Crowley, T. (2022) Reading Republican Murals in Northern Ireland: Archiving and Meaning-Making. Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, 12 (12). pp. 87-117. ISSN 2239-3978
Abstract
In this paper I will use my experience in compiling an online archive of the murals of Northern Ireland 1979-2021 to discuss the benefits and disadvantages of work in the digital humanities. I will argue that such a collection of visual materials from the war and post-war periods in Northern Ireland affords us the opportunity to assess major shifts in stance, policy and practice amongst unionists and loyalists, and nationalists and republicans. But I will also contend that although the archive itself can provide us with a rich set of materials, it cannot in and of itself give us their meaning. That task, I will conclude, depends on a set of traditional skills that long pre-date the digital order of things.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 T. Crowley. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Archive, Interpretation, Murals, Northern Ireland, Republican |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2023 08:16 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 08:16 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Firenze University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.36253/sijis-2239-3978-13738 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201736 |
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