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Information on the 16th Irish Division that fought on the western front in the Great War.

Extracts from the Leinster Leader relating to anniversary celebrations in 1898 and 1948 of the 1798 Wolfe Tone rebellion.

A site commemorating, exploring and describing 1798. Includes original articles, chronologies, and biographies of some of the major figures of the time.

A web resource for the visitor center in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. Includes several small exhibitions, including a map of the major battles, music of 1798, women of 1798, and other biographical and historical information,

The National Archives have digitised the household returns and ancillary records for the 1911 census for Dublin. Searching returns data in a database format as well as images of the original returns in PDF. Future plans include digisation of the remaining counties for the 1911 census and well as the 1901 census.

Audio, visual, and textual accounts of the 1916 Easter Rising and the War of Independence created by the BBC. The site includes events leading up to the Rising, the Insurrection itself and its aftermath via essays, photographs, sound archive, music and newspapers from the period.

Includes texts of Famine stories and songs and the Potato Miscellany Page.

Records of the Pontifical Irish College in Rome. This site includes finding aids and online guides to their holdings, such as the papers of Cardinal Paul Cullen, the Kirby Papers, the Hagan Papers and the Jesuit Files (1628-1798). It also includes photographs from the archives, medieval manuscript fragments and archival film footage.

Project of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster. Composed of three parts: (1) ORB (Online Research Bank), a bibliographic compilation of 'social policy research' relevant to Northern Ireland, (2) Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN), providing 'information and source material on 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the presents, and (3) Life and Times Survey (L&T), reflecting the 'social attitudes of people living in Northern Ireland.'

Ask About Ireland is an initiative of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna. Its goal is to bring the Ireland of the past alive while capturing the Ireland of today. Content is eclectic, and ranges from literary and historical entries, to information on Ireland's fauna and flora. There is also content developed for children.

An Australian-based organization which encourages and promotes an awareness of Australia's Irish heritage. The Association sponsors scholarships and literary prizes, a radio programme, as well as a journal, simply entitled The Journal. A nearly complete index for The Journal is available on the website.

A Resource dedicated to the Troubles, the period of violent conflict in Northern Ireland beginning with the Civil Rights marches in the late 1960s to the political resolution enshrined in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Includes articles and images, fact files and timelines.

A site dedicated to capturing the living memories of Irish life in the 1950s by interviewing those who stayed in Ireland in a decade when so many were leaving. The archive consists of 78 oral narratives and 12 text contributions, with fifty of the oral narratives available on the website. The site also has background information to contextualize the oral narratives. The narratives are easy to navigate, and listen to. They are divided into short segments, with metadata provided for each segment to more easily locate passages of interest.

An extensive online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics. Includes texts in English, Irish and Latin, including the Annals of the Four Masters, and the Annals of Ulster, as well as writings by Michael Collins, James Connolly, Oliver Goldsmith, John Boyle O'Reilly, amongst others.

Journal of the School of Celtic Studies. Full listing of contents available online from first volume (1946).

Resources for genealogical studies in Ireland.

An electronic history journal published by the Department of History at University College Cork. Includes articles, notices for forthcoming events, an historians' forum, and submission information.

An account of the nunciature of Archbishop Gianbattista Rinuccini in Ireland, written in Italy between 1661-1666 by two Irish clerics, Richard O'Ferrall and Robert O'Connell. It provides a unique insight into the political, diplomatic, religious and military history of Counter-reformation Ireland, Britain and Europe during the wars of the three kingdoms (1639-52). This online project will make available the original Latin text with English translation after January 2010.

An exhibition created by the National Archives of Ireland as part of its contribution to Archives Awareness Month, 2005 featuring an online exhibition of documents relating to two key national events, both of which occurred in years ending in 5: the visit of the Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera to Eduard Hempel, German Minister to Ireland, to present his condolences on the death of Adolf Hitler in 1945; and the repatriation of the remains of Sir Roger Casement, followed by his state funeral, in 1965. The documents are accompanied by short commentaries and there are links to two relevant detailed articles which explain the events and contextualise the archival material.

A database created as a common resource for scholars working in the field of Irish economic history edited by Jason Begley, Frank Geary, and Kevin O'Rourke. Scholars are free to download and use the data made available from this site. Statistical information covers the areas of agriculture, finance, industry, labour, population, prices, and trade. A miscellaneous section includes statistical collections such as the annual series of the number of property transactions in each year from 1708 to 1988; return of the receipts in each union in Ireland, with the expenditure on the relief of the poor, 1901-02; and salaries, wages and allowances, Public works and buildings, Ireland, 1901.

De Re Militari is concerned with mediaeval military history in the broadest sense. It indexes several online articles of Irish interest. Users will have to hunt around for them, as there is no separate Irish index. Start by looking under the Books and Articles section, or the Warfare in the British Isles (1275-1500) section under Online Resources for Students and Scholars.

A directory of information sources relating to the history of women in Ireland contains information and descriptions of over 14,000 collections and sources in 262 repositories in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. The search engine indexes records from over 14,000 collections in 262 repositories in Ireland and the North of Ireland. The directory is the result of a survey undertaken by the Women's History Project.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy is a project of the Royal Irish Academy, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the National Archives of Ireland. The project publishes essential source material concerning the development of Irish foreign policy since 1919. This online archive contains material from five volumes, covering the development and execution of Irish foreign policy from 1919 to 1939.

A new online journal covering a range of subjects treated in a way that is both knowledgeable and accessible. Although the DRB is Irish in its core perspective, an interest in the literature, history and culture of Europe and the wider world also characterises its pages.

The Dungarvan Museum has mounted a site rich in information about the town and its environs. The website includes an impressive collection of photographs, articles, and historical documents, all freely available for download. The site also includes virtual exhibitions, and tours of the Dungavan area.