Gamble Library Irish Collection

De Buitléar

National University of Ireland Galway

This book collection was received as part of a substantial archival donation by the late Éamon de Buitléar. It comprises of c.600 volumes, many of which relate to his career researching, filming and broadcasting on wildlife in Ireland. The collections also contains some early 20th Irish language titles originally the property of Éamon’s father. The Éamon de Buitléar Archive is an exceptional and u ...

John Hume Collection

Ulster University, Magee

Themes covered by the collection include the wide range of material to be expected from a constituency MP and MEP. These include peace-talks, devolution, justice system, prisoners, housing, planning, social security, health, education, Irish language, European lesser-used languages, minority rights, justice, economy, business, industry, agriculture, transport, New Ireland Forum, European Union, co ...

Ballymoney Special Collection

Libraries NI, Ballymoney Library

Photograph & Postcard Collection

Libraries NI, Armagh City Library

Crossle Papers

Libraries NI, Irish and Local Studies Library, Armagh

The Crossle Papers at Libraries NI comprise background and genealogical information on families in the Newry area of Northern Ireland. The information is handwritten and accumulated in notebooks and scrapbooks from the early 1900s. Francis Crossle, and later his son Philip Crossle, compiled the information from old newspapers. The information, gathered in scrapbooks and notebooks, was often supple ...

Irish and Local Studies Library, Armagh

Libraries NI, Irish and Local Studies Library, Armagh

Noteworthy are some valuable and scarce titles dealing with "tours in Ireland". Local authors like James Stuart, well known for his work “Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh”, published in 1819 and Rev Henry Boyd, who achieved fame as the first translator of Dante into English – published first in Dublin, 1785 and later in London, 1802 are represented in this collection. The works of many of ...

Local Studies Collection

Libraries NI, Ballymena Central Library

The collection aspires to include comprehensive series of books and pamphlets, journals, CD-ROMs, maps, photographs, postcards, local newspapers etc concerning life within this area, past, present and future and about all aspects of the local environment. Local publications are well represented and the collection includes titles by many local authors. Microfilms of the 1901 Census for Counties Ant ...

Langford Lodge Collection

Libraries NI, Ballymena Central Library

Londonderry was the largest US communications base in Europe and it was also the largest US escort base in the United Kingdom. The US Army Air Force took over aerodromes at Langford Lodge, Long Kesh, Maghaberry and Greencastle.

Bryson & MacAdam Manuscripts Collections

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

They were purchased by Belfast Public Libraries in 1989 from the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. The forty-four volumes in the collection have now been conserved and preserved on microfilm to the highest standard.The manuscripts, which date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centurys were collected by Dr Samuel Bryson and Robert MacAdam in the mid-1800’s. Both Bryson and MacAdam ...

Map Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Included in the collection: 1832 Ordnance Survey of Ireland – scale 6" to 1 mile - a fine series of hand coloured maps in 28 original leather cases. 1947 Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland – scale 6" to 1 mile 1962 Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. Irish Grid Series 1 : 1250 ( 50" to 1 mile) 1 : 2500 ( 25" to 1 mile) 1 : 10000 ( 6" to 1 mile)

William Allingham Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

William Allingham was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal on March 19th 1824. His father was a successful merchant and later a banker in the town. He grew up in Ballyshannon and worked in the bank there and various other towns in Northern Ireland before joining the Customs Service. He finally settled in England, remaining a Civil Servant for twenty five years. He continued to be torn between his ...

Ulster Writers Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Archive includes material which is concerned with the following Ulster writers: William Allingham, Andrew Boyd, Frederick Gamble, Mary Gardiner, Frederick Harte, Dr. Richard Hayward, Benedict Kiely, Jack Loudan, Anna Redlich, Bishop Reeves and Charles Witherspoon.

Music Library

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Currently, there are 121 titles in the collection. The recorded music collection consists of 19,000 CDs, 1,500 DVDs, 20,000 vinyl records and 500 videos. All genres of classical and popular music are represented in these formats. All CDs, DVDs and a selection of books and scores are in the open access area of the music reading room. The majority of the printed stock is held in closed access. The N ...

Cinema Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Mary Gardiner Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Royal Belfast Botanic & Horticultural Company Ltd.

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Belfast Botanic and Horticultural Society was formed in February 1827. In 1829, after an abortive attempt at laying out botanical gardens at Bradbury Place the current site was purchased on the Stranmillis Road. Monies were raised through a share issue and a committee formed to manage the gardens. In 1860 the Society was replaced by the Royal Belfast Botanic and Horticultural Company Ltd with ...

Irish Manuscripts Commission Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

According to the Catalogue of Publications produced by the Irish Manuscripts Commission, the Commission was established in 1928, "to report on collections of manuscripts and papers of literary, historical and general interest relating to Ireland, whether in private or public ownership, and also to arrange for and supervise the execution of programmes of publications." The collection in Belfast Cen ...

John Smyth Crone Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

There is also a sizeable quantity of newspaper cuttings, most of which are held in six large scrapbooks, plus several folders of political cartoons from the late nineteenth century. In addition the Crone Collection contains some two hundred individual newspapers comprising ninety-four different titles. Daily newspapers, such as the Belfast Newsletter and Northern Whig are included, along with nort ...

Richard Hayward Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

He was associated with the Ulster Players, acting with and managing the group for a number of years. Hayward also made over a hundred records as a ballad singer and directed the first sound motion picture made in Ireland. Richard Hayward died in Belfast in a car accident on October 13th 1964.

Lynn Doyle Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Leslie A. Montgomery was born in Downpatrick, County Down. He became a clerk in the Northern Bank in Belfast and was later transferred to Skerries County Dublin as a Bank Manager. He was part of the Ulster Literary Theatre movement. He wrote more than twenty books, many of them set in a fictious northern village called Ballygullion. They are of a humorous nature and are said to reflect, with reaso ...

Barrington Baker Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

His particular interest was the theatre. The collection is quite comprehensive and comprises a wide variety of material. There are scrapbooks, books, lecture notes on Berlio,Z Chopin, Brahms, Mozart and Wagner, newspaper articles, manuscripts, postcards of his travels and newspaper cuttings, which include programmes and signed portraits of stars. There are also journals of three trips he made abro ...

Andrew Boyd Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Meteorological Records and Observations

Armagh Observatory

The Meteorological Records held at Armagh Observatory consist of comprehensive measurements from 1795 - present day. There are also some measurements for the period December 1783 - January 1784 thought to be taken by Hamilton in Cookstown. Included in the collection are a number of barometer readings for the six months from January to June 1788 at Cookstown, Charlesfort, Creggan and Athlone and a ...

Linen Hall Library Map Collection

Linen Hall Library

The Linen Hall Library has an extensive collection of maps. This collection consists of Six-inch Ordnance Survey maps published in the 1830's, these are in bound volumes and cover the nine counties of Ulster and also Leitrim; the 19th century geological maps of Ireland; a collection of old Belfast maps; town and county maps ansd manuscript maps of estates and demesnes. Included in the Map Collecti ...

Burns & Burnsiana

Linen Hall Library

The Burns & Burnsiana Collection at the Linen Hall Library is one of the largest collections of Burns material outside Scotland. The collection contains 782 distinct Scottish, English, Irish, American and continental editions of the works of the Ayrshire ploughman, representing more than 1,000 volumes. In addition the collection contains Johnson's "Scots musical museum", Thomson's "Select Scottish ...

Ulster-Scots Language Collection

Linen Hall Library

The Library’s collection of Ulster Scots material dates back to 1810 with the publication of Andrew McKenzie’s Poems and Songs on Different Subjects. A comprehensive archive of periodical material relating to the Ulster Scots language and dialects of Ulster is currently being compiled, and constantly updated. As part of the Linen Hall Library’s Languages of Ulster programme, a new sequence of book ...

Hibernica Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The Hibernica Collection, or Henry Collection as it was previously known, is a substantial collection of monographs, periodicals and pamphlets of general Irish interest and/or origin, being strongest in history and literature, and also including works of Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton. Officially established in 1929 with a deposit of 1000 volumes from the personal library of R.M. Henry (Profess ...

Simms Collection (Irish)

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Significant collection of early monographs, pamphlets, bound letters etc pertaining to Ireland by foreign authors and/or by Irishmen printed abroad. Dating mainly from before 1701, the Simms collection contains many rare and important items that have been gathered together by a local book collector of some repute reflecting a particular interest in Irish affairs. Prominent among the subjects cover ...

T.G.F. Paterson Manuscript Collection

Armagh County Museum

This collection comprises T.G.F. Paterson's notebooks. The notebooks are concerned with pedigrees and genealogies of families connected with County Armagh, local history, dialect, archaeology, folklore and place-name studies. He published regularly in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, County Louth Archaeological Journal, Seanchas Ardmhacha and the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ir ...

AE/ George Russell Collection

Armagh County Museum

The material in this collection consists of illustrated poems, photographs and books of poetry by the artist, poet and theosophist George Russell (AE) 1867-1935. George Russell, also known as AE was one of the founders of the Irish Theatrical Company at the Abbey Theatre. He contributed regularly to the Irish Statesman and the Irish Homestead, supporting issues like Home Rule and the Lock-out of 1 ...

Samuel Beckett collection

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Samuel Beckett collection comprises six distinct series and one miscellaneous series of Beckett-related material including manuscripts and typescripts by Beckett, correspondence with Beckett, ephemera, photographs, and publications by and about Beckett: The Samuel Beckett-Calvin Israel collection (1929-1981) is primarily Beckett manuscripts and publications, but also includes theater programs, ...

McCance Collection

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

c.150 documents, 1689-1799, comprising the records of the McCance family, and, in particular, of Captain S. McCance of London, presumably for use in his "History of the Royal Muster Fusiliers" (1927). This body of original documents and transcripts has strong military associations relating mostly to the 1798 period in Ulster, and including a remarkable register called 'The Black Book of the North ...

John Hewitt Archive

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal, legal and literary papers etc of the Ulster Poet and Critic, John Hewitt (1907-87), and that of his wife, Roberta (1904-75), 1904-1987. A fairly substantial collection, the archive contains a broad range of material reflecting the life, career and interests of one of Ulster’s most prolific writers and cultural authorities. Included are: c.115 personal, official and legal papers of John a ...

Ulster Women's Unionist Council Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council and its various branches and associations, 1892-1975. Officially established on 23 January 1911, the formation of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council was a significant event in the history of women's political activism in Ireland. Initiated as the female equivalent to the main Ulster Unionist Council, it was established as an auxiliary organisation to ...

Kildare County Library & Arts Service

Kildare County Council Library & Arts Services

A general collection of books, periodicals, CDs, DVDs, scores, and digital music files available through the Kildare County Library branch network. A recording studio at Leixlip is at the disposal of local musicians to record or document their work. Music CDs Kildare County Libraries holds approximately 9089 music CDs which are housed throughout the branch network of 15 branch libraries and mobile ...

Henry Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of correspondence, working notes and papers of Robert Mitchell Henry (1873-1950), Professor of Latin at Queen’s University Belfast (1907-38) and later Professor of Humanities at the University of St. Andrews, Edinburgh (1939-47) and honorary chair of Classical Literature at Trinity College, Dublin (1947-50). Broad in its scope, the collection consists of a variety of material reflecting ...

O'Rahilly Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of Irish manuscripts and printed books annotated by the distinguished Celtic Scholar, T.F. O’Rahilly (1883-1953). A relatively small assemblage of material, the books are extensively annotated by O'Rahilly and include a range of titles on Irish dialect, grammar and Irish Literature, dating from c 1849-1937. Among the authors featured are Brian Merriman (1749-1805), Joseph Henry Lloyd, P ...

Antrim Presbytery Library

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Kilkenny County Library Services

Kilkenny County Library Service

Scores: a collection of scores consisting mainly of classical works Reference Collection: A collection of materials of local interest including programmes and posters from Arts Week, Kilkenny Musical Society and St. Mary's Choral Society. Books: a broad selection of titles including biographies, instrument tutors and traditional music. CDs: A varied collection - genres including popular, Irish art ...

St. Anthony's Rare Book Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

The St. Anthony's Rare Book Collection, numbering c. 280 items, formed part of the library of St. Anthony's Franciscan College which was acquired by UCG in 1992. The collection contains many rare and interesting works on topics ranging in scope from theology and apologetics to bardism and Norse mythology.

Samuel Beckett - Barney Rosset collection

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Samuel Beckett - Barney Rosset collection includes manuscripts representing three decades of Beckett's writing; annotated copies of plays, stories, and other works; letters and cards from Beckett to Rosset discussing the author's life and work; and Grove Press business and financial records relating to Beckett's career. The series is arranged in four subseries: A. Manuscripts; B. Correspondenc ...

Harry Barton Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

Papers of the Irish writer, playwright and broadcaster, Harry Barton (1916-2006). The collection comprises holographs and typescript copies of Barton’s works, typed and manuscript letters (mainly to Barton), play programmes, newspapers cuttings of reviews, photographs and cuttings of broadcast schedules recording when his works appeared on radio or television. Also includes cassette tapes of some ...

Spender Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal and political papers of Sir Wilfred Spender (1876-1960), Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, 1926-1944. Comprising correspondence, memoranda, diaries, press cuttings, and other documents, the Spender Papers are an essential resource in documenting the emergence and development of Northern Ireland as a political entity during the early 20th century. Reflecting the various facets an ...

MBR Photographic Collections

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The photographic collection of the Monuments and Buildings Record (MBR) is maintained and administered by the Built Heritage branch of the department of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland. An extensive series of slides, negatives and prints, it contains a vast array of images depicting and relating to the archaeological, architectural and industrial heritage of Northern Irel ...

Dublin City Libraries: Music Library Collection

Dublin City Libraries, Pearse Street Library

Music in a broad range of formats and genres, both reference and lending, including literature, vocal scores, libretti, self-tutor books, songbooks, CDs, DVDs, BLU-RAY, and reference periodicals.

Special Collections, Main Collections

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

There are three main collections grouped by date. These include Early Printed Books (Pre-1701), 18th Century Books and Pamphlets (including the Foster Pamphlet Collection) and 19th and 20th Century book collection of first editions and other rarities. The subject-based collections consist of the Hibernica Collection of books relating to and/or published in Ireland, the MacDouall Collection of earl ...

Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority Archive

Queen's University Belfast, Medical and HSC Library

The collection consists of reports and monographs on the location, construction and administration of hospitals in Northern Ireland covering the period 1948 to 1974. Items include reports from The Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority, Hospital Management Committees, research organisations and central government. The archive constitutes the nucleus of the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority librar ...

Antrim Presbytery Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Antrim Presbytery Papers

Youth Link: NI

Youth Link: NI

 Youth Link: NI is the inter-church youth service for Northern Ireland. It was established in 1991 by the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Methodist Church in Ireland, and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Youth Link established its library in 2011 with the aim of supporting teaching and learning in youth work and ministry. Youth Link’s library is aimed primarily at students pa ...

McAllister Collection: Church History Pamphlets

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

This is a collection of pamphlets accumulated by James McAllister, lecturer in Economic History at Queen’s University Belfast 1973-2007. He had a particular interest in local history and is noted for compiling ‘A Belfast chronicle 1789: a compilation from the Belfast Newsletter.’ He collected a range of books, articles and pamphlets relating to religion in Ireland. This collection contains pamphle ...

Alan Schneider - Samuel Beckett collection

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Alan Schneider-Samuel Beckett collection is primarily composed of correspondence between American stage director Alan Schneider and Samuel Beckett, with some additional correspondence between Schneider, Thornton Wilder, and others; also included are manuscripts and other material relating to Beckett's Film and a translation of Waiting for Godot by Thornton Wilder. This series is arranged in tw ...

Alice Milligan Collection

University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library

This is a small collection of correspondence, writings, and sketches of Irish nationalist, poet, and editor, Alice Milligan, 1866-1953.

Harland & Wolff Photographic Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

The Harland & Wolff Photographic Collection comprises some 70,000 negatives covering the work of the company between 1895 and 1986, at which date, the collection was donated to the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum. Coverage prior to 1895 is sparce but some prints date back to c. 1861, two years after the founding of the company. The collection contains photographs from the company's works in Southam ...

Northern Ireland Place Name Project Sound Archive

Northern Ireland Place-Name Project

Collection of sound recordings and associated transcripts compiled by the Northern Ireland Place name Project at Queen's University Belfast. Established in 1987, the Northern Ireland Place Name Project was set up to "research the origin of all names of settlements and physical features in Northern Ireland appearing on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale map; to indicate their meaning and to note an ...

Dublin City Public Libraries: Dublin and Irish Collections

Dublin City Libraries, Pearse Street Library

Dublin City Library and Archive at Pearse Street houses the Dublin and Irish Collections (Special Collections and Early Printed Books) of Dublin City Public Libraries and Dublin City Archives. The Special Collections are made up of approximately twelve major collections. The best known of these are the Gilbert Library, the Dix Collection, the Yeats Collection and the Swift Collection. The emphasis ...

Simms Medical Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Distinguished library of early medical works and medical history belonging to Dr Samuel Simms (d. 1967) of Belfast. Many of the titles included in the collection can be found listed in the Garrison and Morton Medical Bibliography (1983). *UPDATE September 2018* A digital exhibition of this collection is now available online, bringing together material from the Simms collection across different fie ...

Newport Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of letters and other papers relating to the public and private affairs of Sir John Newport (1756-1843), Irish Politician and Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, banker and landowner. The bulk of the collection consists of some 250 letters, c 1765-c 1862, addressed to, and received from, some of the leading political figures in Ireland of the time commenting on some of the prominent issue ...

BBC Northern Ireland Archive

BBC Northern Ireland Archive

The BBC Northern Ireland Archive is a comprehensive collection of archive material previously broadcast by and/or originating from the BBC in Northern Ireland, since its establishment in 1924 to the present day. It consists of some 8,000 radio programmes (c 1924-c 1999), 500 cans of film (c 1959-79), the BBC NI Press Office Collection of approx. 10,000 publicity photographs and negatives, press re ...

Reference Collection

Chester Beatty Library

The Reference Library holds books and periodicals relating to the Chester Beatty Library collections.

Met Éireann Library

Met Éireann, Research Division

When the Irish Meteorological Service was founded in 1936 it inherited a small collection of technical books and weather records from the British Met Office. This, together with a collection of early meteorological books that had been bequeathed to Valentia Observatory by R.H. Scott in 1916, formed the origins of the Met Éireann Library. Today, the primary aim of the Met Éireann Library is to prov ...

George Bernard Shaw letters to Bernard Partridge

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The collection consists of eleven letters from George Bernard Shaw to Bernard Partridge (a.k.a. Bernard Gould) dating 1893-1928. The first nine discuss the rehearsals for and staging of the first performance of Shaw's play Arms and the Man , and the final two are about personal matters. Although this collection does not contain any of Partridge's responses, it is implied in many of the letters tha ...

W. B. Yeats Collection

University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library

This collection of the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) includes first editions of all of Yeats' works (save the extremely scarce Mosada [1886] and The Hour-Glass [1903]), many later editions of Yeat's works and variant printings, and books edited by or containing contributions from Yeats. Also present are runs of periodicals with which Yeats was associated, such as Samha ...

