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This category contains 10 sites:

• 100 Irish Surnames Explained - Genealogy starter guide, including most common names, coats of arms, shop, links and communication facilities.
• BBC Online - Northern Ireland History - Portal site examining history throughout the 20th century, including the World War II and features on the Troubles. Features multimedia items from the decades of the 20th century.
• BBC: Key events in Northern Ireland history - A special report from 1998 on the BBC News website, dealing with some key events in the history of Northern Ireland.
• Cruithni, Ulster History - A brief illustrated history of Ulster, with suggested books for further reading.
• History of The King's Hall Exhibition - This historic Belfast landmark is presented in a photographic exhibition.
• Linen Hall Library United Irish Website - History sources for the period 1791-1803, held in the Irish and Local History Collections of the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. Features articles from the newspapers and periodicals of the day, extracts from polemical pamphlets, correspondence of the prim
• The Belfast Blitz - BBC Northern Ireland's collection of pictures, audio, video and personal accounts of the terrible experience of one city's citizens - men, women and children - when a world war came to them.
• The Ireland Story - History of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day, supplemented with maps, and sections on the Troubles, the Omagh Bomb and the Famine.
• The James Harshaw Diaries - A description of the Diaries and of people of Counties Down and Armagh in the mid-1800s. Also includes an account of John Martin, Young Irelander.
• Ulster Cruithin - Timeline, brief biographies, and other information about Irish Ulster, the home of the Ui Neill and St. Columba.