Irish Studies Portal

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Parliamentary History
Call Number: Wiley Online Library
Publication Date: 1982 to present
Provides a forum for current research and general interest articles covering the history of parliamentary institutions in the British Isles (including the Scottish and Irish Parliaments) from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.
Éire-Ireland
Call Number: Project MUSE
Publication Date: 1994 to present
An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of international repute, Éire Ireland is the leading forum in the flourishing field of Irish Studies. Since 1966, the journal has published a wide range of imaginative work and scholarly articles from all areas of the arts, humanities, and social sciences relating to Ireland and Irish America.
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
Call Number: 3rd Floor Current Periodicals and JSTOR
Publication Date: 1912+
The most revent issues can be found among our 3rd Floor Current Periodicals. JSTOR provides access from 1912 up to two years ago.
History Ireland
Call Number: JSTOR Ireland
Publication Date: 1993-present
Irish University Review
Call Number: Edinburgh University Press and JSTOR Ireland
Publication Date: 1970-present
Edinburgh University Press includes 2012 to the present.
JSTOR holds back-content up to six years ago.
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature
Irish Studies in International Affairs
Call Number: JSTOR
Publication Date: 1979-present
Nordic Irish Studies
Eighteenth-Century Ireland | Iris an dá chultúr
The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Irish Economic and Social History
Call Number: SAGE and JSTOR
Publication Date: 1974-present
Recent content on SAGE.
Back-content on JSTOR up to four years ago.

Journal & eBook Databases

For a selection of excellent journals and some e-books on various topics in global history, we recommend a few databases. Remember to explore these database "advanced search" options for date and other modifiers before you run your searches.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a collection of scholarly journals and ebooks across multiple disciplines. Content includes back issues and some current issues.
Project MUSE
Full-text access to a large number of scholarly journals and eBooks in the humanities and social sciences published by over 120 of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
Historical Abstracts
Index of journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and dissertations pertaining to the study of World History (Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America), from 1450 to the present. Coverage is 1955-present. Some full text coverage.

Additional Recommendations

Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Core is the place to find valuable, useful and inspirational research and academic information. Includes journals and books across the humanities and sciences. Of particular note are the Cambridge Histories, the Cambridge Companions, and the Cambridge Handbooks.
De Gruyter This link opens in a new window
Based out of Berlin, De Gruyter has been publishing academic books and journals for more than 250 years. Their fields of focus include humanities (e.g., history, classics, ancient near east, philosophy, religion, and more), social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law. This interface provides affiliates with access to Boston College's subscriptions to De Gruyter's journals as well as ebook and some open access material.
Oxford Academic This link opens in a new window
Oxford University Publisher's access point for their reference, journals, and books. Material covers arts and humanities (including history and theology); law; medicine and health; science and math; as well as the social sciences.
Taylor & Francis This link opens in a new window
Access to our T&F journals and other e-content. Includes more than 200 history journals with full or partial access. Keep in mind that BC affiliates can order articles we don't have through ILL.

Books Not Available at BC

Members of the BC community can find and obtain books and other materials from beyond BC in several ways:

WorldCat Discovery This link opens in a new window
Material from BC, Boston Library Consortium, Center for Research Libraries, Google Books, and libraries worldwide from one interface.

Boston Library Consortium
Members of the BC community have onsite access and borrowing privileges at the 17 members of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC). Request a BLC borrower card from the O'Neill Circulation Desk before you go.
Interlibrary Loan
You can also complete an interlibrary loan (ILL) form to have books, media, and articles sent to BC from other libraries.

Dictionaries

Oxford Reference Online
This is a quick go-to for high-quality, short, dictionary style descriptions, definitions, facts, and figures. Great for date and name checking.
Corpus Stairiuil na Gaeilge 1600 - 1926
This online corpus makes 19 million words of Irish, from over 3,000 printed texts, freely available to read and search.
Dictionary and Language Library
The aim of the site is to provide users of the language with free, easy-to-use access to dictionaries and to grammatical and pronunciation information relating to words in the Irish Language.
Focal
Gateway to electronic resources for the Irish language. Selected categories include folklore, surname, biographical, and place name resources.
An Foclóir Beag
Irish language dictionary (Irish only).
Gaeilge ar an Ghréasán
Links to web resources, in and about Irish Gaelic.
National Terminology Database for Irish
Developed by Fiontar agus Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU in collaboration with An Coiste Téarmaíochta, Foras na Gaeilge.

Bibliographies

Bibliography of British and Irish History This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic data on historical writing that deals with the British Isles, the British Empire and Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland, and the Irish in America.

Irish History Online
Irish History Online is a guide to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It currently contains approximately 70,000 bibliographic records (December 2009) and is a work in progress and is hosted by the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: British and Irish Literature
British and Irish Literature is a tool designed to help researchers find reliable sources of information quickly by directing them to chapter, book, website, archive, or data set selected by experts in the subject. Includes unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. The citations link to the library collection or Google books and more.

Irish Studies Specific Journals

JSTOR Irish Collection
Titles and resources related to Ireland or Irish writing across the arts, humanities, and sciences in disciplines such as music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. Materials span from the 1780s to the present.
Irish Economic & Social History
The journal of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland. Available since 1974.
Irish Historical Studies
A Cambridge journal. Available from 1938.

National Archives & Libraries

National Archives of Ireland
Access to researching geological, government, historical, and legal documents pertaining to Irish history. Some digital material in exhibits, most material requires visit to Ireland.
National Library of Ireland (NLI)
Includes access to the catalogs for the holdings of the National Library. Some digitized materials, including newspapers, photographs, and more.

Major Publishers in Irish Studies

Here are a few of the presses to keep your eyes on:

Bloomsbury
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Cambridge University Press
Cork University Press
Four Courts Press
Gallery Books
Gill Books
Liverpool University Press
Mercier Press
Merrion Press
New Island
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Revival Press
Routledge
Salmon Poetry
The Lilliput Press
University College Dublin

O'Neill Library

Bapst Library

Burns Library

Educational Resource Center

Law Library

Social Work Library

Theology & Ministry Library

O'Connor Library

Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

Irish Studies Portal

Scholarship

Find & Request Books from BC & Beyond

Individual Titles

Journal & eBook Databases

Additional Recommendations

Books Not Available at BC

Dictionaries

Bibliographies

Irish Studies Specific Journals

National Archives & Libraries

Major Publishers in Irish Studies