This project is a unique collaboration between researchers in literature and data analytics. The research team combines UCD’s strengths in cultural criticism and social network analysis, traditional humanities and new computational approaches, established and early stage researchers.
Pádraig Cunningham is Professor of Knowledge and Data Engineering in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin. His current research focus is on the analysis of graph and network data and on the use of machine learning techniques in processing high-dimension data
Anne Mulhall completed her BA and MA at NUI Galway and went on as an NUI Travelling Scholar to complete her doctorate at St John’s College, Oxford. Prior to her appointment at UCD in 2008, she worked as a lecturer and researcher at NUI Galway and UCC. Her research and teaching interests include critical and cultural theory, particularly feminist, psychoanalytic and queer theory, 20th century and contemporary Irish writing and popular culture with a focus on issues of gender and sexuality, and migration studies.
Michael Pierse is Lecturer in Irish Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. His principal research interests lie in the fields of Irish literary and cultural studies, most particularly drama and fiction of working-class experience. He published his first monograph, Writing Ireland’s Working Class: Dublin After O’Casey, with Palgrave Macmillan in 2011, and his work includes research on Seán O’Casey, Brendan Behan and Dermot Bolger, and generally on cultural representations of class in Irish life. He has almost a decade’s experience of teaching Communications and English in further education in Dublin and is a former newspaper editor with Belfast Media Group.
Professor Gerardine Meaney (chair), Dr Anne Mulhall (co-chair), Dr. Fionnuala Dillane, Professor Pádraig Cunningham, Professor Nicholas Daly, Dr Derek Greene, Professor Margaret Kelleher, Dr Michael Pierse (QUB)
The principal project funding was awarded to Gerardine Meaney and the UCD Humanities Institute in 2013 by the Irish Research Council which is dedicated to funding excellent research within, and between, all disciplines, and in doing so to enhance Ireland’s international reputation as a centre for research and learning. The participation of Derek Greene is supported by UCD Insight. The SFI funded Insight Centre for Data Analytics is one of Europe’s largest data analytics research organisations, with 350 researchers, more than 40 industry partners and over €88 million of funding.
British Library Labs is an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which supports and inspires the international and public use of the British Library’s digital collections and data in exciting and innovative ways. It actively encouraged this project and provided invaluable access to the wealth and diversity of the Library’s intellectual digital heritage. We are particularly grateful for the assistance and advice of Mahendra Mahey.
UCD James Joyce Library: The project has drawn extensively on the resources of Special Collections, particularly the Constantine Curran and rare books collection and the Digital Library, particularly materials produced by the PRTLI funded Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive initiative. We are particularly grateful for the assistance of Evelyn Flanagan and Eugene Roche in Special Collections.
The Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen’s University Belfast was an important partner in the first phase of this project. We are particularly grateful for the assistance and advice of John Thompson and Michael Pierse.
