The Irish religious censuses of the 1760s — special offers available for pre-order

February 21, 2022

IMC is delighted to announce the first publication of 2022 — The Irish religious censuses of the 1760s: Catholics and Protestants in eighteenth-century Ireland, edited by Brian Gurrin, Kerby A. Miller and Liam Kennedy —  which will be published at the beginning of March. To mark this occasion we have a range of special offers on our […]

Last few copies of popular IMC editions

February 21, 2022

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 […]

Christmas Posting Arrangements

December 20, 2021

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 […]

Eoin MacNeill Lecture postponed

December 14, 2021

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 […]

Campaign Journals of the Elizabethan Irish Wars

December 14, 2021

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 […]

Generous effort — gender and social history

October 1, 2021

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 […]

Generous effort — gender and social history

October 1, 2021

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 […]

Generous effort — society and culture

September 24, 2021

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 […]