Living Linen Oral History Collection

Living Linen

Oral history collection of recorded interviews and related artefacts concerning the Linen Industry in Ulster, both past and present. The collection includes tape recordings and transcripts of interviews with both owners and workers employed in the linen industry across the province. They comment on working conditions and practises within the local mills, the processes and activities involved in pr ...

Slip Archive of Dialect Items

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

Slip archive of dialect items initiated by Belfast Naturalist Field Club in 1951, continued by Museum's late curator of language, Brendan Adams, and forming the basis of the 'Concise Ulster Dictionary' (Oxford University Press, 1996). The collection is still being augmented.

RTE Sound Library

The RTÉ Sound Library collection consists of commercially released sound recordings from the 1930s to date. Popular music makes up the largest part of the collection but there are also significant quantities of classical and traditional music.

Hart Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Substantial collection of personal and official papers of Sir Robert Hart (1835-1911), Inspector General of the Imperial Customs, Peking, 1863-1908. The collection contains a range of interesting and insightful material relating to Hart’s official duties and experiences in Peking during his long career in charge of the Chinese Customs Service. Significant in this regard is the long series of 77 pe ...

Moore Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Special collection of books etc, by, or relating to, the Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician, Thomas Moore (1779-1852). Born in Dublin to Roman Catholic parents in 1779, Thomas Moore went on to become one of Ireland's most popular writers, regarded at the time, as Ireland's national lyricist. Remembered principally for his Irish Melodies, which appeared in numerous editions from 1807-34, ...

Historical Archives of the Armagh Observatory

Armagh Observatory

The Historical Archives of the Armagh Observatory comprise documents relating to the Buildings and Administration, Astronomical Drawings, the Papers of the Directors and Staff, and Documents concerning Railways. The papers detailing the administration of the Observatory include items such as the printed Act of the Irish Parliament setting up the Observatory in 1791, with the 1938 amendment, Minute ...

Rare book collection

Chester Beatty Library

Formerly the private library of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968)

Freedmen’s Bureau Records

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of Records of the Assistant Commissioners for the states of North Carolina (M843) and South Carolina (M869) between 1865 -1872, along with Records for the Field Offices for the States of North Carolina (M1909) and South Carolina (M1910) between 1865-1872 and the Records of the Commissioner’s office including letters sent by General O.O Howard between 1865-1872 (M742). The Bureau of Refu ...

Samuel N. Freedman collection on George Bernard Shaw

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The George Bernard Shaw collection consists of approximately 2 linear feet (7 boxes) of Shaw materials accumulated over a period of about forty years by Samuel Freedman. The collection included about 3,000 books by and about Shaw, which are catalogued for the Irish Collection in the Burns Library. Also received with the collection were several framed portraits and posters that are housed in the li ...

Brinsley MacNamara Collection

University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library

A collection of drafts of plays and novels by Irish writer John (A. E. ) Weldon (1890-1963), who wrote under the pseudonym Brinsley MacNamara. Works included in the collection are: The Dark Horse ; Return to Ebontheever ; The Valley of the Squinting Windows ; Fortunio ; The Land for the People; The Rebellion in Ballycullen; Scenario; The Various Lives of Marcus Igoe; and The Mirror in the Dusk.

Greeve Pedigrees

Linen Hall Library

The Greeves Manuscript Collection is an important genealogical source. It is a collection of Ulster family trees, family histories and transcripts of letters relating to about sixty Ulster families.

Stranmillis University College Archive

Stranmillis University College

The Stranmillis University College Archive comprises materials, both photographic and documentary, relating to the history of the College. The photographic collection is particularly strong in images of students groups and buildings. The documentary materials have mostly been tranferred from administrative departments.

Dublin Institute of Technology: Music & Drama Library

Dublin Institute of Technology Library Services

The DIT Music & Drama library in Rathmines caters to the students and staff of the Dublin Institute of Technology. It is a performance-based library with a stock of over 18,000 scores and 8,500 books. The stock is mostly classical with a growing selection of traditional Irish music. Multiple copies of vocal music are held in Rathmines for the DIT choirs and performance groups. Full orchestral scor ...

Wright Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Papers and books of Dr. Stanley Fowler Wright (1873-1953), Commissioner of Customs and Personal Secretary to the Inspector General, the Chinese Maritime Customs. In addition to manuscripts, there are books in Chinese, books and pamphlets on China and on the Chinese Customs, many official printed papers, reports, etc., and copies of Customs publications, some with manuscript annotations by Wright. ...

MacAdam Manuscript

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Extant manuscript for an English-Irish Dictionary of Ulster Irish compiled for and in association with the Belfast born industrialist and Gaelic Scholar, Robert Shipboy MacAdam (1808-95). The manuscript consists of some 23 folios arranged alphabetically and containing the completed results of MacAdam's attempts to compile an English-Irish Dictionary in collaboration with the native Irish speaker, ...

Armagh Observatory Library and Archives

Armagh Observatory

The Library of the Armagh Observatory is one of the premier astronomical collections in Ireland, encompassing a core collection of textbooks, many scientific journals concerning astronomy and related sciences, and archives of scientific and historic interest. Its foundation can be traced to the establishement of Armagh Observatory in 1790 and its holdings include long runs of the major national an ...

Caldwell Collection

Royal Irish Academy

The Caldwell Collection is a broad and varied collection spanning almost three centuries. Its core is made up of the private and business correspondence of members of the Caldwell family and to a lesser extent their wives, siblings, near relatives and business partners. The following male heads of the family feature prominently - Andrew Caldwell (1683-1730/1) Charles Caldwell (1707-1776) Andrew Ca ...

Presbyterian Mission Archive

Union Theological College, The Gamble Library

The Presbyterian Mission Archive includes letters, scrapbooks, photographs, audio recordings, postcards, minutes and diaries relating to foreign missions conducted by Irish Presbyterians or the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, in places such as India, Manchuria and Africa, as well as missions delivered in the north and south of Ireland. Documents detailing the history of several related mission org ...

Seán O'Faoláin papers

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Seán O'Faoláin Papers contain correspondence to and from Seán O'Faoláin, manuscript material for short stories written by O'Faoláin which appeared in published form as Tales and Stories (1966) and clippings about O'Faoláin's autobiography Vive Moi! . Correspondents of note include Brendan Connolly, Robert Fetridge, Edward Garnett, Julia O'Faoláin, J.F. Powers, George Bernard Shaw and William B ...

Kenneth Reddin Collection

University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library

Kenneth Reddin (1895-1967) was an Irish novelist, playwright, and district justice during the first half of the 20th century, sometimes writing under the pseudonym of Kenneth Sarr. Reddin was involved in Republican politics, and his writings reflect that interest. This collection contains versions of two of his works ( Sable and Silver and Another Shore) , personal correspondence with well-known f ...

Sam Hanna Bell Collection

Linen Hall Library

The Sam Hanna Bell Collection at the Linen Hall Library consists of the manuscripts for four novels - Across the narrow sea, December Bride, The hollow ball and A man flourishing, and of The theatre in Ulster, a leading work on the subject.

Stranmillis University College Ulster Collection

Stranmillis University College

The Ulster Collection at Stranmillis University College is composed of printed materials relating to the North of Ireland. It comprises approximately 1500 items, the majority of which are 19th and 20th century. It includes works relating to education and educational issues, history, religion and literature.

University College Cork Music Collections

University College Cork, Boole Library

The UCC open access music collections are held on Q+3 (the Arts & Humanities floor of the Boole Library). These materials support the academic needs of students and staff at UCC. They include books and periodicals on music, reference works (including online databases), music scores, DVDs, CDs and cassettes. The vinyl record collection is held off-site in the Library repository in Pouladuff. The Sp ...

19th and 20th Century Books - Valuable, Limited, Fine or Rare

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

General collection of valuable, limited, fine or rare material from the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection relates to a disparate range of subject areas with items selected for their evidential and/or bibliographic value. Included can be found modern reproductions of some of the world’s most treasured manuscripts alongside first and limited editions of works by Irish and other authors with ma ...

MacDouall Manuscripts

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of holograph papers and working notes of Professor Charles MacDouall (1813-83), Professor of Latin and subsequently of Greek at Queen’s College, Belfast, (1849-78). The collection consists of finished essays, reference aids, lectures, emendations and miscellaneous notes prepared and used by MacDouall in his work, reflecting his wide range of academic interests and pursuits. Topics highl ...

Astronomical Observations

Armagh Observatory

The collection includes observation record books for the period 1782-1882, containing observations of stars, planets and comets. There is an observation record book 1793-1796 with a journal of events relating to the setting up and adjustment of clocks and instruments at Armagh Observatory after it was founded in 1790. The observation records continue into the 20th century and are supplemented by v ...

Dublin Unitarian Church Collection

Royal Irish Academy

The Dublin Unitarian Church Collection was donated to the Royal Irish Academy by the Dublin Unitarian Church in two separate deposits. The first deposit is comprised of documents relating to the Unitarian community of Dublin and some of its predecessor congregations, located over time at premises in Wood Street, Cook Street, Eustace Street, Strand Street, and St. Stephen’s Green. Consisting of ove ...

Ringling North Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

A very fine collection of c. 1200 items on subjects such as travel literature and the history of art, this was the personal library of Henry Ringling North (1909-1993), former owner and manager of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Items are largely in pristine condition.

Flann O'Brien collection

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Flann O'Brien Collection contains a wide variety of materials: papers, books, art works, and personal memorabilia. Materials in this collection are dated from 1884 to 1991, thus predating and postdating the life of Flann O'Brien (1911-1966). Most of the materials date between 1935 and 1975. The arrangement and description follows closely the vendor's list received with the collection. Organize ...

Northern Ireland Elections

Northern Ireland Elections

The Northern Ireland Elections web resource provides information about elections in Northern Ireland since 1885, with particular information about the elections held in 2001 (Westminster and local government), 2000 (South Antrim by-election), 1999 (European Parliament), 1998 (Assembly), 1997 (local government), 1997 (Westminster), 1996 (Forum/talks), 1995 (North Down by-election), 1994 (European P ...

Londonderry Estate Office Archive

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of the Londonderry Estate Office, Newtownards, Co. Down, 1629-1940. Relating to lands held by the Marquesses of Londonderry in Counties Donegal, Down and Londonderry, this collection comprises a comprehensive range of extant estate papers, correspondence and other papers pertaining to the administration and management of the estate and related concerns. The collection includes: title deeds, ...

Cork School of Music

Cork Institute of Technology, Cork School of Music Fleischmann Library

Cork School of Music Library holds an extensive collection of books, journals, music scores, music CDs, records, and other related media, comprising about 24,000 separate items which are available on the CIT online catalogue http://library.cit.ie . This collection includes books on a wide range of music-related areas associated with music theory and performance. There are about 10,000 sheet music ...

Piry Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of private papers of Théophile Piry (fl. 1880-1915), Commissioner of Customs and first Postmaster General of the Imperial Postal Service, China, 1911-1915. This collection contains a range of material bearing on Piry’s later career in the Chinese administration including drafts, notes, copies of correspondence, memoranda, reports etc relating to customs affairs in Lappa and Macao and, l ...

MacDouall Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of general literature, Sanskrit and comparative philology from the personal library of Charles MacDouall (1818-1883), first Professor of Latin at Queen's College, Belfast (1849-50) and second Professor of Greek (1850-78). The collection includes material relating to Classical, Eastern and Middle Eastern languages, and comparative philology, principally from the first half of the 19th ce ...

Documents Relating to Armagh Observatory Buildings, Grounds and Services

Armagh Observatory

Documents concerning: surrender of land for use by the Armagh Observatory 1789 - 1790, insurance policies 1794 - 1945, list of indentures concerning transfer of land and appointment of J.A. Hamilton as astronomer 1790, meridian marks 1802 - 1872, journal of works and repairs to Armagh Observatory buildings and equipment (T.R. Robinson, J.L.E. Dreyer and assistants), plans of Armagh Observatory and ...

Graves Collection

Royal Irish Academy

The Graves Collection consists mainly of 19th century antiquarian correspondence. It is an amalgamation of three separate, but related, correspondence collections of three prominent Irish antiquarians: John O’Donovan (1806-1861) Rev. James Graves (1815-1886) Rev. Charles Graves (1812-1899). The John O’Donovan correspondence reflects O’Donovan’s work and personal interests and are broadly related t ...

Kevin Boyle Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

The Kevin Boyle Collection (archive and library) is a wealth of material in the fields of human rights and law research and scholarship. Focus on the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, the Troubles, international freedom of expression and freedom of religious belief defence reflects Boyle's contributions to the discipline of human rights. The Collection was donated to NUIG by Joan Boyle an ...

John F. Deane papers

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The John F. Deane papers includes correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings related to Deane's life, literary output and career as a literary editor. The correspondents include Samuel Beckett, Daniel Berrigan, Alaine Bosquet, Padraig Daly, Paul Durcan, John Ennis, Monk Gibbon, Robert Graecen, Michael Hamburger, Seamus Heaney, Richard Kell, Thomas Kinsella, Philip Lar ...

Northern Ireland Life & Times Survey

Northern Ireland Life & Times Survey

The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey was launched as a web-based resource for anyone interested in the social attitudes of people living in Northern Ireland. It was set up by Queen's University, Belfast and Ulster University. The survey takes place annually and aims to record the attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland on a wide range of social policy issues. Subjects ...

7th Marquess of Londonderry Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Political and personal papers of Charles S.H. Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878-1949) and of his wife Edith Helen, 1880-1950. The Londonderry Family were among the most influential political families in Britain from the 18th century onwards. The 7th Marquess carried on this tradition serving in numerous official positions both locally and nationally which are reflected in the ...

Dundalk Institute of Technology

Dundalk Institute of Technology Library

Dundalk Institute of Technology Library has a relatively small collection of over a thousand books and CDs, with several periodicals with backfiles as well as Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. All CDs, books and journals are in the open access area and there are two listening posts for the CD collection.

Waddell Manuscripts

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Papers of the Ulster writer and scholar, Helen Waddell (1889-1965). The collection consists of notes, translations, holograph and typescript manuscripts of published and unpublished works by Waddell, c.1909-47, and an extensive series of correspondence with the critic and historian George Saintsbury (1845-1933), c. 1914-33. An academic of some repute and at one time considered, “the darling of Uls ...

Harty Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of holograph manuscripts of the composer and conductor, Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) featuring full and part scores to a range of orchestral and choral pieces composed or arranged by Harty, c 1900-1939. Included in the collection are arrangements of Handel and Berlioz, whose performances of which Harty was most noted, and autograph manuscripts of approx. 48 original works including ‘S ...

Papers of P.B. Byrne

Armagh Observatory

The Byrne papers reflect the lifetime interests and scientific activities of Dr P.B. Byrne. He was Research Astronomer at the Armagh Observatory from 1976 until 1997 and Assistant Director during the 1990s until 1996. The papers comprise his scientific correspondence and manuscripts relating to his major publications.

Lough Hyne Collection

Royal Irish Academy

The Lough Hyne/Ine Collection is made up of documents arising from the scientific expeditions carried out at Lough Ine marine lake, Cork from the 1940s until the 1980s. These expeditions were carried out by teams of British scientists and students led by Professor Jack Kitching and Professor John Ebling. The collection consists of the following - lengthy correspondence between Ebling and Kitching; ...

Bairéad Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

This collection contains a wealth of Irish language material and ephemeral material from the early days of the Gaelic revival movements, as collected by Stiophán (1867-1921) and Ciarán (1905-1976) Bairéad. Síghle Bairéad (1903-1985) donated this material to the Library in 1976 in memory of her father Stiophán, first treasurer of the Gaelic League, and of her brother Ciarán, a collector with the Ir ...

Gerald Dawe papers

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Gerald Dawe Papers comprise approximately 5 linear ft (12 boxes). The papers contains manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and audio tapes related to Dawe's own creative work as well as his role as a literary editor. Prominent correspondents include John Banville, John F. Deane, Padriac Fiacc, Seamus Heaney and Ewart Milne. The dates of the collection are 1967-2000. Organized into five ser ...

Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Papers

Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library & Archive

The Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Papers consist of the late Primate's personal and academic papers, including unpublished lectures and articles, his research work in Irish history, the Irish language and literature, ecclesaistical history and Irish links overseas.

Contemporary Music Centre

Contemporary Music Centre

The Contemporary Music Centre houses the only comprehensive collection of Irish classical music in existence. It is a collection of works by some 130 Irish composers of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. It also contains information materials of all kinds from concert programmes, biographical data, photographs and press clippings to specialist periodicals and books. The sound archive conta ...

John McCormack Collection

University College Dublin

The McCormack collection consists of printed music scores in fine bindings. It includes the complete works of Bach and Handel. It also contains many late 19th century compilations of Irish melodies. This material was bequeathed to UCD in 1945.

Kyllmann Correspondence

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of 133 manuscript and typescript letters from 34 correspondents to Otto Kyllmann (d. 1958), senior partner of the publishing firm, Constable & Co., with typescript copies of 16 of his letters to various correspondents, and one note in his hand; the whole collection spanning the period 1900-1957 and arranged chronologically. Correspondents include the former British Prime Ministers Stanl ...

Ferguson Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of research materials collected by Godfrey W. Ferguson (d. c 1939/40) of Belfast, President of the Belfast Literary Society (1922-23, 1934-35), concerning Anne Isabella Milbanke, Lady Byron (1792-1860), wife of the Romantic Poet, Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), and, in particular, the controversy surrounding the breakdown of their marriage in 1816 and her descendants’ attempts to ...

Music Collection

Queen's University Belfast, The McClay Library

The printed editions are strongly focused towards the works of Baroque, Classical, Romantic and early modern composers, although most areas of music are covered. The editions appear in various formats: consisting of anthologies, various editions of works by certain composers, individual works and manuscript facsimiles. The collection also includes over 100 periodicals and over 500 reference works, ...

Reside Collection

Newry and Mourne Museum

The Reside Collection contains documents which are of great importance to the study of local history and geneaology in the Newry and Mourne area. The Collection is the product of the professional lives of Major G.W. Reside, an architect and engineer based in Newry and his wife Margaret (neé Fisher), who was a solicitor in the town. Much of this material also reflects Major Reside's enthusiasm for ...

O’Neill Collection of Traditional Irish Music

University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Libraries

The O'Neill Collection reflects Francis O'Neill's work of studying, collecting and preserving Irish traditional music, particularly dance music. Books and articles on Irish music include occasional pencil annotations in margins, often checkmarks or notes on an alternative name for a tune. The Library was given by Captain O'Neill to the University of Notre Dame in 1931.

Kathleen Daly Clarke papers and collection of Thomas Clarke and Irish political materials

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The papers contain correspondence, photographs, artwork, ephemera, and clippings documenting the life and career of Kathleen Daly Clarke, while Clarke's collection includes materials about her husband Thomas Clarke and Irish politics during the early- to mid-1900s. Of note are cards she received from political figures, including Eamon de Valera, Douglas Hyde, and Sean Ó Ceallaigh, some of which w ...

Archive of the Archdiocese of Armagh

Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library & Archive

This collection consists of private papers, papers relating to bishops, clergy, government departments, educational bodies and parishes within the Archdiocese of Armagh. The papers associated with successive Archbishops and Cardinals include those of Archbishop Richard O'Reilly who served from 1787-1818, Archbishop Patrick Curtis, 1819-1832, Archbishop Thomas Kelly, 1828-1835, Archbishop William C ...

