I just received this information and thought I should pass it on to the list since many of us have some connection to Ireland. All the Best, Mary Cameron Subject: Dippam web resource I'm writing to you about a new, free, web resource we will be launching here at Queen's University this month, which may be of interest to your members. The resource is a searchable virtual library called 'DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland - Parliament, People and Migration', and it brings together into an accessible form and enhances three existing resources - EPPI - the Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1800-1922; the IED - Irish Emigration Database, containing runs of emigrant letters, newspaper extracts and other emigration-related materials for the 18th-early 20th centuries; and VMR - Voices of Migration and Return - a collection of 90 interviews with 20th century Ulster migrants. This resource has been created by a collaboration between Queen's University Belfast, University of Ulster, the Centre for Migration Studies (Omagh) and Libraries NI, and funded by the AHRC, and can be accessed via the webpage http://www.dippam.ac.uk . The resource will be fully operational from about 9 March, and we have a number of regional workshops scheduled this month and a launch event at QUB on 21 March. I'd be very grateful if you could put this information in your newsletter and perhaps also on your webpage News section. I'm attaching a pdf flyer which it would be very helpful if you could circulate to your mailing list (if convenient). Please don't hesitate to email me if you'd like any further information on the project. Yours Peter Gray Professor Peter Gray Head of School and Professor of Modern Irish History School of History and Anthropology Queen's University Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN N. Ireland http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropo