The Irish Manuscripts Commission are delighted to present, as part of the Dublin Festival of History 2025: Doing business in Ireland 1711-1860 a public lecture Have you ever wondered how enterprises like the Gresham Hotel or Beamish and Crawford began? Established in 1707 the Registry of Deeds aimed to prevent forgery and fraud in land […]
We are delighted to announce that our new publication, The letterbook of Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork, 1629‒1634, edited by Aidan Clarke†, Bríd McGrath and David Edwards is now available for purchase. Orders can be made here or through any good bookshop. This letterbook covers the period after Cork’s appointment as Lord Justice of Ireland […]
The Irish Manuscripts Commission is delighted to be taking part in the Festival of History 2024 with a public lecture entitled Surprising Survivals: The Fire of 1922. IMC was established in 1928 after the catastrophic fire at the Four Courts in 1922 which destroyed 700 years of Ireland’s documentary heritage. The 100th anniversary of this event […]
Dr Elva Johnston (left) and student prize winner Nina Cnockaert-Guillou (right) The Irish Manuscripts Commission Student Prize, established in 2023, offers a prize of €1,000 for editing an unpublished primary source (manuscript, typescript or transcript) of Irish interest, dating from any period. It is open to postgraduate or doctoral students within 2 years of the […]
The Chairman and members of the Irish Manuscripts Commission are delighted to announce the publication of Analecta Hibernica No. 51. Copies were delivered to the office this morning. You can find details about the six documents contained in this issue here. The topics covered range from violence, justice and self-interest in Elizabethan Connacht to a twentieth-century […]
In this final short film contribution to the Festival of History 2020, we look at the work done behind the scenes to identify and preserve materials which allow for the writing of history based on contemporaneous sources. Shortly after the destruction of the Four Courts in 1922, the Irish Manuscripts Commission was formed to recover […]
It is that time of year again and Culture Night is looming. This year, in addition to the display of IMC publications which will be available on the 1st floor of No. 45 Merrion Square, we have lined up four historians to talk about the primary sources which formed the basis of an edition they […]
