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We host one of the largest collections of Irish historical material available online.
Our collection encompasses all periods of Irish history, and includes a wide range of political, economic, cultural, literary and historical works.
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The New Evangel
James Connolly
An early pamphlet collecting five of Connolly’s previous essays from Workers’ Republic.
The Re-Conquest of Ireland
James Connolly
A socialist manifesto arguing that Ireland’s freedom from foreign rule requires an economic revolution.
Labour, Nationality, and Religion
James Connolly
Explores the Catholic Church’s relation to English colonialism in Ireland.
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- Arthur Griffith: Sinn Féin’s Theorist
The following are quotes from our extensive collection of Arthur Griffith’s writings from his earliest editorials to his final testament. One of the most prolific Irish journalists of his time and a founding father of the early Irish state, his writings are of very great interest to those researching the early Sinn Féin movement. - November 2023 Update
Over the past year, some new and significant changes have been made to the site’s design. In brief, they are as follows: HOME PAGE TEXTS FORMATTING CLÓ GAELACH Notes: LIGHT MODE Note: The background image changes with the setting. PDFs Note: The ‘Contents’ section contains hyperlinks which will lead you directly to each chapter directly. Or, alternatively, you can click on ‘Document outline’ on the top-left of the page. AN CHARTLANN. - An Craoibhín Aoibhinn: The Thought of Douglas Hyde
‘The work of Douglas Hyde will live after him. It is not now possible that Irish can die, as but for him it would most assuredly have died. Even should it become extinct as a spoken language, reams of Irish literature have been preserved which but for Hyde would have perished.’ – An Craoibhin Aoibhinn, Diarmuid Coffey, 1917.
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Rev. James Armour
Rev. James Brown Armour (1841–1928) was a Presbyterian minister known for his support of Home Rule and the Tenant Right movement against landlordism. He also supported the proposal for a Catholic university and opposed partition, which he felt would be disastrous for Ulster. As a result of these views he was at odds with mainstream Ulster Protestant opinion. On the 24th October 1913, he, Jack White, and Roger Casement organised a public meeting in Ballymoney in support of Home Rule.
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French academic of the English language...
Read more →Cumas Uraḋaill ar Naisíunaċta I
Buḋ ċoir ḋúinn fíor-eolas ḃeiṫ again ar an gciall atá leis an ḃfacal “náisíuntaċt” leis na neiṫe ṫuigsin go firéannaċ a ḃeireas treanaċt agus caḃair ċuici, óir is minic go gcuirte ar mórán focal cialluiġeaċt náċ fuil ionnta.
Read more →Cumas Uraḋaill ar Naisíunaċta II
Tá in a ċeann de na ṫuaraib is cinnte ar ċumais uraḋaill na iarraċta a ṫug an coigċrioċoir le sé do ċur ar gcul ar fud tire ar a rug se. Is í an ċead obair a cúirse os a comair í. Is ealas maiṫ ḋo nuair imṫiġeas an spioraid a eongḃuiġeas beo an Náisiúnaċt, ní ḃeiḋ Náisiúnaċt i ḃfad in a diaiḋ.
Read more →Labour Representation II
The action taken upon the Local Government Act by the representatives of the trade unionists of Dublin is perhaps the most important step yet taken by the organised workers in Ireland ...
Read more →Labour Representation I
The farmers of Ireland denounced as unpatriotic everything that failed to serve their class interest—including even the labourer’s demand for a cottage—let the working class of Ireland follow their lead and test the sincerity of every man’s patriotism by his devotion to the interests of labour.
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