Collections

Currently there are four searchable biographical databases:

The French military database includes 16,000 biographical entries on Irish infantry in French service in the eighteenth century, drawn from regimental inspection records (contrôles de troupes) housed at the Archives de l’Armée de Terre in Vincennes, near Paris.

The Spanish military database includes over 15,000 biographical entries on Irish soldiers in Spanish service in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, drawn from a various sources in the Archivo nacional at Simancas and elsewhere.

The Louvain student database includes over 1,200 biographical entries on Irish students in the University of Louvain in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, drawn mainly from university records in Belgium.

The Paris student database contains over 1,500 biographical entries on Irish students in the Universities of Paris and Toulouse in the early modern period, drawn principally from university records in Paris and Toulouse.

Data sets in preparation:

• Irish naval personnel in French and Spanish Service in the early modern period (Simancas, Vincennes etc)

• Irish officers in the French Service in the eighteenth century (Vincennes)

• Irish law students at the Inns of Court in the seventeenth century (London)

• Irish medical students at the university of Rheims in the eighteenth century (Rheims)

• Irish in Paris hospitals in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Paris)