Rare Books and Special Collections
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University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
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This guide is designed to assist you with the semester's main assignment.
The same sources below will help if you wish to read more on any topic covered in this course.
The Irish Studies and Irish Language and Literature library guides have more detail, but please do not hesitate to contact a librarian for help.
General Search Places
For this assignment, use databases that include recent books and articles. In many cases you will have a two-step process: (1) identify an article or chapter and (2) find it, either in an online journal or a print book or journal.
Use this to find books.
The Library's main search page: OneSearch includes the library catalog and also a number of other databases.
Each of the following databases have very large collections of scholarly articles on many subjects:
publishes many collection of essays on Irish subjects. You may search by subject words, or browse through their books.
Use the following online sources for biographical information on people in Irish history:
This section has some ideas for searching databases and lists that deal with Ireland, history, literature or related subjects.