IRISH STUDIES: A SELECTIVE, ANNOTATED GUIDE TO THE REFERENCE COLLECTIONS AND DATABASES AT DOHERTY LIBRARY
CONTENTS: 1. FINDING BOOKS: LIBRARY CATALOGS & MORE 2. FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES & MORE…PERIODICALS INDEXING 3. REFERENCE SOURCES A. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY B. COUNTRY GUIDES C. GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HISTORIES AND CHRONOLOGIES D. BIOGRAPHY E. HISTORICAL ATLASES F. RELIGION, FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY 4. MCFADDEN-MORAN COLLECTION MICROFORMS 5. SELECTED WEB SITES
SOURCES KEY: à = Free Web / Internet = Doherty Library Database
1. FINDING BOOKS: LIBRARY CATALOGS & MORE
\ Books & most other materials in university libraries are classified by their subject. Learn the subject words most relevant to your topic / area of interest. You can then use these terms when searching both our library catalog and others. A great subject heading to begin exploring is (what else?): Ireland.
\ Try searching the à Doherty library catalog first. Begin with some general keywords that broadly define your topic and refine your search strategy based on the results, making note of key subject headings relevant to your topic.
\ Want more? Try the Worldcat database once you’ve identified good subject headings and/or keywords. Worldcat is library meta-catalog that allows you to search across thousands of library catalogs at once (like à Google books, only better…).
\ Link to other Texas libraries here (Rice, U. of H., more).
\ à Google Book Search http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search.
= Doherty library database. RM 7/07 2. FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES & MORE… PERIODICALS INDEXING
START WITH THESE / ALL TOPICS:
JSTOR – Multi-disciplinary, full-text scholarly journals; major periodicals in history, language, literature, philosophy, sociology, economic history, more.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) – Our largest periodicals source; over 4,000 full-text scholarly journals in all subjects.
Project Muse– Scholarly journals in full-text.
FOR HISTORY:
Historical Abstracts – World history outside North America from 1450 to the present. For articles & essays on the Irish in America, try America: History and Life.
à Irish History Online – An online bibliography from the Royal Historical Society, U.K.; Irish history from earliest times to the present.
World History Collection - Global history; indexing about 150 journals.
ITER. - ITER’s Bibliography indexes all types of literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
MORE SUBJECTS / SPECIFIC DISCIPLINES:
Catholic Literature and Periodical Index – all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle; Vatican, general scholarly & popular publications are indexed.
Lexis-Nexis Academic – Includes the newspapers Irish Times, Belfast News Letter and the Belfast Telegraph full-text in its European News Sources section.
MLA International Bibliography – Early-modern to contemporary language and literature topics. (For other literature resources, please see the library’s Irish Literature user guide.)
Social Science Abstracts Plus - useful to those researching social issues, minorities and public life.
EVEN MORE:
\Browse Doherty’s databases by subject page for more resources that correspond to the subject matter of your project. Check our other subject resource guides for discipline- specific advice… The BIBLIOGRAPHIES listed below will also help you identify periodical articles & monographs…
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A. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
à Irish History Online http://www.irishhistoryonline.ie/ – An online bibliography from the Royal Historical Society, U.K.; Irish history from earliest times to the present.
à Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History. – The RHS Bibliography is available online at http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibwel.asp,including the Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History, 1975 onwards. Doherty owns 1975 to 1986 in print; call number: Ref DA 27.5.A55.
Worldcat – A huge database containing the catalog records from libraries across the U.S. and the World.
A Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material: A bibliography of Irish bibliographies and sources of information. (2nd ed.) Alan R. Eager. Ref DA 906 .E26 1980 - Arranged by general subject areas, then by source type; Author and subject indexes.
Directory of Irish Archives. (4th ed.) Helferty and Refaussé. Ref CD 1100.D57 2003
Early Christian Ireland: Introduction to the sources. Kathleen Hughes. Ref DA 908.H83 1972 – The scholarship on early Christian Ireland up to the mid-20th century.
