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A History of Ireland and Her People

By Eleanor Hull (1931).

AN GORTA MOR - The Great Hunger Archive

Collection of material about the Irish potato famine that began in the 1840s. The site features transcriptions of workhouse minute books, a multimedia presentation about the Killarney workhouse minute books, digitized documents and papers, photographs, a bibliography, and links to related sites. From Quinnipiac University.

Coins of the UK

Gives a good deal of history of the coinage of the United Kingdom by regnal years.

DiCamillo Database of British & Irish Country Houses

Online searchable database of British and Irish country houses with information on over 6,000 houses.

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.

Free Irish Genealogy eBooks

The availability of FREE eBooks and eJournals on the internet seems to be growing by the day. These pages list (with links to open the books) over 4,000 free Books and Journals on the topic of Irish, Irish-American, Irish-Australian and Irish-Canadian Genealogy which can all be read online - most of them can also be downloaded to a reading device such as Kindle, iPad, Tablet, etc.

Irish History Online

An authoritative guide (in progress) to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. As of May 2011, it contains approximately 75,000 bibliographic records.

Letters of 1916

The Letters of 1916 project is the first public humanities project in Ireland. Its goal is to create a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915

Letters of 1916 - A Year in the Life

The Letters of 1916 project is the first public humanities project in Ireland. It is creating a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915

List of natural disasters in the British Isles (Wikipedia)

Local History Link

Advertises UK local history books and services for sale or items wanted.

Monuments & Buildings Record

Searchable database on various aspects of Northern Ireland's built heritage.

Pat Brennan Heraldry -Gaelic Irish Heraldry and Heraldic Practice

Police History in Ireland, Irish Police, Garda S

Ranks, Professions, Occupations, and Trades

From the Cambridgeshire, EnglandGenWeb Project.

Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Irish

Useful dates in British history

For the local historian or genealogist.

Victoria Research Web

Resources for research into the history and culture of 19th-century Britain.