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Northern ireland

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BBC History: Wars and Conflict: BBC resource offering essays, articles, multimedia resources, virtual tours of war trenches, battle animations, educational games, interactive exhibitions, picture galleries, timelines, and biographies of historic figures pertaining to war and conflict since the 10th century. Includes chapters on the Norman Conquest, the English Civil War, World War One, World War Two, the Cold War, and the Northern Ireland conflict. Also includes analysis and contextualisation of September 11th, the Iraq conflict, and various other topics. Within each chapter, users can browse material relating to a variety of war categories, each encompassing a plethora of resources and comprising numerous formats, as well as audiovisual materials culled from the BBC radio and television archive. Audiovisual materials require Real Player and interactive resources require Flash.
Author: BBC
Subjects: british history from 1800, first world war, iraq, northern ireland, second world war, warfare
DeweyClass: 355.02
Resource type: articles, documents, moving images
Belfast Blitz: Presents background information on the wartime Luftwaffe bombing of targets in Belfast. Offers timelines of three major air raids in 1940 and 1941, and a selection of stories told by survivors of the bombing.
Author: BBC Online
Subjects: northern ireland, second world war
DeweyClass: 941.6
Resource type: document
CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet: Project which aims to develop a collaborative multimedia database of resources relevant to teaching and research on the Northern Ireland conflict. The CAIN server holds resources specific to the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' held within the partner institutions, elsewhere in the region, and in other countries. The CAIN Project is also a gateway to more general network resources on ethnic conflict.
Author: CAIN Project
Subjects: irish history, northern ireland, peace and conflict, political history
DeweyClass: 941.60824
Resource type: documents
Central Community Relations Unit: Information about the CCRU which commissions research on various aspects of community relations in Northern Ireland. Offers extracts from reports and other publications, and a searchable database of information on CCRU funded projects.
Author: Central Community Relations Unit
Subjects: community and youth studies, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 941.6
Resource type: institution
DevWeb: Documents the process of governmental devolution in the UK, with sections on Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and proposals for regional government in England. Also covers the governance of British Dependencies.
Author: Williams, Jason Thomas
Subjects: government links, northern ireland, scottish law, united kingdom, wales
DeweyClass: 351.41
Resource type: documents
HELIX: Higher Education Library Image eXchange: A collection of over 52,000 images which are free for educational use by the UK higher education community. The collection comprises images of textiles, paintings, ceramics, metalwork, Chinese and Japanese art, Indian art, furniture, glass, photography, sculpture, costume, theatre and manuscripts, Picture Post magazine images (covering social history in Britain from 1938 to 1957), six areas of British history (the Irish troubles, history of sport, women's history, development of the mass media, UK politicians and Labour history), with editorial input from academics, journalists and archivists, and images from the James Valentine collection (a postcard archive of photography over the past 100 years), plus items from the George Cowie and Robert Adam photographic collections.
Author: eLib
Subjects: british history from 1800, computer graphics, ethnic art, media studies, northern ireland, photographs, political history, pottery, sculpture, textiles
DeweyClass: 080
Resource type: image collection
Irish History on the Web: Collection of documents about the history of Ireland. Topics include general Irish history, republican history, genealogy, famine, unionist history and Northern Ireland history.
Author: Dana, Jacqueline
Subjects: ireland, irish history, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 941.5
Resource type: documents
Irish News: Northern Irish daily newspaper.
Author: Irish News
Subjects: british news, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 072
Resource type: news
Northern Ireland: Resource containing links to material on aspects of life in Northern Ireland including history, the Orange Order, tourism, newspapers, property and education.
Author: Ability Project
Subjects: northern ireland
DeweyClass: 941.6
Resource type: index
Northern Ireland Elections: Information about specific elections from 1993 onwards and parliamentary constituencies with results from 1996-1998. Also offers local council election results from 1993 and 1997, and traces the history of Westminster elections in Northern Ireland since 1920.
Author: Whyte, Nicholas
Subjects: elections, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 320.9
Resource type: documents, reference data
Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey: Archive of findings from the survey launched in 1998 to establish social attitudes of people living in Northern Ireland. Includes views of adults, as well as a special section on the 12-17 year old age group. Data can be downloaded in zip format, with the questionnaire and subsequent publications from the survey results available as PDF files.
Author: Queen's University of Belfast and University of Ulster
Subjects: northern ireland
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: data collection
Northern Ireland Office: Official information from the UK Government department responsible for political and constitutional matters as they relate to Northern Ireland, law and order, policing and criminal justice policy, and community relations. It has responsibility for a number of agencies, including the Northern Ireland Prison Service, the Compensation Agency, and the Forensic Science Agency of Northern Ireland.
Author: Northern Ireland Office
Subjects: british government, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 351.41
Resource type: documents
Northern Ireland Prison Service: Descriptions of Northern Ireland prisons, statistics about the prison population and related news and reports.
Author: Northern Ireland Office
Subjects: law enforcement, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 365
Resource type: documents
Official Guide to Northern Ireland: Offers an overview of Northern Ireland and details of accommodation, houses and gardens, golf, industrial heritage, walking, hiking and horseback activities, events, sample itineraries, transportation, cuisine and restaurants, birdwatching, fishing, ancestral heritage and travel tips.
Author: Northern Ireland Tourist Board
Subjects: british travel and tourism, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 914.16
Resource type: promotion
PADDI: Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland: Bibliographic database of over 16,000 items relating to all aspects of the built environment in Ireland and Northern Ireland. A range of search options are offered, including searching by subject or building type, structure name, location, architect or designer, and document type.
Author: Planning Architecture Design Database
Subjects: architectural research, ireland, northern ireland, planning
DeweyClass: 720
Resource type: bibliography, reference data
Quality Assessment Reports: England and Northern Ireland: A series of subject specific reports assessing the quality of higher education, derived from analysis of the institution's self-assessment, statistical indicators, and a visit by a team of assessors.
Author: HEFCE
Subjects: higher education assessment, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 378.41
Resource type: documents
Report of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland: Full text of the commission report published, in September 1999. The Commission, chaired by Chris Patten, examined the future of the police service in Northern Ireland as part of the Good Friday agreement.
Author: Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland
Subjects: law enforcement, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 941.6
Resource type: document
Ulster Historical Foundation: The Ulster Historical Foundation is a non-profit making organisation founded in 1956 to promote interest in Irish genealogy and history, with particular reference to the province of Ulster.
Author: Ulster Historical Foundation
Subjects: genealogy, northern ireland
DeweyClass: 941.6
Resource type: service