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18th century collections online (see ECCO: Eighteenth Century collections online)
  
A comprehensive searchable digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language
title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
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19th century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
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20th century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
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Act of Union
 
This Web site provides immediate access to a vast selection of documents held in various public institutions in Belfast, typically in specialized collections.
It is a unique collection of pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers and manuscript material contemporary with the 1800 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain.
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Ainm.ie
Consist of biographies in Irish of people with a connection to the Irish language. The basis for the database is the nine volumes of Beathaisneis (Baile
Atha Cliath: An Clochomhair, 1986-2007), updated and expanded. Compiled by Fiontar, DCU, along with Diarmuid Breathnach and Maire Ni Mhurchu.
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Aistear.ie
Resource for translators, editors and writers in the Irish language.
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Archive of Celtic-Latin literature
Searchable database of texts from the corpus of Celtic-Latin literature from the period 400-1200 as part of the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Medieval
Latin from Celtic Sources project. Access info: Click on "Enter databases" then select Archive of Celtic-Latin literature
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British and Irish women's letters and diaries
Spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Includes approximately
100,000 pages of primary materials.
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Bunreacht na hEireann -- The Constitution of Ireland
Call Number: HESB GEN JN 1403 1945
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CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts
The Online Resource for Irish history, literature and politics: A Project of the History Department, University College Cork. A full-text, searchable
online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts, ranging from Old Irish, Latin and French texts from manuscripts sources to literary and political writings of the early Twentieth Century. including literature and the other arts.
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Contemporary authors (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Counties in time
Call Number: HESB GEN CS 484 .C686 2004
Provides a sample of records held in the National Archives of Ireland for each of Ireland's 32 counties, covering the period from late 16th century to
mid-20th century. Includes scanned images or transcriptions of documents reflecting local history, with timelines, glossary, and photographic images supplementing county histories.
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Dictionary of literary biography (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Dublin Castle records 1798-1926
"The Dublin Castle administration in Ireland was the government of Ireland under English and later British rule, from the twelfth century until 1922, based
at Dublin Castle. Dublin Castle Records, 1798-1926 contains records of the British administration in Ireland prior to 1922, a crucial period which saw the rise of Parnell and the Land War in 1880 through to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921. This collection comprises materials from Series CO 904, The National Archives, Kew, UK"--Home page. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Early English books online (see EEBO : Early English books online)
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English
printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
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ECCO : Eighteenth Century Collections Online
A comprehensive searchable digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language
title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
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EEBO : Early English books online
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English
printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Access info: Content presented as images online, or can be downloaded in PDF format for viewing off-line. No plugins required to view images online.
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EEBO TCP: Early English books online - text creation partnership
Subset of Early English books online. SGML/XML encoded with full text searching capabilities. 200-300 titles are added monthly. When complete, EEBO-TCP
is to contain 25,000 texts.
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Eighteenth Century collections online (see ECCO : Eighteenth Century collections online)
A comprehensive searchable digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language
title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
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Electronic enlightenment
Searchable and browseable database of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends,
bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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Family at war
An online scholarly edition of the diary of Mary Martin, written for her son Charlie, a soldier with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, in the hopes that he would
one day read it.
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HathiTrust Digital Library
A digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions. It was initially
conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
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International encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages
Intended as a complement to Lexikon des Mittelalters and integrated with it online. Access info: Click on "Enter databases" then select International encyclopaedia
for the Middle Ages.
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Irish Resources in the Humanities
A gateway to websites with substantial content in the humanities in the area of Irish Studies, created by Dr. Susan Schreibman at the University of Maryland.
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Irish women poets of the Romantic period
"includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. ... also offers numerous biographical and critical
essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project."--Publisher's description.
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Leabhar mór - the Great Book of Gaelic
An Leabhar Mór - the Great Book of Gaelic is an anthology composed of the work of poets, artists and calligraphers from Ireland and Scotland. The associated
exhibition and selection of poems are on the website of the journal, Archipelago. The pages of the book may be viewed on the Leabhar Mór website.
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Archipelago exhibition of An Leabhar Mór.
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Lexikon des Mittelalters online
An electronic version of the Lexikon des Mittelalters, a fundamental medieval studies encyclopedia covering Europe and parts of the Middle East and North
Africa. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select Lexikon des Mittelalters Online.
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LION, literature online
A virtual library containing more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 200+ full-text literature journals, and other key
criticism and reference resources. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
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Literature resource center
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text articles from numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Nineteenth century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Scottish women poets of the Romantic period
Online full-text database of 18th and 19th century Scottish poetry by women authors, plus critical essays.
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Social theory
Full-text searchable books and articles by major and minor social thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae
A thesaurus providing access to digital editions of texts in Early and Medieval Irish, including texts in the Franciscan A Manuscripts (at UCD), and links
to digital copies of manuscripts where available. This is a project of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics at University College Dublin.
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Twentieth century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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UCD Digital Library (formerly: Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA))
UCD (University College Dublin) Digital Library, a platform for exploring cultural heritage, engaging with digital scholarship, and accessing research
data. The IVRLA digital collections have now moved to this platform and can be located in the Collections section.
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W.B. Yeats collection (1885-1995)
Contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction. Where available, the scholarly editions in the Scribner/Macmillan
Collected Edition of the Works of W.B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, general editors) have been used.
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Link to list of LION collections
Link to LION home page
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