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British
& Commonwealth History - Collections
Irish History
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Resources |
Databases & Websites
An
Gorta Mór: The Great Hunger Archive (Quinnipiac
University).
Act
of Union Virtual Library: A Digital Resource
for the Act of Union of 1800. A unique
collection of pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary
papers and manuscript material contemporary
with the 1800 Act of Union between Ireland
and Britain.
The
American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS).
A multidisciplinary scholarly organization
with approximately 1500 members in the United
States,
Ireland, Canada, and other countries around
the world.
Ark:
Northern Ireland Social and Political
Archive
CELT:The
Online Resource for Irish History,
Literature and Politics (History
Department, University College Cork).
A searchable online database consisting
of contemporary and historical texts
from many areas, including literature
and the other arts.
Enhanced
British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland:1801-1922.
EPPI involves the electronic cataloguing
and full-text digitisation of some
13,700 British Parliamentary papers
(containing around 600,000 pages)
from the University of Southampton's
unique Ford Collection of Official
Publications.
Irish
Penal Laws. "Penal Laws" is
the name given to the code of laws
passed by the Protestant Parliament
of Ireland which regulated the status
of Roman Catholics through most of
the 18th century. These laws are
key to understanding the history
of the period as well as the sectarian
conflicts that still plague Northern
Ireland. The purpose of this site
is to make the raw material of these
laws accessible to historians, legal
scholars, students, and other interested
people.
Irish
Script on Screen (School
of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute
for Advanced Studies). A free site
providing digitized images of Irish
manuscripts from various
libraries and institutions, together
with
relevant commentary.
Historical
Parliamentary Debates, Ireland
History
of Ireland: Primary Documents (Eurodocs,
BYU)
Trinity
College Library, Dublin
Northern
Ireland Conflict Primary and
secondary sources on the Northern
Ireland Conflict from 1968 to the
present with searchable bibliographical
and other databases.
Northern
Irish Assembly. Official website
of The Northern Ireland Assembly.
Parliamentary
Debates, Ireland
Royal
Irish Academy Library and Catalogue.
The RIA's collection of c.2,000
manuscripts includes the largest
corpus of Irish
language manuscripts in a single
repository, the oldest surviving
Irish manuscript, the Cathach, or
Psalter of St. Columba, and other
important early texts.
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Periodicals & Newspapers
New
Hibernia Review
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Bibliographies
Irish
History Online (Irish History Online
in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography
and London's Past Online). Online bibliographic
data on historical writing dealing with Ireland
from prehistoric times to the present. It is a guide
to the work of historians rather than
to original sources, unless they have been edited and
republished by historians.
The
Women's History Project. A searchable database containing
descriptions of over 14,000 collections and sources held
in over 420 public and private repositories
in the Republic of
Ireland
and in Northern Ireland relating to the history of women
in Ireland from the earliest times
to the present.
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Resources |
Encyclopedias & Handbooks
Directory
of Irish Archives, edited by Seamus Helferty and
Raymond Refaussé.
Dublin: Four Courts, 2003.
Location: Green Library, HASRC (Lane Room): Non-circulating (CD1100 .D46 2003)
The Encyclopaedia of Ireland. Brian Lalor,
general editor.
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2003.
Location: Green Library, (DA906 .E527 2003)
Encyclopedia of Ireland: An A-Z Guide to its People, Places,
History, and Culture, Ciaran Brady, general editor.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating (DA906 .E53
2000)
A New History of Ireland, edited by
T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne.
Oxford, England: Clarendon Press
Location: Green Library, Information Center (non-circulating) and Stacks
(DA912 .N48 v.1-9)
Twentieth-Century Ireland: Nation and State,
Dermot Keogh.
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, c1994.
Location: Green Library, Stacks (DA959 .K463 1994)
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Journals
Eighteenth-Century
Ireland
Volume/date range: Vol. 1 (1986)-
Location: Green Library, Stacks (DA947.3 .E53 v.1-present)
Irish Historical Studies
Location: Latest year or volume in Current Periodicals; earlier in Stacks
(DA900 .I63 v.1-present)
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Newspapers
Irish Political and Radical Newspapers of the Twentieth
Century.
Dublin, Ireland: Irish Microforms, 1976-
Note: Phase 1, 1895-1941, Section 1, 3-4, 6-8 housed in Hoover
Library under call number: MFILM DA959.I78.
Location: Green Library, Media-Microtext Collection (
MFILM N.S. 2183)
Documents
Elizabethan
Ireland and the Settlement of Ulster: The Carew Papers
from
Lambeth
Palace Library.
London: World Microfilms Publications, 1978. 15 microfilm reels; 35 mm.
Note: For contents consult user's guide: List of contents and index to reels
Elizabethan Ireland and the
settlement of Ulster (DA905.C3 1978), located in Current Periodicals/Microtext
(c.1) and Reference Room (c.2).
Location: Green Library, Media Microtext Collection, MFILM N.S. 10227
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September 5, 2006
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