Ireland

Ireland is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland which covers five sixths of the island and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the northeastern sixth of the island. The population of the island is approximately 5.7 million people, most of whom live on the east coast.

Ireland

Government-Sponsored Resources and Diplomatic Information

• Statistics on Ireland: CIA World Factbook
• US Embassy in Dublin
• Embassy of Ireland in Washington, D.C.

International Organizations and Development Programs

• Ireland and the IMF The IMF's Ireland Country Page with links to articles

Internet Resources: General

• History of Ireland: Primary Documents BYU site to historical documents
• WESS Web: Western European Specialists Section hosted by the University of Virginia library
• The Northern Ireland Office Website The Secretary of State's office; information on government
• Gaelic Web Resources

Internet Resources: Culture, Literature and Language

• Learning Irish Information on the Irish language
• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts Modern and medieval Irish online literary text database created by the University of Cork
• Archive of Irish Artists
• Language Resource Page A page of links to information on distance learning and technology resources, traditional language study programs (including those that offer instruction in less commonly taught languages) and other general language study resources.

Online News Sites and Servers

• The Irish Times Online version of this daily newspaper and searchable archive
• The Irish News Daily news from this Belfast newspaper
• Belfast Telegraph Daily Online Newspaper
• RTE Online National broadcaster offering Real Audio news and music programs online
• Web Radio International hear broadcasts from countries all over the world

Academic and Fellowship Information

• Trinity College Homepage of Trinity College, Dublin. Online database of library holdings
• Fulbright Fellowships for dissertation and postdoctoral research
• SSRC/ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships: support for dissertation research in humanities and social sciences in all areas and regions of the world
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships For dissertation research in humanities and social sciences
• UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies Fellowships for dissertation research, predissertation research travel, and UC faculty research
• Columbia University's Council for European Studies has information about pre-dissertation research grants and dissertation completion grants

Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2005

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