Edited by James S. Donnelly, Jr. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004. 2 volumes.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA 912 .E53 2004]
Over 400 articles on periods of Irish history, social institutions, organisations and important individuals. Also includes the full-text of over 150 primary documents.

Edited by James McGuire and James Quinn. Cambridge: Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge University Press, 2009. 9 volumes.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area – CT862 .D53 2009]
With more than 9,000 articles on subjects ranging from politics, law, engineering and religion to literature, painting, medicine and sport, this widely-praised encyclopedia is the place to start for Irish biography. Articles are signed and contain bibliographies. So detailed is the 9-volume set that you get thorough articles on a wide range of people, from internationally-famous figures such as the poet W.B. Yeats to lesser-known persons such as Denis Kilbride, a 19th Century agrarian campaigner and MP.

Edited by John H. Koch. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2006. 5 volumes.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area CB206 .C45 2006]

Edited by S.J. Connolly. Oxford: University Press, 2002, 2nd Edition.
[Available online for UofT use.]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA912 .O94 2002]
Key events, institutions, movements, organizations, and personalities in Irish history are alphabetically arranged in the print version, and easily searchable in the online one.

Edited by James P. Byrne, Philip Coleman, and Jason King. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2008.
[Available online for UofT use.]

Edited by Brian Lalor. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area DA 906 .E52 2003]
With more than 5,000 articles on a wide range of topicsincluding art, biography, politics, and religion, this encyclopedia is more comprehensive than Brady's Encyclopedia of Ireland (below). Regrettably, there are no bibliographical references.

By John P. McCarthy. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area DA911 .M34 2006]

Edited by Sean Duffy. London: Routledge, 2005.
[Available online for UofT use.]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area DA933 .M43 2005]

By Ciaran Brady. Oxford: University Press, 2000.
[St Michael's 1st Floor reference Area - DA906 .E53 2000]
Brief articles about people, places, institutions, and events. No bibliographical references.

General editor, Seamas Mac Annaidh. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2001.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area DA912 .I48 2001]
This dictionary contains many colour illustrations.

By Stephen C. Manganiello. Toronto: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area DA405 .M35 2004]

By D. J. Hickey and J. E. Doherty Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2003.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA950 .H5 2003]
Brief articles cover both Irelands since 1800. Besides including articles on political, economic and military history, the editors devote space to the arts, literature, folk customs, and religion. The single-volume work includes cross-references.

By Laurence Flanagan. Dublin : Gill and Macmillan, 1992.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA920 .F57 1992]
Coverage is from the Mesolithic Era to the end of the Medieval period providing definitions and descriptions of artefacts and sites. Includes many illustrations and references to other, more in-depth sources.

By Peter R. Newman. Oxford: Facts on File, 1991.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area DA912 .N485 1991]

Oxford; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA 925 .B47]
This encyclopedia covers arts, artists and intellectuals, and ideas in Ireland from 1450 to the present.

Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, 1999.
[St Michael's 1st Floor reference Area - DA 990 .U46]
Includes a detailed chronology and dictionary of Northern Ireland politics.

Dublin : Gill and Macmillan, 1991.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA 995 .D8 B48 1991]
This single volume encyclopedia includes an index and a bibliography.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005.
[Robarts Library 4th Floor Reference Area DA905 .H25 2005]

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
[DA 34 .C28 1985 Victoria University, Pratt Library Reference]
Articles are arranged chronologically with an introductory overview for each historical period. Emphasis is on political, economic, social and diplomatic history. This 392 page single volume encyclopedia includes maps, illustrations, photographs, biographies and bibliographies. Cross-referenced with a subject index.

Edited by Edmund Curtis and R.B. McDowell. London: Methuen, 1943.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor Stacks- DA 905 .I7 1943]

Edited by Alan O'Day and John Stevenson. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1992.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor Stacks - DA 950 .I69 1992]
A collection of 142 documents of radio broadcasts. The period covered is broken down into eight chronological periods and an introductory chapter is provided for each period.

By James Francis Kenney. Dublin: Padraic s Taillizir, 1979.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA 931 .K46 1979]
An introduction and guide to the manuscript and printed sources for the ecclesiastical history of Ireland up to the 12th century.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
[Robarts Library 10th Floor Stacks - DA 905 .E38 1985]
A collection of primary source documents and a guide to using them for research purposes. Includes chapters on historiography and archival collections.

By John Haywood. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area CB206 .H29 2001]

New York: Murphy & McCarthy, 1902.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA975 .J6]
Part I of this work includes a survey article, maps and photographs of the thirty-two counties. Part II is a general history of Ireland from ancient times to 1867.

By Ruth Dudley Edwards. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2005.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor Stacks – G1831 .S1 E3 2005 SMC]

General editor, Sean Duffy. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1997.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA911 .A84 1997]
Historical maps are accompanied by scholarly text, photographs and reproductions of artistic and textual primary sources. Includes a section on the Irish abroad.

