Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:54 pm
Researchers into Clare's past (or Ireland's past, for that matter) may be interested to know that this month (August 2007) the University of Southampton is moving an enormous database of British parliamentary papers to new servers and is thereby extending the access to those papers. My thanks to Prof. James S. Donnelly, Jr. of the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, for flagging to me that these resources are now coming on stream.
The EPPI Project provides access to the British Parliamentary Papers relating to Ireland 1801-1922. EPPI involves the electronic cataloguing and full-text digitisation of some 14,600 documents (containing around 600,000 pages) from Southampton University's unique Ford Collection of Official Publications. It features a comprehensive searchable database of Parliamentary Papers relating to Ireland 1801-1922, with bibliographic information, Library of Congress subject descriptors and, for a significant selection of items, abstracts of contents.
The parliamentary 'Blue Books' contain the pertinent information on Ireland and its relations with Britain in this period: from extensive social inquiries and census enumerations, through reports on economic, educational and scientific subjects, cultural and linguistic institutions and political and military developments, to transcripts of semi-literate emigrant letters.
This website ( http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/home ) is a cornucopia. Just type in "County Clare" (with the parentheses) and it throws up 97 entries. Take it from there.
I won't blather on about it. Just go off to http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/home and boggle at it and wallow in it. Cancel all other appointments for the coming weeks.
Paddy
The EPPI Project provides access to the British Parliamentary Papers relating to Ireland 1801-1922. EPPI involves the electronic cataloguing and full-text digitisation of some 14,600 documents (containing around 600,000 pages) from Southampton University's unique Ford Collection of Official Publications. It features a comprehensive searchable database of Parliamentary Papers relating to Ireland 1801-1922, with bibliographic information, Library of Congress subject descriptors and, for a significant selection of items, abstracts of contents.
The parliamentary 'Blue Books' contain the pertinent information on Ireland and its relations with Britain in this period: from extensive social inquiries and census enumerations, through reports on economic, educational and scientific subjects, cultural and linguistic institutions and political and military developments, to transcripts of semi-literate emigrant letters.
This website ( http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/home ) is a cornucopia. Just type in "County Clare" (with the parentheses) and it throws up 97 entries. Take it from there.
I won't blather on about it. Just go off to http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/home and boggle at it and wallow in it. Cancel all other appointments for the coming weeks.
Paddy