WELCOME TO IRISH HISTORY ONLINE
Irish History Online is an authoritative guide (in progress) to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It currently contains approximately 70,000 bibliographic records (December 2009). IHO was established in 2003 with funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and was developed in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History.
Reconstruction of the Irish History Online website is in progress during the month of January 2010. The transfer of bibliographic data from the Royal Historical Society server to the Royal Irish Academy server is not yet complete. Thus, some bibliographic records are currently incomplete, most notably those relating to chapters within edited books.
From January 2010 Irish History Online will be published separately from the Royal Historical Society bibliography. Irish History Online is now hosted by the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin). Irish History Online is compiled, managed and maintained by a small team of voluntary editors and compilers.
From January 2010, additions will continue to be made to the Irish History Online bibliography. The termination of funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, effective from 30 September 2009 means that Irish History Online is currently reliant on volunteer compilers and editors. New sources of funding are being sought to ensure that Irish History Online can remain as a free-to-user resource for researchers in Irish history at home and abroad.
Irish History Online includes articles from journals, both national and local history journals, and collective volumes. Searches can be made by author, by subject, by publication details, or by period covered. It is an essential resource for the study of Irish history at any level, and is free of charge to users.
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