Jesuit history
The 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 moreUnique view of early Jesuit Irish mission
December 20, 2017
A recent publication by the Jesuit Archives in Rome provides a unique view of the first Jesuits in Ireland, during the Irish Mission of the 16th to 18th century.
Read moreRoscrea remembers a heroic Jesuit
October 11, 2017
Roscrea Library is marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Fr Michael Bergin SJ, from nearby Fancroft, with an exhibition curated by Irish Jesuit Archives
Read moreJean-Baptiste Janssens
October 5, 2017
Although Pedro Arrupe SJ, 28th Superior General of the Jesuits, is usually credited with effecting a seismic shift in the Society’s understanding of its mission in the aftermath of the...
Read moreLife and death in the trenches
July 29, 2017
Dalkey Library is hosting an exhibition of the life and death of Jesuit war chaplain Fr Willie Doyle SJ, a Dalkey native, who was killed in the Battle of Ypres...
Read moreSaint Peter Claver
June 26, 2017
Spaniard Peter Claver dedicated his life to the needs of the slaves in South America, and he was declared the patron saint of missionary work among all African peoples.
Read moreRemembering the Great War chaplains
June 21, 2017
At a recent centenary commemoration, archivist Damien Burke spoke about the Irish Jesuit chaplains at Messines, Flanders, including Fr Willie Doyle
Read moreHenry Garnet
May 3, 2017
Though Fr Henry Garnet favoured a peaceful response to the persecution of Catholics in Elizabethan England, he was executed on 3 May 1606 in response to the Gunpowder Plot.
Read moreSaint Robert Southwell
February 22, 2017
Robert Southwell is one of the ten canonised Jesuit martyrs of England and Wales, and his prose and poetry are reportedly to have been well known by Shakespeare
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