The objective of the project is to initiate the digitization of the National Folklore Collection (NFC) so that:
Project partners: National Folklore Collection, UCD, the National Folklore Foundation and UCD Digital Library Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
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The Military Archives has been the official place of deposit for records of the Defence Forces, the Department of Defence and the Army Pensions Board since 1990, as defined in the National Archives Act, 1986. Our brief is to collect material from the foundation of the State up until the present day, including records from overseas missions. From as early as 1924, the National Army, recognising the importance of the War of Independence, undertook to preserve historical documents from that time. Some of the earliest collections preserved by the Historical Section include the Collins Papers, Civil War Operations and Intelligence files and Captured Documents (Civil War up to 1925), which continue to be made available today.
http://www.militaryarchives.ie/home
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The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. Read more about their digitisation.
All thirty-two counties for 1901 and 1911, searchable by all information categories, are now available on this site. Corrections and improvements will be ongoing, and we are very grateful to all users who have submitted corrections to us. A small amount of material is missing from the site, and will be placed online as soon as possible.
Surviving census fragments and substitutes for 1821-51 are a valuable, if limited, resource for the pre-Famine period. Read more about these records.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
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The online catalogue contains over 2 million entries. The vast majority of entries relate to departmental records, modern court records and testamentary material.
https://www.nationalarchives.ie
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Podcast on early American History. It is a show for people who love history and for those who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world.
I chose the title Ben Franklin’s World because nearly everyone knows who Ben Franklin was and when he lived. I also chose Franklin because his worldly life and legacy allow me to discuss early American history in its broadest sense.
Neither colonial North America nor the United States developed apart from the rest of the world. Both the colonies and the fledgling United States participated in the politics, economics, and culture of the Atlantic World. Events in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and South America affected the way North Americans lived, dressed, worshipped, conducted business, and exercised diplomacy.
Benjamin Franklin took an active part in the Atlantic World; he was a world traveler and a consummate learner. He helped found the United States and influenced technological developments after his death. The spirit of Benjamin Franklin provides this podcast with the freedom to discuss early American History between the 17th and early 19th centuries.
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Early English Books Online is now available on the enhanced ProQuest platform and is cross-searchable with Early European Books, ProQuest journals, newspapers, dissertations and other relevant databases to which your institution has access. The new user experience is now available in parallel with the current version until January 2020. With its clean interface and responsive design, the ProQuest platform delivers a modern research experience that guides users’ discovery, access and management of rich, diverse content sources.
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Newspapers are very useful for identifying key trends, reviewing analysis of specific issues and tracing original research. They also provide a wealth of primary source material for scholarly research in many subject areas. UCD Library holds an extensive range of regional, national and international newspapers.
Further information on our Newspaper collections can be found here.
https://libguides.ucd.ie/history/news
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Berghahn Books supports practical open access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way.
In addition to offering gold open access options that uphold publication mandates instituted by our authors’ funding partners, we also participate in initiatives, such as Knowledge Unlatched, which provide collective funding opportunities for selected titles.
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/open-access/
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The Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities has at its core an interdisciplinary vision spanning the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences with the aim of fostering and facilitating multi-disciplinary research and collaboration focused on the changing construction of gender and gender relations and theories of power, identities and sexualities. Active engagement with activists, social movements and civil society organisations and activities to effect social change will be a central principle of the new Centre. CGFS will also serve as a forum for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows working in gender and sexuality studies.
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Emily Dickinson Archive (EDA) provides high-resolution images of manuscripts of Dickinson’s poetry, along with transcriptions and annotations from selected historical and scholarly editions. This first release focuses on gathering images of those poems included in The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, edited by R. W. Franklin (Cambridge: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1998). These manuscripts vary from “scraps” written on envelope flaps and pieces of wrapping paper; to drafts; to finished poems sent to friends or copied into the manuscript books called “fascicles.”
This site is not a new edition of Dickinson’s poems. It is, as its name says, an archive that seeks to make available in one virtual place those resources that seem central to the study of Dickinson’s work: images of her manuscripts; a selection of editions of those manuscripts; and selected print and electronic resources that serve as a starting point for the study of Dickinson’s manuscripts. It should be viewed as a resource from which scholarship can be produced, rather than a work of scholarship itself.
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