The Chair and Members of the IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION COIMISIÚN LÁMHSCRÍBHINNÍ na hÉIREANN

cordially invite you to

‘Preserving the past for the future’ a seminar to mark the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 1928

and the publication of

Irish Manuscripts Commission Strategic Development Plan, ‒

to be launched by

Seán Ó Fearghaíl, TDCeann Comhairle, Dáil Éireann

Followed by a reception

. pm, Wednesday th October,

Merrion SquareDublin

RSVP admin@irishmanuscripts.ie | - by Monday, October

SEMINAR PROGRAMME

. Welcome Professor John McCafferty, Chair, Irish Manuscripts Commission

. Launch of Irish Manuscripts Commission Strategic Development Plan, ‒ Seán Ó Fearghaíl, TD, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann

. ‘Bold and imaginative’: Eoin MacNeill’s Irish Manuscripts Commission Dr Michael Kennedy, Executive Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, RIA

. A politics of history? Eoin MacNeill’s early medieval Ireland Dr Elva Johnston, UCD School of History

. An archival palimpsest: the Beyond project and the Four Courts blaze Dr Peter Crooks, School of Histories and Humanities, TCD

. Conserving documents saved from the Public Record Office (Ireland) fire of June Zoe Reid, National Archives of Ireland

. Conclusion Professor John McCafferty, Chair, Irish Manuscripts Commission