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Irish Manuscripts Commission Coimisiún Lámhscríbhinní na hÉireann Catalogue 2020 – 2022 Catalóg 2020 – 2022 Contents Ordering IMC books 1 About the Irish Manuscripts Commission 1 Origins and the work of the Irish Manuscripts Commission 2 MacNeill lecture series 3 Trebar cach conoi a Decade of Centenaries 4 fintid oigi foric Forthcoming titles 2020--22 6 Prudent is the person who maintains Announcing titles for 2020--22 9 their inheritance Recent titles from IMC 11 entire as they find it Registers of the archbishops of Armagh 14 Calendar of papal registers series 15 History of science 18 Women’s history 18 Literary sources 20 Family & estate archives 22 Guides to sources and repositories 23 Calendar of State Papers, Ireland 24 Medieval 25 Irish Manuscripts Commission, 16th and 17th century 26 45 Merrion Square, 18th and 19th century 34 Dublin 2, DO2 VY60, Ireland. 20th century 38 www.irishmanuscripts.ie Analecta Hibernica 41 Coimisiún Lámhscríbhinní na hÉireann, 45 Cearnóg Mhuirfean, Index 47 Baile Átha Cliath 2, DO2 VY60, Éire. FOoRrtDhEcRoImNinGg IMtitlCes B 2O0O10K S -11 ABOUT THE IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION Irish Manuscripts Commission books are available for Since 1928, when the Commission was Ó 1928, nuair a bhunaigh Rialtas na purchase online through our website at established by the Irish Government, hÉireann an Coimisiún, tá borradh thar www.irishmanuscripts.ie or through bookshops generally. All books are hardback unless otherwise scholarship and learning have expanded cuimse tagtha ar léann is foghlaim na tire. stated . beyond anything that could have been Bhí páirt nach beag ag an gCoimisiún sa Irish Manuscripts Commission (IMC) books are conceived at the time. The Commission has phróiseas seo ag foilsiú, den chaighdeán is distributed to the trade by Gill Distribution. To open played a significant role in this process by aoirde, eagráin, cailenadair agus liostaí de an account or place an order, contact sales staff as publishing to the highest scholarly standard bhunabhair. follows: editions, calendars and lists of primary Gill Distribution materials. Tá cúram ar an gCoimisiún eolas poiblí a Hume Avenue chur chun cinn faoi fhoinsí bhunabhair agus Park West Dublin 12 The Irish Manuscripts Commission is a dtabhacht i leith stair, oidhreacht and D12 YV96 committed to promoting public awareness cultúr na hÉireann. Ireland of primary source materials and their Phone: + 353 1 500 9500 importance for the histories, heritage and Leis an cleachtadh atá faighte ag an [email protected] culture of Ireland. gCoimisiún le blianta anuas tá ar a chumas For specialist enquiries, please contact our sales agent: comhairle a thabhairt ar pholasaí faoi The experience gained by the Commission chaomhnú agus inrochtaineacht fhoinsí Robert Towers over the years makes it especially suited to stairiúla. 2, The Crescent Monkstown advise on policy towards preserving and Co. Dublin making accessible sources of our past. Tríd a chlár foilseacháin tá ar chumas an A94 AX25 Choimisiúin na foinsí seo a chur ós Phone: + 353 1 280 6532 Through its publication programme, the chomhar an phobail is fairsinge in Éirinn [email protected] Commission can bring these sources to the agus ar fud an domhain. widest possible readership within Ireland and worldwide. 1 ORIGINS AND THE WORK OF THE IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION President of the Executive Council William T. and Europe and, often through specially appointed To date IMC has published 217 volumes of primary Cosgrave announced the establishment of the Irish inspectors, searched for new and undiscovered source material for periods from the medieval to the Manuscripts Commission in the Dáil on 17 October materials while demonstrating at local and national twentieth century. Single volume and multi-volume, 1928. Its brief was to report on the nature, extent and level the importance of preserving historical sources. transcripts, facsimiles and calendars, these editions importance of manuscripts of historical interest cover events of central importance to the history of the relating to Ireland, to undertake their publication as During the paper shortages of the Second World War island of Ireland. necessary and advise on their protection and the members of the Commission alerted the Irish preservation. The Commission held its first meeting at public to the need to safeguard valuable records, which Several series are included in these publications, the 5 Ely Place, Dublin on 15 January 1929. could be destroyed by accident. They also urged most important of which are: The Civil Survey, Government departments to ensure the security of 1654–56 edited by R. C. Simington (10 vols, 1931– Bringing together scholars from across Ireland, the historic records from possible wartime