Browsing English (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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On the Edge of Chaos: Space and Power in Maria Edgeworth's "The Grateful Negro" (1804)
(Cambridge Unversity Press, 2022)‘The Grateful Negro’ (1804) is one of Maria Edgeworth’s less well-known children’s stories. Set on a Jamaican plantation, it concerns the differing attitudes of two white plantation owners, Mr Edwards and Mr Jefferies, ... -
Open Minds and Open Learning in the 'Cosmopolitan' Internet
(2012)The promise of technology, in particular of the internet, was that access to information would become demography blind. But for all of the successes the global web of information has demonstrated to us, has it really ... -
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
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Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities
(TARA, 2022)This report provides the findings from an inter-disciplinary project that sought to investigate and advance the potential of shared reading groups to promote purposeful and meaningful dialogue among Northern Ireland interface ... -
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Review of The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790 by Joe Lines
(2022)There was a time when Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent, first published in 1800, was considered the “first truly Irish novel.” Back in 1988, when the critic James Cahalan made this claim, the words “first,” “Irish,” ... -
Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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Screaming for Champions
(2022)This short piece reflects on screaming and female rage in response to pregnancy and childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic. This piece reflects on my daughter's expert screaming and my own (wasted) efforts trying to pacify ... -
Soft Skills in Hard Places: the changing face of DH training in European research infrastructures
(2017)[Extract from the Introduction] Research Infrastructures are becoming an increasingly distinct presence in the landscape of the digital humanities, creating unique research ecosystems that interact with, but remain ... -
'Staging an Irish Enlightenment'
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Sustainability of Digital Humanities Projects as a Publication and Documentation Challenge
(2020)This paper proposes a new perspective on the enormous and unresolved challenge to existing practices of publication and documentation posed by the outputs of digital research projects in the humanities, where much good ... -
Teaching Literary Responses to the Black Death During the COVID 19 Pandemic
(2020)In this paper, I provide a case study about the experience of teaching literary responses to the Black Death online during the recent closure of universities in Ireland. I outline the rationale for teaching the module, ... -
<teiPublisher>: Bridging the Gap Between a Simple Set of Structured Documents and a Functional Digital Library
(2004)Digital Libraries are complex systems that take a long time to create and tailor to specific requirements [1]. Their implementation requires special- ized computer skills, which are not usually found within humanities ... -
"This is a Political Play": Making Coriolanus Relevant in Contemporary Iran
(2024)This article traces the performance history of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in Iran, focusing on the most recent production of the play directed by Mostafa Koushki (b. 1984), performed between 2019 and 2020 in Tehran, Iran, ... -
'Trinity Professors versus Men of Letters: Ferguson, Dowden and De Vere'
(2022)This essay considers the relationships between Samuel Ferguson, Edward Dowden, and Aubrey de Vere in the late nineteenth century. In evaluating Ferguson’s career shortly after the poet’s death in 1886, W. B. Yeats considered ...
