The 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 […]
The 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 […]
As we reach the closing weeks of 2022 it is perhaps a good time to look back at the IMC publications which appeared in 2022. The primary sources made available this year have spanned the medieval period through to the twentieth century and included martyrologies, correspondence, censuses and merchant letterbooks. In February 2022 we announced […]
IMC is in the process of developing a Strategic Plan for the next five years. As part of this process we seek input from our stakeholder communities on our publishing and advisory remit. If you had the time to share your views you can participate in the survey here. The survey will stay open until […]
The Irish Manuscripts Commission is delighted to announce the publication in pamphlet form of the lecture given by Professor Ludmilla Jordanova on 26 May 2022. Entitled ‘Intricate threads and bigger pictures: lives in archives’, this is the fourth lecture in the Eoin MacNeill Lecture series. In her lecture, Professor Jordanova considered the special case of […]
The launch of the latest IMC edition — Irish maritime trade in the Restoration era: the letterbook of William Hovel, 1683–1687 — took place last night in City Hall, Cork. The Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Deirdre Forde, welcomed guests to the beautiful Council Chambers and outlined her appreciation of the Hovell edition which added to the […]
We are delighted to announce the publication of the 52nd issue of Analecta Hibernica which arrived from the printers this week. This issue includes a report to the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for 2020 and the following papers: ‘I am in most points an ultra-ministerialist’: The letters of Henry Alexander to Thomas Pelham, […]
After some unexpected delays the Commission is delighted to announce the publication of James O’Shea’s edition of the letterbook of Cork merchant William Hovell for the period 1683–1687. The seventeenth century was a highly significant period in the development of Cork as a port and as a city, as trade grew and the city expanded. […]
On 8th October, as part of this year’s Festival of History, IMC held a workshop on how to explore the Books of Survey and Distribution (BSD) in the Cromwellian Gold Seam in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Members of the public were welcomed to this event at 45 Merrion Square where IMC members Professor […]
The Festival of History, organised by Dublin City Library and Archive, takes place annually in September–October and the Irish Manuscripts Commission (IMC) has been taking part since 2020. You can see previous contributions to the Festival from IMC editors (2020) and members (2021) on our You Tube channel here. This year will be the first […]
