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The Digital Humanities in Ireland
Author(s) -
James O’Sullivan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
digital studies / le champ numérique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1918-3666
DOI - 10.16995/dscn.374
Subject(s) - irish , discipline , context (archaeology) , humanities , narrative , sociology , praxis , political science , media studies , social science , geography , law , art , archaeology , philosophy , linguistics , literature
If the digital humanities are to thrive they must be allowed to remain culturally dissonant. The ways in which DH is practiced will differ across national contexts, with each region having peculiarities representative of the culture-specific conditions which shaped the field as it first emerged and later developed. While scholars tend to belong and contribute to international communities of praxis, doing DH in one place might look very different to doing DH somewhere else. Disciplinary cultures are often transnational, but where scholars are trained and where they work will usually impact upon their own, individualised perspective of that discipline. This paper traces the history of the digital humanities in Ireland, providing on account of DH as it exists in a specifically Irish context. It mimics the Busa narrative, uncovering equivalent figures from Irish DH’s origin story, while detailing some of the key initiatives and institutions to have contributed to the national development of the discipline. As a small island with a close-knit academic community, culturally torn between US, British and European influences, Ireland represents an opportunity to examine DH as a national project, and how such a project might be contrasted with international norms, what it achieved, and where it has failed. Resume Si les humanites numeriques doivent prosperer, il faudra leur permettre de rester culturellement dissonantes. Les facons dont l’on pratique les HN varieront et dependront de contextes nationaux, ou chaque region a des particularites qui representent leurs propres situations culturelles qui ont faconne le domaine a son debut et ulterieurement. Tandis que les chercheurs ont tendance a contribuer et a faire partie de communautes internationales de praxis, les HN faites dans un endroit peuvent etre tres differentes par rapport a celles trouvees ailleurs. Les cultures disciplinaires sont souvent transnationales, mais le lieu ou les chercheurs ont ete formes et ou ils travaillent affectent normalement leur propre perspective individualisee de la discipline en question. Cet article suit l’histoire des humanites numeriques en Irlande, en fournissant un recit des HN comme elles existent dans un contexte specifiquement irlandais. Cela imite la narrative Busa, en devoilant des figures equivalentes de l’origine des HN en Irlande et en detaillant des initiatives et institutions cles qui ont contribue au developpement national du domaine. En tant que petite ile ayant une communaute academique tres unie, et dechiree entre les influences americaines, britanniques et europeennes, l’Irlande represente l’opportunite d’examiner les HN comme projet national, d’examiner la facon dont un tel projet peut etre contraste avec des normes internationales, ainsi que d’examiner ce qui a ete acheve et ce qui a echoue. Mots-cles: Irlande; HN irlandaises; humanites numeriques

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