A Digital Library of Core e-Resources on Ireland

We have selected a cohesive collection of material drawing on three exceptional world-leading Irish Studies collections. Queen’s University: holds the large Hibernica Collection which has particular strengths for the period 1749 to 1814 in Irish history, politics and economics together with cultural studies and Anglo-Irish literature spanning the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The Linen Hall Library: holds an extensive collection of journals and pamphlets, the digitisation of which will create an invaluable resource. The Robinson Library: has a remarkable collection of manuscripts and monographs, including the world famous Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, a copy of Benjamin Motte’s first edition dated 28 October 1726, with amendments and markings in Swift’s own handwriting. CELT the Corpus of Electronic Texts: brings a wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet. It has a searchable online textbase consisting of over 900 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature and the other arts. The resource includes closed runs of journals with titles published in the 18th century through to the 20th. The political titles of the late 18th century comment on the many political upheavals taking place (locally and abroad), the importance and accuracy of empirical research in the 19th century is now recognised, and equally important are the small runs of literary journals that flourished in the early part of the 20th century. Current (in copyright) journals (approximately 50% of the project’s journal collection) also feature.