Irish History

Interface in English. Content mostly pictoral. More than 4,000 digital facsimiles of material objects including lace as well as portraits, photographs, and more from 8 millenia. BC login required.

Interface in English or most major European languages. Content includes most textual languages. Includes more than 80,000 digital facsimiles of material from Ireland, including photographs, paintings, textual documents, and ephemera (e.g., maps, clothing, etc.). Difficult to search by date but includes content from across more than 2 millenia. Excellent for material type or art names. Open Access.

A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text. Boston College's status as a partner makes it possible for members of the Boston College community to download any of the out-of-copyright items as PDFs.

The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.

Site contains information on the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. Open Access.

Over 500 periodical titles relating to the conflict and peace process have been made available to search and consult. These are publications that were published between 1990–1998 in the UK, Ireland and further afield, and documented the issues that affected Northern Ireland during that period.
BC affiliates will have to set up an individual user account using their BC email.

Archive of the "Cabinet Conclusion" files from all the debates and transactions for the duration of the Stormont Administration, Northern Ireland, 1921-1972. BC login required.

This archive features video excerpts from interviews and films as well as information about Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh including contextual essays, glossaries, and educational guides on topics like the hunger strikes, prison art, and internment. Open Access.

Full text of the sessional papers presented to Parliament. Papers include reports of committees, royal commissions, public bills, and accounts and papers. Coverage: 1688-2005. Formerly called House of Commons British Parliamentary Papers, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. BC login required.

This site maps the political and cultural murals on Belfast walls. It includes photographs as markers regarding the political affiliation of particular art works.

Digitized collection of the Linen Hall Library’s theatrical material from Northern Ireland including handbills, posters, programs, photographs, letters, news cuttings, scripts, and more.

Site contains manuscripts and letters of nine prominent authors born or based in Northern Ireland: John Boyd, Sir Samuel Ferguson, Robert Greacen, Sam Hanna Bell, John Hewitt, Joan Lingard, Louis MacNeice, Stewart Parker, and W.R. Rodgers.

A collection of artworks from artists who produced work during and relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.