Text search

This text search covers five different categories:

1. item data (title or first line of item, additional information) from the Main Manuscript Collection
2. schools’ data (school name, location, teacher’s name, school roll number) from the Schools’ Collection
3. story data (title or first line of story, names and professions of informants and collectors, addresses in the form of a logainm.ie ID number) from the Schools’ Collection
4. the text of transcribed stories from the Schools’ Collection provided by Meitheal Dúchas.ie
5. photograph data (archival information, additional information, archival reference) from the Photographic Collection

You can switch from category to category by using the tabs above the results.

Please note that this is not a ‘clever’ search. It does not recognise inflected or derived forms (a search for ‘year’ will not return ‘years’) and variant spellings of words are not recognised (a search for ‘centre’ will not return ‘center’). The * symbol can be used at the end of a search term to search all words beginning with that search term; for example, ‘folk*’ will find ‘folklore’, ‘folktale’ etc.

Accent marks (‘fadas’) are ignored in the search.

You can search among surname clusters here.