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The library provides access to several databases relevant to Irish Studies, including:

Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) This link opens in a new window The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles and with the British Empire and Commonwealth during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History available online from 2002 to 2009. The complete database now contains over 560000 records and is updated three times a year usually in February June and October.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 onwards. It provides selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955 and contains over 800,000 records.
Dublin Castle Records 1798-1926 This link opens in a new window Dublin Castle Records 1798-1926 contains records of the British administration in Ireland prior to 1922. This collection comprises materials from Series CO 904 The National Archives Kew UK.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window Includes papers published 1801-2004. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper along with a detailed subject index.
Irish History Online This link opens in a new window Irish History Online is an authoritative listing (in progress) of what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It lists writings on Irish history published since the 1930s with selected material published in earlier decades. It currently contains over 92000 bibliographic records.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis.
Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window LION contains over 355000 works of English and American poetry drama and prose 389 fulltext literature journals and other key criticism and reference resources. Note: LION also cross-searches MLA International Bibliography.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) This link opens in a new window A collection of digitized editions of texts concerning economic political legal and ecclesiastical history such as treasury accounts chronicles papal registers etc. Most are from England Ireland and Scotland although some are from Milan and the New World.
Northern Ireland: A Divided Community, 1921-1972 Cabinet Papers of the Stormont Administration This link opens in a new window The Stormont Administration ran Northern Ireland as a province of the UK from 1921-72. This digital resource offers full-text searching of facsimile images of the complete record of Stormont from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, along with new interpretative essays and resources. "CAB 4" represents a unique record of "how government actually works" through turbulent and often violent times.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities arts and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
State Papers Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

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