Welcome to the Archives of the Pontifical Irish College, Rome.  
 

Our Aims.

To preserve those College records which warrant preservation as archives.

To ensure that appropriate arrangements are made for public access to archives, fostering scholarship and contacts with the wider community.

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Due to current funding difficulties the archive is currently without an Archivist.

Access to our collections is currently not  possible.

Access to online collections remains possible.

Any further developments will be announced via this website.

General queries should be addressed to the Vice-Rector of the College.

 
 

Dublin Archdiocesan Archives.

Collection includes letters from Rector Kirby to Cardinal Cullen. http://www.dublindiocese.ie/

 

University of Limerick- History of Family Project.

Hosts a searchable digital catalogue of the Cullen papers of the Dublin Archdiocesan Archives- http://www.history.ul.ie/historyoffamily/

 

Learn About Archives Website.

Hosted by the Society of Archivists Ireland 'in order to provide a practical and interesting online information service for the general public (but more especially educators and their students) on archival material and archive services in Ireland.' http://www.learnaboutarchives.ie/archivists/web

 

Irish Resources in the Humanities Website.

Website is 'a Gateway to sites on the World Wide Web that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies.' http://www.irith.org/index.jsp

Links

 
 

Storage

State funding has allowed us  to generally improve storage conditions of our records by re-housing documents in archival standard, acid-free folders and robust archival boxes. We have boxed our Manuscript Journals and had conservation work undertaken on the Jesuit Files.

Assessment and cataloguing of photographs

A secondary project is underway to catalogue and re-house our photograph collection. Many do not have any captions so we welcome any reliable information about people appearing in these from researchers.

Digitisation

Thanks to assistance from the Dublin Archdiocese and the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism, we have been digitising the correspondence papers of Rectors Cullen and Kirby. Having completed the scanning of the Cullen Collection and the Kirby Collection the digitizers at Centro di Fotoriproduzione Legatoria e Restauro degli Archivi di Stato are now working on what is known as the New Collection. Material is made available online as it is scanned and the project will finish in late Spring 2010.

Cataloguing

A catalogue of the New Collection has been compiled and will shortly be made available online.

An earlier hand-written catalogue for the Kirby Collection has being computerised and is now available online.

Contacting and Visiting Us.

 

The College is currently without an Archivist.

 

Queries: It will no longer be possible to answer queries from the public as heretofore the case. Contact the Vice-Rector for further details.

Access: Access to our collections has been suspended.

Online Collection Access: Access to our online collection remains unaffected.

E-mail: archives@irishcollege.org (redirected to Vice-Rector)

Mail: Archives, Pontificio Collegio Irlandese, Via SS. Quattro 1,00184 Roma (redirected to Vice-Rector)

Phone: Irish College Reception at 0039-06-77263-1

 

Former rules for consultation of original documents.

 

Searching the Archives

 

All our electronic catalogues have been made available on this webpage. The catalogues of the Cullen, Kirby and New Collections have been integrated to the online collection.

 

Handwritten or typescript catalogues exist for Rectors O'Riordan, Murphy, Kelly. For consultation in the archives only - currently not possible. Contact the Vice-Rector for further details.

 

Jesuit Files currently being listed for publication.

 

Bibliography and secondary sources.

Projects.

Our Digitization Project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Focused on the correspondence papers of Rectors Cullen and Kirby dating from the 19th century.

Commenced: Autumn 2005.

Ongoing Project with over 25,000 documents currently available online.

 

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Two aims:

To safe-guard the documents by creating surrogate copies and reducing handling

To make the documents more widely accessible via the internet.

Benefiting from generous funding from-

The Dept. of Arts, Sports and Tourism.

The Dublin Archdiocese.

Scanning, web application and hosting of the site  by-

Centro di Fotoriproduzione Legatoria e Restauro degli Archivi di Stato, a subsidiary of the Italian State Archives.

Virtual Exhibition

Our Holdings.

 

Our holdings include Rector's Correspondence papers, Jesuit Files, Manuscript Journals, Student Register, Photographs, College Accounts, Manuscript Fragments and Transcripts. For more information click here- 'Our Holdings' and consult the online guides and catalogues below.