Joly Music collection

National Library of Ireland

The Joly Music collection forms the core of the Library’s music collection and contains approx 6,000 items. The Joly collection spans music written in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It includes vocal music, mostly popular songs; instrumental music pertinent to the army (quadrilles etc.); instrumental music for piano and harp; collections and arrangements of Irish airs and variations, and ...

Traditional Music Collection, Hillery Public Library, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare

Clare County Library

Traditional Irish Music Collection

Bullock Manuscripts

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Papers of the Irish writer, Shan F. Bullock (1865-1935). The collection consists of holograph and typescript manuscripts of both published and unpublished works by Bullock featuring examples of his poetry, fictional writing and dramatic works. The collection also includes items of personal interest to Bullock including a small selection of letters to his daughter Nora Elson (nee Bullock), family p ...

Early Printed Books (Pre-1701)

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of 16th and 17th century books and pamphlets, including facsimilies. An extensive collection of early works, it contains in excess of 3,700 items, including 20 incunabula (i.e. printed before 1500), 267 STC and 1,430 Wing items, relating to a wide range of subject areas reflecting the interests and pre-occupations of writers of this period. Included can be found general works and early ...

Gilbert Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The Gilbert Collection comprises draft autograph and typescript manuscripts of novels and short stories, proof copies and quires, correspondence, notes, synopses, draft speeches, draft poems, juvenilia, school reports, photographs, scrapbooks, and postcards of Stephen Gilbert. The correspondence includes letters written by authors such as a Walter de la Mare, George Buchanan, Forrest Reid and E M ...

Comintern Papers (Irish Labour Movement Papers)

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

This collection comprises copies of files held in the Russian Archive for Social and Political History (RGASPI), Moscow. The files pertain to the Irish labour movement and the history of Communism in Ireland, comprising documents from the departments and standing committees of the Executive Committee Communist International (ECCI) including speeches, reports, letters, agendas, fliers, handwritten ...

Mac Fhinn Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

Collection of 300+ items accumulated by Msgr. Eric Mac Fhinn (1895-1987) of Co. Galway, UCG lecturer in education (through Irish) 1931-1965.

Séamus Connolly papers

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Séamus Connolly papers document aspects of the music career of Irish traditional fiddle player Séamus Connolly. All materials were donated by Séamus Connolly. The collection highlights Connolly’s career as a performing artist as well as his commitment to preserving Irish traditional music through teaching and community outreach. The collection includes various printed materials, including post ...

Papers of T.R. Robinson

Armagh Observatory

The T.R. Robinson papers at Armagh Observatory reflect T.R. Robinson's life and interests. They consist of a mixture of published and unpublished papers and newspaper reports, manuscript notebooks of the results of various experiments as well as sermons and speeches to learned and church societies. Included in this collection is a series of letters to and from Robinson, mainly concerning financial ...

Antrim Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate and personal papers of the MacDonnell family, the Earls of Antrim, comprising the administrative records dating from 1603 of an estate which at one time included the four northern baronies of Co. Antrim. The collection includes: personal papers of the 17th and 18th century Earls; a genealogy in Irish and English of the 4th Earl prepared in 1704 which traces the family back to a 4th century ...

Additional Music collection

National Library of Ireland

The Additional Music Collection contains approximately 13, 000 items. It consists of printed sheet music, vocal music, (mostly popular songs) piano music, ballads, piano arrangements of opera numbers, instrumental music for piano and harp, Irish country dances, collections and arrangements of Irish airs and variations and miscellaneous material.

Belfast Special Constables Papers.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Two volumes containing the reports of the Special Constables appointed in 1812 to patrol the streets of Belfast at night. The earlier volume, which is dealt with by George Benn in his 'History of Belfast' (pp. 504-6), covers the period 12 May to 27 November 1812, and 19 February to 15 May 1816; the later volume 16 May to 8 July 1816. Owing to the inability of the Watch to maintain order on the str ...

Early Economics Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of works of early economic theory and philosophy dating from the 17th to the late 19th centuries. A relatively small assemblage of some 234 items, the collection includes a comprehensive range of material by many of the major economists of the period covered, in particular for the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Included can be found works by Adam Smith (1723-90), John Stuart Mill ( ...

Allingham Manuscripts

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of 44 original manuscript letters from the Irish poet, William Allingham (1824-89), to Henry Septimus Sutton (1825-1901). An important collection of letters from one poet to another, the letters provide a unique insight and commentary on the emergence of Allingham as a published author from 1848 to 1855 (one additional letter from 1862 is also to be found). Instigated by Allingham, the ...

Government Publications

NI Assembly Library

Parliamentary and other government publications from the UK and Northern Ireland

Reid Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The Forrest Reid Collection comprises typescript and manuscript drafts of longer works, short stories and poems, as well as proof copies, bibliographies and catalogues. The collection of correspondence is particularly strong and is further enhanced by items such as Christmas cards, postcards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and scrapbooks; There are also numerous holdings of ephemera, manuscript t ...

Larkin Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

The library of Professor Patrick Larkin (Education Department, UCG) and his wife Rita Larkin.

Frederick M. Manning collection of John McCormack materials

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

These materials pertaining to John McCormack’s life and career were compiled by Frederick M. Manning. Notable manuscripts in the collection include McCormack’s memoirs, a book of song lyrics used as a prompt and prop by McCormack in performance, a handwritten index of McCormack’s sheet music and annotated typescripts of McCormack’s introductory remarks to radio performances. Other notable items in ...

CAIN

CAIN Project

CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) is a web-based resource which provides a wide range of information and source documents about the Northern Ireland conflict from 1968 to the present day. This information is a combination of text that was specially written for the CAIN site and previously published material, which includes the full-text of important documents, and extracts from books and rep ...

Armstrong of Lisgoole Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal, family and estate papers of the Armstrong family of Lisgoole, Co. Fermanagh. The papers relate primarily to the careers of members of the family who served in the British Army and contain correspondence and papers of outstanding interest. Of particular note are the letters, memoranda and papers of Colonel James Armstrong, ADC to Lord Wellesley during the Indian campaign (1803-5), militar ...

Antient Concerts Society Collection

Royal Irish Academy of Music

Choral part-sets, orchestral sets and partbooks in both printed and MS form belonging to the Sons of Handel (1810 - ) and its successor, the Antient Concerts Society (1834 – 1863), both amateur choral societies based in Dublin.

Armachiana

Armagh County Museum

Armachiana (also known as Armagh Miscellanea) is a collection of 24 bound volumes which comprise some of the typed notes and lectures of Mr TGF Paterson, the first Curator of Armagh County Museum. The collection deals with all aspects of life in County Armagh including such things as dialect in the Fews, railways, parish histories, architectural heritage and family histories. A general listing of ...

Thomson Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of scientific papers and notebooks, memoranda, lectures, correspondence etc of James Thomson (1822-1892), Professor of Engineering at Queen’s College, Belfast, 1857-1873. Various topics are highlighted in the collection reflecting Professor Thomson’s wide range of research interests. These include such areas as fluid motion, the formation of river bars, ventilation, atmospheric circulat ...

Bunting Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Major collection of Irish musical manuscripts, notebooks and correspondence etc concerning the work of the Irish Music Collector and Musician, Edward Bunting (1773-1843) arising out of the Belfast Harpers Festival of 1792 and published in ‘A General Collection of Ancient Irish Music’ in 1796 (revised 1809 and 1840). The collection consists mainly of musical manuscripts compiled and notated by Bunt ...

Northern Ireland Official Publications Collection

Queen's University Belfast, The McClay Library

Delargy Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

Séamus Ó Duilearga (1899-1980), born in Cushendall, Co. Antrim, was a student of Celtic Studies in UCD when a chance meeting in 1921 with Norwegian folklorist Reidar Thorolf Christiansen launched him on what was to become a lifetime of collecting and safeguarding Ireland’s folk heritage. He was a founding member of the Folklore of Ireland Society in 1926 and editor of its journal Béaloideas . Foll ...

Ní Éimhigh Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

The Ní Éimhigh Collection of c. 50 items was accumulated by Professor Margaret Heavey, Athenry native and Professor of Classics, UCG (1931-1977).

Mary O'Hara papers

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Mary O'Hara papers document the performances, public career, and personal life of Irish soprano and harpist Mary O'Hara. The collection highlights her early rise to fame in the 1950s until her entrance to Stanbrook Abbey in 1962, as well her return to her music career in 1974 until her retirement in 1994. O'Hara was married to the American poet Richard Selig from 1956 until his death in 1957, ...

George Shiels Collection

Libraries NI, Ballymoney Library

The George Shiels Collection consists of the private library of local playwright George Shiels (1881-1949). Shiels was born near Ballymoney, County Antrim. He emigrated to Canada to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway, but was injured in 1913 and disabled for life in an accident. He returned to Northern Ireland and set up business with his brother as a shipping agent and started to write. His fir ...

Blake Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of Robert F. Blake (1867-1944), scientific researcher (chemistry) and analyst. Born in York in 1867, Blake first came to Northern Ireland in 1887 to work as a chemistry demonstrator at Queen's College Belfast. He went on to become a teacher of chemistry at Belfast Royal Academy and Methodist College, a researcher in analytic and organic chemistry and latterly Public Analyst for Northern Ire ...

Windele Collection

Royal Irish Academy

Collection relating to the history and antiquities of Cork and the Munster region in particular. The collection includes a large volume of correspondence between Windele and major nineteenth-century Irish antiquarians. The coverage is very broad, including music, finds of antiquities, history, folklore and the Irish language.

Blacker Day Books Collection

Armagh County Museum

This collection consists of the original volumes of the writings of Col. William Blacker and Stewart Blacker of Carrickblacker, Armagh. Many subjects are covered including school and university life, events of 1798, militia affairs and travel. It includes poems, drawings and scrapbooks kept by Stewart Blacker and poetry, biblical extracts and an eye witness account of the Battle of the Diamond in ...

Ross-Rosenzweig Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of monographs, periodicals and facsimilies, etc., on or relating to a variety of Hebrew and Jewish subjects and studies. Included are Hebrew texts relating to the interpretation, analysis and commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community, alongside works of Hebrew literature, language, history and philosophy, etc.

Andrews Manuscripts

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

This collection consists of a selection of scientific papers and correspondence by and addressed to Chemist and Physicist, Thomas Andrews (1813-85), chiefly written in his own hand or copied by his daughters, Elizabeth Andrews and Mary K. Andrews, and forming part of the documents used in the preparation of 'The Scientific Papers of the Late Thomas Andrews. With a Memoir by P.G. Tait and A. Crum B ...

Government Publications

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Various Northern Ireland government publications, including Northern Ireland Parliamentary papers, Northern Ireland Assembly papers, Northern Ireland Departmental publications and Non-Departmental publications (1889-present)

Cairnes Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

The library of John Elliott Cairnes (1823-1875), political economist and professor of jurisprudence and political economy at Queen's College, Galway (1859-1870).

Samuel Beckett - Calvin Israel collection

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Samuel Beckett - Calvin Israel collection is primarily Beckett manuscripts and publications, but also includes theater programs, audiovisual material, and ephemera spanning 1929 to 1981. Material is arranged in six subseries: A. Manuscripts; B. Publications; C. Theater programs; D. Audiovisual materials; E. Ephemera and miscellaneous; F. Photocopies.

Muise Family collection of Cape Breton and Irish music

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

This collection of recordings includes impromptu music sessions that took place in the Muise home in Boston. The recordings document a segment of traditional Cape Breton and Irish music making from circa 1956 through circa 2000. Many of the recordings were made by Johnny and Mary Muise at their home in Dorchester and, later, Roslindale. The collection also includes other recordings from unknown so ...

Belfast Harbour Commissioners Records

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, 1660-1977. Containing a wide range of documents, volumes, correspondence, maps, plans and drawings etc, the collection comprises the extant business archive of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, charting the history and development of the Port of Belfast and its environs from the 17th century onwards. Officially established by the Belfast Harbour Act o ...

Castlereagh Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal, family and political papers, 1798-1822 (including some earlier and some later documents), of Robert Stewart (1769-1822), Viscount Castlereagh, later 2nd Marquess of Londonderry. Elected first to the Irish Parliament in 1790 to represent Co Down and subsequently in the English Parliament from 1794-1822, Castlereagh rose to play a dominant role in British policy and politics. As acting Chi ...

Anacreontic Society Collection

Royal Irish Academy of Music

Orchestral sets and partbooks in both printed and MS form belonging to the Anacreontic Society (c. 1740 – 1865), an amateur orchestral society based in Dublin.

18th Century Books and Pamphlets

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

General collection of 18th century books and pamphlets. The collection relates to a wide variety of subject areas representative of the interests and pre-occupations of writers of this period and the collecting concerns of QUB library. History, politics, religion, language and literature are all well represented within. One particular collection of note concerns the series of pamphlets maintained ...

Pim Manuscripts

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Papers of the Belfast born author and poet, Herbert Moore Pim (1883-?). A relatively small batch of materials, this collection consists mainly of literary manuscripts concerning a number of published and unpublished works by Pim, including typewritten drafts of the novel, ‘The Pessimist’, 1904-10 (published under the pseudonym, A. Newman in 1914), ‘Poems for Children’ (1940), the plays, ‘Julian th ...

Charles Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Small collection of papers and photographic material presented to the University Library by the Biblical Scholar, R.H. Charles, Archdeacon of Westminster (1855-1931) consisting mainly of photographs (positive and negative) of original Aramaic, Greek and Ethiopic biblical manuscripts dating from the 10th to the 15th centuries. These items were largely used by Charles in the preparation of his schol ...

Government Publications

Ulster University, Jordanstown

Parliamentary legal and other government publications from the UK and Northern Ireland

Shields Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

The library of Arthur Shields (1896-1970), Irish stage and film actor.

Samuel Beckett - Robert Pinget letters

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

Consists of letters by Samuel Beckett to Robert Pinget, both handwritten and typed, mainly in French. The correspondence documents their friendship and professional relationship.

CCÉ North America collection of Irish music materials

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The CCÉ North America Collection of Irish Music Materials documents the history and activities of Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Éireann in North America with reference to the activities of CCÉ in Ireland. The collection also reflects efforts by CCÉ North America members to preserve audio and video of performances of traditional Irish music, song, and dance in the United States and Canada. The collection inc ...

Benn Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal papers of George Benn (1801-1882), historian of Belfast, and his brother, Edward Benn (1798-1874), antiquarian, philanthropist and founder of 3 Belfast hospitals, 1819-1918. Comprising correspondence, notes, essays and other papers, the collection reflects the lives and interests of these two important Ulster scholars and benefactors. The earliest document in the archive is an essay writt ...

Montgomery Hyde Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal, literary and political papers of the barrister, historian and Unionist politician, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1907-1989), comprising correspondence, photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, press cuttings, typescript and manuscript notes, genealogical papers, articles, etc., 1795-1991. Reflecting all aspects of Hyde’s multi-faceted career and interests, the collection is divided into three main ...

Hudleston Collection

Royal Irish Academy of Music

A collection of music mostly for solo guitar, guitar with voice and guitar with ensemble. Collected by Josiah Andrew Hudelston, mainly while working in Madras, (1817 – 1856), but also when he settled in Ireland.

Foster Pamphlets

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of 18th century pamphlets, magazines and reports etc compiled by John Foster, Baron Oriel (1740-1828), last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. An important and unique assemblage of materials, the collection was compiled by Foster during his years of high political office in both the Irish and British Houses of Parliaments. The main focus of the collection concerns the major politica ...

Percy Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The collection also reflects Percy's membership of Samuel Johnson’s 'Literary Club' by including association or presentation copies from Johnson himself, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmond Malone, George Steevens, et al. Percy annotated his books extensively, one of the most interesting of which is a copy of the 3rd edition (1775) of his own work, 'The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.' A unique item in t ...

Carnduff Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Personal, literary and collected papers of and/or relating to Thomas Carnduff (1886-1956), the Belfast essayist, playwright and poet. An important figure in cultural circles during the early 20th century, Thomas Carnduff, the so-called 'Shipyard Poet,' was a profilic writer and acute observer of Belfast life. The Thomas Carnduff Archive consists of draft and annotated manuscripts of Carnduff's pri ...

Government Publications

Office of the First and Deputy First Minister

Laws and statutes from the UK and Northern Ireland and a range of official publications.

Henry Library

National University of Ireland Galway

The Henry collection contains c. 4500 items. The bulk of the collection represents the Library of the Reverend Joseph Henry, D.D (1821-1885). The Henry Library is held on deposit from the Church of Ireland diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry.

Samuel Beckett - Judith Schmidt Douw collection

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Samuel Beckett - Judith Schmidt Douw collection primarily contains correspondence between Schmidt Douw (née Schmidt) and Samuel Beckett; Alan Schneider, American stage director; Rudoph von Abele, English literature professor at American University; James Knowlson, French professor at the University of Reading French professor; Emory Universit; and M. M. Spitzer. There is some additional corres ...

Michael Cummings collection of P.S. Gilmore materials   

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Michael Cummings Collection of P.S. Gilmore Materials documents the life and music career of Irish-American Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore and highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1969. The collection was artificially created by Michael Cummings and includes correspondence, concert programs, photographs, lithographs, audio and video r ...

Craigavon Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal papers of James Craig (1871-1940), 1st Viscount Craigavon, statesman and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and of his wife, Lady Craigavon (1880-1953), 1884-1940. Comprising some 300 documents, volumes, photographs and newspaper cuttings, the collection provides an interesting insight into the life and career of the man who was to play a critical and integral role in the evolution of No ...

Ulster Gift Fund Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the Ulster Gift Fund, 1938-1947. Formed in September 1939, the Ulster Gift Fund was established by the women of Ulster in an attempt to help ease the suffering of local men engaged in the Second World War. Providing clothing and bandages to military hospitals and woollen comforts to serving troops, the fund was organised by a large number of Ulsterwomen from all parts of the province an ...

South Dublin County Libraries Music Collection

South Dublin Libraries, County Library

Very general collection of mostly popular music CDs including Putumayo and Rough Guide world music, and a smaller number of music DVDs from opera to pop music.

Foster/Massereene Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Foster/Massereene papers comprise over 26,000 documents and volumes, 1590-1935, deriving from the Clotworthy and Skeffington families, Viscounts Massereene, and the Foster family, Viscounts Ferrard of Collon, Co. Louth. The papers relate to the family estates, mainly in Counties Antrim and Louth; to the lives and political careers of individual family members, most notably John (Speaker) Foste ...

O'Shaughnessy Manuscripts

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of literary manuscripts of the Victorian poet, Arthur O’Shaughnessy (1844-81) comprising chiefly of some 21 annotated notebooks of poems, prose and verse composed by him, c 1860-70, and appearing in his published works, ‘An Epic of Women’ (1870), ‘Lays of France’ (1872), ‘Music and Moonlight’ (1874) and ‘Songs of a Worker’ (1881). Other notable items contained in the collection include ...

