Historic Maps of Ireland from the Library of Congress

A collection of ephemera primarily associated with the history and development of UCD.

Correspondence relating to Fr Luke Wadding OFM and the Irish Friars Minor at St. Isidore’s College, Rome, on ecclesiastical and political matters; and concerning his interests as historian of the Franciscan Order.

A selection of early printed books from the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation.

A representative selection of printed books and maps associated with the scientific subjects taught at the Royal College of Science for Ireland (RCSI) held in UCD Special Collections.

Diploma in Latin awarded to Barry for participation in a sodality retreat to the Blessed Virgin Mary, run by the Belvedere Jesuits, and signed by Joanes Fahy SJ, P Hurley and D O'Connor.

[Letter of Fabio da Lagonissa, papal nuncio at Brussels, to Fr Francis Matthews OFM, Brussels, with seal, 3rd November 1630.]

[Copy of petition of exiled Irish Catholic nobles to Pope Clement XI.]

[Questions for intending students of the Ludovisian College for Irish secular clergy, Rome.]

[Copy of an appeal for protection by Fr George Dillon OFM to the French parliament.]

[Initialed title to oath of fidelity. Otherwise blank.]

[Copy of the last speech of Oliver Plunkett, Catholic archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland.]

[Fragmentary remonstrance to the exiled court at St Germain-en-Laye with an appended copy of a letter 18th September 1707.]

[Verified copy of the proceedings of the Irish Franciscan chapter held in Dublin, July 1666, under the presidency of Fr Mark Brown OFM, Dublin, with seal, 7th August 1666.]

[Copy of a papal brief of Alexander VII to the Irish Franciscan province, 3rd July 1656.]

[Copy of letter of the earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell to Urban VIII.]

[Description of events in Ireland from February 1646 to July 1647.]

[Letter of the Irish Franciscan minister provincial and other superiors against Fr Peter Walsh OFM, Jamestown, County Leitrim, 1st July 1662.]

[Fr Anthony Docherty OFM to the Franciscan minister general and commissary general, 12th September 1662.]

[Letter of Fr Francis Matthews OFM to Fr Luke Wadding OFM, Leuven, 4th December 1631.]

[Letter of Dermot O'Brien, Tadhg O'Brien and Terence McMahon, Brussels, with seal, 17th May 1656.]

[Copy of request and confirmation of special dispensation granted to the friars of the Irish Franciscan province in 1663.]

[Short tract on the major languages of Europe followed by a description of the counties of Ulster and the Catholic bishoprics of Ireland.]

[Endorsed declaration on the rule to be observed at St Anthony's College, by Archbishop Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire OFM, Madrid, with seal, 13th February 1613.]

[Mandate of Fr Donagh Mooney OFM, minister provincial, Kilkenny, 8th October 1616.]

[Tract relating to the imprisonment of Peter Creagh, entitled: 'Romana Depredationis […] Causa Hibernorum incarceratorum Romae anno 1695'.]

[Copy of letter to James Francis Edward Stuart, known to his followers as James III and VIII of England and Scotland, from his Irish subjects serving in France.]

[Authenticated copy of letter from the Franciscan community at Bundrowes to Fr Valentine Browne OFM, Bundrowes, 18th October 1631.]

[Copy of a letter of Nicholas French, Catholic bishop of Ferns, Patrick Plunkett, Catholic bishop of Ardagh, and Robert Barry, Catholic bishop of Cork and Cloyne, Nantes, 28th April 1656.]

[Declaration by Fr Anthony Gearnon OFM, of his support for the Irish Remonstrance of Fr Peter Walsh OFM, London, 1st February 1665.]

[An agreement between Fr James Garnier OFM and Fr Donagh Mooney OFM, Balmetum, 26th September 1608.]

[Fragmentary transcripts relating to the repudiation of Ormond by Irish Catholic bishops on 12th August 1650.]

[Transcripts of the deliberations of the Catholic prelates of the Province of Cashel, and of the renewed proclamation banishing all Catholic clergy from Ireland.]

'A Journal of ye most remarkable occurrences had between His Majesty’s army and Marischal Schomberg in Irland from ye 12th of Aug., to ye 23 of 8bre 1689'.

[Manifesto of Hugh Balldearg O'Donnell, Conde de Tyrconnell.]

[Copy of papal brief from Julius III to Reginald Cardinal Pole, St Peter’s, Rome, 28th June 1554.]

[Portion of a tract on religious houses in late Tudor Ireland, relating to the attempted recovery of Franciscan foundations in Ireland.]

[Tract written in praise of Captain Patrick O'Donnelly.]

'A breeffe and true relation of the Archbishopps proceedings with Paul Harris'.

'Philippi O Sullevani Relationes Adversus Anglorum scriptorum vituperia in Hiberniam et Hibernos ex originali M.S'.

[Pamphlet, entitled: 'Heads of a Bill for a Register of Popish Priests'.]

[Copy of a letter from the earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell to Paul V.]

[Copy of a letter of the Catholic bishops of the province of Armagh to Urban VIII , 12th July 1632]

[Copy of letter from the mayor and citizens of Cork to King Henry IV.]

[Copy of Urban VIII's papal bull in favour of all Irish colleges founded or to be founded in Spain, France and Flanders, 10th July 1626.]

[Declaration of conscientious objections to the oath of supremacy to the English monarchy.]

[Copies of two draft letters to the papacy, written by Prior John Cronin OSA and Fr Anthony Garraghan OFM, minister provincial.]

[A description of the journey made to Ireland by Fr James Taaffe OFM and of his eventual recall to St Isidore's, Rome.]

[Portion of letter of Fr John de Burgo OFM, with seal, 16th February 1710.]

[Letter of Fr Thomas MacKiernan OFM, provincial of the Irish Franciscans, to Fr John Colgan OFM, and Fr Bernadine Barry OFM, 14th October 1647.]