Webb, Sharon
(2011)
A study of associational culture and the development of Irish nationalism, 1780-1830,
with the construction of a software information environment.
PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
This research investigates the role of associational culture in the development of
Irish nationalism during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Parallel to this
historical investigation it examines the use of and implements a digital humanities
methodology to research and where possible a digital solution was used to support this
thesis. This project can be described as a digital humanities project as it produces both a
traditional historical thesis along with various digital objects or artifacts and
consideration is given to the theoretical and practical issues of both the ‘digital’ and
‘humanities’ components. It reflects growing interests within the arts and humanities to
incorporate the use of software solutions in humanities research and indicates a growing
trend towards software development within the arts domain. Software development was
a feature of this project and technical developments and discussions are interspersed
with the historical investigation into Irish associational culture.
Associational culture provides an important focus to investigate identity politics
in Irish society which is linked to a complicated construction of and concept of
nationalism, linked to religion, ascendancy and the imperial context. An overview of
Dublin’s associational world reveals the magnitude and diverse range of clubs and
societies which existed and how their contributions to society, in practical as well as
ideological terms, were essential to the development of movements which shaped the
Irish political, social and cultural landscape. A case study on the Historical Society of
Trinity College reveal the educational, social and political roles societies play and the
important social networks and communities they can nurture and support. Concluding
remarks reveal a cultural shift in Irish society as post-Union politics and associational
culture exposed the diversity of Irish identity and revealed the existence of ultra
Protestant and ultra Catholic factions.
| Item Type: |
Thesis
(PhD)
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| Keywords: |
associational culture; development of Irish nationalism; 1780-1830; software information environment; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History |
| Item ID: |
4690 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
10 Jan 2014 16:04 |
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