A statue of Patrick Kavanagh on the banks of the Grand Canal, Dublin.
(Photo by John Rickard)
General Irish Studies Images and Links:
Irishness and (Post)Modernism--An issue of the Bucknell Review dedicated to Irish Studies
Irish History Online -- My own collection of links helpful for studying Irish History
Irish Internet Hub--Irish locations on the Web
Read the Irish Times
Yahoo! U.K. & Ireland--A comprehensive subject index of links in Ireland and the U.K.
ACIS--The American Conference for Irish Studies
IASIL--International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
Brendan Lynch's List of Irish Studies Programs and Websites
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts--The online resource for Irish history, literature and politics
Views of the Famine--An excellent listing of primary resources
Irish and Irish Immigration Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
The Attic Press--Specializing in "Irish/Women's Studies, history and practical Reference books by, for and about women, with a strong international and Irish profile."
Listen to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney read selected poems
Black 47--One of the most interesting bands around
h2éire--Audio and video files from the Irish Hiphop scene
Des Bishop -- An American born Irish comedian -- Parental Warning!
The Irish Constitution Online
The Irish Poetry Page -- An excellent list of links and resources concerning modern and contemporary Irish poetry, designed by D. Mueller of the University of Cologne, Germany
The IrishNet Directory--"dedicated to helping the Irish abroad and those with Irish interests to get in touch with Irish communities and resources around the world"
Northern Ireland and Northern Irish Political Parties:
Bucknell in Northern Ireland--Bucknell's own summer study program in Northern Ireland
Photos from Northern Ireland--Photographs I have taken in Northern Ireland
CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Net)--A comprehensive archive of materials related to the Northern Irish conflict.
Political Wall Murals in Northern Ireland--From CAIN (see above)
The New York Times guide to the Northern Irish conflict
Read the Irish News--A Northern Irish newspaper founded in 1891, the Irish News, in its own words, "puts forward the views of constitutional nationalism, but in a reasoned, civilised, and critical manner, and the editorial content of the paper goes far beyond politics--nationalist or otherwise."
Northern Ireland Virtual Tour -- Visit some of the most famous landmarks.
Northern Ireland--Welcome -- An illustrated tourist guide to Northern Ireland, as interesting for what it leaves out as for what it leaves in . . .
INCORE--The Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE), is a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University. The INCORE World Wide Web server is intended to act as "a central resource on the internet for those in the area of conflict resolution and ethnic conflict. It is intended to serve not only academic researchers but also policy-makers, practitioners in mediation and others"
Social Democratic and Labour Party -- The SDLP is a leading nationalist party that rejects political violence
Sinn Fein Party Web Page -- Sinn Fein is the nationalist party most closely linked to the Irish Republican Army
Irish Republican News -- The online newspaper of the nationalist Sinn Fein Party
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland -- a nonsectarian party that "rejects the notion that we must all be pigeon-holed into ‘two communities’, only Alliance respects personal choice over identity"
The Ulster Unionist Party--The UUP is one of the leading loyalist or Unionist political parties
The Democratic Unionist Party -- The DUP is the Unionist Party most opposed to the current peace process
Irish Language Sites on the Web:
Page last updated on March 24, 2006