This invention provides an image recording material, comprising: on a support, a protective layer that contains a crosslinked polymer formed of a polymer (a) having at least one kind of ionically crosslinkable functional group, and a low molecular weight compound (b) having at least one kind of ionically crosslinkable functional group, on an image recording layer, the image recording layer containing a compound (A), having at least one kind of ethylenically unsaturated bond, and a polymerization initiator (B).