HIST 212: The Long History of Christian Ireland (Spring 2025)

• Keep your searches simple
• Remember, even if a title doesn't look directly related to your topic, there is a good chance the book is in the results because there's a related chapter.
• Pay attention to the publication date -- you don't want a really outdated book.
• Pay attention to the Subjects section of the record; this will help you find similar works.
• Remember to limit to books and ebooks

• early monasticism in Ireland
  • (Ireland OR irish) AND monasticism 
• Irish women during the Reformation
  • (Ireland OR irish) AND Reformation AND women
• Ireland during the Crusades
  • Ireland AND crusades
• Protestants in Belfast during The Troubles
  • Protestants AND Belfast AND Troubles

NOTE at the book level, you may need to step back and broaden slightly.

example: Revise to just Belfast AND Troubles

If you are really stuck, you can order books through Worldcat using ILL.

As this is not a deep-dive research project, though, you should have plenty of materials in our main collection already.