LibGuides: Primary Sources: Ireland: Ireland

Online Sources: Ireland

19th Century Pamphlet Collection (UCD Digital Library)
1641 Depositions at Trinity College Dublin Library
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"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. The testimonies document the loss of goods, military activity, and the alleged crimes committed by the Irish insurgents, including assault, stripping, imprisonment and murder. This body of material is unparalleled anywhere in early modern Europe, and provides a unique source of information for the causes and events surrounding the 1641 rebellion and for the social, economic, cultural, religious, and political history of seventeenth-century Ireland, England and Scotland."
Digital Collections of The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Digital Repository of Ireland
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"The Digital Repository of Ireland is a national digital repository for Ireland’s humanities, social sciences, and cultural heritage data. You can browse and search across multiple collections from some of the finest Irish institutions. "
Documenting Ireland: Parliment, People and Migration (DIPPAM)
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An online virtual archive of documents and sources relating to Irish history from the 18th to late 20th centuries.
electronic Irish Statute Book
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"The electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) includes Acts of the Oireachtas and Statutory Instruments, the official versions of which remain the printed versions published by Government Publications. You can track amendments to legislation, access the Constitution and a selection of pre-1922 legislation while links to external legislation resources are also provided."
Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland Bill relating to Ireland
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Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801 - 1922 involved the cataloguing and full-text digitisation of a selection of British Parliamentary papers taken from the University of Southampton's unique Ford Collection of Official Publications.
From Easter Rising to Civil War: Ireland, 1916-1922
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"A selection of postcards, photographs, illustrated booklets and reports on the Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.

The documents are from archive collections held at the Modern Records Centre and the University of Warwick Library Special Collections. Most sources reflect Republican views of the events"
History of Ireland: Primary Documents
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Sources related to the history of Ireland.
Ireland Free - Revolutionary Speeches & Poems Of Ireland
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Irish Sheet Music Archives
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"Visit Browse Collection to browse and search over 5,000 pieces of Irish and Irish American themed sheet music in our collections. This page functions as an online catalog for all of the sheet music across our collections. Users can narrow down the collection by filtering items in the Public Domain (published before 1923) to view free online sheet music." Ward Irish Music Archives
John McCormack – Recordings: 1911-1940
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"John McCormack (1884–1945) was an Irish tenor renowned for lending his superior diction and breath control to a whole range of operatic and popular song repertoires, including a number of traditional ballads from Ireland."
Letters of 1916
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"The Letters of 1916 project is the first public humanities project in Ireland. It is creating a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915 – 31 October 1916)."
Revolutionary Speeches Words and Poems of Ireland
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Track 1. Robert Emmet's Speech Before His Execution (September 19, 1903) (07:31)
Track 2. Patrick H. Pearse's Oration Over The Grave Of O'Donovan Rossa (05:23)
Track 3. The Fool; The Rebel; Renunciation written by PH Pearse (07:25)
Track 4. 1916 Proclamation Of The Irish Republic "I Am Ireland" (15:57)
Track 5. Red Hanrahan's "Song About Ireland"; Easter 1916; the Rose Tree (09:31)
UCD Digital Library
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"The Mission of the UCD Digital Library is to capture, curate, and manage digital cultural resources and research outputs of the University College Dublin community as well as its collaborators and partners, to preserve and sustain the usability of these assets, and to enable their broad dissemination."

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Book Sources: Ireland

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, Tudor Period 1571-1575 by Mary O'Dowd
Call Number: DA937 .C354 2000
ISBN: 1873162480
Calendar of the State Papers, Relating to Ireland of the Reign of James I, 1603-[1625] by C. W. Russell & John P. Prendergast
Call Number: DA25 .G9 1974
v. 1. 1603-1606.--v. 2. 1606-1608.--v. 3. 1608-1610.--v. 4. 1611-1614.--v. 5. 1615-1625
Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Ireland of the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth
Call Number: DA25 .G7 1974
Convicted. A record of disloyal speeches, resolutions, leaflets and posters by Ian Malcolm
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
published in Ireland and America between 1880 and 1911. Ed., with a preface and explanatory notes, by Ian Malcolm ...
Edmund Burke, New York agent, by Edmund Burke
Call Number: DA506.B9 A1 H699
With his Letters to the New York Assembly and Intimate Correspondence with Charles O'Hara, 1761-1776
Essex Papers by Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex
Call Number: DA20 .R91 new ser., v.47
The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift & Thomas Sheridan
Call Number: PR3724 .I58 1992
ISBN: 0198126700
Ireland and Britain, 1798-1922: An Anthology of Sources by Dennis L. Dworkin
Call Number: DA950 .I635 2012
ISBN: 1603847413
Ireland under Elizabeth and James the First by Henry Morley (editor)
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
described by Edmund Spenser, by Sir John Davies, and by Fynes Moryson
Irish Historical Documents, 1172-1972 by Edmund Curtis (Editor); R. B. Macdowell (Editor)
Call Number: DA905 .C8 2012
ISBN: 0415525942
The Irish Uprising, 1914-21 by Tim Coates
Call Number: DA962 .I75 2000
ISBN: 0117024155
Papers from the British Parliamentary Archive
Journal of the Very Rev. Rowland Davies : LL.D., Dean of Ross by Rowland Davies
Call Number: General Non-Circ DA20 .R91 1st ser., v.68
edited, with notes, and an appendix, and some account of the author and his family, by Richard Caulfield
Letters from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir George Carew by John Maclean
Call Number: General Non-Circ DA20 .R91 1st ser., v.88
Medieval Handbooks of Penance by John T. McNeill & Helena M. Gamer
Call Number: BX2262 .M43 1990
ISBN: 0231096291
a translation of the principal libri poenitentiales and selections from related documents
A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift
Call Number: Online - free - Project Gutenberg
Publication Date: 1729
Original Letters and Papers in Illustration of the History of the Church in Ireland during the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth by Evelyn Philip Shirley (editor)
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly, 1893-1916 by Conor McCarthy (Editor)
Call Number: DA965.C7 R48 2016
ISBN: 1474410669
Selected Documents in Irish History by Josef L. Altholz
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780765605412
A Survey of the Irish in England (1872) by Alan O'Day
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780826422941
Swift's Irish Pamphlets : An Introductory Selection by Jonathan Swift
Call Number: DA947.Z9 S84 1991
ISBN: 0861402979
The World Upturning: Elsie Henry's Irish Wartime Diaries, 1913-1919 by Clara Cullen
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781908928146

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