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Ireland:

Background

Sometimes you may need some information to get more familiar with your topic. Below are some materials that can provide background on Irish history. The resources listed at European History: Background might be useful, too. If you need help finding information, please ask at the Hunt Library reference desk.

• Ayto, John. Brewer's Britain & Ireland. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. (Carnegie Mellon users only)

• Brady, Ciaran, ed. Encyclopedia of Ireland: An A-Z Guide to its People, Places, History, and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, c2000.
  HUNT REF-1 DA906 .E53 2000

• Byrne, James P. Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia Santa Barbara, Calif.:ABC-CLIO, 2008. (Carnegie Mellon users only)

• Connolly, S. J., ed. Oxford Companion to Irish History. (Carneige Mellon users only) New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

• Donnelly, James S., ed. Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture. 2 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.(Carnegie Mellon users only)

• Encyclopaedia of Ireland. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
  HUNT REF-1 DA979 .E5

• Flags of Ireland (Vincent Morley)

• Green, Miranda J. Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992.
  HUNT REF-1 BL900 .G73 1992

• Haigh, Christopher. The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  HUNT REF-1 DA34 .C28 1985

• Hickey, D. J. A Dictionary of Irish History Since 1800. Totowa, N. J.: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981.
  HUNT REF-1 DA949.7 .H53 1980

• In Search of Ancient Ireland (PBS)

• McCormack, W. J., ed. The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
  HUNT REF-1 DA925 .B47 1999

• Thomas, Colin and Avril Thomas. Historical Dictionary of Ireland. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
  HUNT STACKS-2 DA910 .T39 1997

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Ireland:

Books and Journals Articles

Below are resources specifically for Ireland. See European History: Books and Journal Articles for essential resources on any aspect of European history.

• Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press for the Royal Historical Society, .
  1987, 1983, 1990
  HUNT BSMT Z2016 .A55
  1975-1985,1995-1996
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY, Reference (Ground Floor) Z2016 A55

• Carty, James. Bibliography of Irish History, 1870-1911. Dublin: Pub. for the Department of education by the Stationery office, 1940.
  HUNT REF-1 Z2041 .D8

• Carty, James. Bibliography of Irish History, 1912-1921. Dublin:Published for the Department of Education by the Stationery Office, 1936.
  HUNT REF-1 Z2041 .D82

• Irish History Online (Royal Irish Academy Library)
  Authoritative guide (in progress) to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It currently contains approximately 75,000 bibliographic records (May 2011).

• Writings on Irish History Dublin, Ireland: Irish Committee of Historical Sciences, 1986-.
  Print: 1979/80-1983
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Microforms (Ground Floor)
  Print: 1985-1993/1994
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Microforms (Ground Floor) Z2041 W75
  Initially appeared in the journal Irish Historical Studies, v. 1-42, 1938-1979 before becoming a separate publication.

If we don't have the books and journal articles you need, you can use Illiad, the interlibrary loan service (usually takes about 7-10 days) or, for books only, EZ Borrow (books get here in about 3-5 days).

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Ireland:

Internet Guides

See also European History: Internet Guides

• Island Ireland (Deb Keener)

• WWW-VL History Central Catalogue:
  • History of Ireland

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Ireland:

Journals

Below are some major journals in Irish History. Use the library catalog and the Find e-journal list to search for other journal titles in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. For additional titles, see European History: Journals and History: Journals. To find journal articles on particular topics use the resources at European History: Ireland: Books and Journal Articles or European History: Books and Journal Articles. If you need help locating particular journals, please ask at the Hunt reference desk.

• The Economic and Social Review
  Print: v. 1, 1969-present.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY, 4th floor.

• Éire-Ireland (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: v. 39, 2004-present.
  Éire-Ireland
  Print: v.1, 1966-v.8, 1973.
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Print: v. 1, 1966-present.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY, 4th floor

• Irish Geography: Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Ireland
  Print: v. 3, 1954-present (inc).
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY, 4th floor (1960+); Ground floor (pre 1960)

• Irish Historical Studies
  Print: v. 16, 1969-v. 19, 1974-77.
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Print: v. 1, 1938-present.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY, 4th floor (1960+); Ground floor (pre 1960)

• Irish History: A Research Yearbook
  Print: v. 1, 2002-present.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY, DA910 .I75

• New Hibernia Review (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: v. 5, 2001-present.

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Ireland:

Maps

See also European History: Maps.

• Compton, Paul Alwyn. Northern Ireland: A Census Atlas. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-2 G1829 .21.E2 C6 1978

• Edwards, Ruth Dudley. An Atlas of Irish History. New York: Routledge, 2005.
  HUNT REF-1 G1831 .S1 E3X 2005 Edwards, Ruth Dudley. An Atlas of Irish History. London: Methuen, 1973.
  HUNT REF-1 G1831 .S1 E3 1973

• Ireland's History in Maps (Dennis Walsh)

• Maps of Ireland (The Ireland Story)

• Public Archives Canada. Irish Ordnance Survey Maps. Ottawa: Public Archives Canada, [199-?].
  HUNT MFICHE-3 912.415 I68 and guide

• Richards Map Company, Springfield, Mass. Memorial Atlas of Ireland, Showing Provinces, Counties, Baronies, Parishes, etc. In Thirty-three Double Page Maps. Compiled and Drawn from the Reliable Official Data and the Latest Information. Indexed. Philadelphia: L. J. Richards & Company, 1901.
  HUNT DESK-4-NOF 912.415 R51M

• Royal Irish Academy. Atlas of Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1979.
  HUNT REF-1/ATLAS G1830 .I7 1979

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Ireland:

Primary Sources

See also European History: Primary Sources.

• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Search and display the full text of over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters from over 500 women. Part of Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online.

• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Text (University College, Cork)

• Empire Online (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  15^th-20^th Centuries
  Provides full text access to rare primary sources that covers 5 aspects of the colonial experience. It has a thematic layout spanning Cultural Contracts, Literature of the Empire, Religion, Race, Class, and Imperialism. Materials cover Africa, North and South America, the Caribbean, India, Asia, the Middle East, Australasia and the Islands of Oceania. Materials included are: exploration and journals logs to travel logs, diaries, official government papers, missionary papers, maps, photographs, letter books and correspondence, etc.

• Fenian Brotherhood Collection (The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives)

• Great Britain. Commissioners of Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland. Report from her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of the Law and Practice in Respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland. Dublin: 1845.
  HUNT MFC M-22 MFICHE-3

• History of Ireland: Primary Documents (Richard Hacken, EuroDocs, Brigham Young University)

• Irish Pamphlets c. 1700-1850. New York: distributed in North America by Norman Ross Inc., 1988.
  HUNT MFICHE-3 941.5 I682
  Microreproduction of pamphlets in the collection of The Catholic University of America Libraries, Washington, D.C. Includes guide.

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Sue Collins, Senior Librarian, sc24@andrew.cmu.edu