Medieval Ireland, c. 1170-1495. P. W. A. Asplin. Ref Z 2041.A85 1971 – A bibliography of secondary works on medieval Irish history up to 1495, published before 1972.
Irish Historiography, 1936-70. T. W. Moody. Ref DA 907.M64 1971 – A survey of the historical writing on Ireland published between 1936 and 1970.
Irish Republic. (World Bibliographic Series 69). Michael O. Shannon. Ref DA 906 .S5323 1986 – Published 1986 (slightly dated); Still a good starting-point listing general reference works and more specific subjects on Ireland.
Northern Ireland. (World Bibliographical Series 129). Michael O. Shannon. Ref DA 990.U46 S52 1991
Northern Ireland 1921-1974: A select bibliography. Richard R. Deutsch. Ref Z 2043.N6 D48 1975
Women in Ireland: An annotated bibliography. Anna Brady. Ref HQ 1600.3 .B782 1988
FIND MORE: \Subject keyword search Ireland and Bibliography and History in the library catalog. \Subject keyword search "Ireland Historiography" in the library catalog.
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Country Watch – Select “Ireland” for maps; statistics and demographic data; sections on: politics, business & the economy, people & culture; also the latest news out of the region.
à Background Notes from the U. S. State Dept. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
à BBC News Country profiles. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
à CIA World Fact Book. https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
à Library of Congress Country Studies. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
CultureGrams. REF GT 150 .C85 2004 - Includes info on family life, customs, etiquette for visitors (i.e. greetings, gestures).
à For more country information consult the library’s International Studies subject guide.
C. GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HISTORIES AND CHRONOLOGIES
The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. W.J. McCormack, editor. Ref DA 925 .B47 1999 – Organized as a dictionary; Signed entries with bibliographical notes.
A Book of Irish Quotations. Compiled by Sean McMahon. Ref PN 6080 .B662 1984
A Chronology of Irish History Since 1500. J.E. Doherty and D.J. Hickey. Ref DA 910.D66 1990 – Political and military history emphasized, but includes religious, social, cultural, and sporting events; chronology ends in 1989.
Companion to Irish history, 1603-1921: From the submission of Tyrone to partition. Peter R. Newman. Ref DA 912.N485 1991 – The land issue is particularly stressed. Criteria for biographical entries were that they “illuminate or exemplify aspects of Irish history or crucial and central themes to that history.” – pref.
Conflict in Northern Ireland: An encyclopedia. (5th ed.) Sydney Elliott & W.D. Flackes Ref DA 990.U46 E44 1999 – Includes: A chronology of major events, 1921-99; a dictionary; election results; government systems; office holders; security statistics.
A Dictionary of Irish History Since 1800. D. J. Hickey and J. E. Doherty. Ref DA 950.H53 1981
Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, groups, and movements of the twentieth century. Peter Barberis. Ref DA 566.7 .E53 2000 – Over 2500 20th century organizations, “including those of earlier origin which have or have had some existence from 1900 onwards.” – intro; Bibliography and index.
Encyclopaedia of Ireland. Victor Mealy, principle ed. Ref DA 979.E5 1968 – One of the first large-scale encyclopedias on Ireland (1968); Sections include the geology, topography & wild life of the island, archeology, history, the people, the language, religion, agriculture, industry, commerce and finance, literature, music, theatre, folklore, games and sport, and the visual arts.
Encyclopedia of Ireland. Brian Lalor, ed. (Yale UP) Ref DA 906 .E52 2003b
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Encyclopedia of Irish History & Culture. J. S. Donnelly Jr., ed. Ref DA 912 .E53 2004 v.1-2
Historical Dictionary of Ireland. Colin Thomas, Avril Thomas. Ref DA 910 .T39 [1997] – Includes a chronology and appendixes listing the various viceroys, lords lieutenant, chief secretaries, prime ministers, and secretaries of state for both Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America. John A. Wagner. Ref DA 357 .W34 1999 – “England’s centuries-long attempt to impose its political control on Ireland acquired a new edge under Elizabeth, whose government sought also to impose a new religious regime on the Irish people…” – pref.
