UCC Humanities Platform
The UCC Humanities Platform is supporting the ongoing digitization of Ireland’s historical and literary sources at UCC.
The Digital Humanities in Ireland were pioneered by Donnchadh Ó Corrain and Peter Flynn with the foundation of CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts) at UCC in 1991. CELT is now the world's biggest single Internet corpus of scholarly multilingual XML-encoded electronic texts relating to Irish history, literature, and politics. CELT now has over 10 million words available in 920 text documents, including bibliographical information and background material and received 25,000 every day.
Headed by Hiram Morgan and managed by Beatrix Färber, CELT has recently established a collaborative partnership with the Boole Library to consolidate the digital humanities at UCC. The next phase of digitization will be focused on early modern writings of Ireland.
CELT is also currently completing the Digital Dinneen research project funded by an IRCHSS grant. This will act as an electronic dictionary for the CELT website. A spin-off from earlier projects (Linking Dictionaries and Texts (LDT) an electronic Dictionary of Old and Middle Irish (eDIL) compiled in collaboration with the University of Ulster and Julianne Nyhan's PhD research on a Lexicon of Medieval Irish), the Digital Dinneen will add Irish lexicographical sources from the modern period.
Peter Flynn, the manager of the electronic publishing unit in the Computer Centre at UCC, has been chosen to represent UCC on the Digital Humanities Observatory established under PRTLI4 at the Royal Irish Academy to co-ordinate humanities digitization in Ireland.