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Anthony Roche. The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939. London: Bloomsbury, 2015, x + 259 pp.
Frank Ormsby. Goat’s Milk: New and Selected Poems. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 2015, 192 pp.
William Jenkins. Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013, xix + 511 pp.
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;…
“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.”…
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…
Figure 1. Emlagh East Ogham stone, Dingle Peninsula
I. Introduction
Ogham stones are among Ireland’s most remarkable national treasures.…
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…
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,”…
Introduction[1]
Right now, in 2015, we are in the early stages of articulating, or defining, a new type of literary criticism. It, whatever it may be, goes by various names. For describing this kind of work, many have latched…
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…
Assuming a graded distinction between information sites, knowledge sites, and research sites,[1] what is it that specifically marks out the digital research site? The types of site are all repositories of content. The content they comprise and harvest…
Irish Women Dramatists, 1908-2001. Edited by Eileen Kearney and Charlotte Headrick. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015, 343 pp.
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