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Maritime trade in Cork during the Restoration

The Irish Manuscripts Commission is delighted to announce the imminent publication of James O’Shea’s edition of the letterbook of William Hovell for the period 1683 to 1687. Correspondence copied in letterbooks is an important primary source for socio-economic history and for the history of business administration. The merchant community of Cork in the 1680s was dominated by Protestants […]

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Europeana: European Cultural Heritage Portal

“Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. We develop expertise, tools and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation.” Europeana shares and promotes European cultural heritage to be used and enjoyed by everyone for learning, for work or just for fun. Between 2010 and 2015, the Irish Manuscripts […]

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Minister Catherine Martin, TD on sources for women’s history in the Virtual Record Treasury

In her speech at the launch of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Catherine Martin, TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media expressed her sincere appreciation of the work of the Beyond 2022 team in realising their vision for recreating a virtual archive filled with digital replacements for some of the archival records […]

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Launch of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

On Monday 27 June 2022 the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland was launched by An Taoiseach MichaĂ©l Martin at an event in Dublin Castle. The launch of the Virtual Treasury is the culmination of five years of a state-funded research programme entitled Beyond 2022. The aim of the project was to re-create through virtual reality […]

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Back in stock: Campaign Journals of the Elizabethan Irish wars

Due to phenomenal demand, a second print run has been issued of the paperback reprint of Campaign journals of the Elizabethan Irish wars, edited by David Edwards. This edition gathers together 19 journals of military campaigns in Ireland during the reign of Elizabeth I. They record military operations by crown forces in all four provinces, on land and […]

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Eoin MacNeill Lecture 2022

On 27 May 2022 Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture and Emeritus Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, Durham University delivered the fourth Eoin MacNeill Lecture. Established in 2011, these lectures provide an opportunity for distinguished scholars from outside Ireland to discuss the importance of archives and primary […]

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An Post postal rates increase

In line with the recent price increases by An Post, new shipping rates will come into effect on our online shop from today, 1 March 2022. Most rates within Ireland are unchanged. There are slight increases to international shipping, with the exception of deliveries to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands which have been […]

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The Irish religious censuses of the 1760s

IMC is delighted to announce the publication of ‘The Irish religious censuses of the 1760s: Catholics and Protestants in eighteenth-century Ireland’ by Brian Gurrin, Kerby A Miller and Liam Kennedy. This publication presents parish-level returns from the two national religious surveys conducted in Ireland during the 1760s — by the hearth-money collectors (1764–5) and the […]