History: Free Web Sources

The Decade of Commemorations presented the IFI Irish Film Archive with a unique opportunity to create the Irish Independence Film Collection, comprising Topical budget and British Pathé newsreels, with support from the Dept of Culture Heritage and the Gaeltacht. As part of this project the IFI was able to repatriate, safeguard and share these important visual documents centralising them in Ireland for the first time and making them available to the Irish public.

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.

Ireland's longest running Humanities Computing project. It brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to you on the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide. It has a searchable online textbase consisting of over 18 million words, in 1614 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature and the other arts.

This resource offers a kaleidoscope of women’s contributions to our social, economic, cultural and political life in one small region [Northern Ireland]. From 1900s to 1990s. Explore by decade or check out the videos

From Harvard Dataverse - The complete record of parliamentary speeches from Dáil Éireann,1919-2013. In addition, background information on all TDs.
Herzog, Alexander; Mikhaylov, Slava, 2017

A six part television series for TG4 by LMDÓC. See Field Day Blog Episode #19 by Dr Ciara Chambers (Head of Film and Screen Media, UCC)

from the Royal Irish Institute. Part of a European network of national historical bibliographies from fourteen countries. Irish History Online is an authoritative listing (in progress) of what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present.

The National Archives holds the records of the modern Irish State which document its historical evolution and the creation of our national identity.

The mission of the Library is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provision of access to the larger universe of recorded knowledge.

information on the origins and meanings of over 30,000 place-names from all over Northern Ireland.

The Academy Library is an important research centre for the study of Irish history, language, archaeology and the history of Irish science. Home to the Cathach, the sixth-century Latin psalter reputed to have been copied by St Colum Cille (Columba), our repository houses the largest collection of Irish language manuscripts in the world, including Lebor na hUidre (the Book of the Dun Cow), the oldest extant manuscript completely in Irish. We are longterm partners in the Irish Script on Screen project whereby Irish manuscripts are digitised and are freely accessible for research and scholarly purposes. As of November 2015, over 70 of the earliest Academy mss are available on www.isos.dias.ie

Publication date 1923. From Internet Archive.

Cork City libraries virtual exhibition

University of Chicago Press presents the first three volumes of the History of Cartography in PDF format. Navigate to the PDFs from the left column. Each chapter of each book is a single PDF. The search box on the left allows searching across the content of all the PDFs that make up the first six books.

With over 25,000 items (about 75,000 digital images), the papers contain correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, transcripts of Adolf Eichmann's trial proceedings, notes, and printed matter pertaining to Arendt's writings and academic career. The entire collection has been digitized and is available to researchers in reading rooms at the Library of Congress, the New School University in New York City, and the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Parts of the collection and the finding aid are available for public access on the Internet.

Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films. Filter by subject and format.

JSTOR Daily provides context for current events using scholarship found in JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals, books, and other material. They publish articles grounded in peer-reviewed research and provide free access to that research for all of their readers.

The British Library is the national library of the UK. It receives legal deposit copies of all books produced in the UK and Ireland.

Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised items – books, music, artworks and more

enables you to search a diverse body of online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500. The resources include literary manuscripts, historical documents and early printed books which are located on websites owned by libraries, archives, universities and publishers.

indexes over 400.000 maps.

Corpus Christi College and the Stanford University Libraries welcome you to Parker Library on the Web, a digital exhibit designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library is a treasure trove of rare medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as early printed books. Almost all manuscripts in the Parker Library collection have been fully digitised and are available in this exhibit, along with associated bibliographic references and annotations made by scholars from around the world.

Explore collections from around the world. Created by Google Cultural Institute. Includes a huge amount of photos and other digitised resources based round historical events and figures, as well as manuscripts and works of art.