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An agenda for Irish history, 1978-2018

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

R. Dudley Edwards
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The celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the two societies, the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, suggests that, having looked backwards over the achievements of the first forty years, we may look forward to what might be done in the comparable future.

The main achievements of these societies, the promoting of objective Irish history and the maintaining of a common cultural outlook on Irish history, were secured by the admission of Ireland as a cultural entity to the international historical organisation, the Comité International des Sciences Historiques.

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Research Article
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 21 , Issue 81 , March 1978 , pp. 3 - 19
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1978

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1 A paper read to the Irish Historical Society, 10 January 1978.

2 Since 1869 the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, commonly called the Historical Manuscripts Commission, had reported on State Papers and other historical material not in the public record offices, but preserved in private custody, in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. More recently, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, these activities led to the setting up of the National Register of Archives, which also cooperates with Dublin-centred institutions such as the National Library of Ireland and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, as well as with the Public Record Office of Ireland.

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4 Among these were: John Francis O'Doherty (Maynooth), James Carty (National Library of Ireland), James (Séamus) Pender (Royal Irish Academy), James Johnston Auchmuty (T.C.D.), Aubrey Osborn Gwynn (U.C.D.).

5 Reference may here be made to W. A. Goligher and W. E. Thrift (T.C.D.); T. Corcoran, Mary T. Hayden, E. MacNeill, J- M. O'Sullivan (N.U.I.); R. M. Henry, J. E. Todd (Q.U.B.).

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