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Digital Editions — New titles added
June 20, 2023IMC is in the process of digitising all its out-of-print titles. These will be made available to download through the Digital Editions section of the Digital Resources on the IMC website. To date over 60 titles have been made available and the most recent additions to the service include the following: The letterbook of Richard Hare, ed. James O’Shea (2013) The Drennan–McTier Letters Vol. 1, ed. […]
Irish Manuscripts Commission Student Prize
May 3, 2023The Irish Manuscripts Commission wishes to award a prize of €1,000 to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document. Winning entries will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica, IMC’s serial publication. The original text should be an unpublished primary source (manuscript, typescript or transcript) of Irish interest, dating from any period. […]
Strategic Development Plan published
April 4, 2023The new IMC Strategic Development Plan, which covers the period from 2023 until 2027, is now available to download in English or Irish here. This plan builds on the outcomes of the previous Strategic Development Plan and more generally on the international reputation gained by the Irish Manuscripts Commission over more than 90 years of […]
Launch of new web resource for International Women’s Day
March 8, 2023On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2023, the Mná 100 Programme and the Irish Manuscripts Commission (IMC) are delighted to announce the online publication of a database of just over 20,000 sources for the history of Irish women from the earliest time to the end of the twentieth century. This web resource — available […]
Ireland Reads Campaign 2023
February 17, 2023IMC is delighted to join in the Ireland Reads “Squeeze in a Read” campaign to get people reading in the lead up to the national day of reading on Saturday 25 February. Ireland Reads — organised by Irish libraries, publishers, booksellers and authors — aims to celebrate reading and all the benefits it can have […]
New Strategic Development Plan
January 12, 2023Thank you to everyone who contributed feedback through our stakeholder survey which ran from the beginning of December until this week. The new Strategic Development Plan, which will cover the period from 2023 until 2027, will be published at the end of March and will be available from our website here. It is worth noting […]
Christmas arrangements
December 16, 2022The Irish Manuscripts Commission office will close to the public on Friday 23 December 2022 at 12 noon and will reopen to the public on Tuesday 3 January 2023 at 10 am. Keep watching our social media channels and of course here on the News section of our website for updates on forthcoming publications. We […]
Last dates for posting orders in 2022
December 15, 2022The last postal dates for orders received through the IMC website will be Monday 19 December. Based on previous experience books posted later than this simply get stuck in the huge volume of material moving through the postal system in Ireland and abroad around the Christmas period. Any orders received after 19 December will be […]