Publications

To date, the Project has generated two publications, the proceedings of the 1999 and 2000 conferences held at NUI Maynooth.

The irish in EuropeThe first The Irish in Europe, 1580-1815, ed. Thomas O'Connor (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001; ISBN 1-85182-579-7) features the following articles:

  • 'Ireland and Europe, 1580-1815: some historiographical remarks'
    Thomas O'Connor (NUI Maynooth)
  • 'The devotional world of the Irish Catholic exile in early-modern Galicia, 1598-1666'
    Ciaran O'Scea (European University Institute, Florence)
  • 'The early-modern Irish college network in Iberia, 1590-1800'
    Patricia O'Connell (formerly of NUI, Galway)
  • 'Custom and law in the philosophy of Suárez and in the histories of O'Sullivan Beare, Céitinn and Ó Cléirigh' Clare Carroll (Queen's College and the Graduate Centre at the City University, New York)
  • 'Devout humanism Irish-style: the influence of Sir Thomas More on Seathrún Céitinn'
    Tadhg Ó Dúshláine (NUI Maynooth)
  • 'A hundred years of Irish migration to France, 1590-1688'
    Éamon Ó Ciosáin (NUI Maynooth)
  • 'The emergence of an Irish community in Saint-Malo, 1550-1710'
    Mary Ann Lyons (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra)
  • 'Piracy and poverty: aspects of the Irish jacobite experience in France, 1691-1720'
    David Bracken (St Patrick's College, Maynooth)
  • 'The Irish at the jacobite court of Saint-Germain-en-Laye'
    Edward Corp (Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot)
  • 'A displaced intelligentsia: aspects of Irish Catholic thought in ancien régime France'
    Liam Chambers (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)

  • 'Irish clerics and jacobites in early eighteenth-century Paris, 1700-30'
    Priscilla O'Connor (NUI Maynooth)

  • 'The Irish in Paris at the end of the ancien régime'
    Liam Swords (Dublin-based historian)

Irish Migrants in Europe after KindaleThe second publication, Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602-1820, ed. Thomas O'Connor and Mary Ann Lyons (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003: ISBN 1-85182-701-3) features the following articles:

  • 'A justification for foreign intervention in early modern Ireland: Peter Lombard's Commentarius (1600)'
    Thomas O'Connor (NUI Maynooth)
  • 'The significance of Spanish intervention in West Munster during the Kinsale expedition'
    Ciaran O'Scea (NUI Galway)
  • 'Responses of the MacDonnell clan to change in early seventeenth-century Ulster'
    Hector MacDonnell (Antrim)
  • 'Irish migrant networks and rivalries in Spain 1575-1659'
    Karin Schüller (Universität Köln)
  • 'The Irish Franciscans in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Prague'
    Jan Parez (Strahov Library, Prague)
  • 'Aspects of the literary activity of Irish Franciscans in Prague 1620-1786'
    Michéal MacCraith (NUI Galway) and David Worthington (NUI Maynooth)
  • 'The Irish community in eighteenth-century Cádiz' Samuel Fannin (Murcia)
  • 'An Irish family between assimilation and integration: the Keatings of Poitiers 1777-95'
    Sébastian Jahan (Université de Poitiers)
  • 'Irish Jacobite involvement in the American war of independence'
    Patrick Clarke de Dromantin (Borde
  • 'Irish clergy and French politics of grace : the reception of Nicholas Madgett's doctoral thesis 1732'
    Priscialla O'Connor (NUI Maynooth)


Irish Communities in Early Modern EuropeThe third publication, Irish communities in early modern Europe , ed. Thomas O'Connor and Mary Ann Lyons (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006: ISBN 1-85182-993-8) features the following articles:

  • 'Apotheosis and crisis: the Irish diaspora in the age of Choiseul
    L. M. Cullen (Trinity College Dublin)
  • 'The counter-reformation and Franco-Irish solidarity: Irish clerical refugees at the universities of Toulouse and Cohors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries '
    Patrick Ferté (University of Toulouse)
  • Etudiants et professeurs irlandais dans les universités de Toulouse et de Cahors (XVIIe – XVIIIe siècles) : les limites de la mission irlandais
    Patrick Ferté (University of Toulouse)
  • 'The Irish in France 1660-90: the point of no return'
    Eamon O’Ciosain (NUI Maynooth)
  • Rivalry and reform in the Irish College, Paris, 1675 – 1775
    Liam Chambers (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)
  • 'L’insertion des réfugies jacobites dans la société française du dix-huitième siècle '
    Patrick Clarke de Dromantin (résident Bordeaux)
  • 'Andrew MacDonagh: the Irish Monte-Cristo Piere Joannon (President of the Ireland Fund)
  • 'Last flight of the Wild Geese? Bonaparte’s Irish legion, 1803–15
    Thomas Bartlett (University College Dublin)
  • 'Irish migration and exiles in Spain: refugees, soldiers, traders and statesmen'
    Maria Begona Villar Garcia (University of Malaga)
  • The role of Castilian royal bureaucracy in the formation of early modern Irish literacy
    PCiaran O’Scea (European University Florence)
  • Irish émigrés group strategies of survival, adaptation and integration in seventeenth and eighteenth century Spain
    Oscar Recio Morales (Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College Dublin)
  • Irish Clerics in Madrid 1598-1665
    Enrique Garcia Herman (Instituto de Historia, CSIC, Madrid)
  • Irish political activity in Spain during the revival
    Martin Murphy (Royal Historical Society, London)
  • The Victorians, The Americans, and the decline of Spain
    Ciaran Brady (Trinity College Dublin)
  • Irish entrepreneurs and Sweden in the first half of the eighteenth century
    Steve Murdoch (St. Andrews)
  • The Ray dynasty: Irish mercantile empire builders in Ostend, 1690-1790
    Jan Parmentier (University of Ghent)
  • Irish translation in continental Europe, 1630-60
    Charles Dillon (Queens University, Belfast)
  • Irish diplomatic missions to Rome during the 1640s
    Tadhg O’hAmnnrachain (University College Dublin)
  • Nathaniel Hooke (1664-1738) and the French embassy to Saxony, 1711-12
    Thomas Byrne (NUI Maynooth)
  • Irish involvement in the ‘surprise of Cremona’, 1702
    Eoghan O’hAnnrachain (military historian, Luxembourg)
  • Seventeenth-century Ireland and Scotland and their wider worlds
    Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)


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    Archivium HibernicumArchival material collected by the researchers associated with the Project is published in Archivium Hibernicum, the Irish historical sources journal. This journal is published annually in Maynooth. For further information visit the Archivium Hibernicum website.