CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, in the Department of History, has been the first and largest of UCC's Digitisation Projects. Located at UCC since 1997, this searchable interdisciplinary online corpus of multilingual texts of Irish literature, history, and politics has been a pioneer in TEI-conformant XML text encoding. Its founder and first Director was Professor Donnchadh Ó Corráin; its current Director is Dr Hiram Morgan. Beatrix Färber has been Project Manager since 2000; Mr Peter Flynn acts as Technical Advisor.

By August 2010, CELT has 13.7 million words in over 1100 multilingual texts (with bibliographies) in Irish of all periods, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, English, Spanish and German, and it is growing. Its website receives c. 26,000 requests for pages per day. CELT has the single biggest website within UCC, which was the first one in Ireland, and the ninth in the world, in 1992.

Over the years CELT has trained a large number of research students who have contributed to the Corpus. CELT volunteers have also contributed a substantial amount of work. CELT is experienced in training interns from a variety of humanities backgrounds; our most recent intern came from Austria and participated via the EU-funded LEONARDO programme.