Creator:
UCD Library
Date:
1800-1899
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Contributor:
University College, Dublin. Library. Special Collections
Abstract:
Collection of pamphlets relating to 19th century Irish social history, particularly the themes of education, health, famine, poverty, business and communications.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Date:
1832-1949
Type/Formats:
text — collection
Media type:
application/vnd.ms-excel
Publisher:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Abstract:
A database of the Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science between its creation in 1832 and the year 1949.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Date:
1916-1966
Type/Formats:
text — collection
Publisher:
UCD Archives
Abstract:
Material taken from UCD Archives and UCD Special Collections relating to the events of Easter 1916.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD's cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Date:
1937-2009
Type/Formats:
text — collection
Publisher:
UCD
Abstract:
The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD's cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Dates:
1915-10-1917-11 — 1915-10
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Hewson, Helen (Archivist) — Manning, Kate, 1969- — McMahon, Deirdre, 1953-
Abstract:
A collection of British documents and letters relating to 1916 which form a file within the Papers of Éamon de Valera. The documents include intelligence reports, despatches, and correspondence between Irish Command, Home Forces, the War Office, M.I.5.G., and the Royal Irish Constabulary. The... [ … ]
Creator:
Caroline Brown
Dates:
1914-1915 — 1914
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text — StillImage — Correspondence
Contributors:
University College, Dublin. Archives Dept. — Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916 — Boehm, Hans
Abstract:
This collection consists largely of letters from Roger Casement to Captain Hans Boehm, during Casement's stay in Germany in 1915, as well as some associated material (photographs, medals) relating to his first contact with the German authorities in November and December 1914 and the formation of the... [ … ]
Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Date:
1945
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Contributors:
National Folklore Collection — Irish Folklore Commission
Abstract:
Questionnaire and collected material on the subject of the Irish Famine. Compiled by the Irish Folklore Commission.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Date:
19th century
Type/Formats:
text — collection
Publisher:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Abstract:
Collection of 19th century pamphlets, predominantly of Irish interest and covering a broad spectrum of subjects.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Date:
1955
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Media type:
application/pdf
Abstract:
Questionnaire and collected material on the subject of Irish emigration to America. Compiled by Arnold Schrier in collaboration with Seán Ó Súilleabháin of the Irish Folklore Commission.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Dates:
1916-1940 — 1916
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text — Journal — Ephemera
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
Flanagan, Evelyn
Abstract:
This is a collection of six bound volumes of Irish newspapers and ephemera covering the period 1916 to 1940. The majority of the material in four of the six volumes is from the Civil War period, 1922-23. These four volumes include long runs of anti-treaty newspapers including the Daily Sheet, the... [ … ]
Creators:
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 53 Saint Stephen’s Green — Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham
Dates:
1916-1939 — 1916
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text — StillImage — Diaries — Postcards — Photographs
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
McHugh, Áine — Fitzgerald, Kathleen, I.B.V.M.
Abstract:
A collection of material related to the Easter Rising 1916 from the IBVM (Loreto) Institute & Irish Province Archives, including contemporaneous accounts of the Rising as observed by the Loreto Sisters at St Stephen’s Green Dublin and Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham. The material is collated from three... [ … ]
Creator:
Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy
Dates:
1883-09-1922-12 — 1883-09
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text — Registers (lists)
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
Raftery, Deirdre — Cosgrave, Marianne
Abstract:
The three volumes in this collection contain hand written entries recording the details of students registered with Our Lady of Mercy Training College Baggot Street and Carysfort training college from 1883 to 1922. The large double ledger volumes record student details, such as: home address, age,... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Collection — StillImage — Postcards
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
Curran, Constantine Peter
Abstract:
Part of UCD Library's Curran Collection, most of these postcards were published in 1916 in the immediate aftermath of the Insurrection. They provide an excellent contemporary pictorial record of the damage to the city; one showing a “before and after” photograph of Sackville (O'Connell) Street.... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Collection — Sound — podcasts
Media type:
audio/mpeg
Publisher:
University College Dublin
Contributor:
Mathews, P.J. (Patrick) (PJ Mathews) (edt Editor) (pbd Publishing director)
