Foley, Ronan and Murphy, Rachel
(2015)
Visualizing a Spatial Archive: GIS, Digital Humanities, and Relational
Space.
Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, 2015 (Oct.).
ISSN 2372-2231
Abstract
Geography matters! In any reading of literature or history, paper or digital, our imaginations are often
invoked through a spatial sense. In a country where the importance of dinnseanchas, or “place lore,”
remains a significant contemporary component, a reading of place regularly features across the multiple
strands of Irish Studies.[1] From Heaney’s poetry to the novels of Sebastian Barry, place and a sense of
place are ever-present in how stories and literary ideas are presented, received, and interpreted.[2]
History too, in its archives and methods of study, has always happened somewhere and in that sense has
always been explicitly emplaced. Given the broad theme of this issue—querying whether Digital
Humanities offers better ways of realizing traditional Humanities goals or has the capacity to change
understandings of Humanities goals altogether—it is useful to consider this question empirically against
the increase in new digital forms of spatial information.[
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Visualizing; Spatial Archive; GIS; Digital Humanities; Relational Space; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
7067 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Ronan Foley
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| Date Deposited: |
04 Apr 2016 11:13 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies |
| Publisher: |
Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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