The Annual Cardinal Newman/Maynooth Lecture 4 May 2011 at 19.30

The Annual Cardinal Newman/Maynooth Lecture takes place in the Renehan Hall, St Patrick's College Maynooth on 4 May 2011 at 19.30. This year the distinguished speaker is Professor Eamon Duffy of Magdalene College Oxford. The title of the talk is 'Smoke and Mirrors: Newman on himself'. The respondent will be R.V Comerford, emeritus professor of history NUI Maynooth. The lecture is sponsored by St Patrick's College Maynooth, the Education Department NUI Maynooth and An Foras Feasa. All are welcome. For details click below....

Publication of Bruno Boute’s study on early modern academic privileges in Leuven University

Bruno Boute, a graduate of Leuven University, has recently published a study of the involvement of academic institutions with the benefice system in the early modern period. In this book he focuses on an anomaly: medieval privileges that provided academics at Leuven with access to the Post-Tridentine clerical job market. Despite their anachronistic flavour in a regional job market characterised by its openness for graduates, these privileges were considered vital for the survival of the university and of Catholicism....

Maynooth Annual Aquinas Lecture 2011

The annual Maynooth Aquinas lecture will be delivered by Professor Patrick Masterson, former president of UCD and former president of the European University, Florence. All are welcome to attend the lecture, entitled 'Approaching God', which takes place on Wednesday, 26 January  2011 in the Renehan Hall, St Patrick's College Maynooth. It will be followed by a wine reception. Admission is free.  ...

The Msgr Patrick J. Corish Annual Lecture, Renehan Hall, St Patrick’s College Maynooth, Mon. 7 Feb. at 7.30pm

Prof. Euan K. Cameron, Union Theological Seminary, New York City will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Cosmic Time and the Theological View of World History’ on Monday 7 February 2011 in Renehan Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth at 7.30pm All are welcome. Prof. Euan K. Cameron, Union Theological Seminary, New York City will deliver a lecture entitled ?Cosmic Time and the Theological View of World History? on Monday 7 February 2011 in Renehan Hall, St Patrick?s College, Maynooth at 7.30pm All are welcome....

The O’Queely Plate

The seventeenth-century altar plate, associated with Archbishop Malachy O'Queely of Tuam (c.1586-1645) had a chequered history. It is probable that it was commissioned by O'Queely, who was a native of Clare and educated in Paris. He became archbishop in 1630 and was killed in battle during the Confederate Wars in the 1640s. The plate may have been subsequently sent to the Continent for safe keeping during the troubled 1650s.It turned up in Spain in 1819. It had come into the possession of Henry Lynch, a native of Clogher House in the parish of Burriscara....

Fitzralph Conference NUI Maynooth 15-17 November 2010

An international conference to commemorate the 650th anniversary of the death of Richard Fitzralph of Dundalk will be held in NUI Maynooth on 15-17 November 2010. It is organised by the Philosophy Department NUI Maynooth and brings together scholars from Ireland, Britain, Europe and elsewhere. They will speak on Fitzralph's contribution to central questions in medieval theology and philosophy and will present the results of the latest research on his life and times. For further information please click below....

Pontifical Irish College Rome History Seminar

The Pontifical Irish College Rome will host an important academic seminar on Saturday 23 October 2010. Organised by Professor Dermot Keogh it will deal with the role of the Catholic Church in the formation of the Irish state in the period between the wars. To visit the Irish College website click here. You may view a pdf file of the seminar programme here....

History Seminar, Pontifical Irish College, Rome

The Pontifical Irish College Rome will host an important history seminar on Saturday, 23 October 2010. Professor Dermot Keogh has organised a number of speakers to address the role of the Irish Catholic Church in the formation of the Irish state in the period between the World Wars. Speakers include Dr Daire Keogh, Ambrose Macauley, Martin Browne OSB, Todd Morrissey SJ and Patrick Kiely....

Publication of Jeroen Nilis’s prosopography of Irish Leuven students

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....

Recent discovery on Sceilig Mhichíl, Ciarraí

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....