Projects

Current projects affiliated with the DHRC

The following projects provide focal points for current work in the Galway DH community.

GLOSSAM: Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated Manuscripts

Principal Investigator: Dr Pádraic Moran
https://www.glossam.ie/

The GLOSSAM project will enhance our understanding of reading, education, scholarship, and knowledge transfer in the pre-modern world, by creating new narratives, conceptual frameworks, digital tools and methodological models for the study of glosses. Glosses are the paratexts transmitted between the lines and in the margins of manuscript books, micro-texts that control how the central texts were read and interpreted. 

MIrA: Manuscripts with Irish Associations

Principal Investigator: Dr Pádraic Moran
https://www.mira.ie

MIrA is a digital catalogue that aims to provide useful information for researchers on early Irish manuscript culture before c. AD 1000. 

PIETRA

Principal Investigator: Prof. Anne O'Connor
https://pietra.universityofgalway.ie/

PIETRA is funded by the European Research Council under its Consolidator Grant Scheme, Grant No. 101001478. It is a study of the foundations on which the Catholic Church builds its multilingual communicative structures, and is the first, large-scale, multilingual study of the translation products and processes that underpin communication in global religion.

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700

Principal Investigator: Prof. Erin A. McCarthy
https://stemma.universityofgalway.ie/

The STEMMA project develops and applies a data-driven approach in order to provide the first macro-level view of the circulation of early modern English poetry in manuscript. It focuses on English verse manuscripts written and used between the introduction of printing in England in 1475 and 1700, by which time the rapid changes in both literary taste and publishing norms ushered in by the Restoration had fully transformed literary culture. The project includes manuscripts circulating in England and anywhere else English was spoken and read, including Ireland, the North American colonies, and continental exile communities.

Theatronomics

Principal Investigator: Prof. David O'Shaughnessy
https://www.theatronomics.com/

The ambition of Theatronomics is to harness the remarkably rich (if patchy and inconsistent) financial archives of Covent Garden and Drury Lane, 1732–1809. By fusing archival research, digital humanities, and econometrics, this interdisciplinary project will construct a foundation on which eighteenth-century theatre studies can build its next generation of scholarship. 

Completed projects

RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700

Principal Investigator: Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan
https://recirc.universityofgalway.ie/

RECIRC was a research project about the impact made by women writers and their works in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Led by Marie-Louise Coolahan, and funded by the European Research Council from 2014 to 2020, the project involved a team of 11 researchers based at the National University of Ireland Galway. The focus included writers who were read in Ireland and Britain as well as women born and resident in Anglophone countries. Therefore, the subject of study was not limited to authors who wrote in English. RECIRC aimed to produce a large-scale, quantitative analysis of the reception and circulation of women's writing from 1550 to 1700. The RECIRC database is one of its major outputs.