[Baile Atha Cliath] : Brun agus S Nuallain, [1935].
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA979 .F6 1935]

Dublin : Hodges, Figgis, 1910.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA979 .H6 1910]
An index with identifications to Gaelic Place names and tribes.

By Peter Harbison. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1975.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA980 .H26]
[Robarts 4th Floor Reference Area - DA980 .H37 1992 (3rd ed.)]
Includes illustrations, maps, and photographs.

[Available online for free.]
This website contains a collection of approximately 20 historical maps charting the history of Ireland from 150 BC to the famine of the 1840s.

Newcastle West, Co Limerick: Oireacht na Mumhan Books, 2001.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA 979 .O274]
Detailed descriptions of the meaning of geographic place names in Ireland, such as abbey and ville.

Savage, MD: Barnes & Noble Books, 1990.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA 910 .D66 1990]
A listing of events arranged by date as opposed to a historical narrative. Emphasis is on the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to political history, this work includes coverage of religious, social and cultural events. Includes an excellent subject index.

See also: Conflict in Northern Ireland in the Encyclopedias & Dictionaries section.

Edited by James McGuire and James Quinn. Cambridge: Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge University Press, 2009. 9 volumes.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area – CT862 .D53 2009]
See the listing in the Encyclopedias & Dictionaries section.

3rd Edition. Niwot, Colo. : Roberts Rinehart, 1998.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - CT862 .B69 1998]
This 462-page work includes a bibliography.

Dublin : The Talbot Press, 1937.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA916. C7 1937]
Contains 290 pages of biographical sketches.

London : Geoffrey Chapman, 1973.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - CT793 .W48]
A handbook and biographical reference for Ireland and the Irish.

Kinvara, Co. Galway : Irish Books and Media, 1996.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - CT3650 .I73 O24 1996]

Detroit : L.F. Kilroy, 1884.
[St Michael's 2nd Floor - DA916 .A1 O2]
Contains biographical sketches of more than 1,500 distinguished Irish Celts, with both subject and geographic indexes.

Dublin : Mercier Press, 1980.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA962.035]
Contains a chronology of main incidents, and separate lists of the dead for both sides in the conflict.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference area - CT862 .M63 1996]

London: J. Murray, 1981.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA916.8 .L63 1981]

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA906 .E16 1980]
A bibliography of bibliographies for Irish history and area studies.

Dublin: Irish Committee of Historical Sciences, 1986-
[Robarts 4th Floor Reference - Z2041 .W75 1984]
A microfiche collection. Annual updates are organized by chronological period. This work includes books, articles and essays on all periods of Irish history.

New York : Greenwood Press, 1987.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - DA906 .L47]
A guide to library collections, private collections, and bookdealers' catalogues of interest to those involved in all areas of Irish research.

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 1971.
[St Michael's 1st Floor reference Area - Z2041 .A8]
A classed bibliography of more than 700 items.

Dublin : Published for the Department of Education by the Stationery Office, 1936-1940.
[St Michael's 1st Floor reference Area - DA960 .N38]
A two volume set. Volume 1 covers the years 1870-1911 and volume 2, the years 1912-1921

[Available online for free.]
BUBL LINK, based in England, is a respected catalogue of selected Internet sources covering all academic areas. This directory provides links to websites about Ireland. See also:
Irish Archaeology
Irish History
Irish Literature

By Anna Brady. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - HQ1600.2 .B7 1988]

[Available online for UofT use.]
Eleven 19th Century Celtic newspapers (five from Wales, two from Ireland, and four from Scotland) are now partially available online at UofT in this collection, selected by the British Library.

[Available online for UofT use.]
This source is excellent if you are researching the Irish population in 19th Century America. Besides searching this database in e-resources, you can look up the many small 18th and 19th Century newspapers it covers individually in the UofT Libraries Catalogue.

[Available online for UofT use.]
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. The database contains over half a million annotated entries.

[Available online for UofT use.]
Humanities Abstracts provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing of 400 English-language periodicals covering the areas of archaeology, classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion.

[Available online for UofT use.]
The British Humanities Index provides coverage of a number of British periodicals and is a good source for local history in the British Isles.

[Available online for UofT use.]
[St Michael's 1st Floor Reference Area - D 117 .I55]
The major index to journal articles about medieval studies.

[Available online for UofT use.]
Bibliographical references to over 135,000 journal articles published in over 300 journals, from 1843 to the present.

[Available online for UofT use.]
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multi disciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Cited reference searching, unique to ISI, lets you use a given work as if it were a subject term to identify more recent articles on the same topic. This type of searching often locates relevant articles that cannot be retrieved through traditional subject-author searching.