IRC Digital Humanities Funding Success

Congratulations to Dr Catherine Porter (lecturer in Geography, Department of History) who has succeeded in obtaining funding from the multi-million-pound fund supporting UK-Ireland collaboration in Digital Humanities. This joint award scheme draws together funding from the Irish Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to fund eleven digital humanities projects across the UK and Ireland. 

'OS200: Digitally Re-Mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage' is a collaboration between the University of Limerick and Queen’s University Belfast and aims to reinvigorate interest in the Ordnance Survey (OS) by reconnecting and sharing the divided legacies of the OS in Ireland through the OS's historic maps, memoirs, letters, name books and sketches.  

The project team is co-led by Dr Catherine Porter (UL) (with Drs Niamh NicGhabhann and Aengus Finnegan as UL co-investigators) and Professor Keith Lilley at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and involves geographers, historians, linguists and computer scientists. Key partners include the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), and the place-name projects, Logainm.ie and the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project (NIPNP).