Letter from Fr Patrick McCurtin SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 10 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Patrick McCurtin

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The letter concerns the possible purchase of a property adjacent to St Aloysius' College, 'Wyalla' and the benefit it would be to the school. It ends describing the reaction to the Dublin Rising in Australia. Fr Patrick McCurtin SJ was Rector of St Aloysius' College, a Jesuit day school for boys at, Milsons Point, Sydney, Australia. Born on 1st February 1865 in Tipperary, he was educated at Rockwell College before entering the Jesuits in 1883. He died on 16th July 1938 at Melbourne. The first two Irish Jesuits, Frs. William Lentaigne and William Kelly, set foot in Melbourne, Australia on 21st September 1865. In 1901, the Austrian and Irish Missions amalgamated and Australia was created a Vice-Province in 1931 and a Province in 1950. Irish Jesuits worked mainly as missionaries, and educators in the urban communities of eastern Australia.

Irish Jesuit Archives IE IJA/MSSN/AUST https://letters1916.ie/item/3126 English Patrick McCurtin 1915-05-10 St Aloysius' College, Milsons Point, Sydney, Australia Thomas V Nolan St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland Male 1938 Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Personal Relations

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 TEL. NORTH SYDNEY 58. ST. ALOYSIUS' COLLEGE, S.J., MILSON'S POINT, SYDNEY. May 10 1916 My dear Father Provincial P.C. When Fr. Superior was going on to Brisbane to-day he asked me to send Your Reverence this enclosed letter and plan, about this property adjoining our recent ac — quisition, "Wyalla". There is no intention or request that the College should secure "Ardnours" — but from its position one can easily see that some hold over it by the Society would be an advan tage. The erection of a terrace of houses, or flats would be a great draw— back. What F. Ryan wishes to do is this — that he should be empowered to in— vest cannot read money in "Ardnours", if by renting it he could secure the money in 'Ardnours', if by granting it he could secure his interest. The prices offered are £6,000 down, and the on at 6%. The full price is £4000. I think his price will come much lower than £4,000 — and in a letter I wrote recently to his agents, I don't think that we could not write me on any re— quisitions unless the selling price of 'Ardnous' came to £3000 or lower. If F. Ryan could secure it in some way, it would be a quiet matter. Already the securing of 'Wyalla' has left St. Aloysius' in a strong position — and it has come when most undid. Yesterday and to—day there were 170 boys actually in class. Some of them sitting in chairs around the walls of class—rooms: some squatting on the floor. We hope to be in of 'Wyalla' within a week from to—day. Our deepest sympathy goes to poor old Dublin — as during the last two or three weeks our papers have been full of the dreadful happenings in Ireland. At first the feeling was one of anger with Sinn Feiners — but there is now a swing to the other side, owing to the hurting of so many — a treatment so different to that of the S. African rebels. Yours, my dear Father, very sincerely and respectfully in the P. McCurtin, S. J. St Aloysius' College, Milsons Point, Sydney, Australia Letter from Fr Patrick McCurtin SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 10 May 1916 St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland Letter from T. J. Fallon to Fr. Thomas V. Nolan, 11 November 1915Letter from Fr Patrick McCurtin SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 10 May 1916 Patrick McCurtin Letter from Fr Patrick McCurtin SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 10 May 1916