Imirce: The Kerby A. Miller Collection Irish Emigrant Letters and Life Stories from North America Imirce provides access to thousands of letters, life stories, and other documents composed by Irish emigrants to North America from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. In 2020–21, Pulitzer-shortlisted historian Prof. Kerby A. Miller, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Missouri and Honorary Professor of History at the University of Galway, gifted the university a vast collection of emigrant correspondence and memoirs. These thousands of historical accounts from the Irish diaspora community in the U.S. and Ireland date from the late 1600s to the mid-1900s and were collected over a five-decade period. Prof. Miller’s initial gift led to the development of IMIRCE, a digital repository for the materials, which over time is being made available online. In the first phase of the project (2023-2024), letters and life stories from the Kerby A. Miller Collection were digitized, cataloged to item level, and published on a dedicated digital repository by the University of Galway Library. The second phase of the project (from late 2024) involves an appeal to the public for additional emigrant letters and life stories composed in North America. Each new donation is assessed, accessioned, digitized (where necessary), catalogued to item level, transcribed, and released to Imirce online to enable in-depth academic, genealogical, and creative research. To date, 7400 letters and 241 life stories have been published, and this number continues to grow.