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Preface

Author: Sonia Howell (University of Notre Dame) and Matthew Wilkens (University of Notre Dame)

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In “The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0” (2009), the authors define the Digital Humanities as,

an array of convergent practices that explore a universe in which: a) print is no longer the exclusive or the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and/or disseminated;…

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The Emergence of the Digital Humanities in Ireland

Author: James O’Sullivan (Penn State University), Órla Murphy (University College Cork), Shawn Day (University College Cork)

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“Digital Humanities is not some airy Lyceum. It is a series of concrete instantiations involving money, students, funding agencies, big schools, little schools, programs, curricula, old guards, new guards, gatekeepers, and prestige. It might be more than these things, but it cannot not be these things.”

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An Digitiú agus na Daonnachtaí in Éirinn

Author: Pádraig Ó Macháin (University College Cork)

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Is féidir sainmhíniú fíorshimplí a dhéanamh ar an digitiú, is é sin, eolas a chruthú i bhfoirm leictreonach nó a aistriú go dtí an fhoirm sin. Chomh fada siar le 1993, léirigh an Dr. Peter Robinson na prionsabail bhunaidh phraiticiúla a bhain le foinsí scoláiriúla a chur i riocht leictreonach.

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Developing Digital Resources for the Exploration of Medieval Ireland: The Monastic Ireland Project

Author: Niamh NicGhabhann (University of Limerick)

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I. Introduction

The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the opportunities and challenges around the creation of digital resources for the study of medieval Irish architectural heritage and monastic culture more generally. In particular, it explores the ways in which digital…

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Requirements and National Digital Infrastructures: Digital Preservation in the Humanities

Author: Sharon Webb (Digital Repository of Ireland)

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We historians, literary scholars, linguists, philosophers, musicians, and others, as practitioners of humanities, have embraced the use of digital technology in all aspects of our work. We use online digital infrastructures to access the vast majority of our sources, we use bibliographic management…

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Visualizing a Spatial Archive: GIS, Digital Humanities, and Relational Space

Author: Ronan Foley (Maynooth University) and Rachel Murphy (University College Cork)

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Introduction: A Spatial Approach to the Digital Humanities

Geography matters! In any reading of literature or history, paper or digital, our imaginations are often invoked through a spatial sense. In a country where the importance of dinnseanchas, or “place lore,”…

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English Bards and Unknown Reviewers: A Stylometric Analysis of Thomas Moore and the Christabel Review

Author: Francesca Benatti (Open University) and Justin Tonra (National University of Ireland, Galway)

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Introduction

Fraught relations between authors and critics are a commonplace of literary history. The particular case that we discuss in this article, a negative review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Christabel (1816), has an additional point of interest beyond the usual…

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