Brett Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Small collection of miscellaneous papers and documents deposited by the Belfast solicitor, Sir Charles Brett (1839-1926). The collection consists of a variety of material, mainly of antiquarian interest, including books, extracts, manuscripts, and other documents relating principally to early English civil and ecclesiastical law, land and/or property in Yorkshire, c 1220-c 1600, and Wakefield, c 1 ...

Government Publications

Office of the First and Deputy First Minister

Laws and statutes from the UK and Northern Ireland and a range of official publications.

King's Inns

National University of Ireland Galway

The King's Inns collection of c55 items is comprised of works on various subjects including astrology, history, religion, science, travel. Notable contents include Augstine, Confessiones, c. 1470, Benyowsky's Memoirs and Travels, 1790.

Judith Schmidt Douw collection of Samuel Beckett letters

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Judith Schmidt Douw collection of Samuel Beckett letters contains letters from Beckett to Judith Schmidt (later Schmidt Douw). The letters deal with professional matters relating to Grove Press and Beckett's works and also concern the personal relationship between Beckett and Schmidt Douw.

Lady Gregory Collection

National University of Ireland Galway

This substantial collection was purchased by the Library in 1976. It contains many different editions and printings of material published by and about Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852-1932). A native of County Galway, she was a major figure in the Irish Literary Revival and the founding of the Abbey Theatre. Many of the works are available in the different editions in which they have appeared. ...

Preprints and Modern Research Publications

Armagh Observatory

Preprints containing results of scientific investigations which have been authored or co-authored by Observatory staff.

Northern Ireland Offical Publications.

NI Assembly Library

The material in the Noethern Ireland Offical Publications collection comprises: Debates of Northern Ireland Parliament and Assemblies since 1921 (complete) Northern Ireland Parliamentary and Assembly Papers since 1921 (complete) Northern Ireland Legislation (complete) Publications of Northern Ireland Government Departments from 1921 (extremely extensive and as complete as possible)

Dobbs Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

c.160 letters, petitions, notebooks, diaries, pamphlets and other documents, c.1568-1917, principally of Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765), governor of North Carolina, 1754-1765, and well-known eighteenth century Irish author and statesman. Dobbs was high sheriff of Antrim in 1720 and in 1727 was returned for Carrickfergus in the Irish Parliament of 1727-30. He was appointed engineer-in-chief and surveyor- ...

Royal Downshire Militia Records

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the Royal Downshire Militia, 1793-1855, comprising a Courts Martial Book, October 1793-September 1796, three correspondence and order books, October 1799-September 1812, and some loose army circulars and memoranda, 1855. The Courts Martial Book contains summaries of the evidence, etc., at courts-martial of non-commissioned officers and men of the Downshire regiment. The other three cont ...

William Alfred Green Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

The W.A. Green Collection comprises 4,114 half-plate glass negatives mostly dating from between 1905 and the late 1920s. Relating to a wide range of subject areas and interests, the collection is a major source of visual information about urban and rural life in the north of Ireland during the early 20th century. A meticulous and careful photographer with a keen appreciation of history, William Al ...

Spalding Collection

Ulster University, Magee

The Spalding Collection comprises 400 volumes concerned with Eastern and Middle Eastern culture, religion, art and history. The material in the collection was purchased with finance donated by Henry Norman Spalding specifically for this purpose and subject area. The titles deal with a wide time scale and were published in the 19th and 20th centuries, the majority of which are 20th century inprints ...

Samuel Ferguson Collection

Linen Hall Library

The Samuel Ferguson Collection at Linen Hall Library consists of the manuscripts of the nineteenth-century poet, including his epic poem Congall. Congall was his poetic version of the Ulster epic, published in 1872. The collection includes poetry, archaeological and antiquarian material,and sketches.

Joan Lingard Collection

Linen Hall Library

The holdings of the Joan Lingard Collection at the Linen Hall Library comprise typescripts of her novels. Joan Lingard is well-known for her series of books aimed at the teenage market dealing with the Northern Ireland conflict. Although born in Edinburgh, she spent her childhood (2-18 years) in Belfast. She also writes for adults and younger children. A number of her works have been awarded prest ...

Royal Belfast Academical Institution Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Royal Belfast Academical Institution Collection forms part of the F.J. Bigger Collection at Belfast Central Library. The material contained in it serves as complementary material to the the school's own archive. It was accumulated as a result of F.J. Bigger's involvement with the school's centenary publication. The collection consists of manuscripts and proof sheets relating to the centenary p ...

F.J. Bigger Correspondence Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The F.J. Bigger Correspondence Collection forms part of the F.J. Bigger Collection held at the Belfast Cetral Library. It consists of over forty-eight archival boxes of private correspondence reflecting the interests of F.J. Bigger. F.J. Bigger was editor of "The Ulster Journal of Arcchaeology" and a keen historian of the United Irishmen and the 1798 Rebellion. The collection consists of letters f ...

Dúchas Oral History Sound Archive

Falls Community Council

The archive is an oral history collection about the experience of the Northern Ireland conflict in nationalist West Belfast. The archive contains 60 interviews to date (May 2002) and the collection is ongoing. The interviews cover a wide range of experience from many different perspectives: campaigners, combatants and activists. Each comment on their own experiences of the conflict providing inter ...

Records of Eason & Son Ltd, Belfast

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of Eason & Son Ltd, Belfast, wholesale and retail newsagents, stationers and booksellers, 1825-1977, relating largely to the Belfast operations of the firm. The collection comprises: articles of association, 1924; minute books, 1924-1956; ledgers, 1870-1961; journals, 1920-1956; cash books, 1923-1958; wages books and associated documentation, c.1891-1968; annual audited accounts, 1922-1972 ...

Architectural Record

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The Architectural Record is maintained and administered by the Built Heritage branch of the Department of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland. It comprises a series of records on over 15,000 historic buildings and features located throughout the 6 counties of Northern Ireland both past and present. Most of the buildings included have been recorded for their special architectu ...

Castle Stewart Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The archive relates to the Co. Tyrone estates of the Earls Castle Stewart, their genealogy and peerage claims, the building and re-building of their houses mainly at Stuart Hall, Stewartstown, Forward, Coalisland, Orritor, Dungannon and Castlegore, Castlederg (and the plans of Drum Manor, Cookstown, which was owned for some time by the family), and the military services of them and of members of r ...

Huddleston Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

Collection of poetry and prose by local writer, Robert Huddleston (1814-1887) of Moneyrea, Co. Antrim. The so-called "Bard of Moneyrea," Huddleston published his major work, "A Collection of Poems and Songs on Rural Subjects" in 1844. He is known for using Ulster dialect in his poems, although a fair proportion of the poetry represented in this collection is in standard English. The collection inc ...

Mussenden Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of the Mussenden family of Belfast and later of Larchfield, Annahilt, Co. Down whose origins are uncertain but who were active in business from the early 18th century. Daniel Mussenden (d. 1763), some time member of the Belfast Corporation, was one of Belfast's principal merchants from 1720, trading with the Baltic and Northern Europe, the Americas and West Indies and also with England and ...

Prout Collection

Trinity College Dublin, The Old Library

Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909), music theorist and educationalist, composer and editor, was Professor of Music at the University of Dublin from 1894 until his death in 1909. He also held posts in London, at the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music. Prout composed in most of the standard genres of his time, and from 1889 published a series of books on har ...

Armagh-Newry Railway Collection

Armagh Observatory

The Railway Documents at Armagh Observatory provide some interesting documentary evidence to the history of the Newry and Armagh Railway. The documents range from the manuscript copy of "Minutes of evidence" House of Commons Session 1853, London and North Western (Tring and Oxford) Railway Bill, evidence by Proposer Robinson, Sir Francis Beaufort and Professor Johnson, 31 May 1853, a letter from N ...

Westminster Parliamentary Debates and Histories.

NI Assembly Library

The material in this collection comprises: Complete collection of Hansard's Parliamentary Debates 1801- Barrow's Mirror of Parliaments Cobbet's Parliamentary Histories Earlier Histories of Parliament Journals of Parliament (House of Commons 1534- ) (House of Lords 1900- )

Ellis Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Collection of papers, 1585-c. 1850, relating mainly to the administration of the See of Derry and to the management of diocesan lands from the Plantation of Ulster onwards, being particularly detailed for the period, c. 1603-c. 1720. Some of the earlier documents exist as late seventeenth century or early eighteenth century copies. Valuable documentation relating to the administration of diocesan ...

Savory Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal and political papers of Professor Sir Douglas Lloyd Savory (1878-1969), c.1900-1969. Professor of French Language and Romance Philology at Queen's University, Belfast, 1909-40 and, later, Unionist MP for Queen's University and Antrim, 1940-55, these papers reflect Savory’s broad range of interests and activities in both academic and political spheres. Apart from a group of sermons by the ...

Rare Books Collection

Union Theological College, The Gamble Library

The Rare Books Collection contains around 8,000 books dating from the sixteenth century to approximately the mid nineteenth century. Covering a broad range of subjects, it is particularly strong in theology, history and literature. The collection is arranged in chronological order and can be searched on the British Library's English Short Title Catalogue.

Local History Collection, Derry Central Library

Libraries NI, Derry Central Library

The Local History Collection at Derry Central Library consists of a large collection of books on both local and Irish history. The Library is particularly interested in preserving the local history of the city and all aspects of its social and economic development. It is the Library's policy to collect all material published by or about local authors, hence there are collections relating to Seamus ...

Robert Greacan Collection

Linen Hall Library

The Robert Greacan Collection at the Linen Hall Library consists of poems, letters, diaries and articles. There is also a memoir of Denis Ireland. Much of the correspondence is with the critic Derek Stanford. Greacan worked at the United Nations Association in London and as a teacher, retiring to Dublin in 1988. He started to write the 1940's, publishing poems, book reviews and articles in The Bel ...

Andrade Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (1887-1971) was Professor of Physics at Woolwich and London University. He was interested in the history of seventeenth century science, particularly in the history of Isaac Newton and Richard Hooke and edited the tercentenary collection of Newton’s letters. Aside from science his main interest was literature and amongst his many scientific works he also found time ...

Bishop Reeves Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

William Reeves (1815-1892) was born in Charleville in County Cork. He was an antiquary and bishop. He was Librarian at Armagh in 1861 and was later made Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore in 1886. He wrote many papers for the journal of the Royal Irish Academy and became its president in 1891. Reeves works, "Ecclesiastical antiquities of Down, Connor and Drome (1847) and "Acts of Archbishop Colton ...

Newspaper Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Newspapers represent one of the major primary sources for local research. They often provide the most detailed account of local events, and the most effective reflection of local responses to those events. The library has one of the major collections in Ireland of Irish newspapers including over 100 titles and 3,500 bound volumes. Belfast Central Library has a further 200 titles on microfilm and a ...

Online Research Bank

Online Research Bank

**Please note that the Online Research Bank has not been updated since 2014. Information on this site has been retained for archival purposes.** The Online Research Bank (ORB) is a web-based resource containing a bibliography (over 900 references) of key research documents focused on social policy in Northern Ireland with, in many cases, a summary of the work. The bibliography can be searched acco ...

Emerson Tennent Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Political, literary and personal correspondence of Sir James Emerson Tennent, 1st Bt (1804-69), of Belfast and Tempo Manor, Co. Fermanagh, MP for Belfast, 1832-45, promoter of the Copyright & Designs Act, 1842, Joint Secretary of the Board of Control of India, 1841-5, Colonial Secretary in Ceylon, 1845-49, Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade, 1852-67, author of major books on Greece, Ceylon, ...

MBR Collection of Architectural Drawings

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The architectural drawings collection of the Monuments and Buildings Record (MBR) is maintained and administered by the Built Heritage branch of the department of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland. It contains over 40,000 original architectural drawings in draft, final and blue print formats, electrical and plumbing plans, elevations etc relating to properties located throu ...

Northern Ireland Place Name Project Database

Northern Ireland Place-Name Project

Research database containing information compiled as part of the Northern Ireland Place Name Project from 1987 onwards and based at Queen's University Belfast. The database consists of details recording all place-names and locations shown on the 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey map of Northern Ireland and the names of townlands, civil parishes and baronies for Counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Derry, Fermana ...

Montgomery Manuscript

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

Dialect collection of Ballymena farmer, Matthew Montgomery, and his son, R H Montgomery. Father died 1959 aged 85.

Nugent of Farren Connell Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The archive of the Nugent family of Farren Connell, Co. Cavan, comprises a fairly complete record of this major Ulster family, their estates in Cos Cavan and Westmeath, and their careers, mainly in the army between the 15th and 20th Centuries, and principally that of General Major Sir Oliver Nugent who commanded the famous 36th Ulster Division during World War One. The archive comprises: historica ...

Manuscript Music Collections

Trinity College Dublin, The Old Library

The Department of Manuscripts holds some significant music items, ranging from medieval liturgical books (missals, breviaries, antiphonals) and theoretical works to compositions and papers of several important 20th-century Irish composers (Frederick May, Arthur Duff, Edgar Deale, Ina Boyle, Brian Boydell, Gerard Victory and Gerald Barry). The most celebrated music manuscripts come from the late 16 ...

T.R. Robinson Antiquarian Book Collection

Armagh Observatory

This collection comprises approximately 200 volumes of mainly eighteenth and nineteenth century textbooks on astronomy and physics. Thomas Romney Robinson was appointed Director of Armagh Observatory in 1823.

NICVA Library Collection

NI Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA)

NICVA's library contains materials which are of particular relevance to the community and voluntary sector and people seeking information on the sector. The library has been in existence since the mid-1980s, although NICVA's information service has been collating information since 1975.

Papers of Professor Charles Ryle Fay

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of Professor Charles Ryle Fay (1884-1961), Reader in Economic History at Cambridge University and formerly of the University of Toronto, Ontario. Comprising mainly correspondence, transcripts, research and other working notes, the collection bears witness to Professor Fay’s academic interests in the economic history of 19th Century England, and in particular, to English relations with Newfo ...

Sharman Crawford Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate and political papers of the Crawford, Sharman and Sharman-Crawford families of Co. Down, c.1717-1920. Of particular significance are the papers of William Sharman-Crawford (1781-1861), MP for Dundalk, 1835-1837, and Rochdale, 1841-1852. Consisting of correspondence and memoranda, 1830-61, this section of the collection charts the development and progress of Crawford’s political career and i ...

Carrothers Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

The Carrothers Collection is composed of a range of botany books, printed in the 19th and 20th centuries and a large collection of bookplates. It is was the personal library of Edward Norman Carrothers, a well known botanist and collector, as such it reflects his primary interests.

Genealogy and Heraldry Collection, Enniskillen

Libraries NI, Enniskillen Library

The Genealogy and Heraldry Collection consists of works on mainly Irish, but also English and Scottish genealogy and heraldry. It comprises books on armorial bearings, heraldry, family crests, order of the garter, peerages and landed gentry. Titles such as "A biographical peerage of Ireland..", 1817; "The Irish compendium; or, rudiments of honour, containing the descent, marriage, issue, titles, p ...

Irish & Reference Collection

Linen Hall Library

This collection is the centrepiece of the Linen Hall Library, and has been referred to as "the jewel in the crown" of local studies librarianship in Northern Ireland. Although founded in 1788 with the purpose of collecting "such materials as will illustrate the antiquities, the natural, civil, commercial and ecclesiastical history of this country" the Linen Hall Library did not start to collect Ir ...

Archaeology Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Archaeology Collection at Belfast Central Library is part of the F.J. Bigger Collection. It reflects the interests of F.J. Bigger particularly relating to his role as editor of "The Ulster Journal of Archaeology". The collections consists of manuscripts, proof sheets, photographs and sketches relating to archaeology and antiquities in Ireland. Included in the collection is correspondence conce ...

Forrest Reid Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Forrest Reid, (1875-1947) was born in Belfast and educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Christ's College, Cambridge. He read medieval and modern languages before returning to Belfast where he lived for the rest of his life. He wrote many novels - as well as "Illustrators of the Sixties" in 1928. Reid was also responsible for many critical studies on W.B. Yeats and Walter de la Mare, ...

Antiquarian Map Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The library has a fine collection of early Irish maps dating from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century. The increasing sophistication of printing processes as harnessed for the production of maps from the 16th century through to the late 19th century, can be traced in the range of maps represented in this collection. Map makers such as Mercator, Ortelius, Petty and Speed, major in ...

Monuments and Buildings Record

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The Monuments and Buildings Record is maintained and administered by the Built Heritage branch of the Department of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland. It is a unique record consisting of a series of related collections concerning all elements of the built environment in Northern Ireland in the form of databases, written, photographic and drawn material. The Record itself is ...

Falls & Hanna Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Legal and business records of Falls & Hanna, solicitors, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, 1613-1950. A huge collection of some 50,000 documents, the Falls & Hanna Papers are a significant resource for the Fermanagh area containing material of relevance to its major families, businesses and local politics. The papers to be found relate to the firm itself, family, legal and testamentary papers, Irish Lan ...

Clokey Collection of Stained Glass Window Designs

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

Collection of stained glass window designs by The Clokey Stained Glass Studios of Belfast, c. 1895-c. 1970. The Clokey Stained Glass Studios constituted a separate department of Campbell Brothers, glass merchants of Belfast, which was established in 1904 when W.F. Clokey (c. 1870-1930) went into partnership with his former employer, James A. Campbell. Of Huguenot descent, the Clokey name and produ ...

Methodist Historical Society of Ireland

Methodist Historical Society of Ireland

The Irish Branch of the Wesley Historical Society in Belfast administers and maintains a comprehensive and unrivalled collection of works on or relating to Methodism in Ireland. Containing in excess of 8,000 volumes, it was established in 1926 on the foundation of the Irish branch in support of its stated aims and activities to promote the study of the Methodist Church in Ireland. The collection i ...

Erne Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Erne papers comprise material, 1611-1981, relating to the family and personal affairs of the Creighton family of Crom Castle, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, Earls Erne, most of which relate to the administration of their various estates: at Crom, Callowhill, Derrylin, Killynick, Lisnaskea, Knockballymore and Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh; at Lifford, Co. Donegal; and in Dublin City, Co. Sligo and ...

Redhall Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Redhall Papers (from Redhall, Ballycarry, Co. Antrim) consist of 21 volumes of a diary kept by Henry McClintock, Collector of the Revenue at Dundalk, over the period 1805-1843 (with a continuation by his widow up to 1848); and bundles of loose letters and papers of members of the Torrens family, 1812-1885. The diaries record the daily goings-on of Henry McClintock's life, first as a cornet in ...

Music library

Trinity College Dublin, James Ussher Library

The Music department of Trinity College Library houses the main collections of music literature and printed music, as well as an audio collection and listening facilities. The open access collections are focused on supporting the academic needs of students and staff of the College, and currently comprise approximately 6,000 books, 7,000 scores, and 50 periodical titles. More material is stored at ...

Textbooks and Scientific Journal Library Collection

Armagh Observatory

The collection contains almost 3000 textbooks on astronomy and related sciences, and almost 17000 astronomical and astrophysical research journal volumes.

NIPR

Northern Ireland Publications Resource

NIPR is sponsored by the Library & Information Services Council (Northern Ireland) to list books, reports, pamphlets and journals published in Northern Ireland since January 2001. NIPR includes bibliographic information about every sort of publication - from short church histories to children’s books and academic monographs. Two copies of all titles are acquired through voluntary donation by the p ...

