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The National Archives of Ireland - Comprehensive information including research and genealogical material. Online databases, including convict transportation records.
Ireland History in Maps - A large collection of maps and detailed information.
Corpus of Electronic Texts - History and information about project. Searchable database. Includes chronologies and bibliographies on Celtic scholars.
Heritage of Ireland - Interactive maps and information on parks, monuments, gardens, inland waterways, and national cultural institutions. Take a virtual tour. Send a postcard.
The Wild Geese Today - Information on the formation and history of the Wild Geese. Features articles, including one on the Irish Brigade; and a weekly look at history.
Irish Tourist Board Magazine - A bi-monthly publication portraying Ireland's history,culture and lifestyle.
The Irish Brigade Association - Comprehensive information and history including details on how to become a member.
1913 Catholic Encyclopedia: Ireland - Article about the geography, history, early Christian period, society and religion.
Step Back in Time in Donegal - Read about a year-long project to farm the land using only old-time farming methods.
Irish Coins - Information about Irish coins (and banknotes) for numismatists, collectors, archaeologists and others who have an interest in the currency in use in Ireland from earliest times to the present day.
Irish Historical and Religious Statistics - Includes statistics on violence, economics, and demographics.
Reilly's Auto - An insight into the minds of a group of Republican prisoners on the Curragh in 1922 with verbatim extracts from Reilly's "auto", or autograph book.
Irish Manuscripts Commission - Publisher of sources for Irish history.
PoliceHistory.com - Irish Police History
History Ireland - Illustrated Irish history magazine suitable for the scholar and the general reader. Feature articles from all periods of history, books reviews, news, events. Secure online ordering of subscriptions.
Postcards - Circa AD 1910. includes text and graphical index.
Ireland's Royal History - A brief history of royalty in Ireland plus some good links.
Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - Site for the national committee of academic historians in Ireland.
Irish History - Academic Info - An annotated directory of some of the best internet resources on the history of Ireland.
Transportation Records - A searchable database from the National Archives of Ireland.
Catholic Church Local History and Genealogy - Directory and guide for genealogical and historical research. Lots of good links.
Murtagh McAstocker - A historically accurate account of the murder of a young Irish republican in Belfast 1921.
The Irish Kennedys - Reviews of a book written about the history of the Irish Kennedys.
The Ireland Story - From prehistoric times to the present day. Supported with lots of maps and special detailed sections on the Famine, Omagh bomb, The Troubles and others.
Garda Siochana Historical Society - A detailed examination of Irish police history.
Camloch 1981 Committee - Information on the committee, organising a series of events commemorating the 1981 Hunger Strikes.
Early-Medieval Ireland - Moderated discussion group for the history and archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland, c.400-1200AD.
Chronology of Ireland - Information on people and events connected to Ireland from earliest times to the present.
In Search of Ancient Ireland - About the Rte documentary on the heroes, saints and warlords of Ancient Ireland.
Chronological list of dates of Irish History - Useful resource for quick and easy reference.
Late Gaelic Ireland - Moderated discussion group for the history and archaeology of Late Medieval to Earlier Modern Ireland, c.1000-1700AD and related topics.
Clan Cian Thuaidh Lartharach - Information on an organization recognized by the government of Ireland, which is dedicated to the preservation of the Carroll and Irish history.
Garda Síochána Historical Society - Irish police history.
Desmond's Concise History of Ireland - A brief history of Ireland, from 6000 B.C. to the present day.
Ireland in the New Century - A text from UCC's CELT project: Sir Horace Plunkett's Ireland in the New Century (1904).
English Perceptions of the Irish - Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia.
Irish Hunger Martyrs - Examines claims that during the famine of 1845-1852 Irish Catholics were forced to choose between conversion to the Protestant faith or starvation. Also follows efforts to have the Vatican beatify those who died. Contains supporting documentation, commentary and petition.
A History of Ireland in Song - A history of Ireland as seen through the songs of the people.
Irish FAQ: History - A FAQ maintained by volunteers, answering a few basic questions.
Suite101.com - Essays on various historical and cultural topics.
Pictorial History - A short slideshow of some images from Irish history.
Skerries Historical Society - Details of events and publications, photographs, a list of papers in the archive and summaries.
Aspects of Irish History - A brief one page summary of the history of Ireland until the 21th century.
Ierne - Irish History - Stair Éireannach - Articles about Ireland's old Celtic and Gaelic past.
John Keegan Casey - Information on John Keegan Casey poet and songwriter. Author of The Rising of the Moon.
World War I - Ireland and World War I.
Heritage Council - News, a bulletin board, information on publications and events plus contact information.
Heritage Towns - Information on the many heritage towns, includes a section on celtic spirituality.
Irish Medals - Reference site detailing medal from 1916 Easter Rising, 1917-1921, Irish War of Independence and Emergency Period 1939-1946.
Collins, Michael - A biography of the Irish revolutionary, killed in 1922 by republican dissidents, together with a list of books and films, and speculation about the probable assassin.
Ireland Old News - A collection of social, political, maritime, and criminal news stories transcribed from Irish newspapers of the 18th to early 20th century.
Ireland in pictures - An etext of an 1898 book containing 400 landscape pictures and commentary.
National Graves Association - Information on association formed to restore, where necessary, and maintain fittingly the graves and memorials.
Coastguards of Yesteryear - Information on people who worked as coastguards in Ireland.
Gareth Jones Irish Articles - Articles about Ireland during the period 1933-1934.
Ireland in pictures - An etext of an 1898 book containing 400 landscape pictures.
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert History The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr History "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester History I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks History I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 History I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous History Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) History Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard History We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. History "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) History Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost History Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen History Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau History God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, History A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) History And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land History The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton History Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner History The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) History There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) History The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) History Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) History
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