by the Registration Council. Fr Barrett was prefect of Studies at Clongowes Wood College SJ at the time. The "Clongowes Certificate" allowed Jesuit scholastics to do the equivalent of the Higher Diploma in Education at Clongowes, and taught by approved Jesuit teachers (12 August 1942, 1p).

Letter from Fr William O'Keeffe SJ, St Ignatius’ Hall, Leeson Park, Dublin to Mr Cyril Power SJ thanking him and others for their congratulations on his ordination. Remarks that there are rumours about the Juniors and Novices coming up to Dublin ‘A very nice place near Rathfarnham is said to be bought for them...I should very much like to see the Rathfarnham place taken, it consists of 200 or 300 acres and a small lake. I have often been through the domain (sic) a Mrs Blackburn owns it.’.

Group photograph of Irish members of the Society of Jesus. Includes:
Edward Dillon (1);
J Dwyer (2);
Mulcahy (3);
Sullivan (4);
John Fallon (5);
? (6);
? (7);
Esmonde White (8);
Michael McGrath (9);
McEgan (10);
? (11);
Joseph Flinn (12);
? (13);
? (14);
? (15);
Egan, J (16);
? (17);
? (18);
? (19);
Patrick O'Brien (20);
Patrick O'Mara (21);
Michael Garahy (22);
Patrick Connolly (23);
Bart Coghlan (24);
Ermest Spillane (25);
? (26);
Gus O'Kelly (27);
James Maher (28);
William O'Keefe, (29);
Edward Sydes (30);
Richard Murphy (31);
William Lockington (32);
? (33);
? (34);
Thomas Wheeler (35);
Patrick McGrath (36).

Print out of personal history.