Irish Manuscripts Commission Coimisiún Lámhscríbhinní na hÉireann Catalogue 2011 – 2012 Contents Trebar cach conoi a Ordering IMC books 1 fintid oigi foric About the Irish Manuscripts Commission 1 Prudent is he who maintains Origins and work of the Irish Manuscripts Commission 2 his inheritance Forthcoming titles 2011--12 3 entire as he finds it Announcing titles for 2012--13 5 Recent titles from IMC 6 Registers of the archbishops of Armagh 9 Calendar of papal registers series 10 History of science 12 Family & estate archives 12 Women’s history 14 Order form 4 page pull out section Guides to sources and repositories 15 Medieval 16 16th and 17th century 16 Coimisiún Lámhscríbhinní na hÉireann, 45 Cearnóg Mhuirfean, Baile Átha Cliath 2. 18th and 19th century21 Irish Manuscripts Commission, 20th century 23 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. www.irishmanuscripts.ie Analecta Hibernica 24 Index Inside back cover ForOrderingthcoming IMC titles books 2010 -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 and Macmillan. played a significant role in this process by aoirde, eagráin, cailenadair agus liostaí de To open an account or place an order, contact sales publishing to the highest scholarly standard bhunabhair. staff as follows: editions, calendars and lists of primary Gill and Macmillan 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 Ireland committed to promoting public awareness cultúr na hÉireann. of primary source materials and their Phone: + 353 1 500 9555 Fax: + 353 1 500 9599 importance for the history, heritage and Leis an cleachtadh atá faighte ag an [email protected] culture of Ireland. gCoimisiún le blianta anuas tá ar a chumas In you have any difficulties with either of these comhairle a thabhairt ar pholasaí faoi options, please contact: The experience gained by the Commission chaomhnú agus inrochtaineacht fhoinsí over the years makes it especially suited to stairiúla Robert Towers 2 The Crescent advise on policy towards preserving and Monkstown making accessible sources of our past. Tríd a chlár foilseacháin tá ar chumas an Co. Dublin Through its publication programme, the Choimisiúin na foinsí seo a chur ós Phone: + 353 1 280 6532 Commission can bring these sources to the chomhar an phobail is fairsinge in Éirinn Fax: + 353 1 280 6020 widest possible readership within Ireland agus ar fud an domhain. [email protected] and worldwide. 1 Origins and work of the Irish Manuscripts Commission President of the Executive Council William T. Courts fire, in the great archives of Britain and remit to publish primary source material from all ages Cosgrave announced the establishment of the Irish Europe and, often through specially appointed and centuries of Irish history. Manuscripts Commission in the Dáil on 17 October inspectors, searched for new and undiscovered 1928. Its brief was to report on the nature, extent and materials, while demonstrating at local and national Since 1930 IMC has published over 170 editions of importance of manuscripts of historical interest level the importance of preserving historical sources. primary sources for periods from the medieval to the relating to Ireland, to undertake their publication as twentieth century. Single volume and multi-volume, necessary and advise on their protection and During the paper shortages of the Second World War transcripts and facsimiles, they cover events of central preservation. The Commission held its first meeting the members of the Commission alerted the Irish importance to the history of the island of Ireland. at 5 Ely Place, Dublin on 15 January 1929. public to the need to safeguard valuable records, which could be destroyed by accident. They also Several series are included in these publications, the Bringing together scholars from across Ireland, the urged Government departments to ensure the security most important of which are: The Civil Survey, Commission has always been a representative of historic records from possible wartime damage, 1654–56 edited by R. C. Simington (10 vols, independent voice in the cultural heritage sector and particularly destruction from air attack. 