PRONI Guide Library

Welcome to the PRONI Guide Library, your gateway to all our guides designed to support your research. Use the category links below to browse pre-filtered lists of our publications, which will quickly navigate you to research guides on particular topics. Alternatively, you can visit the full publications page to browse, search and filter all of our online resources.

All PRONI Publications

Open yellowed pages of a large book containing a table with names, dates and other information written in pen.

Collection Indexes

Colourful architectural design of a large church building titled 'Design for Townsend Street Church'.

Family History

Merge photograph of a landscape of a river bank with surrounding buildings and a small boat in the river. The left hand side is a sketch and the right is a modern photograph.

Local History

Sepia tone photograph of a school building behind a fence on a street with children dressed for school.

Social History

Black and white image of eight women in nurse uniforms attending to beds of injured men in a large room with a table and stools.

Women's History

Image of a paper document titled 'Government of Ireland Act, 1920'. The document has a small reference written in pencil in the top right hand corner.

Irish History

Black and white photograph of 6 army soldiers sitting in large open-back vehicles on a grass path with trees in the backgroud. Large amounts of army equipment including helmets are visible.

War Records

Image of a card with a sketch of war planes flying over a field with the caption 'Naval aircraft bomb stranded cruiser'.

First World War

Soldier in uniform with a bayonet walking on an empty street with damaged buildings and debris in the background.

Second World War

Black and white image of a certificate titled 'Rental and Particulars of Sale' in the middle, created by the Court of the 'Commissioners for Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland' that lists townland names, the names of the owner of the estate and the date 'Thursday, the 24th day of June, 1858' at the bottom.

Land and Property Records

Black and white sketch of a wooden ship with three large masts in a large body of water and hills in the background.

Industry Records

Colourful hand-drawn map titled 'part of the barony of Donganon' featuring townland names and bodies of water.

Maps

Screenshot of a web page with the heading "Belfast Directory 1831-1832" with a scanned image of book pages below. The image has two pages, the left hand side featureing figures, dates and text, the page on the right features a list of alphabetical names and streets.

PRONI Application Guides

Two men and a woman in between standing in an office building holding copies of a multicoloured book.

PRONI Source Publications

General Information