Damien Burke
Michael Collins’ last letter
August 22, 2022
Archivist Damien Burke reports on Collins' last letter, to William Hackett SJ, on the 100th anniversary of his assassination.
Read moreDigital preservation of religious collections
August 16, 2022
DAMIEN BURKE :: The Irish Jesuit Archives were involved in a conference on the digital preservation for the arts, social sciences and humanities in Dublin.
Read morePhotographs of Irish Jesuits in Hong Kong
May 31, 2022
Jesuit photographers in Hong Kong (1929 to 1937) depict urban and rural scenes, sports, buildings, landscapes, and Jesuits at rest and play.
Read moreIrish Jesuits and the London IRA, 1921
February 8, 2021
Damien Burke :: Archival background on Fr William McElligott SJ, whose IRA service medal for the War of Independence years was gifted to the Irish Province recently
Read moreStrong Irish presence at Jesuit studies symposium
August 2, 2019
Participants at an archivist conference in Boston College heard about four-hundred-year-old letters of St Ignatius found inside the columns of an altar to Our Lady in 2016
Read moreA real Jesuit plot
May 15, 2019
A video tour of the three Jesuit plots in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, with Brother Tom Phelan and Damien Burke, assistant archivist of the Province
Read more200 years at Tullabeg
April 9, 2019
The online catalogue of the papers of St Stanislaus College have been published to mark the bicentenary of its foundation
Read moreThe last parting: Jesuits and Armistice
November 11, 2018
DAMIEN BURKE :: For Jesuit chaplains in the First World War, Armistice Day meant decisions had to be made.
Read moreJesuits and the influenza, 1918-19
November 6, 2018
Jesuits and their schools were not immune to the ravages of the influenza outbreak which killed 100 million people just after World War I
Read moreJesuit Archives collaborate on Irish language project
September 12, 2018
The Irish Jesuit Archives is collaborating with the Irish Script on Screen project by making its Irish language manuscripts available for digitisation
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