John Galt's Diary

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal diary of John Galt (1767-1837), general merchant and missionary, of Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, covering the period 1796 to 1837. His diary is written in five quarto books bound together into one volume, but there is a gap between the years 1803 and 1817. The entries are usually made at intervals of a week or ten days and are largely of a devotional character reflecting Galt's religious p ...

Talbot/Gregory Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal and political correspondence of Sir Charles Chetwynd Talbot (1777-1849), second Earl Talbot of Hensol, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1817-1821, and William Gregory (1762-1840), Under-Secretary in Dublin Castle, 1812-1831. Talbot, the great-grandson of Charles Talbot, a former Lord Chancellor, first came to prominence in 1803 when he took an active part in organising a volunteer force in his ...

Francis Stuart Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

The Francis Stuart Collection at the University of Ulster comprises Stuart's own copies of the first editions of all his novels. It also includes many personal papers reflecting the different directions his life took. His personal papers include his diaries - those from the war years spent in Germany, his correspondence with Iseult Gonne, John McGahern, Frank Ryan and many others. Francis Stuart ( ...

Military History Collection, Enniskillen

Libraries NI, Enniskillen Library

Enniskillen is home to two distinguished regiments, the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons and The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. In addition to the books that have been written on these regiments, the collection also contains books on the history of other Irish regiments such as the Connaught Rangers, the Irish Battalion, Irish Brigades, North Irish Horse, and Yeomanry. Several of the titles in the collect ...

Irish Language Collection

Linen Hall Library

The Irish Language Collection at the Linen Hall Library is the largest collection of the languages of Ulster held at the Linen Hall Library. It consists of books, periodicals, off-prints of articles from magazines and some newspaper cuttings files. Subjects covered in the collection range from social history, biographies through to material which might be useful to a student of the Irish language. ...

F.J. Bigger Music Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The F.J Bigger Music Collection forms part of the F.J. Bigger Collection held at Belfast Central Library. The collection reflects the interests of F.J. Bigger who had a keen interest in Irish history and culture. He was editor of "The Ulster Journal of Archaeology". The Music Collection has material relating to the Belfast Harp Festival (1903) and a number of other music festivals. It consists of ...

Anna Redlich Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Anna Redlich Archive consists of a typescript of her work, "The Dogs of Ireland" (published by Dundalgan Press in 1949).

Cherry Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Legal, political and family papers and documents comprising the records of the eminent Irish academic, lawyer and politician, Richard Robert Cherry (1859-1923), Attorney General for Ireland 1905-1909, Lord Justice of Appeal 1909-1914, and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1914-1916. He is best known for his work and expertise in land law in Ireland, a subject upon which he published extensively includ ...

Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library and Archive

Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library & Archive

The Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library and Archive is a unique cultural and historical resource located in the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, Armagh. The Library is a free, independent public reference library, which houses important collections relating to Irish history, the Irish language, ecclesiastical history, the Irish abroad and Irish sport. The Cardinal Ó Fiaich Library houses a ...

Hamilton Deeds

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Collection of deeds, 1639-1841, rich in both historical content and geographical variety and relating, in part, to the Hamilton Family of Hamilton's Bawn, Armagh, and their local area. The subject matter of the collection is, however, very varied, and reference will be found to various parts of Ireland. The earliest documents to be found date from c. 1638 and 1654. The first is a confirmation by t ...

Defence Heritage Project

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The Defence Heritage Project was initiated in c. 1997 as part of the Defence of Britain Project co-ordinated by the Council for British Archaeology (CBA). It aims to create a permanent record of the many 20th-century defensive structures located throughout Northern Ireland including trenches, gun and search emplacements, pillboxes, observation posts, airfields, harbours, naval and flying boat base ...

Belfast Harbour Commissioners Library

Belfast Harbour Commissioners

Library and archive collection of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners. Originally established as the Belfast Ballast Board, the Belfast Harbour Commissioners have been charged with the adminstration of Belfast Port and Harbour since 1785. The library collection dates from the 1850s and its early development reflected the wider cultural aspirations of the Harbour Commissioners at that time. According ...

Gosford Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Gosford Papers relate mainly to the estates (in Counties Armagh and Cavan) and financial affairs of the Acheson family of Markethill, Co. Armagh, successively baronets of Nova Scotia (1628), Barons, Viscounts and Earls of Gosford in the peerage of Ireland (1776, 1785 and 1806 respectively) and Barons Worlingham and Acheson in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1835 and 1847), c.1750-c.1960. Co ...

Salters' Company Co. Londonderry Estate Archive

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate papers of the Salters’ Company, one of the London Companies invited by James I to enter into his scheme for the Plantation of Ulster in 1610. This collection provides detailed coverage of the history of the Salters' Company’s Irish estate, the Manor of Sal, from 1610 to 1964. The collection includes the original grant of lands in Ulster to the Company in 1618, the correspondence of the vari ...

Music Collections, early printed Books

Trinity College Dublin, The Old Library

Trinity College Library’s Department of Early Printed Books includes a scattering of music materials among its holdings, as well as a number of special music collections. Amongst the earliest items purchased for the library in the first decade of the 17th century were a few volumes of printed music and music theory: Marenzio madrigals, Byrd & Tallis’s Cantiones sacrae, Morley’s Introduction to pra ...

Philip B Wilson Library

Craigavon Museum Services (Craigavon Historical Society)

The Philip B Wilson Library houses an extensive collection of over 2,000 volumes. Subjects covered include local history, church history, agriculture, archaeology, Irish Military history, transportation, architecture and many more. The library also includes the 700 volume collection of the Ulster Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. This collection, dating from the mid-seventeent ...

Presbyterian Historical Society

Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland

The Presbyterian Historical Society exists "to advance public education in the history of the Churches of the Presbyterian Order in Ireland by various means including the collection and preservation of historic materials and records of such Churches." The Society was established in 1906, and is answerable to the General Assembly through its Committee and to a Council which includes representatives ...

Greer Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Correspondence of the Greer family of Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, 1717-1896. Operating from New Hamborough in Dungannon, where the family owned a bleach green, the Greers’ were an important and influential linen family in the North of Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries. Written mainly to the three Thomas Greers from 1717 to 1891, the letters contained in this collection provide a detailed accou ...

Templetown Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate papers of the Upton Family, Lords Templetown, concerning lands in Templepatrick, Co. Antrim and in Co. Monaghan, 1838-90. Comprising approx. 200 documents and title deeds etc, these papers chart the development and management of the estate in Antrim and Monaghan during the 19th century. Although fairly limited in quantity, the available documentation is full of quality. Included are c.30 fa ...

Headlam-Morley Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

Sir James Headlam-Morley (1863-1929) was the historical adviser to the propaganda department, 1914-17, and the Foreign Office, 1920-8. The Collection at the University of Ulster is a valuable resource for students of history, containing books about the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference, and the diplomacy of the inter-war period. The Collection was the working library of Sir James Headlam ...

Nawn Collection, Enniskillen

Libraries NI, Enniskillen Library

The Nawn Collection consists of books on Irish studies and Fermanagh local history. Titles in the collection include "The life of William Bedell …" by Gilbert Burnet, 1692; "A view of ancient and modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796 …" by John Ferrar, 1796; Dr Robert Clayton's "A vindication of the histories of the Old and New Testamernt …", 1752; Patrick Delany's "Eighteen discou ...

R. S. Lepper Collection

Linen Hall Library

The R.S. Lepper Collection at the Linen Hall Library consists of approximately 1,500 volumes of genealogical, Irish and Scottish interest. Included in the collection are some extremely rare and valuable items. Wright's "Louthiana (1748), Wood-Martin's "Traces of the elderfaiths of Ireland" (1902), Wilde's "Beauties of the Boyne and its tributary the Blackwater" (1849), and Wakefield's "Account of ...

British Official Publications Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

This is one of the most comprehensive collections freely available to the general public in Northern Ireland. Comprising both parliamentary and non-parliamentary official publications, it contains parliamentary official records, working papers, statutory publications, agency and departmental publications. A selective subscription for HMSO publications was established in 1972. However, the British ...

Amanda McKittrick Ros Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Amanda McKittrick Ross (1860-1939) was born in Drumaness, Co Down. She published her first novel "Irene Iddesleigh" at her own expense in 1898. She proved to be a prolific novelist and poet. Despite not being read very widely her eccentric writing style was famed amongst critics and admirers as creating some of the worst prose and poetry ever written. Her novel Irene Iddesleigh was published by No ...

Southwell Charity Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the Southwell Charity, later known as the Southwell Charity and Parochial Schools (and also called the Bluecoat Schools), Downpatrick, Co. Down, 1733-1972. The Southwell Charity was founded in 1733 by the Rt Hon. Edward Southwell (1705-1755), MP for the Borough of Downpatrick in the Irish Parliament (also member of the Privy Council and Principal Secretary of State for Ireland, 1720-55) ...

Micheline Kerney Walsh Overseas Archive

Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library & Archive

The Micheline Kerney Walsh Overseas Archive was previously known as the Overseas Archive and was housed in the Department of Archives at University College, Dublin. This collection contains research materials gleaned primarily from Spanish and French Archives, relating to the Irish Diaspora of 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century Europe. The Archive was founded in 1954 by Prof. Patrick McBride of the ...

Hume Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal papers of the Hume family of New South Wales, Australia, Liverpool and Castlerock, Co. Antrim. Comprising correspondence, accounts, notebooks and other papers, the collection documents the activities, interests and history of successive generations of the family from the late 17th century onwards. The best known member of the family was Hamilton Hume (1797-1873) who was born in Toongabbie ...

Heritage Gardens Inventory

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The Heritage Gardens Inventory is maintained and administered by the Built Heritage branch of the Department of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland. It comprises a comprehensive series of records on over 700 designed parks, gardens and demesnes to be found throughout the 6 counties of Northern Ireland. Arranged alphabetically by county, each site is referenced by a unique ide ...

De Ros Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers concerning the Barony of De Ros relating principally to Thomas Coningsby, Earl Coningsby (1655-1729), a de Ross ancestor, and the family and descendants of Lord Henry Fitzgerald (1761-1829), and his wife, Charlotte Boyle (1769-1831), 21st Baroness de Ros. The papers comprise c. 1,100 original documents, 1682-1818, with a heavy concentration on 1682-1712 and few documents falling within the ...

Graham Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Dr James Graham, his three sons, William Stuart Graham, James Graham and Thomas Chadwick Graham, and his nephew Col. James Graham, of the Graham family of Lisnastrain, near Lisburn, saw military and medical service in India 1819-1879. As typical representatives of Anglo-Indian society during its greatest period of crisis, the Indian Mutiny (1857-1858), the Grahams have historical relevance. They p ...

Stewart of Tyrcallen Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of the Tyrcallen branch of the Stewarts of Killymoon, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone: in particular, those of Henry Stewart (1743-1840) of Tyrcallen, Stranorlar, Co. Donegal, younger brother of James Stewart (1741-1821) of Killymoon, MP for Co. Tyrone, 1768-1812. Henry Stewart was a land agent who managed the estate affairs of a number of families, on a basis which was professional by the standards ...

Music Collections of the Royal Irish Academy of Music

Royal Irish Academy of Music

The general music materials are focused on supporting academic requirements of students and staff of the Academy. These include books and periodicals on music, reference works and bibliographies, including online databases. Printed music comprises performing editions, full and study scores, and a substantial library of orchestral sets. Recordings comprise CDs, DVDs, online-streaming services as we ...

Library of the Ulster Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Craigavon Museum Services (Craigavon Historical Society)

The Library of the Ulster Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends held by Craigavon Museum Services is the second largest collection of its kind in Ireland. It was donated to the Museum Library by the Ulster Quarterly Collection of the Religious Society of Friends. The collection held in within the Philip B Wilson Library records the history of the Quakers in Ireland and further afie ...

Abercorn Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate, family and political papers of the Hamilton family, Dukes of Abercorn, of Baronscourt, Co. Tyrone, c 1219-1963. Containing approx. 30,000 documents, the Abercorn papers are amongst one of the most important landed estate collections held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. It comprises comprehensive series of title deeds, leases, rentals, maps, accounts, correspondence etc rel ...

Groves Collection

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

c. 20,000 copies of genealogical working papers and abstracts of miscellaneous documents, c.1650-1920, compiled and copied by Tenison E. Groves, a professional genealogist and antiquarian who worked at the Public Record Office of Ireland in Dublin from around 1900 until after the Four Courts Fire of 1922. The genealogical material has been arranged roughly by surname in small volumes, some of whic ...

Tithe Records

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The tithe system, which originally earmarked one-tenth of the produce of the land (and subsequently one-tenth of income in cash) for the upkeep of the anglican clergy, was introduced into Ireland under English law. The system was unpopular and regarded as unfair and unjust as the majority of the population was Roman Catholic and a high proportion of Protestants were Presbyterian and did not confor ...

Henry Davis Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

Henry Davis (1897-1977) was a businessman who owned factories in London and Belfast. The Henry Davis Collection consists of early and rare printed books from the invention of printing in 1455. The collection includes the Fust and Schoeffer Latin Bible of 1462, paper and vellum copies of Jenson's Pliny Historia Naturalis (Venice 1472), the first editions of the Greek and Latin classics and early ed ...

Omagh Library Local Studies Collection

Libraries NI, Omagh Library

The Local Studies collection held at Omagh Library is extensive and specialises in the history of Tyrone, its towns and villages from the earliest times. Material is available in a variety of formats - books, journals, microfilm, fiche and maps. The Library has a collection of over 1,000 photographs - old and contemporary. A copy of the Lawrence Collection is held on microfilm. Files of informatio ...

Manuscripts Collection

Linen Hall Library

The manuscripts collection consists of the archives of the Linen Hall Library, including minutes of the Society since its foundation in 1788; minute books of other local societies including Belfast Literary Society (1801- ); the Belfast Total Abstinence Society (1837-58); the Belfast Rhetoric Society (1842-54); the Institute of Journalists (Ulster District) (1890-1939); the Belfast Burns Society ( ...

Brown Street National School Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Brown Street Sunday School was one of two endowed schools in Belfast in the nineteenth century. It opened in 1814 and had its origins in the Sunday School movement in Ireland. According to Norman McNeilly in Exactly fifty years: the Belfast Education Authority and its work 1923-73. In 1821 Brown Street opened as a Daily School and even as late as 1917 had more than 60% of the pupils designated as ...

Alexander Riddel Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Alexander Riddel served in the editorial department of the "Northern Whig" for 50 years. He was the Literary Editor for some time and later Assistant Editor. He died in 1958 in his 85th year. He was also editor of the "Weekly Northern Whig", this was discontinued after the outreak of World War II. Riddel was responsible for creating its popular feature "Letters to Ulster folk at home and abroad". ...

Wallace Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers and correspondence of Colonel Robert Hugh Wallace (1860-1929), head of the firm of Messrs Hugh Wallace and Co., Solicitors, Belfast and Downpatrick. The archive comprises: political correspondence, 1893-1923, with leading Unionists such as Sir Edward Carson, James Craig and Walter H. Long; diaries and correspondence covering the Boer War, 1899-1902, where Wallace served with distinction as ...

Grocer Handbills Collection

Libraries NI, Ballymoney Library

The Grocer Handbills Collection held by Libraries NI date from the early to the mid-nineteenth century. Comprising 21 items in total, the handbills to be found in this collection were used by local tradesmen in Ballymoney to promote their businesses both locally and further afield and, as such, give some insight into the commercial/trade history of the area. The extant examples included in this se ...

Records of the Lagan Navigation and Associated Companies

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the Lagan Navigation and associated companies, 1783-1954. Comprising papers relating to the Lagan Navigation, the Ulster Canal, the Tyrone Navigation or Coleraine Canal and the Upper Bann Navigation, these records provide a valuable insight into the development of the inland waterway system in the north of Ireland from the late 18th century onwards. In terms of the Lagan Navigation, pla ...

Industrial Heritage Record

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The Industrial Archaeology Record (or Industrial Heritage Record as is sometimes known) is maintained and administered by the Built Heritage branch of the Department of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland (EHS). It is a map-based record with data on over 18,000 important industrial sites and remains located throughout the 6 counties of Northern Ireland comprising factories, m ...

Downshire Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Family, political and general correspondence, 1707-1868, and estate correspondence, legal and financial records, 1523-c.1953, relating to all the Irish estates and some of the English estates of the Downshire family which were managed from the Irish seat and estate office at Hillsborough Castle, Co. Down. The founder of the family fortunes, Moyses Hill, came to Ireland as a landless adventurer dur ...

Hart Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate, family and military papers of the Hart family of Ballynagard, Londonderry, 1607-1987. The Hart family have lived on the Londonderry/Donegal border since the late sixteenth century. The great bulk of the documentation in the collection - apart from the estate material - relates to comparatively recent members of the family: to General George Vaughan Hart of Kilderry, near Muff, Co. Donegal ...

Ulster Unionist Council Archive

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of the Ulster Unionist Council, 1886-1986. Formally established in 1905, the Ulster Unionist Council was set up to advance and defend the interests of Ulster Unionists. Since 1905, the Council has played a leading role in representing the Unionist population of Ulster, directing the policy of Ulster Unionism through from the Home Rule Crisis of 1912-14 and the foundation of the State of Nor ...

The Irish Traditional Music Archive

Irish Traditional Music Archive

The Archive’s primary remit covers the island of Ireland and the Irish diaspora – Irish-Britain, Irish-America, Irish-Australia etc. – and all those performers of Irish traditional music throughout the world who are not of Irish blood. It also collects traditional music from other countries in a representative way in order to provide a national access point to these musics and to the world of ethn ...

Community Relations Reference Library

Community Relations Council

Established in 1990, the Community Relations Council Reference Library contains approx 2,200 published works relating to the theme of community relations in Northern Ireland reflecting the Council's principal areas of activity. Some international comparative material is included, but the majority of the collection concerns community relations in Northern Ireland. The titles date mostly from 1990 a ...

Adair Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

c.650 documents, c.75 photographs and 2 volumes, 1606-1928, deriving from the Adair family of Loughanmore, Donegore, Co. Antrim and from the related families of Clements of Clements Hill, Straid, Co. Antrim, Ellis of Prospect, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, and Crymble of Ballygallagh, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, to the estates of whom the Adairs fell heir in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The pa ...

Records of Inglis & Co.Ltd.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

c.200 volumes and files and c.1,500 documents, 1871-1970, comprising the business records of Inglis & Co. Ltd., bakers, confectioners and flour millers, Eliza St, Belfast, and the subsidiary bakery companies of Bloomfield Bakery Ltd, Belfast (acquired 1933), Patterson Ltd, Belfast (acquired 1936), William McComb Ltd, Belfast (acquired 1933) and T.P. Willis Ltd, Newry, Co. Down (acquired 1938). Bus ...

Vaughan Charity Records

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the Vaughan Charity Charter School, Tubrid, near Kesh, Co. Fermanagh, 1776-1934. Founded under the will of George Vaughan (d. 1763) of Buncrana, Co. Donegal, the Vaughan Charity Charter School first opened in November 1787 with 30 boys; girls were later admitted in 1828. The school was managed at long range by a Board consisting mainly of largely absentee ecclesiastics. There were probl ...

