The Conway & Clohessy Tree

Monsignor Hamell has earned the deep gratitude of researchers into the history of the clergy in Ireland in the nineteenth century by making available this comprehensive index of Maynooth students in the first century of the college. Readers may be familiar with parts of this index already through the pages of the Irish Ecclesiastical Record or in duplicate form, but here the complete list, with an additional diocesan index, is presented under one cover, beautifully printed and produced. Some idea of the magnitude of the work involved in its compilation may be gathered from the fact that upwards of 30,000 index cards carried the basic data from which over 8,500 names have been classified and indexed. It is an indispensable book for historians in this field.

- Terence P. Cunningham, Maynooth