"This project has been funded by Cavan-Monaghan Rural Development Co-op under the National Rural Development Programme. Funded by the Irish Government and part-financed by the European Union under the National Development Plan 2000-2006."
| 1911 census This site can be searched for any townland in Ireland. It will fill in some detail about your WWI soldier's family - brothers, sisters, parents, occupations and religion. |
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| Ancestry website This site holds all of the service records for WWI - Army, Navy and Air Force. You will be charged a fee. |
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| Art of the First World War Many interesting artworks can be viewed online at this site. |
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| BBC World War One The BBC site is good for background material on the war, causes of the war, campaigns and battles, virtual tours of trenches. |
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| Commonwealth War Graves Commission Online database giving details of memorials to those who died in WWI. |
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| Firstworldwar.com This site contains a variety of primary documents concerning the war (including memoirs and diaries), along with battlefield tours and many other useful sections. |
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| History of the 9th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers Many Monaghan men joined this battalion, which was recruited from UVF members in Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan. |
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| Ireland and the Great War RTÉ site includes voice recordings of Irish WWI soldiers describing their experiences. |
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| Irish Times digital archive This site can be searched free at the county library in Monaghan. |
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| The Long, Long Trail Excellent WWI site with, amongst other things, step-by-step instructions on how to research a soldier. |
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| Poetry, photographs and sounds This is an excellent site for photographs of the war and it also has sound recordings of WWI soldiers on many topics including gas attacks, deserters, shell-shock. There are also many WWI poems to be found here. |
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| Tracing Your Irish Military Ancestors Waterford Museum's website has a great section on this topic. |
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| Ulster Covenant If you want to find out if your soldier's family was Unionist, check to see if their name appears in the Ulster Covenant or Declaration, signed in 1912. |
"This project has been funded by Cavan-Monaghan Rural Development Co-op under the National Rural Development Programme. Funded by the Irish Government and part-financed by the European Union under the National Development Plan 2000-2006."