John Hewitt Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

The literary archive covers over 50 years of Hewitt's prolific and varied writing career. It contains notebooks of poems composed between 1926 and 1984, over 3,500 of which are unpublished. The manuscript material includes drafts of autobiography, radio scripts from the 1940's and notes for his book about the rhyming weavers. There are also short stories, verse plays and reviews of books and art e ...

Railway History Collection, Enniskillen

Libraries NI, Enniskillen Library

The Railway History Collection consists of books, journals and maps on the history and development of railways in Ireland, dating from the mid 1800s to more recent times. Included in the collection is a copy of the Act enabling the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway Company to make a branch railway to Fintona and extend their line at Londonderry, a copy of the Act amalgamating the Londonderry and ...

McCready Collection

Linen Hall Library

This is a collection of extraordinary interest and value. It reflects the lifetime interests of William McCready of Whiteabbey, County Antrim. His interests were in the higher reaches of contemporary literature, his favourite authors included T. E. Lawrence, Edmund Blunden, Walter De La Mare, George Moore and W. B. Yeats. McCready corresponded with many of the authors whose work he collected and a ...

St John Greer Ervine Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

St John Greer Ervine (1883-1971) was a dramatist, novelist,biographer and critic. He was born in Ballymacarrett, Belfast. Both of his parents were deaf mutes and his maternal grandmother had a great influence on his early life. She had a shop on the Albertbridge Road and it is here that he absorbed much to influence his later works. He is recognised as a keen observer of life in East Belfast prote ...

John D. Stewart Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The John D. Stewart Collection at Belfast Central Library consists of the typescript, manuscript and manuscript notes of his play "Danger men working." This play was produced by Tyrone Guthrie at the Lyric, Hammersmith in 1951; it was also toured by the Ulster Group Theatre and produced at the Abbey. Stewart wrote several plays and radio features for the BBC.

Whyte Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate, family and political papers of the Whyte family, Loughbrickland, Co. Down, 1622-1950. This collection is of considerable significance partly because the Whytes are by Irish standards a very old-established family, their ancestors having come to Ireland with Strongbow in 1170, and partly because they are a Roman Catholic gentry family who weathered the penal era without losing their Loughbr ...

Annaghmakerrig Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal, family and estate papers of the Moorhead family; papers relating to the Power family; and estate papers relating to Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan. The Moorhead family archive includes: papers, 1804-59, relating to the medical career of Professor John Moorhead who bought Annaghmakerrig in 1802; personal letters, 1817-41; letters from Sir William Power to his future wife Martha Moorhead and ...

Montgomery Family Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate and personal papers of the Montgomery family of Blessingbourne, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, c.1650-1924, and, in particular, those of Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery (1844-1924), a senator of the Northern Ireland Parliament from 1922-24. The estate papers relate to lands in Counties Tyrone and Fermanagh around Fivemiletown and Enniskillen. They are of the normal estate classes and include maps ...

W.A. McCutcheon Archive

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

Research collection of the industrial archaeologist, W.A. McCutcheon. An extensive and important collection, it comprises the cumulative working notes, photographs, slides and papers etc accumulated and compiled by McCutcheon in the preparation of his major work, The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland (1980). Commissioned by the then Ancient Monuments Advisory Council, McCutcheon was appoi ...

Drapers' Company Co. Londonderry Estate Archive

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate papers of the Drapers’ Company, one of the London Companies invited by James I to enter into his scheme for the Plantation of Ulster in 1610. This collection provides detailed coverage of the history of the Drapers' Company in Ulster and their settlement in Co. Londonderry, from the early 1600s until the sale of their estates in the late 19th Century. The archive is divided into three broad ...

Hervey/Bruce Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Hervey/Bruce papers comprise original and copied documents, ca. 1750-1950 relating mainly to Frederick Augustus Hervey 1730-1803), 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, 1768-1803, known as the Earl-Bishop, and to his cousins and successors in his Co. Londonderry estate, the Bruce family, Baronets of Downhill, Castlerock, Co. Londonderry. The papers include: sermons of Frederick Hervey as Re ...

Weir Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of the Weir family of Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone, 1746-1854, including an exceptionally good group of emigrant letters sent to members of the Weir family in Stewartstown from relations and friends in and around Philadelphia, New York and Alabama in North America, May 1771-January 1854. In some there is a preoccupation with the organising of Presbyterian communities in the Philadelphia area an ...

Music Collection

Ulster University, Magee

The contents of the collection reflect the teaching and research interests of the Music community at the University of Ulster.

Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library

Ulster University, Magee

The subject matter is substantially theology, church history and the classics, reflecting the lives and interests of the donors. The Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library is an amalgamation of the Derry Diocesan and Raphoe Diocesan libraries. They were amalgamated in 1881. Each library was stocked through donations and bequests from bishops, learned clerics and gentlmen of the 18th and 19th centuries. ...

Andrews' Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Business archive of John Andrews & Co., Ltd, Flax Spinners, Comber, Co.Down, 1863-1987. The collection consists of technical, adminstrative and financial records of the Company dating from its establishment in 1863, including comprehensive series of letter books, 1863-1955 (incomplete), cash books and ledgers, 1864-1980, Report books, 1865-1958, invoices, 1864-69, Yarn books, 1887-1977, Stock book ...

Records of the Irish Encumbered Estates

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the Irish Encumbered Estates, 1849-1858. The Encumbered Estates Acts of 1848 and 1849 allowed the sale of Irish estates which had been mortgaged and whose owners, because of the savage effects of the Great Famine, were unable to meet their obligations. It was intended that English investors would be attracted to buy Irish estates and thereby give the stagnant Irish agriculture new life ...

Waring Manuscripts

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Collection of papers relating to the Waring family of Waringstown and Donaghcloney. Co. Down, 1641-1803, and to the linen industry in Ireland from c. 1680 to the mid 18th Century. Comprising mainly letters and accounts, the collection traces the development and management of the Waring family’s estate in Co. Down from its original acquisition in 1658 by William Waring (1619-1703), then of Derriagh ...

Irish Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

The Collection contains material on Irish history, folklore, language, literature, and culture. The collection is particularly strong in Anglo-Irish literature. Items on local Northern Ireland history are also included, especially material relating to Counties Antrim and Londonderry

W.B. Yeats Collection, Enniskillen

Libraries NI, Enniskillen Library

The W. B. Yeats Special Collection consists of works by and about this author. The collection consists in the main of poetry, plays and criticisms written by the author himself, there is also a considerable number of critical works. A number of the works such as "Finn and his companions" by Standish O'Grady and "Irish Fairy Tales" edited by W.B. Yeats are illustrated by Jack B. Yeats.

Northern Ireland Political Collection

Linen Hall Library

The Northern Ireland Political Collection is recognised internationally as a unique and important resource comprising a wide range of published and unpublished materials relating to the conflict or “Troubles” in Northern Ireland from 1966 onwards. Containing books, pamphlets, reports, manifestos, photographs, press-cuttings, audio-visual material, stickers, leaflets, Christmas cards and posters, e ...

Frederick Gamble Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Frederick Gamble Archive consists of a typescript of his novel "A man and a half". An Ulster novelist, Gamble was the News Editor of the Belfast Telegraph. He was particularly interested in the Ulster dialect and wrote a long standing column on this subject. He often wrote under the pseudonyum John Pepper. His novels include "A man and a half" (1956), "My coat is travel stained" (1957) and "Th ...

Theatre Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Belfast Central Library has approximately three thousand Irish theatre bills, programmes and other ephemeral items. These include a particularly fine collection of Theatre Royal material, but other Belfast theatres, ranging from the Alhambra to the Hippodrome are also extensively covered. A wide range of material is available on the Ulster Literary Theatre. Material from other provincial centres a ...

Wilson and Simms Papers.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Legal papers and accounts, etc, of Wilson and Simms, Solicitors, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, 1645-1964. As the firm acted for a number of local authority bodies in Counties Donegal and Tyrone, there are correspondence and accounts for Strabane Town Commissioners and Strabane Rural District Council, c.1870-1914, including: material on building, railways, canals, gasworks, markets, water supply, etc., in ...

Annesley Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate, family and political papers of the Annesley Family, Viscounts Glerawly and Earls Annesley, of Castlewellan, Co. Down, 1560-1565, c. 1620-1916. Containing approx. 1500 items, the collection provides important and unique documentation relating to the family, its lands and place in society. In addition to the range of title deeds, leases and legal papers, maps, plans etc charting the developm ...

Mulvey Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Political and personal papers of Anthony J. Mulvey MP (1882-1957), Nationalist MP for Fermanagh-Tyrone, 1935-50 and Mid-Tyrone, 1950-51. Dating from 1941 to 1955 this collection is particularly comprehensive for the period between 1945 and 1947 and contains mainly material of relevance to Mulvey’s political and parliamentary career during which he was, for a time, the principal Irish Nationalist r ...

MBR Library Collection

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The library collection of the Monuments and Buildings Record (MBR) is maintained and administered by the Built Heritage branch of the department of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland. It represents a comprehensive, specialised collection of approx. 10,000 publications reflecting the collecting interests of the Built Heritage department and has been developed to assist in the ...

Enniskillen Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Enniskillen Papers, 1611-1997, derive from the Cole family of Florence Court, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Barons Mount Florence (from 1760), Viscounts Enniskillen (from 1776) and Earls of Enniskillen (from 1789), in the peerage of Ireland, and Barons Grinstead (a corruption of Grimstead) in the peerage of the United Kingdom (from 1815). The archive comprises: title deeds dating from 1611; deed ...

Hill of Brook Hall, Londonderry, Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of the Hill Family of Brook Hall (Baronets) Londonderry, and related families of Rowley of Culmore, Co. Londonderry, Beresford of Coleraine and Walworth, Co. Londonderry, and Curraghmore, Co. Waterford, Spence of Strabane, Co. Tyrone, and Rea of St Columb's, Londonderry city, into which the Hills inter-married. Dating from 1618 to 1925, the archive includes a wide range of estate papers com ...

Wynne Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate, political and military papers of the Wynne family of Hazelwood, Co. Sligo and Lurganboy, Co. Leitrim, 1612-1910. The archive charts the lineage of the family from the arrival in Ireland of Owen Wynne I (d. 1670) in 1658 from Bala in Merionethshire, Wales, to its extinction in 1910. Prosperous and prominent, for two and a half centuries the men of the family were eminent landowners in sever ...

Mayo County Library Music Collection

Mayo County Library

Collection of materials on all aspects of music in printed and audio formats. They are spread over the 15 branches of Mayo County Library service, with the largest collections in Ballina, Castlebar and Library Headquarters, Castlebar. Main features of the collection include: Books on history of music and biographies of classical composers. Include Grove dictionary of music, New Grove Biographies S ...

EGSA Library

Educational Guidance Service for Adults

*Please note that EGSA is no longer in service in Northern Ireland.* EGSA collection is concerned with adult learning and related issues -, guidance, implementation, policy, special groups, etc. The collection consists of books, reports and journals from the 1960s onward. EGSA aims to help adults to access learning and to improve opportunities for learning. EGSA provides information, advice and gu ...

Anglesey Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Substantial collection of archival material consisting of approx. 12,700 documents and 50 volumes relating to the Anglesey estate in Counties Louth and Down, c 1660-1858, and the political career of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1828-29 and 1830-33. The collection includes comprehensive series of title deeds, leases, rentals, accounts, maps ...

Johnston of Ballykilbeg Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal and political papers of William Johnston, M.P. (1829-1902), the prominent Orangeman of Ballykilbeg, Co. Down, and also of several members of his family, 1847- 1902. Born in 1829 and educated at Trinity College Dublin, William Johnston was the eldest son of John Brett Johnston and his wife Thomasina Anne of Ballykilbeg near Downpatrick. Originally intended for the medical profession, Johns ...

Young Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate and personal papers of the Young family of Culdaff, Co. Donegal, c.1600-1970. The Young Papers are a rich source containing a substantial amount of original and copy title deeds, leases and testamentary papers (including c.40 pre-1858 wills), 1658-1949, pertaining mainly to the Young family, but also the related families of Cary, Redcastle, Co. Donegal, of Nesbitt, Woodhill, Co. Donegal, of ...

Denis Johnston Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

Denis Johnston (1901-1984) was a playwright born in Dublin, educated in Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge, where he studied law. He practised law for ten years. In his life time he was primarily a playwright but also a director, war correspondent, broadcaster and later Director of Programmes at the BBC. Johnston gave the University of Ulster a collection of his papers, manuscripts and typescripts, i ...

Joshua Peel Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of Joshua E. Peel & Son, Solicitors, Armagh, Co. Armagh, 1611-1938, relating largely to Co. Armagh estates, properties and families including title deeds (up to 1876), testamentary papers (chiefly 19th century), printed rentals, maps and particulars of sale of estates in Counties Armagh, Monaghan, Down, Antrim and Cavan, 1864-1930, papers pertaining to individual families and correspondenc ...

Theatre & Performing Arts Archive

Linen Hall Library

The Theatre and Performing Arts Archive is a treasure trove of theatrical material. Earliest items in the collection include a collection of 18th century playscripts and 19th century playbills, with 20th century additions from Ulster actors, playwrights, managers and companies. The Archive comprises several thousand original programmes, handbills, posters, photographs, letters, newscuttings and un ...

Sam Henry Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Sam Henry (1870-1952) was born in Coleraine. He worked as an Excise Officer. Henry was a recognised authority on the folklore of Northern Ireland. He is best known for his collection of ballads and songs in "Songs of the people". These were originally published in the 'Northern Constitution' newspaper between 1923 and 1939. The collection, with alphabetical index and commentary by Sean O'Boyle, he ...

Sam Thompson Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Sam Thompson Collection at Belfast Central Library reflects his life as a playwright in Belfast in the 1960's, it also includes some related material - writings of Warren Julian Thompson (son). Sam Thompson was born in Ballymacarrett, Belfast in 1916 and worked for the greater part of his life as a painter in the shipyard. Sam Hanna Bell was responsible for encouraging him to write. His best k ...

Board of Guardian Records

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of the Board of Guardian, 1839-1951, bodies elected by ratepayers to levy a poor rate and manage the administration of relief to the poor after the enactment of the 1838 Poor Law in the 27 Poor Law Unions in Northern Ireland. The collection deals not only with the administration of the workhouses and the relief of the poor but also with emigration and many aspects of local government, parti ...

Armagh Diocesan Registry Archive

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Armagh Diocesan Registry Archive comprises documents relating to the Church of Ireland primacy, province and Archdiocese of Armagh, 1240, 1291 and 1360-1977. They include: archbishops' registers, 1360-1543, 1678-1719, and 1878-1943; historical compilations, 1360-1774, which include rent rolls relating to church lands, inquisitions etc; correspondence etc., 1615-1957, relating to schools and ed ...

Pilson Manuscripts

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Seven manuscript volumes and one typescript copy of a volume, 1775-1863, comprising the records of Mr. Aynsworth Pilson of Downpatrick. One of the volumes is merely an account book recording transactions, 1826-62, and another is entitled ''Memoirs of notable inhabitants of Downpatrick''. It provides much detail about 79 inhabitants of the town including Pilson himself who, we are told, had an inco ...

Maps in Action

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

“Maps in Action” is an electronic resource that has been developed for the Built Heritage branch of the Department of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland as part of the Monuments and Buildings Record. It is an interactive database based on Ordnance Survey maps (both current and previous editions) which provides direct access to a range of data and maps concerning designated a ...

Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Archival Collections

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

The Archives maintained by the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum have been collected to support the collecting remit of the museum with special reference to folk life and transport. Overall the archival collections consist of over half a million items. They cover subjects such as air, land and sea transport, settlement and dwelling, crafts, costume and textiles, agriculture, working life, community l ...

Ker Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Family papers and correspondence of the Ker family of Portavoe, Co. Down, merchants and landowners, c. 1720-c. 1850, charting the emergence and development of the family from the early 18th century onwards. Descended from David Kerr, a merchant of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, the family fortunes were established by three of his sons who went on to become prominent merchants, in particular, his son David ...

Somerville & Ross Manuscripts

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Significant collection of personal and literary papers of Edith Somerville (1858-1949) and Violet Martin (1862-1915) alias “Somerville and Ross,” one of Ireland's most celebrated literary partnerships. An important and unique collection reflecting the lives, interests and work of the two authors, the Somerville & Ross Papers consist largely of diaries, correspondence, working papers, and draft man ...

Music Score Collection (MSC), Meath Music collection

Meath County Council Library Service

A collection of 140 full vocal scores of musicals and light opera with piano accompaniment plus 40 vocal selections of additional titles. 30 full score CD recordings of original cast recordings and 100 DVD/Video recordings covering most of the popular titles.The “Musicals Collection” of 50 journals exploring a range of shows detailing cast and staging requirements.

EC Reference Library

European Commission (NI)

The European Commission Representation in Northern Ireland acts on behalf of the European Commission in Brussels by representing its interests. The Representation is also the first point of contact for people in Northern Ireland who wish to know more about the European Union. Since 1996, the Representation has operated a specialised information unit open to the public. The EC Info-Point has a comp ...

Archdale Manuscripts

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

One volume of family papers compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel J.B. Archdale, of Castle Archdale, County Fermanagh, comprising one volume of extracts etc relating to the Archdale family, 1537-1909. The earliest reference to the Archdale family relates to Sir Edward Archdale of Norsom, Norfolk, and Macclesfield, Cheshire, who lived during the reigns of Henry IV and V and fought at the Battle of Agincou ...

Records of W.H. Kane & Co.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

c.50 volumes, 8 files and c.800 documents comprising the records of W.H. Kane & Co., founders and engineers, Larne, Co. Antrim, 1917-79, relating to their three premises: Larne Foundry, Ballyloran Foundry or Inver Engineering Works, and the Rock Works, Larne. The archive documents in detail the history of this significant local firm. The records include: purchase journals, 1939-71; sales journals, ...

Religious Society of Friends Lisburn Meeting Library

Religious Society of Friends in Ireland

The Library collection at Lisburn Meeting comprises books on the history, doctrine and biographies of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain and Ireland. The Quakers first came to Ireland in 1655. Some of the books on the history and biographies of Friends (Quakers) are 19th century. The collection has been built up with the aim to "encourage the reading of literature which may reveal the way ...

Henry Morris Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

The Henry Morris Collection held at the University of Ulster contains material on Irish history, folklore, language and literature in Irish and English. This Collection is especially rich in older material in Irish reflecting the interests of its owner. Henry Morris was a keen folklorist, educationalist and scholar.

Allison Collection

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Photographs and business records of the photographic firm, Allison & Co., Armagh, 1889-1953. Trading initially as Allison and Allison, the firm of Allison & Co. was originally established in Belfast in 1881 by a Bradford man, Herbert Thackwray Allison with his brother as partner. They had two offices in the Belfast area, firstly in Donegall Square North and Queen’s Arcade, Belfast, before extendin ...

Belfast Trades Council Archives

Linen Hall Library

The Belfast Trades Council Archives held at the Linen Hall Library consist of the Minutes of meetings held 1885-1916, 1934-8 and 1945-1970. The Council was founded in Belfast durng a period of intense industrial activity against a background of significantly increased population. It played an active role in matters of public interest and was a central authority for Trade Unions.

