Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, circa 1918

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Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, circa 1918

1 (1918) Dear Fr Nolan p.c. Many thanks
for Status. It was really
kind of you to think of sending
it & it was exactly what I
was looking out for Fr Willie Keary s.j. of the
English Province - Fr M. Maher
knows him well - asked me
to write to you for permission
for him to visit his home
in Loughrea & his sisters
in Dublin on his next
leave if his Provincial
has not objection. He
has not seen his people
since his ordination and 2 he is out here almost
two years & doing really
wonderfull work. Hoping you are ever so well. I remain dear Father
Your obedient child Jack Fitzgibbon
s.j. P.S.
Would you mind telling
Fr Farley that I said
20 Masses for him last
month please.

Letter from Fr Jack Fitzgibbon SJ (1882-1918) to Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan (1867-1941) regarding Fr. Keary. Fitzgibbon requests Fr. Nolan help Fr. Keary obtain permission to go home. Fr John 'Jack' Fitzgibbon SJ was ordained a priest on 31st July 1915. His father, John Fitzgibbon, was a successful draper and Member of Parliament from 1910-1918. Fr Fitzgibbon served in the 6th Division of the British Army, having enlisted shortly after the death of his brother at Gallipoli. He was promoted to senior chaplain in 1917, and in the same year he was gassed at Loos on 5th September and awarded the military cross. Fr Fitzgibbon was killed in action by a shell on the 18th September 1918, and is buried at Trefcon, St. Quentin, Picardie.Father Nolan was the Provincial of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus (1912-1922) and was a member of the Distribution Committee which looked after the welfare and distribution of the the Belgian refugees who arrived in Ireland as a consequence of the First World War.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1195.html)