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Last few copies of popular IMC editions

The following editions are almost out of print with only limited stock remaining. If you have been holding off on purchasing any of them, now is the time to do so! When they’re gone, they’re gone! Eoin MacNeill: memoir of a revolutionary scholar — Brian Hughes (ed.) Letterbook of Richard Hare, Cork merchant, 1771–1772 — James […]

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Christmas Posting Arrangements

Thank you to all those who have placed orders through our website in the last couple of weeks. As An Post can no longer ensure the delivery of parcels before Christmas all orders placed after 20 December will be posted when the Commission reopens on 4 January. Any orders placed on or prior to 20 December […]

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Eoin MacNeill Lecture postponed

The fourth Eoin MacNeill Lecture which was to have taken place this week has been postponed until May 2022. It is hoped that by that time the public health situation will have improved and holding a public lecture will be a more realistic proposition. We very much look forward to welcoming Professor Jordanova, Emeritus Professor of History […]

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Campaign Journals of the Elizabethan Irish Wars

We are delighted to announce the reprinting in paperback of the popular 2014 title Campaign journals of the Elizabethan Irish wars, edited by David Edwards, which has been out of print for several years. This edition gathers together 19 journals of military campaigns in Ireland during the reign of Elizabeth I. They record military operations by crown forces […]

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Generous effort — gender and social history

As part of its 2021 contribution to the Dublin Festival of History IMC presents two short films on the theme of primary sources for gender and social history. In the second of these Dr Elva Johnston, whose research interests are in conversion, materiality, literacy, sanctity and sexuality in late antique and early medieval Ireland has chosen as […]

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Generous effort — gender and social history

As part of its 2021 contribution to the Dublin Festival of History IMC presents two short films on the theme of primary sources for gender and social history. In the first of these Professor Sarah Prescott, whose research interests are in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women’s writing has chosen as her favourite IMC edition The poems of Olivia […]

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Generous effort — society and culture

In the first tranche of short films for the Dublin Festival of History 2021, IMC presents the favourite picks of historians who have chosen IMC editions in which the sources reveal information about contemporary society and culture. Dr Coleman Dennehy, a legal historian working on crime and punishment in 17th century Ireland, talks about how he has […]

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Festival of History 2021 — Generous Effort

This is the second year that the Irish Manuscripts Commission has participated in the Dublin City Library and Archive Festival of History. Running from 20 September to 10 October there are 100s of free events focussed on all aspects of history from the local to the national. Due to ongoing concerns and restrictions around running in-person […]

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Eoin MacNeill Lecture pamphlets

Just a note to warn all fans of the Eoin MacNeill Lecture series that we are down to the last five copies of the pamphlet for Professor Eamon Duffy’s 2012 Lecture entitled ‘The Reformation and the Grand Narrative: the archive and the writing of the English Reformation’. You can still purchase a copy online here. […]

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Eoin MacNeill Lecture 2021

The Irish Manuscripts Commission is delighted to announce that the 2021 Eoin MacNeill Lecture will be given by Ludmilla Jordanova, Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture at the University of Durham. The Eoin MacNeill Lecture provides an opportunity for an Irish audience to hear distinguished scholars from outside Ireland talk about the place of archives […]