Listing 14 project(s) whose Discipline is (or has relevance to) Geography

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.

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.

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 Chronicles - Their Chronology & Synchronisation

This project undertakes to identify the salient chronological features of the principal Irish Chronicles, and then, where possible, to make available an online synchronisation of the entries of these chronicles. For historical research the most important of these chronicles are the Irish Annals, and to date (July 2009) this synchronisation extends from AD 1 to AD 1591.

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 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.

Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie)

Logainm.ie provides the official Irish-language names of almost 100,000 Irish places, as well as supplementary material such as sound files, background information notes, and educational resources. It is being developed by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the Placenames Branch of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

The OPSIT Project: Charting the Quantitative History of Ireland's Path to Modernity

This project, co-hosted by the Library and Long Room Hub of TCD, is conducting a socio-economic survey of Irish public policy and human development using the Statistical and Social Inquiry of Ireland’s e-Archive. Funded by IRCHSS, it utilises the latest digital library systems to construct a Digital Public Policy Archive plus an interactive resource of historical statistics for future researchers.