Abstract:
UCDscholarcast provides downloadable lectures, recorded to the highest broadcast standards to a wide academic audience of scholars, graduate students, undergraduates and interested others. Each scholarcast is accompanied by a downloadable pdf text version of the lecture to facilitate citation of... [ … ]
Dates:
2016-02-05-2016-07-27 — 2016-02-05
Type/Formats:
Collection — MovingImage — Interview — Videorecording
Contributors:
Liffey, Michael — Mulvagh, Conor — Rouse, Paul — Coleman, Marie — Real Smart Media [ … ]
Abstract:
The year 1916, and the events that occurred during it, can mean multiple things to different people. By asking 'what does 1916 mean to you?', this collection explores the political, social, and cultural legacies of the year 1916 in the construction of identity and historical consciousness among... [ … ]
Creators:
Milligan, Alice, 1866-1953 — MacManus, Anna, 1866-1902
Dates:
1896-1899 — 1896
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text — Journal
Abstract:
The Shan Van Vocht was a national monthly magazine founded in 1896 by two Belfast women, Alice Milligan and Anna Johnston (later Anna MacManus) following their departure from another journal, the Northern Patriot. The Shan Van Vocht contained literature, poetry, historical articles, and political... [ … ]
Dates:
1854-01-1918-12 — 1854-01
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text — Diaries
Contributors:
Oram, John, 1824-1907 — Oram, Arthur, 1853-1919 — Somerville, Orna
Abstract:
Two sets of diaries written by John and Arthur Oram, father and son, farmers and land agents in Burrishoole, County Mayo. The diaries cover the periods 1854–1907 and 1887–1919 and record the day to day management of estates, including herd management, crop management, and maintenance of the... [ … ]
Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1914-1931 — 1914
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text — Letter — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
Collins, Niamh
Abstract:
This collection consists of files relating to Irish Lights during World War I, and the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, covering the period 1914-1931. The files contain reports, letters and telegrams from Lightkeepers and other Irish Lights personnel around the coast; correspondence with the... [ … ]
Creator:
Ailsa Holland
Dates:
1916-1932 — 1916
Type/Formats:
Collection — StillImage — Photographs
Contributors:
University College, Dublin. Archives Department — FitzGerald, Desmond, 1888-1947
Abstract:
This collection of photographic prints forms part of the papers of Desmond FitzGerald (P80). The majority of theses photographs arise out of the Civil War but other smaller series relate to the aftermath of the Easter Rising and to the War of Independence. There are also other series of army... [ … ]
Dates:
1842-1855 — 1842
Type/Formats:
Collection — Excel spreadsheet — Dataset — Database — Index
Media type:
application/vnd.ms-excel
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
Cox, Catherine — Eiriksson, Andres — University College, Dublin — Ireland. Higher Education Authority (Higher Education Authority (Ireland))
Abstract:
Indexes and representative data compiled by the National Famine Commemoration Project in the Parsonstown, Ennistymon, Inishowen and Rathdrum Unions.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD's cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Dates:
1937-1938 — 1937 — 2014-2016 — 2014
Type/Formats:
Text — Chapter
Contributors:
Ballycullane — Dubhghaill, Seán Ó — Neville, Kathleen — Caulfield, Kathleen — Neill, P. O' [ … ]
Abstract:
A collection of folklore and local history stories from Ballycullane (school) (Ballycullane, Co. Wexford), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Seán Ó Dubhghaill. [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Pamphlet
Media type:
image/tiff
Publisher:
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Contributors:
O'Kelley, Francis J. — Gilbert & Rivington — Sullivan, A. M (Alexander Martin), 1830-1884
Type/Formats:
Text — Pamphlet
Media type:
image/tiff
Publisher:
M. H. Gill & Son, 50 Upper Sackville Street
Contributor:
Doyle, James Warren, 1786-1834
Type/Formats:
Text — Pamphlet
Media type:
image/tiff
Publisher:
M. H. Gill & Son
Contributors:
Edge, H. — M. H. Gill & Son — O'Kelley, Francis J.
Type/Formats:
Text — Pamphlet
Media type:
image/tiff
Publisher:
Hodges, Figgis and Co.
Type/Formats:
Text — Pamphlet
Media type:
image/tiff
Publisher:
Dublin : Sinn Fein Headquarters
Type/Formats:
Text — Questionnaire
Contributors:
Irish Folklore Commission — O'Sullivan, Seán — Hugh Deery
Abstract:
Letter from Hugh Deery, Ballintra, Co. Donegal, to Seán O'Sullivan, 4 October 1945.
Type/Formats:
Text — Correspondence
Contributors:
Irish Folklore Commission — Ó Cruadhlaoich, Diarmuid — Delargy, James
Abstract:
[Letter to Seumas [sic] O'Delargy from Diarmuid Ó Cruadhlaoich, Cill Colmain, Inis Chiin(?) August 1945]
Type/Formats:
Text — Correspondence
Contributors:
Irish Folklore Commission — Kirby, A. — O'Sullivan, Sean
Abstract:
Letter from Mrs. A. Kirby, Stradbally, Co. Laois, to Sean O'Sullivan, 20 September 1945.
Type/Formats:
Text — Correspondence
Contributors:
Irish Folklore Commission — Nic Shiomóin, S.
Abstract:
Letter from S. Nic Shiomóin, Delvin, Co. Westmeath, 18 September 1945.
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Photograph
Media type:
image/tiff
Type/Formats:
Text — Ephemera
Media type:
image/tiff
Type/Formats:
Text — Pamphlet
Media type:
image/tiff
Publisher:
[Dublin]
Type/Formats:
Text — Pamphlet
Media type:
image/tiff
Publisher:
Francis Goodlake at The Times
Contributors:
The Times — Goodlake, Francis — O'Kelley, Francis J.