1931–61); Calendar of Ormond Deeds edited by its cross-border membership has given it an Edmund Curtis (6 vols, 1932–43); Commentarius important North-South dimension. Since the 1950s, under successive chairmen— Rinuccinianus edited by Fr Stanislaus Kavanagh (6 R. I. Best, Edward MacLysaght, Rev. Patrick Corish, vols, 1932–49); The Correspondence of Daniel O’Connell The IMC is at the cutting edge of historical Rev. Donal Cregan, Brian Trainor, Geoffrey Hand edited by Maurice O’Connell (8 vols, 1973–7). scholarship and, on occasion, of technological and James McGuire—the IMC has advocated the innovation. In the 1930s the Commission introduced need to develop viable national structures for the Forty-two issues of IMC’s serial publication, Analecta new photographic and printing techniques, including preservation of historical sources. Hibernica, have been published since the first volume microfilming, to Ireland, and in recent years IMC has in 1930 edited by James Hogan of University College Cork. Today Analecta Hibernica is edited by James been involved in developing a policy on best practice From the 1960s the IMC pioneered the preservation Kelly of St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra and it in digitisation. of records in private hands, most importantly, business continues to publish important documents that are too records. short to form a stand-alone publication. In the early MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION days it played an important role in the publication of AND THEIR ROLE PUBLICATIONS reports by the Commission’s inspectors on collections of documents in public and private archives. Led by Chairman Eoin MacNeill, the members of Through its publications IMC has for eighty years IMC—Ireland’s leading historians, librarians and made the fundamentals of Irish History accessible to IMC looks forward to the future with renewed energy, archivists—began work in 1929 with an ambitious the widest audience. In its early years the fully committed to raising awareness of the scholarship attempt to gather together the most important of the Commission published the great codices of early, contained in its publications and to making that remaining source materials for Ireland’s histories. medieval and early modern Irish history. Since the knowledge available to the widest possible audiences They sought copies of what had been lost in the Four 1990s the Commission has consciously broadened its via print and digital editions. 2 Forthcoming titles 2011–12 The correspondence of James Ussher, The Irish Defence Forces 1940–1949, The Chief Pauper Limerick. The register of the Limerick 1600–1656 of Staff’s reports House of Industry, 1774–1793 Elizabethanne Boran, editor Michael Kennedy and Commandant Victor Laing, editors David Fleming and John Logan, editors James Ussher constructed a circle of This edition presents the ‘General Of the twelve houses of industry correspondents that spread across the Report on the Army’ for the years established under the Irish poor law religious boundaries and disciplinary 1940–9 and brings into print a of 1771–2, this is the only admission fields of seventeenth-century Europe. primary source for World War II book known to have survived. The He has justifiably been described as and the years immediately register of the Limerick House of Trinity College Dublin’s greatest following. World War II saw Ireland Industry contains information on the scholar and one of the most rapidly expand its military forces to age, sex, place of origin, religion, influential intellectuals of early meet the global crisis and defend medical condition, admission and modern Europe. His correspondence the state in the event of invasion. discharge, amongst other details, for reflects his political and ecclesiastical The Chief of Staff of the Defence 2,747 inmates for the period role at the head of the Church in Forces, Lieutenant General Dan 1774–1793. Ireland at a crucial time of forging its identity as a separate McKenna, reported annually to Minister for Defence Oscar enclave from the Church of England but it is his scholarly Traynor on the forces under his command. While revealing the mechanisms employed to administer a network which reveals his pivotal role in Irish, British and significant institution, the register also provides a singular European intellectual life. This edition of the Ussher Detailing the expansion of the Defence Forces from a small record for a social group whose history is necessarily elusive. correspondence provides a vital research tool for anyone volunteer army of 8,000 to a two division force of over There is evidence of individual strategies for dealing with interested in the connections between Irish and European 40,000, the Chief of Staff's yearly reports from 1940 to poverty, infirmity, disease and lunacy. Genealogists intellectual, cultural, religious and political life in the first 1949 provide a never before published account of the researching families in Limerick, Clare, Tipperary and Cork half of the seventeenth-century. Defence Forces during the Emergency, detailing defence (the places in which most of the inmates originated) will plans, equipment, the condition of the forces and attempts to also find it useful.