The latest issue of Analecta Hibernia No. 49 has just been published. It is available to purchase here. This issue contains the following contributions: Aqua lunaris and Oleum solis: a copy of a manuscript by Richard Stanihurst (edited by Conleth Loonan); Interrogating Richard Boyle: The Savoy House Proceedings of 1599 (edited by David Edwards); The appeal of Thomas Franke to the Court of Claims, 1666 (edited by John Johnston); France and Ireland in the late Eighteenth century: The correspondence of Charles Coquebert de Montbret and Andrew Caldwell (edited by Jane Conroy and Barbara Wright). This issue also includes a report to the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for the period 1 January-31 December 2017, and an obituary for Professor Franics J. Byrne who passed away at the end of 2017. IMC is indebted to the editor of Analecta Hibernia – Professor James Kelly.