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Research Resources

Full-Text Online Sources

Early English Books Online (EEBO): EEBO is a vast collection of printed material from 1475-1700 in electronic format containing over 125,000 individual full-text titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): ECCO provides access to digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the eighteenth century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the database allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Intelex Past Masters: Coleridge: Collected Letters: the complete Oxford University Press edition of Coleridge's letters, augmented by his early family letters and the letters of his son, Hartley. The Emerging Tradition, 1500-1700: Oxford University Press editions of correspondence from important figures in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, including Elias Ashmole, Thomas Bodley, Anne Conway, Thomas Cromwell, Andrew Marvell, Dorothy Osborne, Samuel Pepys, Walter Ralegh, and Henry Wotton. The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: complete first 3 volumes of the on-going print edition of The Collected Letters published by Oxford University Press, spanning 1865-1904. In addition, the database includes all of the letters from the further 9-12 volumes of the edition, with dating information (so far as this is known), but lacking the full annotation for which the printed volumes are justly famous. A total of 7,378 new letters are featured in the database. Of these, 88 are newly discovered letters belonging to the 1865-1904 period covered by the 3 published volumes. The remaining 7,290 letters belong to the 1905-1939 period which will be published in print and with full annotation in future volumes of the edition.

Literature Online (LION): A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Women Writers Online (WWO): The electronic database produced by Brown University Women Writers Project, providing electronic editions of over 200 texts in English or in English translation, authored by women, printed between 1526 and 1845.  

Newspaper Databases

LexisNexis Professional: LexisNexis is a powerful on-line research tool offering full-text access to a wealth of news, company, legal, market research and directory sources.

Times Digital Archive: The Times Digital Archive is an online archive of every page published by The Times [London] from 1785-1985. It provides online access to one of the key resources for the study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history and culture.

Primary Research Tools

The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC): this database provides extensive bibliographical descriptions and holdings information for materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language from the beginning of printing to 1800—together with materials printed in English anywhere else in the world.

IReL: Humanities and Social Sciences. This major initiative by the HEA provides funding (c. €16 million over four years) for subscriptions to major online journals and databases. The first group includes Taylor and Frances Journals Online (1,191 full-text titles), Blackwell Synergy (319 titles), Cambridge University Press Journals Online (100) titles), and Sage Journals Online (360 titles). Subsequent additions are expected to include Project Muse, Film Index International, and the International Medieval Bibliography.

JSTOR: JSTOR is a comprehensive digital library, containing over 160 full-text journal titles.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: an illustrated collection, published in 60 volumes, of 55,000 biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all the history of the British Isles and beyond.

The English Experience: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. A collection of nearly 1,000 facsimiles of early printed books.

Special Collections

Lyric Theatre/O'Malley Collection

The papers of Pearse and Mary O’Malley of Belfast include a considerable amount of material relating to the running of the Lyric Players Theatre Company from its foundation in 1950 to the 1980s, mainly relating to the administration of the theatre and publicity for their productions. There is also material relating to Threshold, a literary journal edited by Mary O’Malley and others, including manuscript contributions and correspondence files with contributors.

Druid Theatre Company

The collection consists of files on each production (usually containing programmes, photographs and posters), as well as files of newspaper clippings relating to the Company and productions.

Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe Theatre

Collection of material relation to the administration of the Irish-language Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe Theatre and publicity for their productions, 1928 to the present.

John McGahern Archive

Literary papers of the Irish novelist and short-story writer John McGahern, currently in cataloguing