Forthcoming Publication

February 13, 2025

IMC are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of The letterbook of Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork, 1629‒1634, edited by Aidan Clarke†, Bríd McGrath and David Edwards. The volume will be available to purchase online and through any good bookshop from 10 March. This letterbook covers the period after Cork’s appointment as Lord Justice […]

Newly Published: A list of the Claims, 1700

December 16, 2024

We are delighted to announce the publication of A list of the claims as they are entered with the Trustees at Chichester House on College Green Dublin, on or before the tenth of August, 1700, edited by C. Ivar McGrath and Frances Nolan. This highly anticipated volume provides a record of 3,140 claims to land […]

Christmas Post

December 12, 2024

As we approach the Christmas period the last date for posting orders will be Thursday 19th December within Ireland and Monday 16th December for Great Britain. Orders placed after these dates or for destinations further afield will be posted in the New Year. Wishing you all a happy and peaceful Christmas.

ANNE P. FULLER – IN MEMORIAM

November 11, 2024

Mrs Anne P. Fuller, Professor Leonard Boyle, OP (General Editor) and Professor Jane Sayers (member of the CPR Consultative Committee) at an event in 1994 to mark the centenary of the Calendar of Papal Registers series and the publication of Calendar of Papal Registers, Papal Letters relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. XVII, Part I, […]

New volume in the Calendar of Papal Letters series

November 11, 2024

Before her untimely death in March 2023, Mrs Anne Fuller had completed a calendar of British and Irish material in the remaining registers for the pontificate of Leo X (1513–1521). What is now Volume XXI in this long-running series was prepared for publication by Dr Alan Macquarrie to whom the Irish Manuscripts Commission is extremely grateful. Containing 638 letters […]

Festival of History 2024

October 8, 2024

Dr Elva Johnston opens the lecture On Saturday 5 October 2024, IMC participated in the Dublin Festival of History with a public lecture entitled Surprising Survivals: The fire of 1922. The lecture was jointly organised with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) and celebrated the special issue of IMC’s serial publication Analecta Hibernica published in November 2023. The […]

Surprising Survivals: Notes from the Chief Secretary’s Office

September 23, 2024

The Irish Manuscripts Commission is delighted to be taking part in the Festival of History 2024 with a public lecture entitled Surprising Survivals: The Fire of 1922. IMC was established in 1928 after the catastrophic fire at the Four Courts in 1922 which destroyed 700 years of Ireland’s documentary heritage. The 100th anniversary of this event […]

Surprising Survivals: 1922 Salved Records

September 23, 2024

The Irish Manuscripts Commission is delighted to be taking part in the Festival of History 2024 with a public lecture entitled Surprising Survivals: The Fire of 1922. IMC was established in 1928 after the catastrophic fire at the Four Courts in 1922 which destroyed 700 years of Ireland’s documentary heritage. The 100th anniversary of this event […]