2010 issue of Archivium Hibernicum available in September

The 2010 issue of Archivium Hibernicum, the journal of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland will be available from September. Volume LXIII (Pp 379) contains the calendar of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century documents in the archives of the Irish College, Rome. The illustration features an eighteenth century engraving of an Irish college student. The catalogue was prepared by Vera Orschel....

Annual Conference of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland

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....

New Catalogue of Salamanca Papers, Maynooth College

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....

Irish Students at Leuven University 1548-1797

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....

Launch of P.J. Corish Research Support Fund

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. ...

2010 Issue announced

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....