University College Dublin has created the Irish Virtual Research
Library and Archives or IVRLA for short. It is a digital library
for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The website says that
IVRLA “draws on the extensive resources of archival and rare
material held in University College Dublin, and allows
researchers to access this material in a digitized format…” They
have divided the information into collections that can be
browsed or searched and research projects. You need the program
Djvu to view the images in IVRLA. Under the tab called
Collections it is noted that there are restrictions on three
Questionnaires relating to the Irish Famine, Emigration to
America and Tinkers (Travellers). You need to be a member of UCD
to access these pages but all is not lost. You can download an
application from the National Folklore Collection research page
and then contact the National Folklore Collection directly to
apply for access. Under Collections there are twenty five
different collections to research. The Pap