Country Profiles: Ireland

Ireland

Government-Sponsored Resources and Diplomatic Information

• Statistics on Ireland: CIA World Factbook
• US Embassy in Dublin
• Embassy of Ireland in Washington, D.C.
• Government of Ireland official web sites

International Organizations and Development Programs

• Ireland and the IMF The IMF's Ireland Country Page with links to articles

Internet Resources: General

• Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Links to Irish Internet Resources The best collection of internet resources on Ireland
• History of Ireland: Primary Documents BYU site to historical documents
• WESS Web: Western European Specialists Section hosted by the University of Virginia library
• The Northern Ireland Office Website The Secretary of State's office; information on government
• Travel to Ireland The Lonely Planet guide to travel in Ireland
• Gaelic Web Resources

Internet Resources: Culture, Literature and Language

• Learning Irish Irish lessons online from "The Irish People"
• Gramadach Lexicon Online Irish Gaelic dictionary. May print out individual words with declensions
• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts Modern and medieval Irish online literary text database created by the University of Cork
• International James Joyce Foundation Hosted by Ohio State University. Information about foundation and internet resources
• Art Guide A guide to museums, collections and exhibits in Ireland and Britain
• Gaelic online dictionaries
• Language Resource Page A page of links to information on distance learning and technology resources, traditional language study programs (including those that offer instruction in less commonly taught languages) and other general language study resources.

Online News Sites and Servers

• The Irish Times Online version of this daily newspaper and searchable archive
• The Irish News Daily news from this Belfast newspaper
• Northern Ireland News Various publications in Northern Ireland
• RTE Online National broadcaster offering Real Audio news and music programs online
• Web Radio International hear broadcasts from countries all over the world

Academic and Fellowship Information

• EAP Study Abroad Programs UC study abroad in Ireland
• Trinity College Homepage of Trinity College, Dublin. Online database of library holdings
• Fulbright Fellowships for dissertation and postdoctoral research
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies Information on fellowships for Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences
• SSRC/ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships: support for dissertation research in humanities and social sciences in all areas and regions of the world
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships For dissertation research in humanities and social sciences
• UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies Fellowships for dissertation research, predissertation research travel, and UC faculty research
• Columbia University's Council for European Studies has information about fellowships for Western and Central Europe
• Library Servers via WWW Libraries from over 90 countries, updated daily. Sponsored by UC Berkeley library and Sun Microsystems

Ireland is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland which covers five sixths of the island and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the northeastern sixth of the island. The population of the island is approximately 5.7 million people, most of whom live on the east coast.