Thom's Irish Who's Who/Rushe, Rev. James P.

RUSHE, Rev. James P., O.D.C.; b. at Aughrim, Co. Galway, 29th January, 1866; youngest son of the late James Rushe (G.P.O., London), of Creevemully, Roscommon, and nephew of the late Canon Rushe, Parish Priest, of Fuerty in the same county. Educ.: private study and at the Carmelite College, Clondalkin; entered the Novitiate of the Discalced Carmelites at Loughrea, 1883; ordained Priest, 1889: discharged the duties of the Sacred Ministry at St. Teresa's, Clarendon Street, Dublin, 1892-1897; Professor at St. Mary's College, Morehampton Road, 1891-1906; Prior there, 1897-1900, and 1903-6; Definitor Provincial, 1906-1909, and 1912; witness in the cause of the Irish Martyrs, 1904 and 1917-22; appointed official historian of the Order, 1908, and required to engage exclusively in historical research work entailing much travel abroad, a visit to Egypt and Palestine, and a sojourn in Rome to arrange and catalogue the General Archives of the Order, 1914-1915, and resulting in the compilation of:—The Sources of Carmelite History (2 vols. MS.); A Calendar of Documents relating to the History of the Carmelites or White Friars in England and Scotland (2 vols. MS.); The Annals of the Irish Carmelites (3 vols. MS.); The Elian Ideal in the Early Church (1 vol. MS.); and The Cause of Some Irish Martyrs (1 vol. MS.) Author of Carmel in Ireland (1897, 1903); A Second Thebald: Being a Popular Account of the Ancient Monasteries of Ireland (1904); The Martyrs of Compiègne, and other brief Carmelite biographies and notices; St. Mary's Guild at Cambridge (1911); and of numerous contributions to various periodicals, including the I. E. Record Edited Antiquum Ordinis Carmelitarum Ordinale (1912-14), which was discovered among the MSS. in the Library, Trinity College, Dublin. Res.: St. Mary's, Morehampton Road, Dublin.