The new IMC website was launched today and while there were some teething problems as one might expect it is now up and running. As well as a more up to date look, the site is now responsive on mobile devices. The services we offer include buying IMC publications and downloading the latest copy of […]
The fiftieth issue of the IMC serial publication — Analecta Hibernica — edited by Professor James Kelly (DCU) was published in December 2019. To mark the occasion an embossed number ‘50’ was printed in the middle of the IMC logo on the front and back covers. This issue includes a report to the Minister for […]
On the 16th November the edition of the diary and accounts of Élie Bouhéreau edited by (left to right above) Jane McKee, Marie Léoutre, Amy Prendergast and Jean-Paul Pittion was launched by M. Lionel Paradisi-Coulouma, Deputy Head of Mission at the French Embassy to Ireland in the Lady Chapel of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. The Chair […]
Culture Night 2019 For Culture Night this year IMC has arranged for historians who have published editions with IMC to come and talk about the manuscripts they have transcribed and to explain to people how they use them to write histories of the period. Friday, 20 September 2019, is Culture Night and the historians talking […]
The Irish Manuscripts Commission is delighted to announce the publication of Vera Moynes’ edition of the surviving Jesuit Annual Letters for Ireland for the seventeenth century. Annual Letters were the means by which Jesuits across the globe stayed in contact with Rome and with each other. The Irish Jesuit missions began in 1542, but only […]
It is that time of year again and Culture Night is looming. This year, in addition to the display of IMC publications which will be available on the 1st floor of No. 45 Merrion Square, we have lined up four historians to talk about the primary sources which formed the basis of an edition they […]
IMC is looking forward to the release of its new-look website. The updated site will be launched at the end of October and will be fully responsive on mobile devices. Watch this space!
The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies mainly by Protestants, but also by some Catholics, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. This latest volume in the series to be published covers testimonies for Kildare and Meath. The depositions and examinations from both of these counties provide graphic evidence of the […]
Arnold Horner’s long-awaited edition of the documents relating to the work of the Bogs Commissioners in Ireland for the period 1809 to 1813 has now been published. Illustrated with 44 colour plates, this edition brings together information on the wide range of materials generated by the Bogs Commissioners who were charged with enquiring ‘into the […]
In 2017–2018 IMC sponsored an exciting project at the National Archives of Ireland (NAI) to look at parcels of material salved from the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland (PROI) in June 1922 A team of conservators at NAI, led by senior conservator Zoë Reid, carried out an initial survey of salved materials […]
