From Partition to Direct Rule: 50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online (Stormont Papers)

Casting a unique and valuable light on the development of Northern Ireland,
the Papers consist of the Parliamentary Papers of the devolved government of
Northern Ireland from June 7 1921 to the dissolution of Parliament in March
28 1972. They make up 84 printed volumes - around 93,000 pages and 74
million words. Based on the model of British Hansard, the papers record the
utterances of MPs sitting at the Stormont Parliament within the first period
of Home Rule.

Up to now, the few surviving sets of complete volumes could only be
consulted within their relevant library. They have no comprehensive subject
index and so have been inaccessible and difficult to use.

Visitors to the site can now search the Papers by using specific keywords or
they can browse particular debates according to the combined subject index,
or they can simply view the volumes.

The task of digitising and delivering the Papers was divided between the
Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive at King's College London and the
Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis based at Queen's University
Belfast; the former largely focussed on indexing, marking-up and delivering
the resource, while the latter did the data capture work.