IVRLA - Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive

Welcome to the IVRLA Project

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The IVRLA is a digital Humanities and Social Sciences repository, which draws on the extensive resources of archival and rare material held in University College Dublin, and allows researchers to access this material in a digitised format, from a single virtual location. The material is arranged in curated collections which can be browsed or searched.

As well as the collections, the IVRLA offers a series of 17 exciting research projects which demonstrate the potential of the IVRLA as a significant resource for scholars.

Further information about the IVRLA project can be found here.

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IVRLA collections are moving 29/03/12

Please note that the IVRLA collections will be moving to UCD Digital Library this summer. More details to follow.

The IVRLA was launched a year ago...what have you discovered? 10/11/11

Press Photographs from the Papers of Frank Aiken 10/11/10

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IVRLA Blogs

IVRLA Blog - digitalMatters
Keep up-to-date with the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive project in University College Dublin.
IVRLA Research Blog
The Research Blog of the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive focuses on the research projects.

IVRLA Digital Discourses

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This section includes a showreel reviewing the diverse material included in the IVRLA repository, four short videos in which curatorial and academic experts discuss specific IVRLA digital objects, and highlights of our academic launch activities.

Focused Themes: 20th Century Irish Politics

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Investigate some of the important events that helped to shape our future, and the people behind them.

Papers of Michael Collins (1890-1922)

In its totality this collection gives a glimpse of Collins' life in London and of his continuous involvement in the Irish social scene - the Gaelic League and Gaelic Athletic Association - and his close links with family and friends in Ireland. The colle

Boehm/Casement Papers

This collection consists largely of letters from Roger Casement to Captain Hans Boehm, during Casement's stay in Germany in 1915, as well as some associated material (photographs, medals) relating to his first contact with the German authorities in Novem

Towards 2016

The aim of this project was to survey University College Dublin’s holdings of material relating to the 1916 Rising and to digitise a selection of this material in order to make it available on the IVRLA. The material which has been selected is of considerable historical and cultural significance and provides an insight into disseminated interpretat...

Speeches of Seán Lemass as Taoiseach

The culmination of Seán Lemass’s long political career was his appointment as Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil party leader in 1959, succeeding Eamon de Valera. He was Taoiseach from 1959 to 1966 and during that period he promoted new economic, industrial and international policies – all of which had far-reaching changes for Ireland. As Taoiseach, many of...