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Dr Thomas O'Connor is director of the Irish in Europe Project. He lectures in European history in the History Department, NUI Maynooth. He has published on Irish clerical involvement in Paris university politics and doctrinal controversy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is author of An Irish theologian in enlightenment France: Luke Joseph Hooke 1714-94 (Dublin, 1995). He has also published on Irish figures in seventeenth-century France. In 2001 he was awarded a Government of Ireland Research scholarship and is currently researching Irish Jansenists in the Spanish Netherlands and Paris in the early seventeenth century. He is editor and joint editor of the published proceedings of the Irish in Europe conferences (2001, 2003). Since 2000 he has edited Archivium Hibernicum, an Irish historical sources journal. This journal publishes manuscript sources for the history of Irish civilisation and has a particular interest in archival material relating to the Irish in Europe.

Dr Marian Lyons is co-director of the Irish in Europe Project. She teaches early modern European and Irish local history at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, a College of Dublin City University, Dublin 9. Her research interests include Franco-Irish relations in the sixteenth century and the Irish in France in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. She has published on Irish migration to France in the early 1600s and her book, Franco-Irish relations: politics, migration and trade, 1500-1610 is due for publication by the Royal Historical Society in 2003.