“Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. We develop expertise, tools and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation.” Europeana shares and promotes European cultural heritage to be used and enjoyed by everyone for learning, for work or just for fun. Between 2010 and 2015, the Irish Manuscripts […]
The launch of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland on 27 June 2022 has captured the imagination of many. The rich variety of searchable records available through the Treasury is truly amazing but within the 150,000 database records are gold seams of data waiting to be discovered. Gold seams are full-scale reconstructions of entire series […]
In her speech at the launch of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Catherine Martin, TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media expressed her sincere appreciation of the work of the Beyond 2022 team in realising their vision for recreating a virtual archive filled with digital replacements for some of the archival records […]
On Monday 27 June 2022 the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland was launched by An Taoiseach MichaĂ©l Martin at an event in Dublin Castle. The launch of the Virtual Treasury is the culmination of five years of a state-funded research programme entitled Beyond 2022. The aim of the project was to re-create through virtual reality […]
Due to phenomenal demand, a second print run has been issued of the paperback reprint of Campaign journals of the Elizabethan Irish wars, edited by David Edwards. This edition gathers together 19 journals of military campaigns in Ireland during the reign of Elizabeth I. They record military operations by crown forces in all four provinces, on land and […]
The recently released paperback edition of David Edward’s ‘Campaign journals of the Elizabethan Irish wars’ is now sold out. We are reprinting this title and it will be made available again on our online shop as soon as possible.
On 27 May 2022 Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture and Emeritus Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, Durham University delivered the fourth Eoin MacNeill Lecture. Established in 2011, these lectures provide an opportunity for distinguished scholars from outside Ireland to discuss the importance of archives and primary […]
In line with the recent price increases by An Post, new shipping rates will come into effect on our online shop from today, 1 March 2022. Most rates within Ireland are unchanged. There are slight increases to international shipping, with the exception of deliveries to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands which have been […]
IMC is delighted to announce the publication of ‘The Irish religious censuses of the 1760s: Catholics and Protestants in eighteenth-century Ireland’ by Brian Gurrin, Kerby A Miller and Liam Kennedy. This publication presents parish-level returns from the two national religious surveys conducted in Ireland during the 1760s — by the hearth-money collectors (1764–5) and the […]
IMC is delighted to join in the Ireland Reads campaign to get people reading in the lead up to the national day of reading on Friday 25 February. Ireland Reads — organised by Irish libraries, publishers, booksellers and authors — aims to celebrate reading and all the benefits it can have for well-being and enjoyment. […]