Ireland, a Cultural Encyclopaedia. Brian De Breffny. Ref NX 546.A1 I73 1983 – Includes not just the obvious subjects but also Irish “cultural expressions,” such as equestrian sports, Celtic monasticism, and the Ogham alphabet.
Irish Studies: The Essential glossary. John Goodby, ed. (Oxford U P) Ref DA 910 .D38 2003
Northern Ireland: A chronology of the Troubles, 1968-1999. (2nd ed.) Paul Bew and Gordon Gillespie. Ref DA 990.U46 B3593 1999 – Chronology of events up to May 1999; Index, bibliography, maps.
D. BIOGRAPHY
Biography & Genealogy Master Index – Use this to locate biographical entries contained in reference sets. Coverage: 1974 – forward.
A Dictionary of Irish Biography. Henry Boylan. Ref CT 862.B69 1998
Modern Irish Lives: Dictionary of 20th-century Irish biography. McRedmond Ref CT 862 .M63 1996
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. OUP. Ref DA 28.O95 2004 – “the first point of reference for anyone interested in the lives of the peoples of the British Isles and their connections overseas, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000.”
Women of Ireland: A biographic dictionary. Kit & Cyril O Ceirin. Ref CT 3650.I73 O24 1996 – The authors hope their work will help alleviate the “collective amnesia” regarding the roles and achievements of women in Irish historiography and even in the Irish mind. – pref.
FIND MORE: \Subject keyword search "ireland biography" in the Doherty library catalog.
E. HISTORICAL ATLASES
Atlas of Irish History. Sean Duffy. DA 911 .A85 2000 [Books stacks, not in Reference]
Atlas of British History. Martin Gilbert. Ref G 1811. S1 G5 1993
Atlas of Medieval Europe. Donald Matthew. Ref CB 351. M293 1983
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“Ireland” in volume 7 of the New Catholic Encyclopedia. Ref BX 841 .N44 2003 – Shelved on the vertical files in the Silent Reading Room.
Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. Miranda J. Green. Ref BL 980.I7 G65 1992
A Dictionary of Irish Mythology. Peter Berresford Ellis. Ref BL 980.I7 E45 1989
Encyclopedia of Irish Spirituality. Phyllis Jestice. Ref BL 980.17 J47 2000
A Guide to Irish Mythology. Daragh Smyth. Ref BL 900 .S495 1996
Irish Trees: Myths, Legends & Folklore. Niall Mac Coitir. Ref GR 785 .M33 2003
The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend, and Romance. Daithi O’hogain. REF GR 153.5 2006
The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. David Hugh Farmer. Ref BR 1710 .F34 1997 – Find St. Patrick and other Irish saints here; See also Lives of Irish Saints (Charles Plummer, ed.) in the library book stacks [call number: BX 4659.I7P8].
FIND MORE: \ Subject keyword search Religion and Ireland in the library catalog. \ Subject keyword search (Myth* or Legend*) and Ireland in the library catalog.
4. THE MCFADDEN-MORAN COLLECTION MICROFORMS
The McFadden-Moran Collection of Irish studies microfilms are located in the Silent Reading Room at Doherty library. The collection contains a variety of primary source materials:
• British in Ireland: Dublin Castle Records covers anti-governmental organizations and the British-Irish struggle for home rule from circa 1880 to 1921. It includes police reports, monthly RIC reports, judicial proceedings, and surveillance information on Sinn Fein and Republican suspects.
• Ireland: Politics and Society through the Press, 1760-1922 includes the newspapers the United Ireland (founded by Constitutional Nationalist and parliamentary leader of the Irish Party, Charles S Parnell), Limerick Reporter and Tipperary Vindicator, Galway Vindicator, Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser and Freeman’s Journal. This newspaper collection continues to grow so click here for more holdings information.
