Listing 5 project(s) whose Research Cluster is (or has relevance to) An Foras Feasa

A Digital Edition of Táin Bó Fliodhaise

A digital edition of the Ulster Cycle tale entitled Táin Bó Fliodhaise is being be produced, consisting of a critical edition divided into segments, with corresponding diplomatic readings of the three manuscripts, a translation, notes, and indexes. Digital manuscript images also correspond to each segment. XML is being used to encode the manuscripts and to produce the ‘stacked’ edition.

A Digital Edition of the Alcalá Account Book

This project focused on the creation of a digital edition of the 17th c. Alcalá Account Book, from the Irish College of Alcalá de Henares, Spain. We have provided an online, interactive, full-text, searchable version of the manuscript, along with its transcription (Spanish), translation (English) and preservation quality images.

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.

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.

Irish confraternities, 1775-1965

This project examines the significant contribution of parish confraternities and associations to the social, cultural and religious identity and history of modern Ireland. In undertaking a study of modern associationalism at parish level down to the 1960s, the dynamic relationship between innovation and tradition will be explored in its many manifestations.