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Sources: New NLI Database for Irish Research

02 February 2010
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Sources: A National Library of Ireland Database for Irish Research contains over 180,000 catalogue records for Irish manuscripts, and for articles in Irish periodicals including some historic medical journals such as the Dublin Journal of Medical Science and the Irish Journal of Medical Science.

You can search:

  • All of the National Library's manuscripts catalogued up to the 1980s
  • Irish manuscripts held in other libraries, and archives in Ireland and worldwide, listed between the 1940s and the 1970s
  • Articles, reviews and other content that appeared in over 150 Irish periodicals (download a full list of the journals) up to 1969

Article records give details of the author, the title, and the citation, as well as information about how to access the periodicals in the National Library of Ireland and elsewhere. Manuscript records provide key details about the manuscript including the title, in addition to where it is held and its manuscript number. All records have subject headings which can themselves be used as searches.

Record contents generally represent the decisions taken during the original cataloguing and indexing project, and reflect the holdings of libraries and archives as they were when that work was carried out.

For more information or to search the database go to the following website:
http://sources.nli.ie/