Horner Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Horner Collection at Belfast Central Library is representative of Horner's main interest namely textile manufacture. It comprises books and scrap books dealing with textile manufacture through out the world. John Horner (1858-1919) was born in Belfast. He was a member of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and acted as its Treasurer and Secretary. He gained notariety as the a ...

United Irishmen Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

This collection forms part of the F.J. Bigger Collection held at Belfast Central Library. It reflects the personal interests of F.J. Bigger, a keen historian. The collection is made up of manuscripts for a proposed series of pamphlets concerning the Northern United Irishmen. His own relatives had some involvement in the 1798 Rebellion. It also includes a complete run of the journal "The Northern S ...

Primate Beresford Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Religious, political and family papers of Lord John George de la Poer Beresford (1773-1862), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, 1822-1862. Comprising a range of doumentary material, this collection reflects all areas of concern to Beresford and charts his career and activities as both churchman and member of the powerful Beresford Family. The collection contains, fi ...

Armstrong of Deans Hill Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Biographical, genealogical and official papers and diaries of the Armstrong family of Deans Hill, Armagh, 1823-1960. The family is known for public, military and political appointments and service at home and abroad. The collection includes: a small quantity of estate material comprising rentals, accounts, receipts, bank books, investment ledgers, deeds, etc., 1823-1825 and c.1850-1960, the rental ...

Schomberg MacDonnell Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

This archive incorporates the papers of the Hon. Sir Schomberg MacDonnell, Louisa Countess of Antrim, Sir John Stuart and the Stuart family of Dalness, Argyllshire. It brings together a range of interesting and important personalities from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and provides valuable insights into political and court life at this time. Most of the collection relates to S ...

Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs held as part of the Monuments and Buildings Record (MBR) by the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland represents a copied portion of a much larger collection maintained by the Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography (CUCAP). This collection dates back to 1945 and includes aerial photographs taken by Professor D ...

Ulster Dialect & Linguistic Diversity Archive

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

Unique assemblage of books, wordlists, research papers and notes etc relating to the study of Ulster Dialect and the process of dialect collection. This collection consists of material gathered together by a variety of interested individuals and institutions including Sir John Byers, Professor R.J. Gregg, R H Montgomery, T.G.F. Paterson and Brendan Adams. It comprises research notes and recordings ...

King-Harman Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers, 1702, 1727, 1741-1959 and 1996-1997, relating to the King (Earls of Kingston), Harman and King-Harman families of King House, Dun Laoghaire, Rockingham, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Mitchelstown Castle, Co. Cork, and (in the case of the Harman family) Newcastle, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, and to estates and parliamentary elections in those counties and in Co. Sligo, and to family and personal affa ...

University Archive Collection

Queen's University Belfast, University Archive

The Institutional archive of Queen's University Belfast collection comprises official documents, minutes, correspondence, reports and other papers and photographs pertaining to the history and development of the University from its foundation in 1845 as Queen's College Belfast through to its establishment as an independent university in 1908 to the present day. It includes papers relating to Queen ...

Choral Music Collection (Sheet Music)

Cork County Library Services

A comprehensive collection of Choral Music for choirs of all types and ranges of ability: SATB, Male Voice, Female Voice, Two-part, Unison, Children’s choirs, School choirs. Material includes motets, madrigals, masses, settings of traditional Irish airs, ballads, folksongs, musicals, rounds, action songs, carols etc. All major composers and arrangers of Choral Music from Renaissance to modern are ...

Foyle College Archive

Foyle College

Foyle College Archive comprises material relating to the school founded in 1617 by Matthias Springham and its development to the present day. The archive consists of books, pamphlets, reports, journals and photographs. Personal papers, school records and Minutes as well as a considerable collection of school related ephemera may also be found in the collection.

Records of Belfast Ropeworks Company Ltd.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the Belfast Ropeworks Company Ltd, 1834-1983. Incorporated in 1876 in response to the enormous expansion of the shipbuilding industry in Belfast, the Belfast Ropeworks Company was an important industrial success for the city of Belfast, becoming at one point, the world’s largest manufacturer of rope and twine during the early 20th century. The history of this famous Belfast firm is well ...

John Martin Diary and Journal

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Diary of the Young Irelander, John Martin (1812-1875) prior to transportation to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania), Oct-Nov.,1848 and containing a journal of his voyage from Ireland on the convict ship 'Mountstuart Elphinstone' to Australia,1849-1850. Born in Loughorne, near Newry, County Down, John Martin was a leading Irish Nationalist during the 19th Century. A medical graduate of Trinity College Du ...

Armagh Robinson Library Collection

Armagh Robinson Library

Armagh Robinson Library (formerly Armagh Public Library) was founded in 1771 by Archbishop Richard Robinson, first Baron Rokeby of Armagh. It was later added to by Archbishop Beresford in the 1830s. The nucleus of the collection is Archbishop Robinson's personal library which contains 17th and 18th century books on theology, philosophy, classic and modern literature, voyages and travels, history, ...

George Shiels Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

George Shiels (1881-1949) was born near Ballymoney, County Antrim. Shiels emigrated to Canada to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1913 he was injured and crippled for life in an accident. He returned to Northern Ireland and set up business with his brother as a shipping agent. His first play - Away from the Moss, was performed by the Ulster Literary Theatre in 1918. Many of his plays, star ...

Autographed Collection

Linen Hall Library

The McCready Collection, received in 1982, added many new and important volumes to a varied and extensive collection of books signed by their authors. The significance of this collection cannot be over-stressed, representing as it does a vital link between the function of the Library and its effectiveness in the field of literary endeavour. One of the most important autographed works in the Librar ...

Bookplate Collection

Linen Hall Library

"One of the delights and glories of bibliography is the bookplate, or ex libris, as it is now the fashion to term those dainty little art works used as marks of ownership in books." So wrote John Vinycomb, the foremost exponent of the art of bookplate design in the north of Ireland in his day. Vinycomb worked for the local printers Marcus Ward & Co. He designed many bookplates, including that of t ...

Alexander Irvine Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Alexander Irvine Collection comprises typescripts, photographs, postcards and diaries. The diaries give a fascinating insight into the strength of his religious conviction along with his everyday worries. Alexander Irvine is best remembered for his novel "My Lady of the Chimney Corner", which was published in 1913. He was born into a poverty-stricken home in Pogue’s Entry, Antrim on 19th Janua ...

W.B. Yeats Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The W.B. Yeats Archive at Belfast Central Library consists of an extensive collection of correspondence with J.S. Crone. Included in this collection is a scrap book of newspaper cuttings concerned with Yeats collected and mounted by Crone.

Harland & Wolff Archive

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Business Archive of the Belfast shipbuilders, Harland & Wolff, 1861-c 1987. The collection includes extensive runs of administrative, financial, and technical records charting the evolution and development of the Company from its formal establishment in 1862. Remembered principally as the builders of the ill-fated passenger liner, the Titanic, Harland & Wolff is ranked amongst one of the most impo ...

Brownlow Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

With some exceptions, these papers can be described as an estate archive, documenting the history and management of the Brownlow estate from the arrival in Ireland from Nottingham of John Brownlow in 1610 to the sale of the property in 1893. The estate consisted of land in the manors of Brownlowsderry and Richmount in the Lurgan area, Co. Armagh, including Lurgan town itself and the adjacent areas ...

Seven Years' War Diary.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Diary, July-September, 1760, with enclosed copy correspondence, July-August, 1759, relating to the British campaign in Canada during the Seven Years' War. The writer of the diary was probably an officer on the staff of Brigadier General James Murray, and, as he appears to have had an intimate knowledge of all that occurred, he may have been a secretary. The supposition is strengthened by the prese ...

John Seeds Architectural Collection

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The John Seeds Architectural Collection held as part of the Monuments and Buildings Record (MBR) is one of a number of specialist collections transferred on loan from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland to the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland. John Seeds, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, was a Belfast-based architect who served as the RIBA repres ...

Sir John Byers Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

Collection of Ulster Dialect items manually recorded by Sir John Byers, c 1890-1910, and examples of proverbs and sayings (dialectal and otherwise) and folklore. The material was collected by Byers, a medical doctor, out of personal interest in this subject area and was recorded from the dialect content of the speech of his patients and from items found in the local press, in particular the Ballym ...

Lady Spender's Diaries and Correspondence

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Diaries of Lady Lillian Spender (b. 1880) covering the years 1899-1966, recording social events and daily occurrences, people, social functions, dogs, music, houses and in particular great gardens, and were written primarily for circulation within her family. Her husband, Sir Wilfred, was administrator in the Ulster Volunteer Force, Secretary to the Northern Ireland Cabinet, 1921-25, and Permanent ...

Haliday Pamphlet Collection

Royal Irish Academy

Collection of pamphlets covering the history, literature and antiquities of Ireland. With imprints covering the period 1682 to 1859, and including c.18,000 items bound in 2209 volumes, the pamphlets are arranged in chronological order, and thematically within this framework. The collection includes many items which are greater than the standard pamphlet length. Themes include major historical even ...

LIRA Library Collection

Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum

The collection at the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum includes the research library of books and journals, and also memoranda and reports of the scientific and technical research projects undertaken by the Linen Industry Research Association (LIRA) throughout its existence. The Linen Industry Research Association, Lambeg, Lisburn was a government research centre founded in 1921 for the study ...

Belmore Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate, personal and political papers of the Lowry-Corry family of Castle Coole, Co. Fermanagh, Barons, Viscounts and Earls Belmore (fl. 1665-fl. 1950), 1612-1949. Consisting of 36,400 documents and 278 volumes, the collection relates mainly to the acquisition, management and dispersal of the family's estates in Cos. Fermanagh and Tyrone and also in Cos. Longford, Monaghan, Antrim, Armagh, Dublin ...

Midgely Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Political and personal papers of the Ulster politician Harry Midgley (1892-1957), Minister of Public Security in the Northern Ireland Parliament, 1943-45, Minister of Labour, 1949, and Minister of Education, 1950-57. The collection includes much material reflecting Midgley’s career in the Northern Ireland Labour Party and in the Stormont Government and his interests more generally. Included can be ...

Royal Ulster Rifles Regimental Museum Library and Archive Collection

Royal Ulster Rifles Museum

The collection held at the Royal Ulster Rifles Museum consists of books, archives and some digitised histories. The collection deals with various aspects of the British Army including titles covering army lists, dating back to 1783. The lists refer to regular officers listed in the British army often with full personal details. Regimental histories are also prominent with many general books on med ...

Special Collections

Ulster University, Coleraine

The Special Collections at the University of Ulster at Coleraine are held separate from the main collection. The collections include Henry Davis gift of early printed books and fine bindings, Headlam-Morley Collection of World War I and the Peace Treaty, Henry Morris Collection of Irish literature, language, history and folklore, Irish Collection, Denis Johnston Collection, Francis Stuart Collecti ...

Belfast & Early Ulster Printing

Linen Hall Library

This is a comprehensive collection of early Ulster printing. It includes titles published from 1697 to present day. The main part of the Collection consists of Belfast printed books, with a smaller section consisting of provincial printers from Downpatrick, Derry, Armagh, Lisburn and Strabane.

Caldwell Collection

Linen Hall Library

Mr S. A. G. Caldwell of Newcastle, County Down donated his private collection of Irish books and manuscripts on the linen industry to the Linen Hall Library. The collection represents a busy man's private interests and spans the fields of literature, history, archaeology, industry, agriculture and religion. It contains many of the standard works in each field. Over a period of fifty years Mr Caldw ...

Benedict Kiely Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Benedict Kiely Archive consists of a manuscript of a folk tale called "The cards of the gambler". Benedict Kiely was born in Dromore in 1919. He worked as a journalist in Dublin from 1940-65 and spent several years as Literary Editor of the Irish Press. From 1964-8 he lectured in the United States. He is a respected critc and writer of short stories and novels. Benedict Kiely is also a well kn ...

Fine Book Room Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Belfast Central Library, since its foundation in 1888, has built up an outstanding collection of rare books, manuscripts and archives, which now constitute the Special Collections. The majority of these resources are housed in the Fine Book Room. The collections include landmark examples of printing in Europe over the last five centuries, including examples of fine typography, magnificently illust ...

Pamphlets Collection

Union Theological College, The Gamble Library

The Pamphlets Collection includes items published from the seventeenth century onwards. Although the collection covers a wide range of topics, the bulk concerns Protestant theology and matters relating to Ireland. Those published prior to 1900 are mostly bound in approximately 800 volumes, while there are a significant number of unbound pamphlets from a similar period. The older pamphlets are stor ...

Cahir Healy Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Political, literary and personal papers of Nationalist politician, Cahir Healy (1877-1970), Westminster MP for Fermanagh and Tyrone, 1922-1924, 1931-1935, for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1950-1955, and Stormont MP for Fermanagh and Tyrone, 1925-1929, and South Fermanagh, 1929-1965. The collection contains Healy's political correspondence in which the principal correspondents are Nationalist and Ul ...

Tighe Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal, family and estate papers, 1721-1903, of the Tighe family of Woodstock, Inistiogue, Co. Kilkenny and of Rossana, Ashford, Co. Wicklow. A prominent and long-established family in the area dating back to the 17th century, the collection includes many interesting papers reflecting the personal and professional lives of successive generations of the Tighe family during the 18th and 19th centu ...

Ulster Museum Photographic Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Museum

The Ulster Museum maintains and administers a wide range of photographic collections as part of its overall holdings. Together they comprise over 100,000 topographical, portraiture and historical images, mostly black and white, in both print and negative formats. They date mainly from c. 1880 onwards and relate principally to the 6 counties of Northern Ireland reflecting the collecting interests o ...

UFTM Library and Document Archive

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

The Library and documentary archive of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum has been accumulated to support the various subjects and collecting interest of the Museum. These include, domestic life and architecture, transport, textiles, folklore, local history, language and culture. The Library has a book collection of some 25,000 volumes and holds two hundred periodical titles. The document archiv ...

Leinster Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers deriving from the Fitzgerald family of Maynooth Castle and Carton, Co. Kildare, Earls of Kildare and Dukes of Leinster, 1250-1949, and relating to the province of Leinster in general and to Co. Kildare in particular, with some material concerning the family's Co. Down estate which at one time embraced the whole barony of Lecale. Up to the early 19th century, the papers relate almost exclusi ...

Haliday Tract Collection (HT)

Royal Irish Academy

General collection of tracts forming part of the larger Haliday Pamphlet and Tract Collection of Charles Haliday. There are in excess of 11,000 items in the HT Collection dating from 1578-1854. The collection relates to wide variety of subject areas of Irish and British interests.

Papers of J.L.E. Dreyer

Armagh Observatory

The Dreyer papers reflect the lifetime interests of Dr J.L.E. Dreyer. He was Director of the Armagh Observatory from 1882 until 1916. The papers consist of letters and manuscripts of his major publications - The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), his biography of Tycho Brahe, and that of his History of Planetary systems from Thales to Kepler. Dreyer's copy of the NGC is ...

McSkimin Room Collection

Libraries NI, Carrickfergus Library

The McSkimin Room in Carrickfergus Library contains a local studies collection containing materials on or about the history and development of Carrickfergus and its environs. Named after Samuel McSkimin (1775-1843), author of the definitive history of the town, “The history and antiquities of the county of the town of Carrickfergus,” first published in 1811, the collection comprises approx. 750 vo ...

Best Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Records of the (Du Bordieu/Dubourdieu) Best family of Aghagallon, Co. Antrim, 1779-1943. Of Huguenot descent, the Best Family were substantial tenant farmers living and working in the parish of Aghagallon, Co. Antrim. Comprising chiefly estate papers, the collection contains title deeds, 1779-1896, testamentary papers, 1790-1893, financial papers, 1802-1893, and a wide range of correspondence, som ...

Pinkerton Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Collection of original papers relating to the Pinkerton family, tenant farmers from Seacon More, Co. Antrim, 1795-1921. One section of the collection deals largely with family and estate matters and includes: a 1795 lease 'to John Pinkerton, the elder, Secinmore'; various Pinkerton wills including that of Samuel Pinkerton, Senior, Secon 1811; an account book, 1870-1908, relating to the Pinkerton p ...

Save the Children (NI) Resource Centre

A small library collection of materials on children's issues including rights, teenage mothers, conflict, education, legal issues, and disability etc. There is also a small collection of journals. These include a complete set of Child Right, the collection of which is unique in Northern Ireland. The library also holds a small collection of material on Traveller issues.

Stelfox Collection

Ulster University, Coleraine

The Stelfox Collection consists of books on natural history and entomology. Arthur Wlson Stelfox (1883-1972) was a well known naturalist, known internationally for his work on Hymenoptera, on animal bones from caves, and on the non-marine Mollusca. He worked at the National Museum of Ireland. Stelfox worked with R. Lloyd Praeger on the Clare Island Survey before World War I. Stelfox was was well r ...

Blackwood Pedigrees

Linen Hall Library

The Blackwood Pedigree Collection consists of a collection of over 1000 manuscript family trees bound in 125 volumes. They were compiled by a former President of the Society and Library. Their usefulness is enhanced by the manuscript index to births, marriages and deaths in the Belfast Newsletter in the period 1739-1860, which was compiled by library members and staff between 1965 and 1988. The Bl ...

Joy Manuscripts

Linen Hall Library

The Joy Manuscripts were compiled by Henry Joy (1754-1835), member of one of Belfast’s most notable entrepreneuring families of the eighteenth century, and author of Historical Collections Relating To The Town Of Belfast (1817). The fourteen volumes include "scattered materials for the annals of the Province of Ulster" and materials for the history of Belfast. There is also much of Joy's correspon ...

Jack Loudan Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Jack Loudan Archive at Belfast Central Library consists of a typescript of the play "The Sham prince or News from Passau". Loudan is better known for his biography of Amanda M'Kittrick Ros - "O Rare Amanda". He completed her unfinished novel "Helen Huddleson".

Natural History Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Natural History Collection is a remarkable collection in terms of both quality and quantity. Since the first purchases made by George Hall Elliott, the first City Librarian, the Natural History Collection has been augmented by succeeding librarians through purchase of the most important books published in this field. Outstanding amongst this collection of fine copies of important works are fin ...

Jack Loudan Collection

Linen Hall Library

The Jack Loudan Collection at the Linen Hall Library consists of the typescript of his best known work "O Rare Amanda", the only biography of the Ulster writer Amanda M'Kittrick Ros, and that of her unfinished novel "Helen Huddleston", which Loudan completed. There is also a typescript of a play dramatising "O Rare Amanda" and an album of reviews of the biography. The collection also includes type ...

Caledon Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Caledon Papers are divided into three categories: the Caledon East India Company Papers; the Caledon Cape Papers; and the Caledon Estate Papers. The Indian papers consist of 33 volumes of copy out-letter books, 1760-1772, ledgers, journals and cash account books, 1759-1775, and c.40 loose letters and papers, 1772-1800 of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon, second son of Nathaniel Alexander o ...

Tipping Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Personal, political and financial papers of the Tipping family of Bellurgan Park, Ballymascanlan, Co Louth, and their estates in Counties Louth, Armagh, Down and Westmeath. The collection includes many wills, probates and letters of administration of the Tipping and other families, but the bulk of the archive consists of letters and papers of Edward Tipping II (1826-96), who inherited Bellurgan Pa ...

