| (M) = Microform (P) = Photographic Reproduction |
| Directories / Annual Registers |
- Annual Register or Review of the history etc. 1758-1830
- Thoms 1838 to date (some microfilm)
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- Irishman 1819-1825 (M)
- The Nation 1842-1852 (M)
- Kingstown Evening Gazette, Kingstown Evening Journal, Bray Gazette 1850s-1870s (M)
- Irish People (Dublin & New York) 1863-1872 (M)
- Irish Times & Irish Independent (Irish Civil War era) (M)
- Irish Times 1859-1902 (M)
- Irish Times 1981 to date (M)
- Dublin / Irish Builder 1859-1930 (M)
Also selected front pages from pro-treaty, anti-treaty, and Communist Party papers during the Irish Civil War. |
| Minutes of Township of Dún Laoghaire, then Urban District of Dún Laoghaire, then Borough of Dún Laoghaire, then Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. 1888 to date.
Registers of electors 1942-1973. |
Collection includes:
- Price Survey 1730 (P)
- John Rocque's Survey 1760 (P)
- Nimmo's Charts 1823 (P)
- Dargan's Maps 1830
- Architectural Drawings of Martello Towers(P)
- Irish Civil War Manoeuvres / Maps (P)
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View of Killiney Hill & Bay from the Obelisk,
Drawn for Gaskin's "Irish Varieties" (1869) |
- Lawrence (NLI) and O'Connor (NLI) collections relating to the local area (P)
- Civil War Collection (Ireland 1922-1923) - scenes from Dublin, Kerry & Cork (P)
- Harbour collection - views, maps, charts and manuscripts relating to Dún Laoghaire Harbour and its construction (P)
- Prints and drawings of the Dún Laoghaire area (17th & 18th centuries) (P)
- Royal visit by King George IV in 1821 (P)
- Karl Marx collection (P)
- 1848 collection - leaders of Young Ireland, scenes from Ballingarry, etc. (P)
- Current photographs of the county from the 1960s to date.
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| The Department holds a large collection relating to both Ireland in general and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown in particular. Examples include rare editions such as Grose's Antiquities of Ireland (1791), and Warburton's History of the City of Dublin (1818). Events of national importance e.g. 1798, the Famine, casualties in the Great War, etc. are also covered. |
| The Acts of the Oireachtas (Irish Government), from the foundation of the State (1922) to date. Dáil Debates (Irish Parliament) from 1994 to date. Seanad Debates (Upper House) from 1994 to date. The collection also includes selected government reports. |
| The files cover all aspects of the history of the county, and are continuously updated with material from current publications, newspapers, and historical journals. They also include a series of audio cassettes containing interviews with, and lectures by local historians. |
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