damage, 61); Calendar of Ormond Deeds edited by Edmund Commission has always been a representative particularly destruction from air attack. Curtis (6 vols, 1932–43); Commentarius Rinuccinianus independent voice in the cultural heritage sector and edited by Fr Stanislaus Kavanagh (6 vols, 1932–49); its cross-border membership has given it an important Since the 1950s, under successive chairmen — The Correspondence of Daniel O’Connell edited by North-South dimension. R. I. Best, Edward MacLysaght, Rev. Patrick Corish, Maurice O’Connell (8 vols, 1973–7). Rev. Donal Cregan, Brian Trainor, Geoffrey Hand, IMC is at the cutting edge of historical scholarship James McGuire and John McCafferty — IMC has Fifty issues of IMC’s serial publication, Analecta and, on occasion, of technological innovation. In the advocated the need to develop viable national Hibernica , have been published since the first volume 1930s the Commission introduced new photographic structures for the preservation of historical sources. in 1930 edited by James Hogan of University College and printing techniques, including microfilming, to Cork. Today Analecta Hibernica is edited by James Ireland. In 2007 IMC developed its policy on From the 1960s IMC pioneered the preservation of Kelly of DCU, St Patrick’s Campus and it continues digitisation. records in private hands, and most importantly, to publish important documents that are too short to business records. form a stand-alone publication. In the early days it played an important role in the publication of reports MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION by the Commission’s inspectors on collections of PUBLICATIONS AND THEIR ROLE documents in public and private archives. Through its publications IMC has for more than Led by Chairman Eoin MacNeill, the members of ninety years made the fundamentals of Irish history IMC continues to look forward to the future with IMC — Ireland’s leading historians, librarians and accessible to the widest audience. In its early years the energy, fully committed to raising awareness of the archivists — began work in 1929 with an ambitious Commission published the great codices of early, scholarship contained in its publications and to attempt to gather the most important of the medieval and early modern Irish history. Since the making that knowledge available to the widest remaining source materials for Ireland’s histories. 1990s the Commission has consciously broadened its possible audiences via print and digital editions. They sought copies of what had been lost in 1922 in remit to publish primary source material from all ages the Four Courts fire in the great archives of Britain and centuries of Irish history. 2 MacNeill lecture series The Eoin MacNeill Lecture was established by the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 2011 and the inaugural lecture was given on 8 October 2012. The lecture provides an opportunity for an Irish audience to hear distinguished scholars from outside Ireland talk about the place of archives and primary sources more generally in their work. The Eoin MacNeill Lecture 2012: The Eoin MacNeill Lecture 2015: The Eoin MacNeill Lecture 2019: ‘The Reformation and the Grand Narrative: ‘A literary Tour de France, 1778: from the ‘Sustaining identity and peace-building the archive and the writing of the archives to the internet’ through community archives’ English Reformation’ The 2012 lecture was delivered by The 2015 lecture was delivered by The 2019 lecture was delivered by Anne Eamon Duffy, FBA, Hon. MRIA, Robert Darnton, Emeritus Carl H. Gilliland, Associate Dean for Professor of the History of Christianity Pforzheimer University Professor and Information Studies, Director of at Cambridge University and Fellow of Emeritus University Librarian, Harvard Archival Studies and Professor & Magdalene College. University. Director of the Center for Information as Evidence, at the University of Eamon Duffy outlined a view of history Robert Darnton explored what the California, Los Angeles. as narrative based on enquiry in the French were reading in the eighteenth archive and explored his own use of century and examined the role of Anne Gilliland examined the conflation archives and the way in which people understand their past. literature in the collapse of the Ancien Régime. Using the of the roles of archivist, historian, storyteller and community He concluded that the preservation of the original records of materials available in archives in France and Switzerland, member that has come to be identified as a hallmark of the past is one of the principal marks of a civilised and free Professor Darnton constructed a best-seller list of the books community archives. She illustrated how community archives society, not least because those records retain a perennial that were most in demand and those that actually