Irish Resources in the Humanities was developed in 1999 by Dr. Susan Schreibman as a Gateway to sites on the World Wide Web that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies. As a rule, commercial sites are not linked.
In Spring 2002 the site, originally constructed as a set of HTML pages, was converted to anXML-based database at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). In early 2006, the University of Maryland Libraries replaced the XML database with a relational database.