Irish Links
Irish Links
Content
Travel
General Information
- Tourist Board
Virtual tourist guide for Ireland. - Travel
Travelling. - Visitors
Everything about Ireland for visitors - links. - Travel
Links for individual counties.
Getting there and around
- Aerlingus
Ireland's airline. - Myguideireland
Travel agency specialised in travel around Ireland.
Accomodation
- YHA
Youth hostels in the Republic of Ireland. - HINI
Youth hostels in Northern Ireland. - Family-Homes
Bed'n'Breakfast to Self-Catering, accomodations throughout Ireland. - Be Our Guest
Hotels on the island, with map, wide selection. - Dublinet
Dublins local info service. - Holiday Ireland
Sleeping accomodations of every kind throughout Ireland. - Ireland Online
What's up in Ireland? Interactive guide, not only for tourists.
Counties
- Index
Links for every county. - Dublin
Dublin, capital of Ireland. - Galway
County Galway. - Shannon
County Shannon. - Cork/ Kerry
Counties Cork and Kerry.
History, Politics
Historic Events
- Ireland History in Maps
The history of Ireland in maps. Index of Irish names and castles. - Irish History on the Web
A bibliography of Irish history. Essays, student programs. Good starting point for more extensive research. - Chronology of Ireland
Detailed website on Irish history since the 17th century with a list of important births and deaths. - Irlandinitiative Heidelberg
News, history, and politics (German page with some English links). - Views of the Famine
Large collection of contemporary newspaper articles and pictures on the famine of 1845-1849. - Ireland the Island
Irish history, politics, maps. Essays, statistics.
The Troubles
- Conflict Archive on the Internet
Backgrounds, analyses, essays. Everything on the Northern Ireland Conflict. - Bloody Sunday Trust
A commemoration project for the victims of events in Derry on the 30th January 1972.
Politics
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Government Home Pages
Homepages of the government: parliament, premier minister, police, ... -
Northern Ireland Office
Official homepage of the Northern Ireland Office.
Irish Newspapers
- Ireland's Newspapers online and Irish News Services online
Index of all the Irish newspapers and news agencies. - The Irish Times
News and services. - The Irish News
Irish news of the Belfast Newspaper. - Irish Independent
Irishe newspaper. - Belfast Telegraph News
The Belfast Telgraph Online.
Literature
Epochs
- Epochs of Irish Literature
Overview of Irish literary history.
Irish Literary Revival
- Phases of the Irish Literary Revival
Description of the phases of the Irish Literary Revival.
Authors
- The James Joyce Centre
- James Joyce: The brazen Head
Very extensive Joyce-page. - Seamus Heaney Page
Homepage on the Nobel prize winner. - Oscar Wilde Online
An overview of his work/ analyses of his work. -
The Jonathan Swift Page
List of his main works. In addition, a short biography and a timeline.- Gulliver’s Travels
Citations and biographical notes.
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Yeats critically
Links and information on Yeats and his work. - Patrick O’Brian
O’Brian Info-Page. - The Beckett Endpage
Detailed and with a well-structured timeline. - Beckett Page
Biography and list of his works. - George Bernhard Shaw
Short biography and citations about Shaw. - Contemporaries
Contemporary writers.
Contemporary Poetry
- Writing Center
Irish Writing Center - Poetry
Forum for contemporary poetry.
Ressources
- Overview
Overview of Irish literature on the internet. - IASIL
Extensive collections of links for research (et alii literature databases) of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures - CELT: Electronic texts
Irish literature to read online or download.
Culture
Music
- Ceolas
Overview and information on Celtic music. - The Cranberries official Website
Official homepage of the Cranberries. - U2
Official homepage of U2. - The Sinéad O´Connor Site
Official homepage of Sinéad o´Connor. - New Model Army
Official homepage of the New Model Army. - Pogue Mahone
Official homepage of The Pogues.
Films
- Irish film history
Brief outline of Irish film history, with links and information on individual movies. - Internet Movie Data Base
Irish films, in alphabetical order with all the necessary information.
Theatre
- Abbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre in Dublin - Lyric Theatre
The Lyric Theatre in Belfast
Gaelic
- Gaelic Texts
Collection of Gaelic texts. Attention: everything in Gaelic! - GälischKurs
Gaelic course of Thomas Feito Caldas at the VHS Saarbrücken, with pronounciation examples for individual phonemes and interesting introduction to the Gaelic language.
Studies and Jobs
- Immigration office
Important information on the immigration to Ireland.
Universities
- Übersicht
Education and career information portal. - Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork
- National University of Ireland Galway
- St. Patrick's College, Maynooth
- University of Ulster
Libraries
Volunteering
- National Centre for Volunteering
General information on volunteering, description of nonprofit projects, but also specific contacts. - Voluntary Service Belfast
Volunteering in Northern Ireland. - NI Children's Enterprise
Volunteering in schools and youth projects. - DFSR
Working as an AuPair.
Jobs
- Irish Jobs
Many job offers in divers sectors. - Job Finder
Good categories, no offers for the gastronomy sector. - Summer Jobs
Summer Jobs of every colour. - Corporate Skills
Job offers for the IT-sector.
Miscellanea
- Irish Names
Collection of Irish names. - Ponies
Irish ponies. - Guinness
The country's most famous beer. - Baileys
And the adequate liqueur. - Kerry Gold
Ireland's famour butter.