The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Irish (Celtic) Texts

Includes illuminated medieval manuscripts.

See also Literature: General Works, and literature time periods..

• Celt Digital, the Celtic World on the Web. Created in October 1999 as a student project, the author is a librarian. Includes links to many full-text resources. Date added: 2002-08-18.
• Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP). London, UK: University College London: Department of History and the Institute of Archaeology. The project intends to document inscribed stones in " Celtic-speaking regions of the early middle ages, (Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, the Isle of Man, and parts of western England, in the period approximately AD 400-1100). Included are all stone monuments inscribed with text, whether in the Celtic vernacular or Latin, in the Roman alphabet or ogham (but excluding runic inscriptions)." A detailed database includes digital facsimiles of transcripts from stones or images of the stones themselves. A links list leads to other similar projects. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) (University of College Cork and Boole Library) is " the online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics" . The site includes a page of links to other digital libraries with an emphasis on those relevant to Ireland.
• Meamram Páipéar Ríomhaire (Irish Script on Screen). Dublin, Ireland: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Hosted by the School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University. Bilingual interface: Gaelic and English. Digital facsimiles of Celtic manuscripts from the Royal Irish Academy, Mount Melleray Abbey, Trinity College Dublin, Coláiste na Rinne, and the National Library of Ireland. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• The Thomas MacGreevy Archive. Susan Schreibman. Charlottesville, Virginia: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia. " MacGreevy (1893-1967), poet, critic, translator, art historian and Director of the National Gallery of Ireland (1950-1963), is one of the pivotal figures of Irish Modernism." Site includes works encoded in SGML by or about MacGreevy, along with an online encyclopedia. Date added: 2002-09-08.

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