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National Library of Ireland

Archive-It Partner Since: Sep, 2018

Organization Type: National Institutions

Organization URL: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections/web-archive   

Description:

The National Library of Ireland is the library of record for Ireland. Each year we archive hundreds of websites relating to a variety of aspects of Irish life, from education, to politics and elections, public sector, to music, sport, science and technology, the Irish language and global events.

These websites are essential to collect and preserve as a record of contemporary Irish life. We archive these materials in the public interest and make them available for the purposes of research and private study.

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20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

Archived since: Feb, 2023

Description:

In 2018, the NLI undertook a crawl to mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Government Politics & Elections Northern Ireland,  Politics

By Election 2019

Archived since: Nov, 2019

Description:

Collection containing websites and social media relating to the By- Election held on the 29th November 2019.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Society & Culture Government By-Election,  Politics

By Election 2021

Archived since: Jun, 2021

Description:

A By-Election was held on the 8 July 2021 in Dublin Bay South to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy. The By-Election was won by Labour candidate Ivana Bacik. This collection includes the websites of candidates running in the election. All candidates were considered for inclusion in the collection, however, only those who had websites could be included. Social media accounts could not be included due to technical reasons. It also includes websites of online-only news websites, TheJournal.ie and Tuairisc. It also includes the website of RTE News.

Subject:   Government Government - Counties Politics & Elections,  Politics ,  Election

By Elections 2014

Archived since: Apr, 2023

Description:

On the 10th October 2014, by elections were held. Vacancies arose in Dublin South West following the election of Brian Hayes, Fine Gael TD, to the European Parliament and also in Roscommon-South Leitrim constituency following the election of Independent TD Luke “Ming” Flanagan to the European Parliament. Paul Murphy, Anti Austerity Alliance, was elected in Dublin South West and Michael Fitzmaurice, Independent, was elected in Roscommon South Leitrim.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Government - Counties Politics & Elections Elections,  Politics

Fine Gael Leadership Election 2017

Archived since: Feb, 2023

Description:

In 2017, the leader of Fine Gael, Enda Kenny, announced his departure from his position as leader of Fine Gael and therefore his position as Taoiseach. In late May and early June 2017, two senior Fine Gael TDs, Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney launched their bid for leadership. It was the first time that a new electoral procedure was used to elect a party leader. Members of the parliamentary party accounted for 65% of the vote, local members amounted to 25% and councillors amounted for 15%. From the 29th of May to the 2nd of June, over 25,000 members of the Fine Gael party cast their vote.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Government Politics & Elections Election,  Politics

General Election 2011

Archived since: Sep, 2022

Description:

A collection of websites relating to the General Election of 2011.

Subject:   Politics ,  Elections

General Election 2016

Archived since: Sep, 2022

Description:

A collection of websites relating to the 2016 General Election. The election was held on the 26 February 2016.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Government Politics & Elections Elections,  Politics

General Election 2020

Archived since: Jan, 2020

Description:

The 2020 Irish general election was held on Saturday 8th February. The 33rd Dáil was formed on the 27th June when Micheál Martin was elected Taoiseach and the coalition between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party was formed. This collection encompasses media sites, commentary and news websites for this period. It also includes candidate websites from each constituency. These were selected on a random basis. Each constituency is represented by two candidate websites were possible. In Laois Offaly it was not possible to archive candidate websites as they did not exist. Instead, the Twitter account of Green Party candidate, Pippa Hackett was archived. In addition, the websites of the outgoing cabinet and retiring TDs were also archived. The websites of some relevant representative groups, charities and advocacy bodies were also included in this collection. Please note that the websites of political parties, archived at this time are included in their own collection. There may also be relevant coverage of the formation of government in the Covid-19 collection.

Subject:   Society & Culture Government Politics & Elections Elections,  Politics

Labour Party Leadership Contest

Archived since: Apr, 2020

Description:

In February 2020, Labour leader Brendan Howlin announced his intention to step down as leader of the party. There were two candidates in the following leadership contest, Alan Kelly and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin. Kelly won the contest in April 2020. This collection contains the Labour party website. Please note that media coverage of this contest can be found in the Covid-19 collection.

Subject:   Politics

Local Elections 2014

Archived since: Apr, 2023

Description:

Local Elections were held on the 23rd May 2014. On the same day, the European Parliament elections and by-elections in Dublin West and Longford Westmeath were also held. They were the first elections to take place after the Local Government Reform Act 2014 had come into force which was responsible for redrawing local electoral area boundaries and the abolition of borough and town councils and the merging of some county and city councils.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Government Politics & Elections Local Authority,  Politics ,  Elections

Oireachtas Events

Archived since: Oct, 2018

Description:

Websites that record events relating to the House of the Oireachtas and politics in Ireland. It includes the website of Denis Naughten, archived when Naughten resigned as Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in 2018. Also includes the social media of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Fianna Fáil to record their partnership in 2019.

Subject:   Politics & Elections Government Society & Culture,  Politics

Political Parties

Archived since: May, 2019

Description:

A collection of Irish political party websites. Since 2019, all websites of registered political parties are collected on an annual basis.

Subject:   Politics & Elections Government Society & Culture,  Politics

Political Websites

Archived since: Mar, 2019

Description:

A collection of websites relating to politics in Ireland. This collection contains blogs and other publications discussing Irish politics.

Subject:   Politics & Elections Society & Culture,  Politics

Presidential Election 2011

Archived since: Sep, 2022

Description:

The 13th election for President of Ireland was held on October 27th 2011. It was contested by seven candidates, three of which were selected by political parties. The remaining independent candidates were nominated by county or city councils. Two constitutional referendums (Judical pay, and Oireachtas Inquiries) and a by-election for a vacant Dáil seat in the Dublin West constituency took place on the same day. The presidential candidates were as follows; Mary Davis, Sean Gallagher, Michael D. Higgins, Martin McGuinness, Gay Mitchell, David Norris and Dana Rosemary Scallon

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Society & Culture Politics & Elections,  Politics ,  Elections

Sinn Féin Leadership Election 2018

Archived since: Feb, 2023

Description:

In 2018, the NLI undertook a collection to mark the change of leadership in the Sinn Fein political party. • The website of the Sinn Fein party was included, along with the constituency website of Mary Lou McDonald. • Online commentary was also represented in this collection. The websites of the Journal, Tuairisc and the Irish examiner were archived.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Politics & Elections Spontaneous Events Election,  Politics

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