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Campaign Journals of the Elizabethan Irish Wars
December 14, 2021We 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, 2021As 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, 2021As 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, 2021In 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 […]
Festival of History 2021 — Generous Effort
September 22, 2021This 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 […]
Eoin MacNeill Lecture pamphlets
August 5, 2021Just 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. […]
Eoin MacNeill Lecture 2021
July 19, 2021The 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 […]
Publication of Volume VI of the 1641 Depositions series
January 26, 2021Today 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, […]