• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Reading Republican Murals in Northern Ireland: Archiving and Meaning-Making
  • Beteiligte: Crowley, Tony
  • Erschienen: Firenze University Press, 2022
  • Erschienen in: Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.36253/sijis-2239-3978-13738
  • ISSN: 2239-3978
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>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.</jats:p>
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