The Irish Manuscripts Commission #IMCbooks, founded 1928, preserves in print primary manuscript sources for Irish history. See our website for further details.
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Save the date for @HistFest 2026
🎤 Public lecture: What did the Normans ever do for us?
🗓️ Sat 3 Oct at 11am
📍 45 Merrion Square
🎟️ Free admission – first come first served.
❗️Limited spaces available: punctual arrival advised!
More at: irishmanuscripts.ie/normans/
#HistFest2026 is happening at @irishmanuscripts today!
Join us: 11 am at 45 Merrion Square
No booking required but places are limited. Punctual arrival advised!
What did the Normans ever do for us? And what has IMC done for the Normans?
@jmarshallmed and Paul Dryburgh (@UkNatArchives) explore records from the period after the #Norman invasion of Ireland for @HistFest. Introduced by Dr Audrey Whitty (@NLIreland)
irishmanuscripts.ie/foh26/
Join us tomorrow morning for @HistFest 2026!
"What did the Normans ever do for us?"
@jmarshallmed and Paul Dryburgh (@UkNatArchives) explore records from the period after the #Norman invasion of Ireland for @HistFest. Introduced by Dr Audrey Whitty (@NLIreland). Details below:
Save the date for @HistFest 2026
🎤 Public lecture: What did the Normans ever do for us?
🗓️ Sat 3 Oct at 11am
📍 45 Merrion Square
🎟️ Free admission – first come first served.
❗️Limited spaces available: punctual arrival advised!
More at: irishmanuscripts.ie/normans/
Join us this Saturday 3 Oct for @HistFest
Explore primary sources from the period of the Norman invasion (Ormond Collection @NLIreland) with @jmarshallmed. The earliest chapter features the granting of lands to Richard de Clare AKA #Strongbow.
More info: irishmanuscripts.ie/normans/
What did the Normans ever do for us? And what has IMC done for the Normans?
@jmarshallmed and Paul Dryburgh (@UkNatArchives) explore records from the period after the #Norman invasion of Ireland for @HistFest. Introduced by Dr Audrey Whitty (@NLIreland)
irishmanuscripts.ie/foh26/
Final reminder for the IMC student prize: submissions to be made before Wednesday 29 July!
Closing date: Wed 29 July
The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica.
Learn more at: irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-stud…
Closing date: Wed 29 July
The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica.
Learn more at: irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-stud…
Word cloud showing the huge range of business reflected in the Partnership memorials in @TailteEireann
@irishmanuscript Nicola Morris details the ground breaking introduction of limited liability for investors in order to stimulate business in Ireland in 1782
#HistFest2025 event at 45 Merrion Square this morning, with @TailteEireann and Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.
#HistFest2025 public lecture tomorrow: Doing Business in Ireland 1711-1860
45 Merrion Square | 11 am
No booking required — first come, first served!
"Doing business in Ireland 1711-1860" a #HistFest25 public lecture
Explore the origins of Irish businesses through the invaluable records of the Registry of Deeds.
4 Oct | 11 am | 45 Merrion Sq
irishmanuscripts.ie/foh2025/
@HistFest @TailteEireann
#HistFest2025 Tomorrow Sat 4 Oct — Business in Ireland, 1711–1860 — hear about the introduction of legislation in 1781 to improve and grow the Irish economy.
Public lecture, no booking required.
irishmanuscripts.ie/foh2025/
#HistFest2025 lecture: Business in Ireland, 1802
Find out if Rudolf Ackerman’s patent was successful in ‘rendering woollen cloths, cotton, linen, silk, hats, paper and other substances water proof and impenetrable to rain’.
Original @TailteEireann memorial in @virtualtreasury
#HistFest2025 Business in Ireland, 1786 — hear about the five Tait sisters from Louth backed by anonymous partners to start a thread factory using the latest technology — the Spinning Jenny. See the original @TailteEireann memorial in the @virtualtreasury
irishmanuscripts.ie/foh2025/
"Doing business in Ireland 1711-1860" a #HistFest25 public lecture
Explore the origins of Irish businesses through the invaluable records of the Registry of Deeds.
4 Oct | 11 am | 45 Merrion Sq
irishmanuscripts.ie/foh2025/
@HistFest @TailteEireann
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PRONI is open late next Thursday! 💫📜
On the 27/02/25 we will be open from 10am - 8pm with document ordering available until 7:15pm. A "Getting Started at PRONI" workshop will also be running from 6pm - 7:20pm⏰
Booking is essential for workshop: bit.ly/41hcb1j
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Join Oein De Bhairduin, as he explores the traditions of midwifery in Traveller culture & highlights unique objects from the museum’s collection.
📅Talk: Midwifery in Traveller Culture
⏲️ Saturday, 22 February, 2 pm
📌 Turlough Park, Castlebar, Mayo
museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Coun…
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Maddock Fellow John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn kindly striking a pose to show off the reading room's very nifty #ScanTent from @Transkribus, which he's using to photograph (slightly mysterious) Spanish & Italian manuscripts in the reading room
ALT Photograph of a man standing and turning the page of a manuscript that is resting on supports in a 'scantent' with inbuilt lights
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20 Feb 1610: beatification ceremony for Ignatius Loyola, founder of the #Jesuit order attended by #Dublin #Jesuit, Henry Fitzsimon #otd (BM) For Jesuit promotion in Ireland of the cult of Ignatius & Francis Xavier, see the Annual Letters published by
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