Provided is an image recording material capable of being directly recorded
by various kinds of lasers, excellent in alkali-developability by
alkaline developer and capable of forming an image which is good in
curability by exposure. The image recording material is characterized by
including on a support: an image recording layer containing a binder
polymer (A); a compound (B) having a polymerizable unsaturated group, and
a polymerization initiator (C); and a layer containing an organic ionic
polymer (a) formed of a non-metallic element and an inorganic layered
compound (b) that are layered in this order. It is preferable that the
image recording layer further contains a dye (D) having an absorption
maximum in a region of 300 to 1,200 nm, and it is preferable that the
binder polymer (A) is a polymer having an alkali-soluble group.