Category: Web resources

Links and information about other web-based sources of information on the history of Ireland.

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A website I’m coming to appreciate more and more is archive.org. It’s very useful for finding primary sources such as articles or collections of speeches from the 19th and early 20th century (all of which are out of copyright by now).

Just recently I found Home Rule: Speeches of John Redmond M.P., which contains speeches from 1886 to 1909, and also The Select Speeches of Daniel O’Connell, M. P.

Definitely a lot more convenient than hunting through dusty volumes in the archives, though part of me does miss the romance of doing that…

1984: UK Government considered repartition of Northern Ireland

by Bruce Gaston • 3 January 2014

Every January the British National Archives prompt a flurry of historical recollections and reflections when they release a tranche of previoulsy confidential government documents under the “thirty-year rule”. This year, 1984 comes under the spotlight, a year in which the…

Irish and Northern Irish newspaper archives online

by Bruce Gaston • 24 October 2013

Historian Brett Holman has a list of British newspaper archives available online at his blog airminded.org. Included within it are a good number of titles from Ireland and Northern Ireland: The Anglo-Celt (Cavan) Belfast Gazette (free) Butte Independent 1910 to…

Common Irish surnames and their derivations

by Bruce Gaston • 9 October 2013

There’s a long and interesting article about common Irish surnames and their derivations on the Irish Medieval History page on facebook. It’s got some snippets of information I wasn’t aware of either. I’d always assumed anyone Irish with a French-sounding…

We’re on Twitter!

by Bruce Gaston • 7 October 2013

Irish History Compressed now has a Twitter feed under the rather squashed moniker of http://twitter.com/HistoryCompr (You’d think with over 500 million users the twelve-character limit on Twitter names would need to be lifted…) That means that from now on you…

Ireland’s Decade of Commemoration: An Illustrated Timeline

by Bruce Gaston • 24 May 2013

Following on from my earlier post about the Decade of Commemoration/Centenaries, here’s a more detailed timeline with illustrations and link to other sources of information: The Decade of Commemoration: A Timeline

Pictures from the Irish History Compressed ebook

by Bruce Gaston • 19 November 2012

I’ve just uploaded all the illustrations and pictures used in the short history of Ireland ebook to Pinterest. Between that, the free Kindle sample available on Amazon and the various extracts published here, I reckon a good third of the…

Irish History Compressed on Pinterest

by Bruce Gaston • 7 November 2012

We’re on Pinterest now, under the url http://pinterest.com/irishhistory (“irishhistorycompressed” being – according to the website – too long for a name. This is the same problem as Twitter has, which partly explains the lack of an Irish History Compressed Twitter…