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Primary sources for Irish politics and law essays.
Politics, law, PPE and public policy students are marked on evidence. Here is where the Irish record lives, how to cite it, and how to use AI without losing the trail back to the source.
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Where the record lives
- Debates, votes, questions, Bills and committee reports: the Houses of the Oireachtas website.
- Acts and statutory instruments: the Irish Statute Book and the Law Reform Commission's revised Acts.
- Judgments: the Courts Service and the Irish Legal Information Initiative.
- Budget and spending figures: the official Budget documents on gov.ie.
A research workflow
- Narrow the questionAdd a period, a policy area and a named set of actors. Aim for a question you can answer with the record.
- Collect the record firstPull debates, votes, questions and reports and log each with its date and link.
- Find the gapCompare what was said with what was done. The gap is usually the interesting finding.
- Bring in the literatureUse books and journals to explain why, and to argue with other interpretations.
- State the limitsSay what your evidence cannot show.
Citing Irish sources
Cite the official source, not DáilDex. Our citation guide gives Harvard and OSCOLA patterns for Dáil debates, Acts and the Constitution, so you can check each one against your department's style guide.
Working with the data
If your dissertation counts votes, questions or speeches, the DáilDex developer API exposes structured Oireachtas data under the Oireachtas Open Data PSI Licence. Dex Study keeps your sources, notes and drafts in one space and gives feedback on your draft without writing it for you.
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Use DáilDex to find and understand the record, then cite the official Oireachtas page, Act or judgment it links to.
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