• The Irish-American newspaper the Irish World, and American Industrial Liberator (1870-1952)
• GRAIL, the Galway Resource for Anglo-Irish Literature. This fiche collection developed by the University College Galway and the National Library of Ireland, reproduces 500 works by 80 Anglo-Irish 19th century writers. Click here to view the titles in the collection.
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Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas As a focal point for the study of Irish history, literature, politics, art, culture and society, UST students go here for graduate and undergraduate course offerings, faculty bios, study abroad info, lecture series dates, Center events and more… Select Resources & Achievements for a comprehensive subject list of Irish studies web sites.
American Conference for Irish Studies. http://www.acisweb.com/index.php The ACIS is a multidisciplinary scholarly organization with members in the U.S., Ireland, Canada, and other countries around the world... Since 1999 ACIS has sponsored its annual book award for outstanding scholarship in Irish Studies – recent winners are listed. The site also posts calls for papers and has an excellent list of links to Irish Studies/Irish interest web resources http://www.acisweb.com/resources.php?type=links.
CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/ “This site contains information and source material on 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. There is also information on politics in the region and Northern Ireland society.”
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts “online resource for Irish history, literature and politics.” http://www.ucc.ie/celt/ Has a searchable online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts.”
COPAC. http://copac.ac.uk/ A union catalogue of the holdings of 22 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, as well as the British Library. For more library links, see the National Library of Ireland (below) and the UST Center for Irish Studies’ Irish Library links.
CSANA: Celtic Studies Association of North America http://www.csub.edu/~cmacquarrie/csana/ “CSANA embraces all aspects of Celtic Studies and provides the kind of forum that is unavailable in any discipline- or area-based organization. Our members are interested in the languages, literature, history, folklore, music, art and archaeology of ancient, medieval and modern Celtic cultures.” They maintain a bibliography here: Celtic Studies of North America (CSANA) Online Bibliography.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe. http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page This BYU maintained site contains links to historical documents from all over Western Europe including an extensive list of Irish primary source materials.
Irish History Online http://www.irishhistoryonline.ie/ Irish History Online is an authoritative guide (in progress) to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It has been established in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (of which it is now the Irish component). IHO contains over 59,000 items, drawn from Writings on Irish History from 1936 to 2002, plus all the Irish material currently held on the online Royal Historical Society Bibliography.
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama. http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/
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Irish Resources in the Humanities. http://irith.org/index.jsp Links to architecture, art, history, language, literature & music resources and more; Site was developed in 1999 at University College Dublin by Dr Susan Schreibman as a Gateway to sites on the WWW that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies.
Irish Tourist Board (Bord Fáilte). http://www.discoverireland.ie/ Ireland seen through the -colored lenses of the Irish tourist board, with plenty of practical information for the traveler. Additionally, check out this Lonely Planet travel guide.
National Library of Ireland. http://www.nli.ie/ Search the library’s catalogs including books, periodicals, photographic databases and manuscript lists. Special collections include music, maps, prints, drawings, and newspapers and site also provides an extensive list of links to scholarly websites. For more Irish libraries, please see the Center for Irish Studies’ Irish Libraries Links page.
National Archives of Ireland. http://www.nationalarchives.ie/index.html Links to Irish archives and manuscript collections; includes a list of resources which can be searched online through their website; FAQ section; genealogy services; publications.
Royal Historical Society Bibliography: A comprehensive online guide to writing about British and Irish history. http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/dataset.asp Includes: all titles from the Royal Historical Society's Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History (1975 onwards), including titles from the Annuals for 1993-2001; all titles in the Writings on British History, covering publications of 1901-74; more.
Irish Booksellers- Remember the old stand-bys - your friendly local bookseller or an online shop like amazon.com or Barnes & Noble. If these fail you, try Irish Books.com (The James Trading Group), 33 Murray Hill Drive, Nanuet, New York 10954. Phone: 800.541.5004 See also: UST Center for Irish Studies resources list
For Irish language and literature resources, ask for the “Irish Literature” user guide(s) at the Doherty library reference desk.
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