TARA or Trinity’s Access to Research Archive is now available to the public. You can access the publications written by Trinity’s researchers and scholars.
You can browse by Academic/Research Units & Collections, Title, Author, By Date of Publication and Subject.
I started by going in and searching for History under the title category. Several topics within that search criteria were found. There was history, Ireland, Irish, art, architecture, economics, society, sports and leisure, statistical analysis, census and painting.
The first article I found was read on 9 January 1919 and written about the aims and achievements from 1847 to 1919 of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. Click on the heading and a page which describes the article is found. In a small blue box under the description you will find the link to click so that you can download the file in Adobe PDF.
Now I did find that there were some items that were not open to the general public. I found an intriguing reference called “’Kali sucker’ – – sherbert and liquorice – – 1950s sweets”
This brought back some childhood memories so I clicked on the reference to find out what it was about. The link was connected to a painting in the Modern and Contemporary Irish Art Collection which has a digital collection. When I clicked on view/open I was required to log in before I could view the image. Since I do not have a Trinity username or password I was not able to view the online image.
There is no information relating specifically to genealogy but if you are looking for some background information to your research or trying to understand a particular time in history better, you may find something to help you here.
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