Generous Effort: politics and religion — David Hayton on The Inchiquin Manuscripts

Speaking in the Seanad on 4 June 1924, popular historian and senator Alice Stopford-Green urged the new government "there must be the most generous effort made to give us our history and to give it to us on lines of full and adequate knowledge".

Since 1928 the Irish Manuscripts Commission has been doing just that by publishing primary sources for the island's history.
In this video Professor David Hayton tells us why he has chosen John Ainsworth's 1961 publication The Inchiquin Manuscripts as his favourite IMC edition.