You have reached an extremely old and obsolete file, which I've retained for historical/nostalgia reasons only. See IrishNet (http://ceolas.org/IrishNet/) for some links to more recent Irish resource guides. Ireland-Related On-Line Resources Version: 9 September 1994 Contributors: F. Murtagh (fmurtagh@eso.org) J. Desbonnet (joe@epona.physics.ucg.ie) L. Relihan (relihanl@ul.ie) P. Waldron (pwaldron@otto.tcd.ie) P. Murphy (pmurphy@orangutan.cv.nrao.edu) G. Manning (ceolas@celtic.stanford.edu) Purpose: This is a list of network-accessible on-line resources (documents, images, information, access mechanisms for off-line material, etc.) of Irish interest. Coverage includes some Bulletin Board services, some commercial information systems such as CompuServe and commercial bibliographic services, and principally the Internet. Most Internet addresses are given as URLs. Order of topics is arbitrary. Corrections, additions and updates to one of the above or to fmurtagh@eso.org. Acronyms used: TBD 'To Be Determined', URL 'Universal Resource Locator'. Section Headings: Contact Information Personal Internet Access Flags and Maps Government Financial, Banks Sport Transport Genealogy Universities, Educational Institutes, R&D Companies Official Documents Newspapers On-Line Current Weather Images Press/Journalists Email Contact Addresses Literature On-Line Irish Gaelic Language Information Libraries Music Tourism, Geography Museums and Galleries On-Line TV and Radio On-Line Bookstores in Ireland Listservers and Usenet Newsgroups Northern Ireland Contact Information X.500 directory. Names and addresses of individuals in a range of university and company organisations. URL: gopher://granuaile.ieunet.ie:7777/1Mc%3dIE Irish University Contact Points - telephone numbers, postal addresses, general email addresses. URL: http://www.ieunet.ie/irish_info/university_contacts.html Bulletin boards in Ireland: "The Definitive Irish Bulletin Board Listing", a listing of public access BBS systems, is maintained by TOPPSI on an occasional basis. See: ftp://celtic.stanford.edu/pub/misc/Irl.BBS Includes: Connect-Ireland (section within is TOPPSI), speeds V21/V21-VFast/22/22bis/ 23/32/HST, 24 hrs, tel. +353-1-6711047, and speeds V21/22/22bis/32/32bis/ CSP, 24 hrs, tel. +353-1-6773547. Subscribers have email addresses @toppsi.gn.apc.org Email or enquiries can be sent to director@toppsi.gn.apc.org Material available includes: Irish political database with all Irish politicians (TDs, Senators, Councillors, UD Councillors, Town Commissioners, etc.), Irish Constitution, registered political party constitutions, details of political party organisations, EU political database, social agency databse, migration database, sports and education database, listing of Irish social services, files on social benefits, Irish social and community organisations. Currently adding about 120 files per week on Irish-related matters. Subscription: Pds 25 for full access (Pds 15 if under 25 years of age and not in full-time employment). APS-approved BBS, and EFF Member. (Voice tel: +353 1 6711687, 09:00-17:00, fax: +353 1 6773552, postal: TOPPSI, c/o 20 Mark Street, Dublin 2.) InfoNet Services, speed V21/22/22bis/32/32bis, 24 hrs, tel: +353-21-892582, and tel: +353-21-294914 This BBS list is posted in the European Forum in CompuServe. CompuServe: an Irish section was started in the European Forum in late June 1994. Irish Minitel: Minitel, IPC House, Shelbourne Road. Minitel is available at up to 2400 baud currently. Services on Minitel (e.g. access to ECHO databases) are provided by Amdex Systems, IDA Business Center, Tallaght Business Park, Whitestown, Dublin 24. Tel: +353 1 4599491, fax: +353 1 4590395 Personal Internet Access IEunet Ltd., Innovation Centre, TCD, Dublin 2. Email: info@ieunet.ie, fax: +353 1 679-8039, tel: +353 1 671-9361, +353 1 679-0832 URL: http://www.ieunet.ie/index.html See also EUnet at: anonymous FTP to ftp.eu.net, Gopher to gopher.eu.net, WWW to http://www.eu.net/Traveller/ or telnet to traveller.eu.net (login name is 'new'). Ireland On-Line, Galway. Can offer WWW, Gopher, etc. services to companies, clubs, etc. Contact: sales@iol.ie or tel: +353 91 592727. URL: http://www.iol.ie/IOL-HOME.html (Ireland On-Line Home Page). Local dial-in service in Galway and Dublin. Gopher: gopher://gopher.iol.ie. Genesis Project Ltd., URL http://www.gpl.net Internet Eireann. Tel: +353 1 278-1060. Flags and Maps Irish flag GIF images are available at: http://www.adfa.oz.au//CS/flg/col/none/Index.html Also at http://orangutan.cv.nrao.edu/irish.html and ftp://orangutan.cv.nrao.edu/pub/images/pmurphy/irish_flag.gif The Xerox web server http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map can be used with appropriate options to generate a map of Ireland with rivers and lakes. Government Education - First and Second Level: TBD National Statistics: CIA World Factbook URL: