The Correspondence of Paul Cullen project is an ambitious enterprise, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). It seeks to gather and publish the correspondence of this colossus of Irish religious, social, and political life, a vast collection which provides a critical insight into the formation of the beliefs and values of modern Ireland.

The project will bring together correspondence from sixty archives, in seven countries on four continents. The enterprise will involve the transcription, translation (when necessary) and edition of over two million words and their publication in five volumes by the Irish Manuscripts Commission.

The members of the project are: Dr Dáire Keogh (principal investigator) of St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dr Anne O'Connor of the Department of Italian, NUI Galway, and Dr Colin Barr of Ave Maria University, Florida, United States.

When published, The Correspondence of Paul Cullen will make an immense contribution to the study not just of Ireland's religious history - but of important aspects of the island's social, educational and political development, and that of the Irish diaspora.

Further information, contact daire.keogh@spd.dcu.ie