Listing 12 project(s) whose Funding is (or has relevance to) PRTLI4

1641 Depositions Project

This 3 year project aims to transcribe and digitise the Depositions comprising 3,500+ depositions, examinations and associated materials, located in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, in which Protestant men and women of all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641.

Amharc Éireann News Reel Project

This project - a collaboration between An Foras Feasa, the Irish Film Archive, Gael Linn’s Amharc Éireann collection and Boston College – builds a wiki-based collaborative learning environment around the Amharc Éireann collection (1955-1964). The Amharc Éireann news reels provide a vivid window into the development of modern Ireland.

Ars Apodemica Online

Creating a searchable bibliographic and content description database of early modern "travel advice" (ars apodemica) literature, and digitize in searchable full text format documents belonging to this group.

Corpus of Electronic Texts

CELT brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet. By June 2012, it has a searchable online textbase of 15.2 million words, in Irish, English, Latin, French, German and other languages, encoded in TEI-conformant XML, in over 1270 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including travel, politics, literature and the other arts.

Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922-1949

The digital atlas project provides literary, historical and cartographic perspectives on Ireland from 1922 to 1949 framed by the works of fourteen Irish writers. This project is based in the Long Room Hub of Trinity College, and drawing upon Trinity Library collections, is hosted in a geographical information system.

Digital Resources & Imaging Services

Digital Resources & Imaging Services is a new department dedicated to the creation of digital content from the Trinity College Library Dublin's extensive collections of Early Printed Books and Manuscripts. The DRIS department is currently engaged in the development of a digital library collections online repository to provide open access to these valuable cultural and academic resources.

Doegen Records Web Project

This project will publish the Doegen sound archive of native Irish speakers from the early 20th century on the web. The archive consists of over 200 records made during the period 1928-31 and includes speakers from each of the four provinces. Items recorded include stories, songs and prayers.

Ireland Illustrated

Creation of a bibliographical database of Illustrated travel accounts on Ireland up to 1850. The database will focus on the images contained in the travel books.

Irish INC: Images from periodicals of the nineteenth century

The project's aim is to create an online database research tool that will provide enhanced user access to a large corpus of visual images from unknown or lesser-known Irish illustrated periodicals published in the nineteenth century. The source material for this project was chosen from selected collections housed in the Russell Library, Maynooth.

Irish Landed Estates

A database of sources, archival and printed, for the study of landed estates and country houses circa 1700-1914. Phase I covering the Province of Connacht complete, work ongoing on Phase II the Province of Munster.

National Irish Visual Arts Library Visual Research and Digital Archiving Project

The National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) was formally established in 1997 to document all aspects of visual art and design in Ireland. The current project aims to improve access to the material by providing cross-searchable finding aids to the special collections online using EAD, and by digitising selected material. NIVAL is jointly funded by NCAD and the Arts Council.

St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack Project

The Latin writings of St Patrick are of crucial importance for Irish history and ecclesiastical culture. The Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources project has been granted funding under PRTLI, Cycle 4 to construct, on line, a hypertext stack that will present different aspects of St Patrick’s work at various levels, closely interlinked passage by passage.