http://www.research.att.com/cgi-wald/dbaccess/411?key=118 Personal homepages of President, Taoiseach, Ministers, TDs, Senators, MEPs: TBD Financial, Banks Currency rates, updated weekly: URL: http://www.ora.com/cgi-bin/ora/currency ("GNN TC Internet Resources -- Currency"). This provides conversion rates for about 52 currencies. Clicking on Irish Pounds provides the value of this, in these currencies. Exchange rates, Dublin Interbank Market rates, business news: see Irish Emigrant under 'Newspapers'. Bank of Ireland Trinity Branch. http://www.webnet.ie/cust/boi/index.html Sport A Gaelic football WWW server is at URL http://jupiter.qub.ac.uk/michael/Gaelic.html (maintained by Michael McGrath, mmcgrath@cix.complink.co.uk). See 'Irish Emigrant' under newspapers: extensive sport reporting is included. A League of Ireland soccer mailing list, loisoccer@maths.tcd.ie, is maintained by thomas@maths.tcd.ie Transport Rail, bus, airline time schedules: Limerick Bus Timetable: http://itdsrv1.ul.ie/CSIS/bus-timetable.html Booking and ticket purchase: TBD Travel advisories, traffic information: US State Department Travel Advisory: ftp://info.umd.edu/inforM/Educational_Resources/United_States/ Government/TravelAdvisories/ireland Genealogy A discussion of sources of information, on-line databases, newsgroups, census data, shareware software, etc. URL: http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/genealogy.html The Genealogy Forum on CompuServe has an Irish/Celtic section. Do GO ROOTS to access this Forum. Universities, Educational Institutes, R&D Companies Information on university departments is uneven. The following lists departments with a practically nothing, to very good, quantity of information. Access may be made via the clickable map at http://itdsrv1.ul.ie/Information/ServerMapIreland.html Another clickable map is available at http://wombatix.physics.ucg.ie/misc/wwwirlmap.html A list of commercial and other Irish WWW sites is at URL http://www.broadcom.ie/irish.html TCD: Computer Science Department, School of Mathematics, Economics Department, IEunet Ltd. Internet Services, Student Computing Research Group (Computer Science Department), Distributed Systems Group (Computer Science Department). Staff contact information. Also: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/index.html , Mathematics. And: http://www.bess.tcd.ie, Business Economics and Social Studies. UCD: An overall scheme has been set up, but practically no information apart from a gopher-based searchable name index. The Classics Association of Ireland have classics-related articles available: access through Gopher at gopher.ucd.ie. UCC: Campus-wide information system: URL http://curia.ucc.ie/webentry.html. Email newsletter for graduates via UCCORK-L at the listserv listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie UCG: Library. See also Guide to UCG available through "Wombat Research Home Page", URL http://wombatix.physics.ucg.ie/ UL: Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Natural Language Processing Directory for Ireland, SIFT (Selecting Information From Text) project, library. http://itdsrv1.ul.ie/pub/webac/home-page.html HEA: Practically no information. DCU: School of Computer Applications, Centre for Software Engineering National Institute for Management Technology (NIMT), Cork. URL: http://www.nimt.rtc-cork.ie/nimt.htm Iona Technologies. Broadcom. http://www.broadcom.ie. Ireland Online. IEunet. WebNet Technologies. http://www.webnet.ie/index.html. Official Documents "Joint Declaration on Peace", A. Reynolds and J. Major, 15 Dec. 1993. URL http://www.bess.tcd.ie/dclrtn.html Statement by A. Reynolds on "Joint Declaration on Peace", 15 Dec. 1993 URL http://www.bess.tcd.ie/albert.html The Irish Consitution (in English). URL: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/Constitution/index.html National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann - text in Gaelic and English. URL: http://www.bess.tcd.ie/anthem.html The Maastricht Treaty - text. URL: gopher://fatty.law.cornell/edu/11/foreign/maastricht Newspapers On-Line "The Irish Emigrant", editor Liam Ferrie. Approximately 1000 lines, distributed by email every Monday. Subscriptions IRL 25 (US$ 35) to ferrie@iol.ie Past issues are archived at file://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/irish-emigrant A full archive of more recent issues is accessible via Ireland OnLine at gopher://gopher.iol.ie/11s/emigrant. "The Irish Times". Selected articles (?) are available in the FT (Financial Times) bibliographic databases, available through ESA-IRS (European Space Agency ESRIN Information Retrieval Service). Contact for ESA-IRS: ESA-IRS, ESRIN, Via Galileo Galilei, I-00044 Frascati. Tel: +39 6 941801, fax: +39 6 94180361. Some articles also available from IEunet, using the URL http://granuaile.ieunet.ie/ois/irishtimes/ Current Weather Images Available through "Wombat Research Home Page", at URL