Historic Maps of Ireland from the Library of Congress

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

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

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.

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.

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.]

[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.]

[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.]

[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'.]

[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.]