Paths to Peace in Northern Ireland: Primary Sources

The collection is comprised of Protestant (& some Catholic) witness testimonies (from all social backgrounds) concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. The testimonies document the loss of goods, military activity and the alleged crimes committed by the Irish insurgents.

Papers and correspondence of the seven leaders of the 1916 Rising.

The Tribunal's report on the events in Northern Ireland on January 30 1972 (known as Bloody Sunday.

The partition of Ireland in 1921 and the subsequent Irish Civil War did not mean the end to clashes over Ulster. Despite losing the Irish Civil War, the Irish Republic Army (IRA) maintained that only a united Ireland free from British rule was acceptabl

Taken in the years 1656-1658, the Down Survey of Ireland is the first ever detailed land survey on a national scale anywhere in the world. The survey sought to measure all the land to be forfeited by the Catholic Irish in order to facilitate its redistribution to English Protestants. The collection contains digital images of all the surviving Down Survey maps. It also includes GIS information from both historical & modern (Google Maps) sources.

The history of Ireland in the twentieth century was dominated by
the political and sectarian divide between the north and the south,
leading to sustaining armed violence over several decades.