Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. He is regarded as one of the great playwrights of the Victorian Era. In his lifetime he wrote nine plays, one novel, numerous poems, short stories and essays. Wilde was a proponent of the Aesthetic movement, w
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
IE TCD MS 1209 is the collection of maps held in the Library of Trinity College Dublin and made by George Carew (1555-1629) 1st Earl of Totnes and Lord President of Munster at the beginning of the 17th century. Presented to the Library of Trinity College Dublin in the late 1700s.
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Major Richard William George Hingston was educated at Merchant Taylor’s School then near London, and in University College Cork; he graduated as a medical doctor and entered the Indian Medical Service in 1910. During the First World War he served in the British Indian Army in Eas
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
The J.D. White collection comprises more than 900 popular slip ballads printed in Dublin, Cork and Johnstown, mainly in the 1850s and 1860s, that refer to contemporary events including the Crimean War, crime and politics, and emigration. The ballads were digitised by the Library
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Material published by the Digital Repository of Ireland including guidelines, reports, factsheets, policy documents, slides, conference proceedings.
Digital Repository of Ireland
The Papers of Michael Davitt is a collection of photographs, notebooks and diaries, personal papers, autobiographical writings, letters and pamphlets created by, for, or about, the great Irish republican and nationalist agitator Michael Davitt (1846-1906) held in the Library of T
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
John Millington Synge, playwright, poet, prose writer and collector of folklore, was born on 16 April 1871 in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. He studied Irish and Hebrew in Trinity College. He was also an excellent musician. With William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory and others he helped t
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
The Wide Streets Commission (full title ‘Commissioners for Making Wide and Convenient Ways, Streets and Passages in the City of Dublin’) was established in 1757 by Act of Parliament. It was one of the earliest town-planning authorities in Europe. The Commission’s original bri
Dublin City Library and Archive
This collection includes 42 oral history interviews focused on the working lives of women (1930-1960) living in three counties of Ireland (Cork, Kerry and Limerick). The women’s accounts are woven into the broader narratives of their lives extending from childhood to adulthood an
University College Cork
The University College Cork Arts and Culture in Education Collection encompasses diverse research data and outcomes exploring best practice in arts and culture as in integral part of dynamic and robust secondary and third level curricula.
Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository
The Dublin Castle Tracts are a series of bound pamphlets that formed part of the reference library of the Chief Secretary's Office in Dublin Castle. The collection was transferred to the Oireachtas Library in 1924.
Oireachtas Library
The National Open Research Forum (NORF) was established in 2017 to drive the Irish agenda for open research.
Digital Repository of Ireland