History of Ireland: Primary Documents

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• The Megalithic Portal

Commentary and images on ancient sites in Britain and Ireland.

Browse by Type of Site or try the database to locate specific sites.

(Facsimiles & commentary)

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• Remains.se - Ireland

A portal for photos of historical sites in Ireland, searchable by area, by type of site, and by age of site

(1400 to present)

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• Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) - Meamram Páipéar Ríomhaire

Gaelic documents from digital collections at Coláiste na Rinne, Mount Melleray Abbey, National Library of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and National University of Ireland, Galway.

(Gaelic-language facsimiles, registers and various types of apparatus).

Major manuscript source.

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• Uniting the Kingdoms?

This section includes primary documents of post-1066 Ireland online.

(1066 - 1603; facsimiles and transcriptions)

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• The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland. A.D. 1155

including commentary on the questionable authenticity of the papal bull.

(1155; English transcription).

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• Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery, commonly known as the Penal Laws

Penal Statutes passed in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I, William and Mary, King William III, Queen Anne, King George I and II.

(1558-1759; English transcriptions).

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• For Annala Rioghachta Éireann The Chronicle of the Kingdom of Ireland

(1589-1616; Irish Gaelic transcriptions) and other documents,

see CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

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• A View of the Present State of Ireland

by Edmund Spenser

(1596; English transcription)

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• The Revolution in Ireland

(1689-1691; transcriptions with modernised spelling)

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• James Hardiman's History of Galway

(1820; English transcription).

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• Daniel O'Connell on Justice for Ireland

Before the House of Commons.

(4 February 1836; English transcription)

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• Asenath Nicholson, Annals of the Famine in Ireland

New York: E. French, 1851.

Digitized at the University of Wisconsin.

(1847-1849; English transcriptions)

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• The Ulster Covenant

A database and source material website.

Being developed by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).

(28 January 1912; transcriptions and facsimiles).

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• The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives

Contemporary documents on the events of Easter Week 1916, the seven signatories of the proclamation, the others executed in the aftermath of the Rising, the casualties and the survivors.

(April-May 1916; facsimiles of pictures, maps, newspapers, written documents)

• Proclamation of the Irish Republic

(24 April 1916; English transcription)

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• World War I Document Archive

(pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)

Major Resource

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• World War I

A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

(1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)

• Documents of World War I

Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.

(1914-1919; translations)

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• Documents of the Interwar Period

Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.

(1918-1941; translations)

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• Post War Western European States -- Ireland Since 1945 (Scroll down to Ireland)

A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

(1945 to the present; transcriptions and translations)

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• Bunreacht na hÉireann -- Irish Constitution

(Sept. 2, 1939, as amended through May 27, 1999; English and Irish transcriptions)

Constitution in RTF or PDF file format available at the bottom of the web page.

• Irish Constitution and other legal documents

(English transcriptions)

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• John F. Kennedy's Address Before The Irish Parliament

(June 28, 1963; English transcription).

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• Government of Ireland

Connections to government branches and organizations for press releases, speeches and publications.

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• Guide to Law Online: Ireland

Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.

(Translations and transcriptions)

• British and Irish Legal Information Institute

Free access to legal decisions, legislation, and other legal materials.

(1996 - present; transcriptions)

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• Proposed North Ireland Peace Agreement

(1998; transcription)

• Tony Blair to the Irish Parliament

(1998; transcript)

• A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland. The Report of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland (Patten Report)

(1999; transcript)

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• CAIN: Conflict Archive on the INternet

Commentary and source material on the troubles in Northern Ireland.

Sponsored by the University of Ulster.

(1968-present; transcriptions and commentary).

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• Celtic Manuscripts at Oxford University

Concentrated in Bodleian Library and Corpus Christ College

(9th to 19th centuries; facsimiles)

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• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Major Resource!

(English, Irish, French and Latin transcriptions, English translations)

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• Irish History Documents

(1155 - present; transcriptions)

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• Irish Resources in History

A alphabetical sublist of Irish Resources in the Humanities

(English and Irish transcriptions, English translations)

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• Historical Text Archive: Ireland

Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.

(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)

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• National Transport Museum of Ireland Online

Historical passenger, commercial, emergency, military, and utility vehicles presented online.

(1883-1974; images)

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• International Civic Coats of Arms: Ireland

(Facsimiles).

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Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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