Ireland in Ulysses
Here you will find material and links to other websites on the Ireland of James Joyce and Ulysses (1870-1914). During this period, Ireland was a constituent part of the United Kingdom. Prior to the Act of Union, effective January 1, 1801, Ireland was nominally a separate kingdom with the sovereign of Great Britain its head of state.
Pages on Major Tweedy's Neighborhood
The Church of Ireland and Its Disestablishment
Population Density, Census 1901
Download from Major Tweedy's Neighborhood
Arlen's Chart of Irish History
Timeline of Irish history created in 1913 by Charles R. Arlen. Begins at 1699 B.C. Includes an index. The chart is in a high resolution, 2.3 MB pdf file, Arlens_Chart.pdf. You'll need to set the view magnification to 200% in order to read the material. Obtained from the Internet Archive.
Because the pdf page is very large, it's best not to view it in your browser.
Links to Other Websites
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The Victorian Web
"The Victorian Web is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. Originally begun back in 1987 as a means of helping scholars and students to see connections between different fields, the site today has greatly expanded the kinds of connections one can find. The site now receives 1.5 million page views a month." Material lent to the website and images from museums, commercial galleries, and owners generally may not be used for commercial purposes. See website's terms of use.
Table of contents page with multiple links.
Essay by Marjie Bloy.
Page from the archived online exhibition of The National Archive's 1901: Living at the Time of the Census. Note that "all content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated."
"The age of Ulysses" by Daniel Mulhall. An open-access article on the website of History Ireland, a general readership magazine.
Virginia Crossman's article "The Poor Law in Ireland, 1838-1848," History in Focus 14 (Winter 2008). This online magazine was published by the University of London's Institute of Historical Research.
Home page for material on Ireland in 1904, presented by Dublin City Public Libraries. From Ask About Ireland, the website of the Cultural Heritage Project. The project is "an initiative of public libraries together with local museums and archives in the digitisation and online publication of the original, the unusual and the unique material from their local studies' collections to create a national Internet resource for culture." Note that users must acknowledge that the contents of Ask About Ireland will not be extracted or re-utilised for any competing or commercial purpose without the written consent of Libraries Development, Local Government Management Agency (LGMA). LGMA is an agency of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Republic of Ireland.
Documents on Other Websites
All the books are in .pdf files and are fully readable; the map is in a .jpg. To download a file, click on the document name or its website icon. The file will open from the other website in a new browser window. See Download Instructions if you're unfamiliar with the archival website.
Twenty-Fourth Edition (London: Black, 1906). From the Internet Archive.
William F. Wakema (Dublin: Official Guide, Ltd., c. 1895). From the Hathi Trust. Hathi Partner login required to download the full document.
Patrick Weston Joyce (New York: Murphy & McCarthy, 1905). Includes The General History by A.M. Sullivan and continued by P.D. Nunan. From the Internet Archive.
Patrick Weston Joyce (London: Longmans, Green, 1919). From the Hathi Trust. Hathi Partner login required to download the full document.
Prepared by the Viceregal Commission on Irish Railways. From Wikimedia Commons. In seven jpg files, each with a different resolution. The highest resolution file, 3,063 x 4,167 pixels, is 0.9 MB.