R.J. Welch Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Museum

Extensive collection of photographs by the Belfast photographer, R.J. Welch (1870-1939). With a career spanning some 53 years, Robert John Welch was the leading photographer of his generation operating in the north of Ireland. Setting up business on his own in 1883, Welch built up a high reputation as a photographer covering a wide range of fields including geology, botany, topography, zoology, ar ...

Stranmillis University College School Textbooks Collection

Stranmillis University College

This is a small collection of Irish school books which are pre-1931. They are mostly of the 19th and early 20th century, approximately 134 fall within the period 1769-1899. Many of them were published by the Commissioners of National Education Ireland.

Lenox-Conyngham Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers, 1630-1953, relating to the Lenox family of Londonderry City, the Conyngham, later Lenox-Conyngham, family of Springhill, Moneymore, Co. Londonderry, the Butle family of Belfast and elsewhere in Co. Antrim (a merchant family whose heir inherited Springhill in 1721 and changed his name to Conyngham), and other less closely connected families. The papers include: title deeds, leases and legal ...

Curran Collection

University College Dublin

The books, letters and photographs of Constantine Peter Curran, 1880-1972. Curran was a lawyer and a historian of 18th century Dublin architecture, sculpture and plasterwork, with a life-long interest in art and literature. His book collection in UCD includes editions from the Irish literary revival, and some James Joyce first editions. His manuscript collection consists principally of some 400 le ...

Papers of J. A. Hamilton

Armagh Observatory

The J. A. Hamilton Papers at Armagh Observatory consist of his letters and treatises on his observations recorded at the Observatory in Armagh. A number of the letters are from Neville Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal for England. Maskelyne wrote detailing the requirements for a modern observatory and offered to vet and purchase equipment in London. Hamilton corresponded with other key figures in a ...

British and Irish Local Legislation

NI Assembly Library

The material in this collection is related to local legislation. It comprises: Local Acts (UK Parliament) 1810-1839 (incomplete) Private Acts (UK Parliament) 1854-1900 (incomplete) Local and Personal Acts (UK Parliament) 1901, 1903- Local and Personal Acts (Northern Ireland Parliament) 1921-1972 Divorce Acts (Northern Ireland Parliament) 1925-1939 Belfast Local Acts 1845-1930 Belfast Water Acts 18 ...

Brookeborough Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate, family and political papers of the Brooke Family of Colebrooke, Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh, baronets and (from 1952) Viscounts Brookeborough, c 1575-c 1975, concerning the development and administration of the family lands in Ulster and the political and/or personal interests and careers of principal family members, including that of Sir Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough ...

Plunket Papers.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate and personal papers etc of the Plunket Family, Lords Plunket of Cos Cork and Monaghan, 1673-c. 1930. Containing approx. 1150 documents, the Plunket Papers are a significant collection of patents, title deeds, leases, rentals, maps, correspondence, Irish Land Commission sale papers etc concerning the family’s lands in counties Louth, Monaghan, Cork, Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, and, in a few ...

Magee Collection

St Mary's University College

The Magee Collection at St Mary's University College comprises books and papers relating to Irish history, literature and education. Included in the collection are some rare titles such as - "A history of Irish affairs" by Francis Dobbs printed in 1782 in Dublin by M. Mills; "A special report of the proceedings in the case of the Queen against Daniel O'Connell" edited by John Flanedy and published ...

Irish Travelling Resource Collection

Ulster University, Jordanstown

The Irish Travelling People Resource Collection at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown is an archive of mainly late 20th century materials. Collection comprises cuttings, pamphlets, books and articles dealing with travellers, gypsies, Romanies, etc. Although the material is mostly late 20th century there are items from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. There are associated texts in this ...

Sir Edward Carson's Scrapbook

Linen Hall Library

This collection comprises Sir Edward Carson's personal scrapbook of Ulster Day 1912, including Carson's own copy of the Ulster Covenant. There are many press cuttings, including contemporary cartoons, in addition to posters advertising anti-Home Rule rallies, and a large number of telegrams from Carson's supporters. One unusual item is a "poison-pen" postcard, full of threats and abuse, but signed ...

Kennedy Collection of Ulster Poets

Linen Hall Library

Closely allied to the Belfast Printed Book Collection at the Linen Hall Library is the Kennedy Collection of Ulster Poets. This collection was donated to the Library by David Kennedy, a Governor of the society and library from 1963-1974. The collection comprises the published work of the poets of the north of Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Little known outside their own locali ...

A. S. Moore Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The A. S. Moore Collection held at Belfast Central Library reflects the personal interests of this well known Ulster journalist. The Collection consists of cuttings, manuscripts and articles which are concerned with local history (Belfast). Moore was an authority on old Belfast and wrote a series of essays on this subject. Before World War I he was better known as "Nomad" of "Nomad's Weekly". This ...

Travel Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

This collection comprises travel literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. It comprises some of the greatest guide books and accounts of exploratory journeys such as James Cook's "A Voyage Towards the South Pole", Sir Hans Sloane's History of Jamaica and Alexander Fisher's "Voyage to Artic Regions", published in 1821. Travel literature at this time was widely read and respected, further evidence ...

Tully Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Tully Collection at Belfast Central Library consists of pamphlets relating to World War I. The pamphlets are concerned with the countries involved in World War I, most countries are considered under a wide range of topics. The pamphlets deal with such topics as militarism, world peace, the League of Nations, international justice, international law, general history, recruitment and a fair repr ...

Carson Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Carson papers comprise c. 3,000 documents, 1861-1947, mainly deriving from Irish Unionist, Sir Edward Carson (1854-1935), Lord Carson of Duncairn. A learned and reputable politician and barrister rising to First Lord of the Admiralty in 1917 and Lord of Appeal from 1921-29, Edward Carson led the Ulster Unionist opposition to the 3rd Home Rule Bill from 1910. The Carson papers are, however, an ...

Wilkinson Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Official and private correspondence etc of Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson (1840-1936), leading judge and diplomat. Born in 1840, son of John Wilkinson of Belfast and Annabella Shaw of Waringstown, Co. Down, Wilkinson led a distinguished legal and diplomatic career in the Far East during the late 19th and early 20th centuries holding various positions in Japan, China and Korea including that of Vice-Cons ...

F.J. Bigger Photographic Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Museum

Photographic collection of the Belfast solicitor and antiquarian, F.J. Bigger (1863-1926). The collection comprises approx. 4000 prints and negatives reflecting Bigger's lifelong interest in Irish antiquities and folk life. It includes images of antiquarian ruins, Round Towers, churches, traditional dress and customs, vernacular architecture, boats etc taken throughout Ireland and some areas of Sc ...

T.G.F. Paterson Fews Dialect Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

Typescript volume (copy) containing notes and dialect items etc. compiled by T.G.F. Paterson (1888-1971) in the Fews area of South Armagh. Mr Paterson was the first curator of Armagh County Museum and was well known as an amateur historian and genealogist collecting traditional tales, dialect phrases and proverbs, and family pedigrees throughout his life. This volume is taken from a series of type ...

Lissadell Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of the Gore-Booth Family of Lissadell, Co. Sligo, Salford and Manchester, c.1628/c.1993. The Gore-Booths descend from a late Elizabethan soldier of fortune, Sir Paul Gore, who was granted substantial estates in the north-west and was created a baronet in 1622. In 1789, Sir Booth Gore, 2nd Bt, inherited estates in Salford and Manchester which had previously been the property of cousins, and ...

Development Studies Library

University College Dublin

Collection of books and journals whose focus is developing countries. The library was established in 1987 to support Irish research into international development issues. Subject areas range from agriculture and aid through politics and history to women in a developing countries context.

Papers of E.M. Lindsay

Armagh Observatory

The E.M. Lindsay papers reflect the lifetime interests and work of Dr E.M. Lindsay. He was Director of the Armagh Observatory from 1937 until 1974, and instrumental in obtaining a secure funding line for the Observatory. Lindsay also founded the Armagh Planetarium in 1968. The papers consist of letters and manuscripts of his major publications on the Milky Way and its neighbour galaxies, the Magel ...

Irish Parliamentary Material (Pre-1800)

NI Assembly Library

The material in this collection comprises: Different editions of the Journals of the Irish Parliament Different editions of the Statutes of Irish Parliament Votes of Irish Parliament 1690's, 1720's, etc Some Annual Volumes of Irish Statutes

Craigavon Political Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Political correspondence of Sir James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, statesman and first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (1871-1940), 1907-1953. James Craig trained as a stockbroker in Belfast and fought in the Boer War before he entered politics becoming Unionist MP for East Down in 1906. Although his skills were recognised at Westminster where he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minis ...

Qua Iboe Mission Records

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

c.150 volumes, 13 files and c.750 documents comprising the records of the Qua Iboe Mission in Nigeria and Belfast, 1887-1963. In 1887 Samuel Alexander Bill, a 23 year-old Belfast builder, responded to a call from chiefs of the Ibuna tribe in the Qua Iboe region of Southern Nigeria for a Christian teacher. He established a house and school and from these grew the Qua Iboe Mission which (in the 1940 ...

Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

National Museums NI, Ulster American Folk Park

The Centre supports the Ulster American Folk Park's main activites by providing reference resources for the study of the history of both the United States and Ireland from the 17th and 20th centuries and the link between the two. The Research Library at the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies comprises a specialist collection of printed material and an Emigration Database. The collection reflects ...

Irish Collection

Ulster University, Magee

Magee College Library houses one of the most comprehensive collections of Irish material in the north west of Ireland. The collection contains many excellent primary history documents including all eighteen volumes of the Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin, all seven volumes of the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters and both volumes of the Annals of Loch Ce. The collection ...

Denis Ireland Collection

Linen Hall Library

Denis Ireland (1894-1974) was a freelance writer and broadcaster. The Linen Hall Library holds first editions of his published works, articles published by him, tapes of BBC interviews, photographs and collected letters. Ireland was born in the north of Ireland, educated at Belfast Academical Institution and started to study medicine at Queen's University, Belfast before joining the Royal Irish Fu ...

Linen Hall Library Archive

Linen Hall Library

The Linen Hall Library Archives Collection comprises the minutes and other records of the Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge since its foundation in 1788. The books contain the history of the society and record its development from a small reading society into a resource for the study of Irish history known worldwide. There are minutes of meetings (handwritten) and published annua ...

D. J. O'Donoghue Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The David James O'Donoghue Archive at Belfast Central Library consists of his correspondence with J.S. Crone and a number of manuscripts of his writings. O'Donoghue (1866-1917) was a scholar and editor. He was self taught and in the course of his career was a bookseller in Dublin and later a librarian to University College, Dublin. His work "The poets of Ireland: A biographical dictionary" is well ...

John Irvine Archive

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The John Irvine Archive at Belfast Central Library consists of a manuscript of "Lost Sanctuary and other Poems". This was later published in 1954 by Quota Press of Belfast. John Irvine (1903-1964) was born in Belfast.

John Vinycomb Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

John Vinycomb was the leading artist for the Belfast publisher Marcus Ward. The John Vinycomb Archive at Belfast Central Library consists of a collection of illustrations and some correspondence with J.S. Crone. It is part of the J.S. Crone Archive.

Coopershill Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate and family papers of the Cooper and O'Hara Family of Coopershill, Collooney, Co. Sligo, c. 1676-1974. The collection includes a range of family and estate papers documenting the development of family lands and the careers and/or interests of principal family members. Papers concerning the Cooper side of the family relate mainly to the sometime Carleton estates in Fermanagh and Tyrone which ...

Young & Mackenzie Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Business records and other papers of Young & Mackenzie, Architects, Donegall Square West, Belfast, 1825-1937. Established in 1854, the firm of Young & Mackenzie was originally set up in Belfast by the Rt Hon. Robert Young (1822-1917), who had previously articled with the renowned architect, Charles Lanyon, in partnership with John Mackenzie. They were later joined by Young’s son, Robert, who made ...

A.R. Hogg Photographic Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Museum

Collection of historic and topographical photographs by the Belfast photographer, Alexander Robert Hogg (1870-1939). Comprising glass plate negatives, lantern slides and prints, the collection relates to a wide range of subject areas typical of a successful local photographer of the early 20th century. Reflecting both Hogg's own personal tastes and interests and those of his many clients, the coll ...

Brendan Adams Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

Eclectic collection of research papers by Brendan Adams (1917-1981), linguist and Dialect Archivist of the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum , c. 1964-81. The papers included in this collection relate mostly to the progress of dialect collection in the North of Ireland, but also features comment on a diverse range of subjects with which Adams' was interested including place names, Shelta, Irish Langu ...

Theresa, Lady Londonderry Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Diaries, scrapbooks, letters etc, 1772-1921, mainly of Theresa, Marchioness of Londonderry (1856-1919), wife of the 6th Marquess, but including some papers of the 6th Marquess himself, 1878-1921, of and about his mother, Mary Cornelia, widow of the 5th Marquess, c. 1866-1906, and of his brothers Lords Henry and Herbert Vane-Tempest, 1858-1920. Reflecting Lady Londonderry’s reputation as “one of th ...

O’Kelley Collection

University College Dublin

Francis J. O'Kelley, American-born local historian, collector and bibliographer. The collection contains material covering Irish history, local history, and especially Irish printing and printing relating to Ireland, 17th-19th centuries, with particular emphasis on pamphlets.

Papers of E.J. Opik

Armagh Observatory

The Opik papers reflect the lifetime interests and scientific activities of Dr E J Opik, one of the foremost astronomers of his generation. He was Research Associate at the Armagh Observatory from 1948 until 1981 and Acting Director of the Armagh Observatory from 1974 - 1976. The papers consist of his scientific correspondence including referee reports, and manuscripts of his major publications.

William Lawson Micks Collection

NI Assembly Library

William Lawson Micks (1851-1928) was the First Secretary of the Congested District Board for Ireland. He collected extensively in the fields of Irish land and Irish history. His collection of approximately 1,000 books is integrated into the main library stock. Stock in his subject field is still purchased.

Charlotte Despard Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of Charlotte Despard, née French (1844-1939), suffragette, pacifist, Irish republican and socialist, c. 1900-1935. An active, if at times, extreme exponent of the causes she adopted, Charlotte Despard is a significant figure in the history of early 20th century Britain and Ireland, renowned for the leading role she played in the suffragette movement. Born in Kent in 1844 of Protestant Anglo ...

Registry of Deeds archive

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

2,477 microfilm reels comprising the records of the Irish Registry of Deeds,1708-1929. The Irish Registry of Deeds was founded in 1708 in Dublin, and was responsible 'for the Public Registering of all Deeds, Conveyances and Wills, that shall be made of any Honours, Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments including the written wills from the time the devisor or testatrix shall die after the said ...

Irish Emigration Database

National Museums NI, Ulster American Folk Park

The Emigration Database is a computerised collection of primary source documents on Irish emigration to North America (USA & Canada) in the 18th and 19th centuries. It contains a variety of original material including emigrant letters, newspaper articles, shipping advertisements, passenger lists, official government reports, family papers and extracts from books and periodicals. The Database deals ...

Rare Books Collection

Ulster University, Magee

The Rare Books Collection at Magee College contains approximately 3,000 volumes representing an ad hoc assemblage of items dating principally from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Collection has a mixed subject coverage, ranging from siege of Derry (1689) pamphlets, theology (especially Presbyterian) and some examples of early printing. Included in the collection are some manuscripts concerning th ...

Lavens M. Ewart Collection

Linen Hall Library

Lavens M. Ewart (1845-1898) was a Governor of the Linen Hall Library. Throughout his life he collected Irish books and books about the linen industry. Lavens M. Ewart's family had a substantial linen business, with which he was connected. The collection reflects his interests. He helped found the second series of the "Ulster Journal of Archaeology". History, topography, biography, proceedings of a ...

Genealogy & Heraldry Collection

Linen Hall Library

This Collection consists of the Blackwood Pedigrees and the Greeves Pedigrees. It includes indexes to births, marriages and deaths in the Belfast Newsletter for the years 1738-1863, and from 1945-1960. There are transcripts of the parish register for Belfast Parish Church (1745-1799); Seaforde Church (1760-1938); Clough Presbyterian and Non-subscribing Presbyterian Congregations (1791-1934). There ...

Postcard Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Belfast Central Library holds a collection of Irish related postcards which date from the early twentieth century to the present day. Eighteen folders of postcards have been collected, the vast majority relating to Belfast and the six counties of Northern Ireland, although the counties in the Republic of Ireland are also covered. Most postcards typically illustrate historic landmarks, natural land ...

J.B. Armour Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The records and papers of the Rev. J.B. Armour, Presbyterian Minister and Home Ruler, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, 1841-1928. Consisting of a range of correspondence, press cuttings and other documents, the Armour Papers comprise an interesting collection bearing on religious, political and educational matters in late 19th and early 20th century Ulster. Religious papers comprise Armour's (sometimes con ...

ARK

ARK

Established in 2000 as a joint project between Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University, ARK is a web resource that provides access to a range of social and political material relevant to Northern Ireland. ARK consists of four components: ORB: Online Research Bank (no longer being updated), L&T: Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet, NIE: Northern I ...

Dufferin Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate, family and political papers of the Blackwood family of Clandeboye, Bangor, Co. Down, Lords Dufferin and Marquesses of Dufferin and Ava. The collection focuses mainly on the records of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902). Serving in various high profile positions, his papers provide an important and interesting insi ...

Sites and Monuments Record

Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage

The Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) is maintained and administered by the Built Heritage branch of the Department of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland. It is a map-based record with data on almost 15,000 archaeological sites and historic monuments located throughout the 6 counties of Northern Ireland. These range from Mesolithic camp sites, Bronze Age landscapes preserved ...

UFTM Sound Archive

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

The brief of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum is to record and preserve the way of life, past and present, of the people of Northern Ireland. The contents of the Museum’s Sound Archive reflects this brief, comprising mainly oral history recordings made by curatorial members of staff and other interested persons, traditional Irish music, folk tunes and songs, recitals recorded by and at UFTM, c ...

Professor R.J. Gregg Collection

National Museums NI, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

Small collection of dialect items collected by Professor Robert J. Gregg (d. 1998) of Larne, Co. Antrim, an authority of Ulster Scots. This material comprises dialect items spoken by the Gregg Family of Glenoe, near Larne in East Antrim recorded by Professor Gregg during the 1950s and information on the Coolshinney dialect of Robert Lindsay, also collected by Professor Gregg.

Murray of Broughton Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Papers of the Murray family of Broughton, Wigtownshire, and Cally, Gatehouse-of-Fleet, Kircudbright, c. 1625-1918. Receiving a Plantation grant of land in 1610, the Murray family were important landowners in south-west Donegal holding in excess of 40,000 acres by the late 18th century. As such, their papers relate principally to the family estate and to associated issues. The collection comprises ...

Palles collection

University College Dublin

The Palles collection consists of books and journals of a legal nature covering the period from the 17th to the early 20th century. The collection is most useful for the study of Irish legal history for this period. The collection was that of Baron Palles, the last Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland. It was donated to UCD library by William Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, in 1921 and at that tim ...