The launch of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland on 27 June 2022 has captured the imagination of many. The rich variety of searchable records available through the Treasury is truly amazing but within the 150,000 database records are gold seams of data waiting to be discovered. Gold seams are full-scale reconstructions of entire series […]
Download PDF IMC has withdrawn its Read Online flip-book service for its out-of-print editions. IMC Digital Editions are now available as downloadable PDFs. These PDFs are made from high resolution scans of the original publications which have been combined with OCRed text files so you can search within the books. For this reason, the files […]
Download PDF IMC has withdrawn its Read Online flip-book service for its out-of-print editions. IMC Digital Editions are now available as downloadable PDFs. These PDFs are made from high resolution scans of the original publications which have been combined with OCRed text files so you can search within the books. For this reason, the files […]
Download PDF IMC has withdrawn its Read Online flip-book service for its out-of-print editions. IMC Digital Editions are now available as downloadable PDFs. These PDFs are made from high resolution scans of the original publications which have been combined with OCRed text files so you can search within the books. For this reason, the files […]
Download PDF IMC has withdrawn its Read Online flip-book service for its out-of-print editions. IMC Digital Editions are now available as downloadable PDFs. These PDFs are made from high resolution scans of the original publications which have been combined with OCRed text files so you can search within the books. For this reason, the files […]
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 […]
On Monday 27 June 2022 the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland was launched by An Taoiseach Michaél 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 […]
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 […]
Includes a Report to the Taoiseach and the following papers: Corporation Book of the Irishtown of Kilkenny, 1537-1628 (John Ainsworth); Seventeenth Century Regal Visitations (P. B. Phair); Books of Survey and Distribution, Co. Westmeath, A Comparative Survey (Geraldine Tallon). Includes indexes of persons and places and obituaries for Brendan Jennings, John Ryan, Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy, […]