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The University of Galway Library is home to Imirce: The Kerby A. Miller Collection: Irish Emigrant Letters and Memoirs from North America. Imirce is a project with two discrete elements. First, it makes available via an online database a vast collection of transcripts of Irish emigrant letters and memoirs compiled over some fifty-years by historian Kerby A. Miller. Second, it continues Miller’s work of collection through regular appeals for additional material to be added to the database. Since its launch in March 2024, Imirce has featured in national and international media, most recently (2 November 2024) being the subject of Tim Desmond’s A Letter Home, RTÉ Radio 1’s Documentary on One: https://www.rte.ie/radio/doconone/1478028-a-letter-home

For additional information, see https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms

To suggest material for addition to the database, see https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/contribute

Credit: James Brenan, News from America (1875), courtesy of Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.