Collections | Historical
material | Literary material | Irish
language material | Literary, historical and cultural
societies | Irish studies in the United Kingdom
| Periodicals | Links
Irish Diaspora
| Internet resources | Subject
gateways
Collections
The British Library's Modern Irish Collections (1915-) hold a wide
range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences in mainly
book, journal and pamphlet form. Coverage of historical and literary
subjects is particularly strong. The output of academic publishers
and institutions in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland is well
represented in the Library's collections.
Under the Republic of Ireland's (and previously the Irish Free
State's) legal deposit legislation publishers in the Republic are
required to send a copy of each item published to the British Library,
in return for Trinity College Dublin Library having the right to
claim material published in the United Kingdom. Publishers in the
Republic are also required to provide copies of works, if claimed,
to the other four United Kingdom Copyright Libraries. Publishers
in the Irish Republic are also required to deposit copies of works
with the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin Library
and six other university libraries in the Republic.
In common with publishers in Great Britain, publishers in Northern
Ireland are required to deposit a copy of each work published with
the British Library and, if claimed, with the other United Kingdom
copyright libraries and Trinity College Dublin Library.
Historical material
Works on all periods of Irish history and reflecting the broad
spectrum of Irish historical experience are held and cover a wide
range of subjects including Irish women's history and social conditions,
the Great Famine, the struggle for Irish independence, the history
and the political and social conditions of Northern Ireland, the
history of Irish economic and social conditions, Irish emigration,
revisionism in Irish history. The material also reflects the connections,
disconnections and upheavals in Irish-British relations on political,
social and economic levels. See also Periodicals
Literary material
Literature is also one of the strengths of the collections with
a representative range held of works by Northern and Southern Irish
authors, playwrights and poets including works by James Joyce, the
Nobel prizewinners W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett
and Seamus Heaney, works by contemporary playwrights such as Brian
Friel and Billy Roche, contemporary novelists such as Jennifer Johnston,
Roddy Doyle and Colm Tóibín, contemporary poets such as Paul Muldoon,
Eavan Boland.
Irish language material
Material is also held in the Irish language, including works published
by Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League), the Irish Texts Society,
Cló Iar-Chonnachta, and works by individual writers such as Máirtín
Ó Cadhain, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
Literary, historical and cultural societies
The published output of literary, historical and cultural societies
is also an important part of the collections. The Library holds
material produced by societies such as the Irish Historical Society,
Folklore of Ireland Society, Economic and Social History Society
of Ireland, Ulster Society, Ulster Society for Historical Studies,
Old Dublin Society, Cork Historical and Archaeological Society,
Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, and societies concerned
with individual authors such as the Oscar Wilde Society and the
James Joyce Society of London.
Irish studies in the United Kingdom
Works published on Irish studies and the Irish Diaspora by academic
publishers and research institutions as well as works produced by
Irish studies centres at various academic institutions in the United
Kingdom are held including material from the Irish
Studies Centre (London Metropolitan University), Institute
of Irish Studies (University of Liverpool), Institute
of Irish Studies (Queen's University of Belfast).
Periodicals
Major academic and literary periodicals are held including: Irish
Historical Studies, Irish University Review, Poetry Ireland Review,
The Honest Ulsterman, The Bell, The Irish Review, Irish Studies
Review. An important resource for research on Northern
Ireland, Northern Ireland Political Literature: Periodicals,
a microfiche set produced by the Linen Hall Library Belfast, from
its renowned Northern Ireland Political Collection, is also held.
Daily, weekly, fortnightly publications (such as The Irish Times,
The News Letter [The Belfast news letter], Irish News, Belfast Telegraph,
and Fortnight) are held at British
Library Newspapers.
Links
British
Library Collect Britain
British
Library Guide to the Republic of Ireland Government Documents
British
Library Learning: Accents & Dialects of Northern Ireland
British
Library Learning: Ireland: Propaganda and Plantations
British
Library Newspaper Library
British
Library Northern Ireland Political Pamphlets Collection
British
Library Sound Archive Oral History Section
Large
Scale Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland in the Map Library
Northern
Ireland in Old Photographs
Republic
of Ireland in Old Photographs
Internet resources
Cambridge
University Ireland Society
Conflict
Archive on the Internet (CAIN) (University of Ulster)
Dublin
City Library & Archive
Fortnight
Magazine (politics & culture, Northern Ireland)
Hammersmith
Irish Cultural Centre
Institute
of Irish Studies (Queen's University Belfast)
Institute
of Irish Studies (University of Liverpool)
Irish
Centre for Migration Studies (University College Cork)
Irish
Diaspora Research Unit (University of Bradford)
Irish
Studies Centre (Bath Spa University)
Irish
Studies Centre (London Metropolitan University)
Irish
libraries and related sites (The Library Council, mainly Republic
of Ireland)
Linen
Hall (inc. Northern Ireland Political Collection, Belfast)
National
Archives of Ireland
National
Library of Ireland
University
of Ulster
Village
Magazine (politics & culture, Republic of Ireland)
Subject gateways
Portals
to the world: Ireland (LoC)
RASCAL
(Research and Special Collections Available Locally, Northern Ireland)
Voice
of the Shuttle (Gaelic/Celtic/general)
Voice
of the Shuttle (Irish literature in English)
