University Libraries

This guide is for researchers working on questions regarding Human Rights in Northern Ireland. 

The tabs on the side take specific subtopics in this question and offer important articles and reports, books and other help for each topic. 

The first tab for a topic will link to books; the subtab will link to articles and reports.  Some parts are still under construction.  

Start here! On this page:

• Books that consider the situation as a whole, or cover many of the topics at once
• Links to library resources and pertinent subject headings 
• Sherri Saines, Subject Librarian for the Social Sciences, your host and helper. Please just ask. 

Because  librarians have already decided the exact words they will always use to describe a thing, despite the many different ways one might express an idea.  Everything in our catalog that is about that thing will have the same string of words attached to it. 

A book about how people live in Northern Ireland will always have the subject heading, "Northern Ireland -- Social Conditions" attached to it, so clicking that subject heading takes me straight to the rest of the books on the subject, without having to imagine those 10 other ways to say that. Nifty, eh?

Some Subject Headings used in our catalog:

Political violence -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century

Social conflict -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century

Political prisoners -- Northern Ireland

Conflict management -- Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland -- Politics and Government

Victims of terrorism -- Northern Ireland 

Northern Ireland -- Social conditions -- 1969- 

Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- Social life and customs 

Northern Ireland has 555 sub-headings and 1329 titles, from Anti Catholicism to Youth Deinstitutionalization.