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Credo Reference Academic Core (This link opens in a new window)
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
Call Number: Reference Main Level DA950.7 .A85Publication Date: 2012 -
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Use Additional Online Resources
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The Nicholas B. Scheetz Celtic Collection
The Nicholas B. Scheetz Celtic Collection currently comprises nearly 500 items representing the historical arc of Celtic literatures, and their influence on the geographic/spatial concerns of Celtic languages across the British and Irish Isles. A generous gift from collector and scholar Nicholas B. Scheetz, the collection includes heroic legends of the Finian Cycle and the Ulster Cycle; works of the Scottish, Welsh, and Cornish literary traditions; examples of the 19th century Irish literary revival movement; and works from such important figures as W.B. Yeats, Tim Pat Coogan, Robert Burns, and Brendan Behan. It also contains works in the major Celtic languages in use today. Click "more" for information on how to access the collection.
Primary Sources
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CAIN: Northern Ireland Conflict, Politics & SocietyA University of Ulster website with information on politics and the conflict in Northern Ireland. Includes chronologies, statistics, photograph collections, bibliographies, and more.
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DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and MigrationDIPPAM is an online virtual archive of documents and sources relating to the history of Ireland, and its migration experience from the 18th to the late 20th centuries.
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National Library of IrelandThe National Library of Ireland in Dublin collects, preserves, and makes accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland. Contains family history research, a newspaper database, a database archiving web sites of Irish interest, and more.
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