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March 04, 2006New Irish Newspapers Archive Now Available
There's a new archive of Irish newspapers available. And though the site does cost, searching is free and downloading the first ten documents is free. You can try it at http://irishnewspaperarchives.com/. There are eight publications currently available, including The Freeman's...
Continue reading "New Irish Newspapers Archive Now Available" » April 19, 2005Plays in Ireland Since 1950
According to an article at ENN.ie, a new site called Irish Playography is set to open next week. The site is described as "an online, searchable catalogue of all new plays produced professionally in Ireland since 1950." The site is...
February 23, 2004Northern Ireland Buildings Database
The Environment and Heritage Service has a database of over 9,000 historic buildings in Northern Ireland, available at http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/built/mbr/buildings_database/build.asp . You may search it by identifying number, keyword, council, or ward. I searched for Lisburn and found 54 pages of...
October 17, 2003Museums and Galleries in the UK and Ireland
Museums, Galleries, and Historic Houses in the UK and Ireland is available at http://www.mghh.co.uk/ . This site allows you to search over 1600 listings by keyword or by classification (from agricultural to watercolors and drawings.) From the front page you...
Continue reading "Museums and Galleries in the UK and Ireland" » September 16, 2003Belfast Telegraph Adds Digital Archive
The Belfast Telegraph launched a digital archive last week, a database of 180,000 articles from The Belfast Telegraph, Ireland's Saturday Night and Sunday Life. While the content on The Belfast Telegraph site remains free of charge, as do the last...
September 06, 2002Google Goes to Ireland
Google's opened a country-specific domain for Ireland. http://www.google.ie gives you the option of searching pages from the entire Web or for pages from Ireland only. The interface is also available in Irish....
March 21, 2002Directory of Irish Genealogy
Those of you with ancestors from the Emerald Isle will appreciate the directory of Irish genealogy at http://homepage.tinet.ie/~seanjmurphy/dir/index.htm . This directory has been around since 1990 -- it was published in hardcopy starting in 1990, with Internet publishing starting in...
March 08, 2002National Archives of Ireland Transportation Records
The National Archives of Ireland has a database of convicts transported from Ireland to Australia from 1788 to 1868. It's available at http://www.nationalarchives.ie/search01.html . The records are not complete but this database is still substantial. A search for smith found...
Continue reading "National Archives of Ireland Transportation Records" » December 26, 2001Irish Excavations
Oh, I love my job. Excavations.ie ( http://www.excavations.ie/) is a database of Irish excavation reports (North and South Ireland) between 1985 and 1999. While that doesn't sound like it'd be a lot of information, this database actually contains over 4000...
March 15, 200118th Century Belfast Newsletter Index Available
The Belfast Newsletter is an Irish newsletter that began publication in Belfast in 1737. It was published three times a week during the 18th century. The surviving 18th century issues have been indexed and abstracted at http://www.ucs.usl.edu/bnl/ . Unfortunately, only...
Continue reading "18th Century Belfast Newsletter Index Available" » April 28, 2000Searchable Subject Index for Ireland Indexes over 2400 Links
If you're looking for an index of links about Ireland, and not a full-text search, http://www.indexireland.com/ should help you out. It's a nicely-organized, Yahooesque searchable subject index of Ireland related links. Currently there are over 2400 links available and the...
Continue reading "Searchable Subject Index for Ireland Indexes over 2400 Links" » March 29, 2000New Search Engine for Ireland
Index Eireann, at http://www.index-eireann.com/ , has about 200,000 pages in its index at the moment but is still being built. In the meantime, in addition to searching the site's database you can link to other Irish search engines from...
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