A master list of resources for researching Irish history that I hope to update regularly. Still under construction.

Key:
⭐️ = exceptionally high quality or essential resource.
🟡 = all or vast majority of material freely accessable online/open access journal.
🟢 = material partially accessable online/some open access articles.
🔴 = material not accessable online/closed journal.

Archives & Primacy Sources, Online & Offline
Libraries, Bibliography, Biography & Directories
General History Research Tools & Resources
Journals Specialising in Irish History
Journals Which May Include Irish History Occasionally
Organisations
Websites, Blogs, Podcasts & Radio

Archives & Primacy Sources, Online & Offline

Irish Archives Resource An online service to find and search archive records from across Ireland.
Archives Portal Europe Searchable content from archives over Europe.
Consortium of European Research Libraries Resources Has various online listings and bibliographies related to European history.
Irish Architectural Archive Material relating to architecture, some digitised.
National Archives of Ireland A large and wide ranging archive with many government records, has digitised census records.
National Library of Ireland A legal deposit library with a vast array of archival material and access to secondary sources both online and in physical copies, free membership.
The Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) An archive with many online resources, recordings and interviews.
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
Digital Repository Ireland A digital repository with a wide range of accessable primary source collections related to Irish history.
Divided Society A large collection of material related to the conflict in the north of Ireland.
Europeana A Europe wide archive of digitised materials with many items related to Ireland.
Irish Newspaper Archive A large archive of digitised newspapers, not open access.
Irish Script on Screen A digital repository of Irish manuscripts.
CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts A large database of searchable texts from many periods in variety of languages, with translations for many. A great range of texts in easily workable formats
National Archives: Census of Ireland Digitised versions of the census of Ireland 1901/1911 and Census fragments and substitutes, 1821-51.
oireachtas.ie The official site of the Oireachtas, has transcribed and searchable Dáil and Seanad records.
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland A digital reconstruction of the destroyed Public Record Office of Ireland with high quality digitisations of material held elsewhere.
Irish Left Archive Digitised archive of materials related to the modern Irish left from the 20th century to the present day.
Historical Irish Corpus A searchable corpus of Irish language material from 1600 - 1926 produced by the Royal Irish Academy
dippam Acronym for Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration. A rich and well digitised online archive comprise three different projects; Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, Irish Emigration Database and Voices of Migration and Return.
Irish Republican Digital Archive Archive of republican material, the vast majority of which from the latter half of the 20th century.
Irish Catholic Archives
Military Archives
The Irish Manuscripts Commission Website for the manuscripts commission, has many digitised primary sources available in PDF format.
Sources for Irish Women’s History
The National Archives The British national archives, contains much Irish material.
Library of the Royal Irish Academy
Tailte Éireann Registry of Deeds, Surveying & Valuation Records.
AINM National Database of Irish Language Biographies
University of Galway Library Archive Catalogue
Archaeology National Monuments Service
CDI Celtic Digital Initiative
Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, Corpus of The Gaelic Journal
CIRCLE 2.0 Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters
Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940
The Down Survey of Ireland
EEBO, Early English Books Online
Heritage maps
Irish Historic Towns Atlas
British History Online
Irish Sagas Online
Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae
Landed Estates A database of landed estates and historic houses in Connacht, Munster and the counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan, c.1700–1914
Placenames Database of Ireland
National Built Heritage Service
RASCAL Research and Special Collections Available Locally
UCD Historic Maps Collection
The British Museum Online Collection Good for material culture.

Libraries, Bibliography, Biography & Directories

Internet Archive Incredibly wide ranging free library, with major primary and secondary sources available.
Bibliography of British and Irish History Large and regularly maintained bibliography, not open access.
Irish History Online A large and free bibliography of Irish history as of 2025 maintained by volunteers.
portraidi A directory of Irish language writers currently working.
Dictionary of Irish Biography A free and open access dictionary of biography.
CORA Cork Open Research Archive
MURAL Maynooth University Research Archive Library
OAPEN An online library of free open access academic books, many about Irish history.
Directory of Open Access Books A large directory of open access books. Most not related to Irish History.
The Online Books Page Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania, a large catalogue of books freely available online.
Queen’s University Belfast Research Portal
Research Repository University College Dublin
TARA Trinity Access to Research Archive
University of Galway Research Repository
University of Limerick Research Repository
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

General History Research Tools & Resources

The Programming Historian A great resource with loads of easy to follow guides for digital humanities projects and techniques.
Doing History with Zotero and Obsidian A detailed guide to a useful workflow for history research.
Family History, National Library of Ireland Guides and resources for researching family history.

Journals Specialising in Irish History

Journals Which May Include Irish History Occasionally

Organisations

Irish Committee of Historical Sciences
Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement
Genealogical Society of Ireland
Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
Irish Labour History Society Organisation which publishes and archives material related to Irish labour.
Celtic Studies Association of North America

Websites, Blogs, Podcasts & Radio

Three Castles Burning A podcast of Dublin history by Donal Fallon.
The History Show A radio show on Irish history produced by RTE radio 1.
Archiseek Online catalogue of Irish Architecture.
Century Ireland Website produced by RTE for the decade of centenaries, with many articles and videos relating to the revolutionary period.
Stories of the Four Courts Wonderful Irish legal history blog.

Irish History Research Resource List