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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Today we received in the office copies of the latest volume in the 1641 Depositions series to be published — Volume VI covering King’s County and Queen’s County. Ordinarily publication of an edition is an occasion for joy, but today is a bitter-sweet day as the principal editor of the series, Emeritus Professor Aidan Clarke, […]
During the current Level 5 restrictions (January 2021) IMC staff are working remotely. Any book orders received during this time will be posted as soon as possible after receipt. We will email you when your order has been processed. Please check your Spam/Junk folder for order confirmations and communications if you haven’t heard from us […]
The Eoin MacNeill Lectures were established by the Irish Manuscripts Commission (IMC) in 2011. They provide an opportunity for an Irish audience to hear distinguished scholars from outside Ireland talk about the place of archives and primary sources in their work. The first lecture was delivered by Professor Eamon Duffy, Magdalene College, Cambridge in 2012. […]
In 2017 IMC partnered with the National Archives of Ireland (NAI) to sponsor an examination of the salved materials from the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922. During Phase I of that project in 2017–18, conservators at NAI classified 221 bundles of salved materials into 379 items, ranging from Grade 1 […]
The IMC Digital Editions service was launched in 2013 and offered a read-online service based on flip-book software using Adobe Flash Player. Support for Flash Player will be withdrawn by several browsers on 31 December 2020 and consequently IMC has revised the way it provides access to its out-of-print editions. In line with the commitment […]
