Ireland

• Behind the Mask: the IRA and the Sinn Fein
  (PBS Frontline special site with chronology and materials)
• CAIN, Conflict Archive on the INternet
  (focuses on the Northern Ireland Conflict)
• CELT, Corpus of Electronic Texts
  (electronic documents of Irish history and culture, see extensive List of Published Texts)
• History Ireland Magazine
• Irish Famine
  • An Gorta Mór: Great Irish Famine (recommended site)
  • The Irish Famine: 1845-9 and Lord Lucan and the Irish potato famine (both part of Victorian Web)
  • Irish Potato Famine (The History Place)
  • Views of the Famine
• Irish History Online
  (a bibliography of Irish history, created by Writings on Irish History online in association with the Royal Historical Society)
• Irish Resources in the Humanities
  (from Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, thorough and well-annotated links, with search engine, includes history), examples:
  • Archives of the Pontifical Irish College, Rome
  • The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives
• Irish Archaeological and Historical Journals
  (annotated descriptions and links)
• Irish Manuscripts Commission, see also:
  • Act of Union Virtual Library
    (collection of pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers and manuscript material contemporary with the 1800 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain)
  • EPPI: Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922
    (full-text digitisation of some 13,700 British Parliamentary papers)
• Irish Migration Histories Timeline
  (migrations and contribution to British culture and life, includes culture and festivals)
• Irish Penal Laws
  (full text and summary of laws for suppression of popery in Ireland, mainly 1691-1755)
• Island Ireland
  (annotated links to Irish arts, culture, history, environment, offshoot of commercial site)
• National Archives of Ireland
  (official site, research database, and texts and commentaries on 1798 Rebellion, 1921 Treaty, etc.), see also;
  • Irish Women's History Project
• National Library of Ireland, includes online exhibtions, such as:
  • The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
  • Online Digital Photographs
• National Museum of Ireland
• Newspapers
  • Irish Newspaper Archives
  • Irish Central (Nuzhound)
    (independent "news sifting" service on the Northern Ireland situation)
• Parliament of Ireland (Houses of the Oireachtais)
  (Official report of parliamentary debates, 1919-2001, with search engine)
• Politics and Society in Modern Island
  (online resources and maps)
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
• Waterford County Museum
• WWW-VL: History of Ireland
  (maps, documents, curriculum, etc.)
  

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last updated on January 18, 2010