Search Engine Page from the 2008 Redesign

The 2008 search engine page of Chapters of Dublin let visitors look up any keyword in the book archive. Here is how to search the site’s content today.

Searching the site now

The original page used a search form that showed its results in a frame underneath. That search is no longer connected, so the form recovered below does not work. The site today has its own search: a search button in the bottom right corner of every page opens a box that looks up chapter titles and summaries as you type.

Because the archive is made up of whole books, it is often quicker to browse. The all chapters page lists every chapter grouped by book, and each book has its own list page, such as D.A. Chart’s The Story of Dublin or Dublin Street Names, Dated and Explained. For individual districts, F. Elrington Ball’s History of County Dublin and North Dublin by Dillon Cosgrave are arranged by place, while the Chronology of Dublin history is arranged by date.

Searching within a book

The longest texts, such as Ulysses and Dubliners, are each presented on a single page, so the browser’s own find command (Ctrl+F, or Cmd+F on a Mac) is the most reliable way to locate a word or name within them. The same applies to long chapters elsewhere on the site. Search pages from earlier versions of the site are also kept, at Search the entire site for matching text and Search This Website.

The recovered 2008 search page follows below.