Welcome to RASCAL

RASCAL is an electronic gateway to research resources in Ireland. You can use this web-site to search and browse information about the wide range of research and special collections held in libraries, museums and archives across the region. The Directory consists of comprehensive descriptions of collections available to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences recording details of content, location, format, and access. Links to institutions' on-line catalogues and other digital resources are provided where appropriate.

Featured Collection

Music Collection

The music collection at Queen’s University Belfast is an open access collection which is primarily focused towards the needs of students and academic staff. The collection is located at The McClay Library at Queen’s and consists of over 15,000 books on music and printed editions of music (dating from 1807 to the present day).  The collection also includes over 100 periodicals and over 500 reference works, and bibliographies.

19th century guitar music collection now available online from the Royal Irish Academy of Music

Users can now view online the music contained in the entire Hudleston Collection of printed guitar music in digital format. This is freely accessible via the Royal Irish Academy of Music online catalogue.

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Grace Toland

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ITMA online catalogue now reaches 55,000 records

ITMA has recently added an additional 30,000 records to its online catalogues of commercial sound recordings, books, serials, images, videos, DVDs & ephemera.  We have now reached 55,000 records online.  

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Grace Toland

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Irish Traditional Music Archive adds video to its Digital Library

ITMA has now added video to its Digital Library Collection online and launched a YouTube channel - ITMAVideos

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Grace Toland

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