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Irish
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Ireland
1845 to 1922: This is the latest section available from Chris Trueman's
History Learning website. It has material on the following topics: Ireland in
the C19th, Ireland and land problems, the Great Famine, the Fenians, Gladstone
and Ireland, Home Rule, Charles Parnell, Edward Carsons, the Ulster Covenant,
John Redmond, the background to the Easter Rising, the 1916 Easter Rising, James
Connolly, Patrick Pearse, Countess Markiewicz, Michael Collins, Ireland 1918
to 1922 and the Black and Tans.
Chronicon is an electronic journal of history. It is published annually and is freely available on the Internet. The journal publishes articles relating to history - ancient, medieval and modern - but with a particular focus on Irish history. It contains reviews of publications and notices of scholarly developments. The journal will provide a forum for scholars to exchange views on matters of topical interest. Each volume appears at the start of the calendar year and will remain open for that year. As new articles are received they are added to the current volume.
BUBL Irish History Reference Library: BUBL Information Service, based at Strathclyde University Library, is a searchable database of Internet resources of academic relevance. The websites are organized by Dewey Decimal Classification and can be searched by subject or class number. The Irish History section includes topics such as Celtic Art and Culture, Chronology of Ireland, National Archives and the Great Irish Famine.
The
Irish Famine, 1846-1850: A comprehensive study of how the the Irish Famine
changed the social and cultural structure of Ireland. Liz Szabo's archive provides
a series of interpretations of the famine that appeared in newspapers, diaries
and novels at the time. This material can be explored in a variety of different
ways. The primary sources are categorized by topics (hunger and disease, eviction,
emigration, homelessness, etc.) and types of sources (newspaper accounts, photographs,
drawings, etc.). The main emphasis of the website is on the different interpretations
of the Irish
Famine. The primary sources are also organized under the headings: 'Voices from
Ireland', English Views of the Famine' and 'Irish-American Commentary.
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