http://wombatix.physics.ucg.ie/ Weather GIFs and short-term forecast available in Weather area on CompuServe (at least for Dublin). Press/Journalists Email Contact Addresses Irish Emigrant, ferrie@iol.ie (Liam Ferrie) Irish Times, computimes@irish-times.ie (Fiachra O Marcaigh) Late Late Show (RTE), latelate@iol.ie Literature On-Line The Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae project. Texts currently available are: Aisling Óenguso, and The Annals of the Four Masters, Annala Riogachta Eireann, 1589-1616. Latter: different file for each year. URL: http://curia.ucc.ie/curia/texts.html Poetry by Seamus Heaney is available at the Gaelic and Gaelic Culture site, URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaelic/gaelic.html Irish Gaelic Language Information See elsewhere for gaelic-l list, and archives. Also see elsewhere for music resources. A site with access to various such resources is 'Gaelic and Gaelic Culture' at URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaelic/gaelic.html. Anonymous ftp to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/academic/languages/gaelic. Libraries James Hardiman Library, UCG, Galway. OPAC, Druid Theater archives, library staff. URL: http://140.203.12.10/. Includes links to OPACs in TCD, UCD, Boole/UCC, TRANTOR/DCU, URICA/UL, SPC/Maynooth, darcy/UCG. Music Celtic-related music: http://celtic.stanford.edu/ceolas.html Comprehensive coverage, including calendars of events, and TV and radio shows in US and Canada. Digital Tradition Folk Song Full Text Search URL: http://web2.xerox.com/digitrad Pointers to places on the Internet relevant to celtic (traditional) music: http://celtic.stanford.edu/pub/Internet_Sources.html and http://orangutan.cv.nrao.edu/irish.html Tourism, Geography Complete Guide to Galway. URL: http://wombatix.physics.ucg.ie/galway/galway.html Museums and Galleries On-Line TBD TV and Radio NPR (National Public Radio, USA) radio stations that carry the Thistle and Shamrock program of celtic music. Connection through: URL: http://orangutan.cv.nrao.edu/thistle.html Celtic radio shows in the US and Canada. URL: ftp://celtic.stanford.edu/pub/radio.list Experimental project to provide sound files (.au) containing parts of programs from RTE Radio 1. http://orangutan.cv.nrao.edu/sounds/Rte/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/languages/gaelic/rte/ ftp://pell.anu.edu.au/pub/obrien/latest.au . Email address of Late Late Show (RTE): latelate@iol.ie On-Line Bookstores in Ireland Kenny's of Galway: URL: http://www.iol.ie/resource/kennys/welcome.html Classical Ireland, Galway. Mail-order of books and Ireland-related material: classire@iol.ie Listservers and Usenet Newsgroups gaelic-l An Leabharlann Leictreonach, electronic library. Gaelic fonts, language lessons, archived gaelic-l messages: gopher://irlearn.ucd.ie/1List/GAELIC-L (not currently working) http://www.bess.tcd.ie/yeats.html Subscribe to gaelic-l at listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie Typically about 10 messages per day. irl-net Research-related topics (and miscellaneous things). Subscribe to irl-net at listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie Typically 1 or 2 messages per week. irl-pol@irlearn.ucd.ie Irish politics. Subscribe to irl-pol at listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie celtic-l@irlearn.ucd.ie Celtic list. Subscribe to celtic-l at listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie ireland@rutvm1.rutgers.edu Ireland (mainly politics). Subscribe to ireland at listserv@rutvm1.rutgers.edu Celtic linguist list: celtling@mit.edu Contact: Andrew H. Carnie, carnie@mit.edu Irish studies list: irish-studies@cc.swarthmore.edu Contact: Michael Durkan, mdurkan1@cc.swarthmore.edu Subscribe via listserv@cc.swarthmore.edu irl-news@rutvm1.rutgers.edu Mainly Northern Ireland oriented, strong IRA slant. Subscribe via listserv@rutvm1.rutgers.edu Usenet newsgroup: soc.culture.celtic (URL: news:soc.culture.celtic). Usenet newsgroup: rec.music.celtic (URL: news:rec.music.celtic) UCCORK-L monthly newsletter from University College Cork, subscribe from the irlearn.ucd.ie listserv IRTRAD-L mailing list on Irish Traditional Music, and IRTRAD-D, a monthly newsletter consisting mainly of postings to that list. Averages 20-30 messages per day. Northern Ireland University of Ulster INCORE [Joint International Program on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, a project of the United Nations University and the University of Ulster] WWW Service: URL: http://dsets.ulst.ac.uk/gill.html Information on Northern Ireland. Includes information on education system, social sciences, and sociological aspects of Northern Ireland. URL: http://193.61.139.3/ni\ni.htm See also under Universities, above, for Northern Irish universities: - UU - QUB This page last updated: see version information at top. 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