Jeroen Nilis's Irish Students at Leuven University 1548-1797: a prosopography, published in the Fasti Academici series of the University Archives and Art Collections and the University Library of K.U. Leuven, has appeared. A large part of this work was previously published in Archivium Hibernicum LX  (2006-7), pp 1-304. Due to the abundance of Leuven University archives, it has been possible to reconstruct the academic careers of almost 1200 Irish students in the university....

The archaeologist Michael Gibbons has described the discovery of a previously unobserved flight of steps on the monastic island of Sceilig Mhichíl (Skeillig Michael) as significant. It may point, he conjectures, to settlement on the island before the well-know monastic complex was established there from the sixth century AD. Traditionally high points, like Mont Saint Michel in Normandy, are associated with St Michael. The accompanying image, which features a window in one of the dry-stone oratories on the island and includes a view of Little Skeillig, was taken by Thomas O'Connor....

The annual general conference of the Irish Catholic Historical Society takes place on Saturday 11 September 2010 in St Patrick's College, Drumcondra (Room D115) beginning at 10.15am with coffee and registration. The portrait, reproduced with the kind permission of St Kieran's College, Kilkenny is of GianBattista Rinuccini, appointed papal nuncio to Ireland in 1644. Dr Annaleigh Margey (1641 Depositions Project, University of Aberdeen) will speak on religious apostacy in the 1641 depositions. You can download the conference schedule below....

St Patrick's College, Maynooth, has announced the  launch of the Salamanca Papers Catalogue Project. The Salamanca Papers contain the archives of the Irish colleges in Spain from 1592 to the middle of the twentieth century. The are the property of the Irish Episcopal Conference and were deposited in Maynooth in 1951. The archive contains about 50,000 items. Much of the material is administrative in nature but there are also personal papers of college staff and students....

The 2006-7 issue of the journal (vol. 60) features a prosopography of Irish students in the university of Leuven (1548-1797), drawn up by Jeroen Nilis. This piece of scholarship presents information, drawn for university records in Leuven and elsewhere, on nearly 1,200 individuals, with an extensive bibliography and commentary....

The recently published fourth volume of the Irish in Europe series, entitled The Ulster Earls in Baroque Europe: the Irish in Europe 1600-1800 features an important piece by Hedvika Kucharova and Jan Parez on Irish Franciscan publications preserved in the Strahov Library, Prague. ...

The 2011 issue of Archivium Hibernicum features a substantial piece on Dublin imprints of Catholic interest in the early nineteenth century. The material used to compile the article was gathered in numerous Irish and foreign collections. ...