The
Irish Emigration Database (IED)
The Irish Emigration Database is a computerised collection of primary source
documents on Irish emigration to North America (USA and Canada) in the 18th
and 19th centuries. It contains a variety of original material including emigrant
letters, newspaper articles, shipping advertisements, shipping news, passenger
lists, official government reports, family papers, births deaths and marriages
and extracts from books and periodicals. The project is ongoing and is a vital research resource for historians,
teachers, students and genealogists with interests relating to Irish emigration
to North America.
Currently the Irish Emigration Database is available through the Centre for Migration Studies, the Public Records Office Northern Ireland (PRONI) and in Northern Ireland libraries through the Local Studies Departments and public access terminals in the branch libraries. We have temporarily withdrawn individual access because the system is no longer able to support the current volume of use.
