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Irish social history websites

Finding out about your ancestors is just the beginning ... learn about their lives. How did they live? What were their lives like?

Photographs of Dublin, Belfast, Kerry, Galway, Waterford and Cork from the National Archives of Ireland

Browse or search more than 14,000 images online, 1870–1940

Wedding photographs taken by Herbert Thackwray Allison, 1910–1951, arranged by surname

BBC History website that explores the Great Famine in Ireland

This online history includes contributed oral histories and an image gallery

Organised by townland, with detail at the household level and digital copies of the handwritten census forms

An online exhibition in Flickr of photographs relating to Irish migrants to Canada

Interactive hand-drawn map with incredible detail, including the location of houses, churches, schools, mines, wells, fields

Free online resource of books and articles on Irish history, genealogy and culture. Transcripts are available

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