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- 100 Irish Surnames Explained - Genealogy starter guide, including most common names, coats of arms, shop, links and communication facilities.
www.ireland-information.com/heraldichall/irishsurnames.htm
- BBC Online - Northern Ireland History - Portal site examining history throughout the 20th century, including the World War II and features on the Troubles. Features multimedia items from the decades of the 20th century.
www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/history
- BBC: Key events in Northern Ireland history - A special report from 1998 on the BBC News website, dealing with some key events in the history of Northern Ireland.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/northern_ireland/newsid_10000/10657.stm
- Cruithni, Ulster History - A brief illustrated history of Ulster, with suggested books for further reading.
www.cruithni.org.uk/index.html
- Linen Hall Library United Irish Website - History sources for the period 1791-1803, held in the Irish and Local History Collections of the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. Features articles from the newspapers and periodicals of the day, extracts from polemical pamphlets, correspondence of the primary participants, and contemporary illustrations and maps.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/linenhall/Home__Welcome_/home__welcome_.html
- The Belfast Blitz - BBC Northern Ireland's collection of pictures, audio, video and personal accounts of the terrible experience of one city's citizens - men, women and children - when a world war came to them.
www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/belfastblitz
- The Ireland Story - History of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day, supplemented with maps, and sections on the Troubles, the Omagh Bomb and the Famine.
www.irelandstory.com
- The James Harshaw Diaries - A description of the Diaries and of people of Counties Down and Armagh in the mid-1800s. Also includes an account of John Martin, Young Irelander.
www.theballards.net/Harshaw/index.html
- The Linen Trail - Summary of the development of flax and linen world wide, and in the British Isles. Includes a section on Limavady and Northwest.
www.angelfire.com/biz7/robert20016
- The Somme Heritage Centre - The First World War shaped the world we live in today, and nowhere more than in Ireland. Nearly a quarter of a million Ulster/Irish men and women served in the armed forces and in the factories.
www.telinco.co.uk/NorthernIreland/ndown/somme
- Ulster Cruithin - Timeline, brief biographies, and other information about Irish Ulster, the home of the Ui Neill and St. Columba.
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/martin_sloan/cruit.htm
- Ulsterlink.net - Offering genealogy articles and information along with books and resources.
www.ulsterlink.net
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