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Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900) - Beautiful county maps. Once you locate one of the maps, download the .pdf version and you will be able to zoom and view it magnified.
Atlas of Family Names in Ireland - it does not appear that this extensive project will cover our name, but the link may be useful for project members who have other Irish lines they are interested in the origins of. Hopefully in the future, when the Atlas is complete, its creators will get more funding to expand the included names.
Connacht Landed Estates Project - “The Connacht Landed Estates project, funded by the Irish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, under its Thematic Projects (Research Infrastructure) Grants, undertook the research for, and the publication of, a comprehensive and integrated resource guide to landed estates and gentry houses in Connacht, c. 1700-1914. The aim of the guide is to assist and support researchers working on the social, economic, political and cultural history of Connacht from c.1700 to 1914.”
“Contours of colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the early colonial subject” - “Using the example of the O'Dwyer family of Kilnamanagh in County Tipperary, this paper explores the interconnections as well as the conflicts of the worlds of the colonial 'newcomers' and Gaelic 'natives', and demonstrates how colonial discourses of civility, reform and the barbarous 'Other' were transcended on the ground by a complex set of locally dependent variables. Support is offered for the notion that expediency and survival were the fundamental imperatives of both the New English administration and Gaelic responses, and, by highlighting the absence of any consistent colonial relations, the discussion points to the contradictory and mutually constitutive nature of English and Gaelic worlds, co-existing by the end of the sixteenth century.”
Estate Records Research and Sources for the History of Landed Estates in Ireland by Terence Dooley
Information Wanted: A Database of Advertisements for Irish Immigrants Published in the Boston Pilot - "From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a “Missing Friends” column with advertisements from people looking for “lost” friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 37,136 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot."
International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) - good list of Ireland resources
Irish Genealogy Toolkit - I have not spent time here yet but I have heard it is a great site to start with!
Norman and Cambro-Norman Surnames of Ireland - list at Rootsweb (not complete)
Pension Records from 1841 and 1851
Public Records Office of Northern Ireland: Family History
The DiCamillo Companion to English and Irish Country Houses
The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland: The Aristocracy in England, 1660-1914
The Irish Chancery Rolls Project - "The new Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters [known as CIRCLE] seeks to remedy the deficiencies of the Irish Record Commission’s work. CIRCLE is being created by collating all known transcripts and calendars of Irish chancery letters ranging in date from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries. These records are located in various archival repositories in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In June 2011 the internet-version of CIRCLE will ‘go live’ online. This web-based resource will include diplomatic editions (in Latin) of illustrative documents as well as sample digitized images from archival sources. In addition, CIRCLE will be ‘linked’ to a digitized version of the old Record Commission calendar of 1828. It is hoped that CIRCLE will also be published in a multi-volume printed edition."
Trace Your Guinness Roots - “The Guinness Archive preserves the historical records of the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin from 1759 to the present.”