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929 — Lynn, Robert John, 1873–1945
Abstract:
Holograph letter from journalist and unionist Robert John Lynn, The Northern Whig Office, Belfast to Maxwell. Marked 'Very confidential'. Writes that he has heard a rumour 'that the Guards intends to seize the arms of the Ulster Volunteer Force', an act he regards as 'fraught with grave danger to... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929 — French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres, 1852-1925
Abstract:
Holograph letter from Lord French, GHQ Home Forces, Horse Guards, London to General Maxwell stating 'You have acted with great promptitude, courage & determination and I feel sure all people–whose opinions matter–think so'. [ … ]
Dates:
1917-02-16-1917-02-19 — 1917-02-16
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Shaw, Frederick Charles, Sir, 1861-1942 — Hutchison of Montrose, Robert, Baron, 1873-1950 — Mahon, Bryan Thomas, Sir, 1862-1930
Abstract:
Typescript despatches between Major General Sir F. Shaw, General Staff, General Headquarters, Home Forces, Horse Guards, and Brigadier General Sir Bryan T. Mahon [newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Ireland and General Maxwell's successor], on arrangements for contingency... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929 — Wimborne, Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount, 1873-1939
Abstract:
Typescript letter from Viscount Wimborne [Lord Lieutenant], Vice-Regal Lodge, Dublin to Maxwell congratulating him in the suppression of the insurrection. This is an official letter on which there is a handwritten note 'The following is published for the information of the troops'. [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Hutchison of Montrose, Robert, Baron, 1873-1950 — Lowe, William Henry Muir, Major-General, 1861-1944
Abstract:
Handwritten report from R. Hutchison, HQ, Irish Command to GOC, 59 Division refers to attached map [not attached]. Outlines procedures to prevent 'Rebels passing into or out of DUBLIN'.
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929 — Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl, 1850-1916 — Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928
Abstract:
Handwritten paraphrase copies of cipher messages from Maxwell to Kitchener, War Office, London marked 'Secret' concerning the North King Street massacre. Includes Kitchener's cipher 16970 questioning the reports of what occurred and outlining the scenario he considers more likely. Maxwell agrees but... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Hutchison of Montrose, Robert, Baron, 1873-1950 — Merrivale, Henry Edward Duke, Baron, 1855-1939
Abstract:
Edited typescript copy of a letter marked 'Private and Confidential' from Major General R. Hutchinson to the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Right Honourable H.E. Duke, containing Hutchinson's 'views on the situation in Ireland' in which he distinguishes and comments on the differences between... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Hutchison of Montrose, Robert, Baron, 1873-1950
Abstract:
Handwritten instructions from R. Hutchison to GOC, Dublin concerning procedures for taking the surrender.
Dates:
1916-04-25-1916-04-27 — 1916-04-25
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Friend, Lovick Bransby, Sir, 1856-1944
Abstract:
Detailed reports by Major General L. B. Friend, Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in Ireland, on the progress of the Rebellion. Includes: the third report notes that Lieutenant General Sir John Maxwell is expected to arrive in Dublin the next day to take over supreme command of the troops. [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929 — Dillon, John, 1851-1927
Abstract:
Holograph letter to General Maxwell from John Dillon M.P., 2 North Georges St., Dublin protesting about the executions. 'The feeling is becoming widespread and intensely bitter.– It really would be difficult to exaggerate the amount of mischief that the executions are doing'. Also advises against... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975
Abstract:
Copy of typescript communiqué to be issued to the Press with Military and Civil Casualty lists and further results of the trials by Field General Court Martial, including death sentences and imprisonment and hard labour. [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929 — French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres, 1852-1925 — Robertson, W. R. (William Robert), 1860-1933
Abstract:
Letter from Maxwell to French attaching dictated dispatch from Robertson (8 May) concerning Maxwell's suggestion that he be appointed 'Temporary General'. Maxwell states that 'I do not intent to recede from the position I took up in my former letter to you. If it is inconvenient to the War Office to... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929 — French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres, 1852-1925
Abstract:
Handwritten letter from French to Maxwell.
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929 — Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl, 1850-1916
Abstract:
Copy of typescript initial report by General Maxwell to [former Secretary of State for War] Lord Kitchener, on the current military action following the surrender of the rebels. Blames the Irish Executive for 'not dealing effectively with the Sinn Fein rebellion before it came to a head'; reports on... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929
Abstract:
Typescript letter from [?], War Office to Maxwell assuring him that he has no desire to remove 'Byrne' from assisting Maxwell until Maxwell can spare him. Congratulates Maxwell 'on the way you have managed Ireland'. [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 — Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929 — Hall, Frank, 1879-1964
Abstract:
Handwritten letter from Frank Hall, War Office to Maxwell, marked 'Secret & Personal'. Sends 'the enclosed' and comments 'I don't know what the policy is & I don't ask' and wishes to 'keep clear of "party politics"'. [ … ]