Listing 20 project(s) whose Discipline is (or has relevance to) Literature and Language - English

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 August 2010, it has a searchable online textbase of 13.7 million words, in Irish, English, Latin and other languages, encoded in TEI-conformant XML, in over 1100 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature and the other arts.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.

Directory of Sources for the History of Women in Ireland

The Directory of Sources for the History of Women in Ireland contains
information on collections relating to the history of women in Ireland
from the earliest times to the present, gathered from public and private
repositories in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.

Hiberno-English Archive

This site provides an introduction to the history and grammar of Hiberno-English. It also provides a small number of Hiberno-English related links, and relevant details of Hiberno-English related events, such as public lectures, radio broadcasts and so forth.

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 Film & TV Research Online

Irish Film & TV Research Online is designed to bring together the wide diversity of research material relating to Irish-made cinema and television as well as Irish-themed audio-visual representations produced outside of Ireland. Comprising almost 40,000 film and television entries, it also includes bibliographical and biographical databases.

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 Resources in the Humanities

Irish Resources in the Humanities is as a gateway to sites on the World Wide Web that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies. As a rule, commercial sites are not linked.

Irish Sporting Heritage

The Irish Sporting Heritage Project aims to compile an inventory of Ireland's built sporting heritage, existing and historical, over the last 150 years. The project is funded by the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and run by Boston College-Ireland. The project will identify sports of all traditions and social classes and will produce an online database for use by the general public.

Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive

The Irish Virtual Research Library & Archive (IVRLA) is a major humanities digitisation and digital object management project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to preserve elements of UCD’s repositories and to increase access to this material through the adoption of digitisation technologies.

MultiText Project in Irish History

The MultiText Project (UCC) provides resources for students of Irish History at all levels: University students, the general reader, and second-level students. The project aims to publish a minimum of 12 books, each dealing with a separate period of Irish history. Users can currently access over one million words of text and approx. 3,500 digital images free of charge on the website.

Seamus Heaney Centre Digital Archive

The SHCDA records, collates and preserves public poetry performances and is administered by the Special Collections Department of Queen’s University Belfast University. The aim is to provide an easily managed, searchable database that generates original research. Compiled metadata enables detailed Track File pages, links to related materials, and searches within pre-assigned browse categories.

TEXTE Project

Create four model digital editions: a weekly periodical, the Dublin Penny Journal (1832-36); the correspondence of the painter James Barry; a unique collection of songbooks and popular literature from a farmhouse in County Down; a manuscript medieval statute book from Göttingen.