Approaching Ireland
- Discover Ireland (Tourist Information)
- Ireland Travel Information (Lonely Planet)
- Landscapes Unlocked: Northern Ireland (BBC NI)
- RTÉ Radio (Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster)
- RTÉ Television (Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster)
- Irish Independent (Newspaper)
- The Irish Times (Newspaper)
- Belfast Telegraph (Newspaper)
- Ireland (Britannica Online)
- Ireland (Wikipedia)
- Republic of Ireland (Wikipedia)
- Northern Ireland (Wikipedia)
- National Library of Ireland
Gaining a historical overview
Web resources recommended by my students:
All-in-one resources
- Ireland. A brief history to partition (recommended!)
- A (Very) Brief Histroy of Ireland (BBC h2g2)
- A Brief History of Ireland by Tim Lambert
- “Ireland a History” and “The Ulster Troubles” (YouTube Channel)
- Timeline Northern Ireland (History on the Net, do the Quickquiz)
- Geschichte Irlands bis 1921 (German)
- History of Ireland (Wikipedia)
Anglo-Norman Invasion
- nothing in here yet :-(
Penal Laws
- Plantation and Settlement of English and Scottish
- Plantation of Ulster (Wikipedia)
- Penal Laws (Free Online Encyclopedia)
- Penal Laws (Wikipedia)
- Protestant Ascendancy – leading to the Act of Union (Wikipedia)
Battle of the Boyne
- Williamite Ascendancy
- Educational Handbook for Secondary Schools (Oldbridge Visitor Centre)
- William III (recommended, much fun!)
Act of Union
- nothing in here yet … :-(
Potato Famine
- Irish Potato Famine (The History Place)
- “The Ejectment”, Illustrated London News, 16 Dec. 1848 (Ireland in Schools)
- Fields of Athenry (YouTube)
- The Famine Years
Irish emigration
- Irische Emigration (German, including some links to more resources)
Easter Rising
- Easter1916: From Home Rule to Independence (BBC History)
Anglo-Irish War
- Irish War of Independance (Wikipedia)
- 1916 Easter Rising – Aftermath (BBC History)
Irish Civil War
- Wikipedia article
- Timeline of the war (Wikipedia)
- Irischer Bürgerkrieg (MSN Encarta)
Republic
- History of the Republic of Ireland (Wikipedia)
- Kevin Myers: Irish sovereignty? A jolly little pretence and a sham (independent.ie, 18 November 2010)
The Troubles
- Northern Ireland: The Troubles (BBC History)
- In Pictures: The Troubles (Belfast Telegraph)
- Shooting of Northern Irish police officer Stephen Carroll opens old wounds (Irish Times, 11 March 2009)
- What they seek to destroy (Irish Times, 11 March 2009)
- The Troubles – Geschichte des Nordirland-Konflikts (German)
- Brown hails ‘new chapter’ in Northern Ireland as end to years of violence (guardian.co.uk, 6 February 2010)
- Belfast rioters ‘will not plunge Northern Ireland back into conflict’ (guardian.co.uk, 14 July 2010)
- Bloody Sunday (the Guardian’s collection of articles)
- Blood and guns as famous ambush relived (independent.ie, 24 January 2011)
- Kevin Myers: Re-enactment of RIC ambush is repulsive (independent.ie, 28 January 2011)
- Why celebrate awful ambush? (letter to the editor of the Irish Indepentent, 13 February 2011)
- Horror in Omagh as bomb kills Northern Ireland policeman (guardian.co.uk, 3 April 2011)
- Omagh murder of officer stirs memories of 1998 atrocity (guardian.co.uk, 3 April 2011)
Ireland’s way into Europe
- How Ireland Became the Celtic Tiger (overview)
- Europeans admire ‘Celtic Tiger’ (BBC News, May 2007)
- Between The Lines: Celtic Tiger set to roar again as gloom subsides (The Scotsman, September 2009)
Please add more interesting websites.
This may be a good source about the Anglo-Norman Invasion:
http://www.uni-due.de/LI/Anglo_Norman.htm
I think these pages are very informative and contain a lot of interesting details.
http://www.iol.ie/~dluby/index.htm
http://www.libraryireland.com/
http://www.cashel.ie/
That’s the most interesting site …
http://www.hikr.org/tour/post12305.html
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/ireland/rock-of-cashel.htm
Very interesting!