Ireland : reference
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Searching for an Irish website? Try:

SearchingIreland is Ireland's most powerful search engine with award winning software, providing the most relevant sites in a simple and easy to understand manner.

• Doras Index, the best guide to Irish internet sites, has excellent reviews of all the sites it provides: http://doras.tinet.ie/Doras.nsf/Index

• Browseireland (a directory of Irish sites, "the complete guide to everything Irish") facilitates searching the web by offering links to all major search engines from the same page: http://www.browseireland.com/aaa.htm

• Niceone (Ireland’s internet directory): http://www.niceone.com

• Ireland Today and Infosite Ireland provide a wide-ranging guide to Ireland: http://www.infosites. net

• Global Irish: http://globalirish.com

• Emigrant Online: online website of the Irish Emigrant; news of Ireland for the Irish diaspora http://www.emigrant.ie/

• Alternative Ireland has links to radical websites and to the current issues of the English newspapers the Guardian and the Observer: http://www.alternative-ireland.com

• The Swift Guide to Ireland: http://swift.kerna.com/

Irish Resources on the Internet: 

• The Glendale Community College in Southern California maintains a most intesting and regularly updated "Irish and Celtic Resources on the Internet"which is available at: http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/irish.html

• The Irish Abroad website (http://www.IrishAbroad.com) supplies lots of valuable information about Ireland and all tings Irish. Its Irish Site Directory is most useful too.

• The Information about Ireland Site provides a lot of reference information and free history reports (The Irish Famine, The 1798 Rebellion, The Easter Rising): http://www.ireland-information.com

• The Irish Web Server Map: http://slarti.ucd.ie/maps/ireland.html

Maps of Ireland

• http://users.bigpond.com/kirwilli/maps/maps.htm
 

Basic and tourist information about Ireland

• A glossary of terms and acronyms in daily use in Ireland is available at: http://www.emigrant.ie/emigrant/glossary.htm

• The Information about Ireland Site has a lot of online research information on Ireland (land and people, the Irish state, Ireland in the world, the economy, services, culture etc.): http://www.ireland-information.com

• Go Ireland, Ireland’s National Tourism service: http://www.goireland.ie

• Ireland on the Net (map, physical location, physical characteristics, history) [most of the information is taken from Encarta]: http://ireland.iol.ie/~dluby/index.htm
 

Statistical information on the Republic of Ireland

• The Central Statistics Office (CSO)’s "principal statistics" section, a mine of information about contemporary Ireland, is available at: http://www.cso.ie/principlestats/pristat2.html

• Information about Ireland site: http://www.ireland-information.com

• Basic social statistics, regularly updated, provided by UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/statis/Country_1Page82.html
 
Irish Sports

• http://users.bigpond.com/kirwilli/sports/sports.htm

Irish Jokes

Irish jokes: an alternative website: http://www.users.bigpond.com/kirwilli/jokes/jokes.htm

Irish Film

Irish Films. http://www.irishfilm.net/index.html A website dedicated entirely to Irish films and which may be searched by Title, Year, Director or Category (IRA, for example).

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