Newspapers
Irish Newspaper Archive
Largest online database of Irish newspapers with coverage ranging from the 1700s to present.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
This database contains English-language newspapers primarily from the United States but has The Globe and Mail (1844-2009), The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003), Irish Times (1859-2011) and Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958), and The Scotsman (1817-1950).
Electronic Databases/Primary Sources
Act of Union Digital Archive
Contains manuscripts, pamphlets, newspapers, and parliamentary papers contemporary with the 1800 Act of Union between Britain and Ireland
Corpus of Electronic Texts: Resource for Irish History, Literature, and Politics
Primary sources documenting Irish literary and historical culture. Texts are in Irish, English, Hiberno-Norman French, and Latin.
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
Primary source material documenting the development of Irish foreign policy since 1919.
History of Ireland: Primary Documents
Links to large collection of primary sources documenting Irish history from antiquity to contemporary times. Separate link to sources for Northern Irish sources.
University College Dublin Digital Library (Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive)
Extensive digital repository of historical materials, photographs, art, interviews, letters, and other content. Includes the letters of Roger Casement to Hans Boehm, essays written by schoolchildren in 1937-38, 18th-century watercolors, religious artifacts of the Irish Franciscans, and more.
Audio/Visual
Breaking the Silence
A collection or oral histories that recount the memories of Irish life during the 1940s and 1950s.
Digital Photographs (National Library of Ireland)
Large collection of digital images documenting the 19th and 20th centuries, including political figures, landscapes, the Independent Newspaper collection, images created by the Lawrence Studios documenting Irish life, and more.
Northern Ireland: A Divided Community, 1921-1972: Cabinet papers of the Stormont Administration
Full-text Cabinet Conclusion files of the Northern Ireland government from 1921 to 1972 including minutes and memoranda. Topics covered include prevention of incitement to religious hatred; road spiking; dock strikes; routing of Orange Day parades; role of the Ulster Defence Force; policing; prisons; the army occupation of factories.
Bibliographic
Irish History Online: Bibliographic Reference Resource for Irish History
Archival
ArchiveFinder
Directory that describes more than 220,000 collections of primary-source materials located in repositories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
General Reference
Census of Ireland 1901/1911
Census for all 32 counties for 1901 and 1911.
Legal
Guide to Legal Databases: Ireland
List of databases of legal resources for Ireland. Some are free; others require subscritpions.
Hesburgh Libraries Special Collections Irish Inventory
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