CELT Resources

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Resources for research in Irish Studies: A selection.

Maps of Ireland

Mailing List

• Digiquest: A scholarly forum for discussion and exchange of ideas about the digitisation of Ireland's literary, linguistic and visual history.

Projects in Ireland and abroad involving source texts, databases, images, and secondary literature

• The Cork Multi-Text project: CELT's sister project at UCC; compiling primary documents for the new Leaving Certificate History curriculum.
• LOCUS: Irish medieval placename project at University College Cork. Funded by Toyota Ireland Ltd. and the HEA.
• The Celtic Digital Initiative at the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at UCC is making scarce resources available in an electronic format to students and scholars, both within UCC and beyond. It is jointly funded by the Department of Early and Medieval Irish and by UCC's Quality Promotion Unit.
• The Honan Chapel & Collection: this multimedia website introduces the Honan Chapel, Cork. The chapel and its liturgical collection, dating from 1916, represent a unique case study of the Irish Arts & Crafts Movement (1894–1925). The website was produced to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the chapel and its collection and is a collaborative project directed by the Chaplaincy, UCC; designed by Computer Science, UCC and funded by Quality Promotion Unit, UCC.
• The UCC Centre for Neo-Latin Studies has a growing collection of important Neo-Latin texts relating to Ireland.
• Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources: "An integrated database and dictionary project, designed to contribute to the fields of Patristic, Medieval, Celtic, and Latin studies by compiling and publishing suitable scholarly works both in electronic and in conventional media. For the sake of efficiency, overlap with other projects is avoided." Funded by the RIA; hosted by QUB.
• Early Irish Glossaries Database hosted at Cambridge University. This project by Dr Paul Russell, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge University, and Pádraic Moran, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, Galway University, will make available the major Early Irish Glossaries. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) .
• Dr Dan Mc Carthy's Irish Annals Chronology (at the Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin). Indispensable for scholars dealing with dating issues, this website has detailed information about synchronisation of the (reliable) kalends annals, as well as sources using the (unreliable) list of 'kings of Ireland' (regnal canon); accompanied by background articles.
• ISOS: Irish Script on Screen, a joint project by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Dublin City University, funded by DIAS and the DCU Eduational Trust. ISOS is creating digital images of Irish manuscripts for viewing on the internet, along with cataloguing information. Registration is required for viewing large images.
• CoSEI: Computer Science and English Initiative at University College Dublin. Includes the Thomas MacGreevy Hypertext Chronology project.
• TLH: The Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae at University College Dublin aims to provide digital editions of Texts in the Franciscan A manuscripts, now in UCD; and text editions no longer easily available. Funded by Professor Marianne McDonald.
• Wessex Parallel Web Texts 'An electronic anthology of Middle English works in prose and verse' with introductions, translations, and manuscript images, at the English Department, University of Southampton.
• Penal Law Website 'A website devoted to the Penal Laws, including sources, summaries and commentaries, at the University of Minnesota Law School'.
• The Great Famine Collection 'Books online at the Arnold Bernhard Library, University of Quinnipiac, Connecticut, including more resources on the Irish Famine, such as various Board of Guardian Minute Books from that period.
• Digitale Bibliothek, Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt/Main: The Institute's Digital Library is the hub for results of various digitisation projects developed to improve information access in the Humanities. Digital facsimiles and the corresponding meta-data are integrated into separate project databases and cover Private Law in the German-speaking countries, access to 19-century law journals and to legal dissertations from the 16th to 18th century.
• The Flight of the Earls Website, maintained by Dr John McCavitt.
• Irish Writers online is a bio-bibliographical dictionary of contemporary Irish writers, maintained by Philip Casey.
• British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate: this large website devoted to the history of the British Civil Wars, with very useful information on military history and biographies, is privately maintained
• Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals. An eLib (Electronic Libraries Programme) Project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford.


• Alex: a catalogue of electronic texts on the Internet
• Bibliotheca Augustana: collectio textuum electronicorum Augustae Vindelicorum (AppleMac et Netscape his paginis optimum visum dant).
• Biblioteca Virtuale On-Line a Collaboration of the Centro di Ricerche Informatiche per i Beni Culturali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the Istituto di Studi sul Rinascimento di Firenze. A collection of Italian Renaissance Writings by various authors in Italian and Latin, searchable according to various criteria.
• Scéla—Catalogue of mediaeval Irish narratives & literary enumerations a fine private website by Štepán Kosík, Czechia. Contains information about Celticists/Indoeuropeanists with links to Bohemia, such as Josef Baudiš (in Czech), Kuno Meyer and Julius Pokorny (in English).
• Cúirt an Mheán Oíche: The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman. Includes Irish text, and English translation (by J. Noel Fahey).
• Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, containing text collections in several languages.
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature, University of Virginia.
• Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan.
• Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan
• Corpus Scriptorum Latinarum, a collaborative project with the main purpose of creating a digital library of the entire body of Latin literature, Harvard University
• Internet Medieval History Sourcebook, maintained by Dr Paul Halsall, Fordham University.
• 27 Late medieval illustrated manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina: a collaborative Project of Heidelberg University Library and the Institute for Art History of Heidelberg University (in German, some webpages also available in English and French).
• CAMENA - Corpus Automatum Multiplex Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum: contains a full-text searchable corpus of Neolatin poetry and a corpus of historico-political neolatin literature from the Early Modern period. A collaborative Project of the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim (in German and English).
• On-Line Books Page, University of Pennsylvania.
• Oxford Text Archive
• Project Bartleby
• Project Gutenberg
• Projekt Gutenberg DE
• Projekt Runeberg, a volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature for use on the Internet. Based in Linköping University, Sweden.
• Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English, 1477-1799.
• The Historical Oireachtas Debates on the Irish Goverment website.
• The Current Oireachtas Debates on the Irish Goverment website.

Miscellaneous resources (in no particular order)

• Royal Historical Society (UK) — the website includes the excellent RHS Bibliography, "an essential resource for the study of British and Irish history at any level."
• SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway at the University of Bristol
• Corpora and corpus-based computational Linguistics on the web. Compiled by Manuel Barbera at Trieste/Turin University.
• Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature: Contains poetry, drama and fiction. Compiled by Dr Julia M. Wright.
• Irish Resources in the Humanities. Useful collection of links maintained by Dr Susan Schreibman.
• The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (a huge site).
• History of Mathematics Includes biographies and some texts by Irish mathematicians Rowan Hamilton and Boole, and Irish philosopher George Berkeley.
• Michael Sundermeier's Irish Literary Sources and Resources, texts and links.

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