Database Áine Hensey – A database of Catholic priests reported to be in south-eastern Ireland, 1557–1650 Documents Brian Mac […]...
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....
The 2010 issue of Archivium Hibernicum, the annual journal of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland wil be available from September. Volume 63 includes a calendar of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century material held in the archives of the Pontificio Collegio Irlandese, Rome. This catalogue, prepared by Vera Orschel...
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.
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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.
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The Irish Catholic Historical Society, St Patrick?s College, Maynooth and the Office of the Dean of Arts NUI Maynooth are pleased to announce that fundraising has begun for the P.J.Corish Research Support fund. The Fund will support research in all areas of Irish history, especially on the Irish diasporas in the early modern period. The first project targeted is the cataloguing of material for the Clergy of Ireland Virtual Research Environment. This will deal with information on Irish clergy at home and abroad in the early modern period. ...
Four Courts Press has announced the publication of the fourth volume of the popular ‘Irish in Europe’ series, The Ulster Earls in Baroque Europe: the Irish in Europe 1600-1800....
The 2010 issue of Archivium Hibernicum, which will be available later this year, features material on the Irish college in Rome. Matteo Binasco’s ‘List of Irish students admitted to the Irish College of Rome 1628-1798’ presents prosopographical material on hundreds of college students under the ancien régime....
Dr Liam Chambers (Department of History, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) has gained funding from the Mary Immaculate college seed funding scheme (2010) to construct a database of students who attended the Irish College in Paris between 1832 and 1939. The database will draw on information contained in four manuscript registers held in the archives of the Irish College, Paris. The earliest surviving register begins in 1832 and there is a complete record of student attendance until the closure of the college on the outbreak of the Second World War (1939)....