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Find Books Containing Primary Sources
There are many books in the library which reproduce Primary Sources. Try searching the Library Catalogue for books on your topic, or explore the recommended titles below.
The Free Digital Humanities Resource for Irish history, literature and politics, bringing the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to you on the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide.
A gateway to Irish digital collections and resources, information and knowledge. Discovery supports the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional sharing of digital research collections of Irish interest.
FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. For over 100 years, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide.
Searchable database of Irish transported to Australia between 1788 and 1868. Database maintained by the National Archives of Ireland. The transportation records include name, trial date, crime, sentence and ship
The Library has digitised the Lawrence (Royal & Cabinet), Poole Whole Plate and Independent Newspapers (1912 -1936), Clarke, Eason, Keogh, Stereo Pairs and Tempest glass plate collections and these images are now accessible, at a low resolution and with basic information, through the Digital Photographs database.
Digitised primary sources form collections around the world. The first four collections released are Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; and European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection.
Collections are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries as well as specialist libraries, and content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. The first eight collections are Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection; Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest; Photography: The World through the Lens; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; and Women: Transnational Networks.
PRONI aims to identify, preserve and make available Northern Ireland's unique archival heritage and community memory. PRONI has a programme of digitising significant archives to make them accessible to the public online.
Search manuscripts held at the National Library of Ireland (up to the 1980s), and Irish manuscripts held in other libraries and archives in Ireland and worldwide (1940s-1970s).
The Hocken Collections hold a number of sources relating to individuals and organisations with Irish origins and connections. This reference guide will help you to find them.
The 1641 Depositions (Trinity College Dublin, MSS 809-841) are witness testimonies mainly by Protestants, but also by some Catholics, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion
Explore the events leading up to 1916, the Insurrection itself and its aftermath, through photographs, a sound archive, music and newspapers from the period.
Online exhibit from the National Library of Ireland provides over 500 images from the Library's collection of books, newspapers, drawings, and proclamations.
Collection of primary source material relevant to the 1801 Act of Union between Ireland and Great Britain includes pamphlets, parliamentary papers, newspaper articles and manuscripts.
This online exhibition focuses on the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and draws almost exclusively upon the rich documentary holdings of original Irish Government records held in the National Archives.
A web site devoted to providing a wide range of information and source material on the Northern Ireland conflict and politics in the region from 1968 to the present.
Full-text access to House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. Browse by Subject: "Ireland" to retrieve every paper dealing specifically with Ireland, with sections on order and government, agriculture and landholding, trade and industry, and Irish society.
Irish Sources at the Hocken Collections
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