Book Chapters by Rachel Murphy
This chapter, based on work in my doctoral thesis, is published in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciarán Reilly ... more This chapter, based on work in my doctoral thesis, is published in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciarán Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds), The Land Agent 1700-1920 (Edinburgh, 2018). It considers the management structure of a transnational estate during the second half of the nineteenth century, using the Courtown estate as a case study. It examines the roles of the agents, sub-agents and bailiffs employed on the estate during this period. It is hoped that the study will enable comparison with other estates within the four nations, leading to a deeper understanding of the role of the land agent during the Victorian period.
This study considers the leisure activities of aristocratic women in the nineteenth century as se... more This study considers the leisure activities of aristocratic women in the nineteenth century as seen through the prism of the diaries of Lady Charlotte Stopford, daughter of the fifth earl of Courtown. Analysis of Charlotte’s diaries for the ten-year period 1869-1879 suggests that élite Victorian women engaged in a diverse range of leisure activities. However, these were often conducted within the constraints of the landed society’s social conventions, and frequently served an underlying purpose. Thus, the pursuits aristocratic women engaged in varied greatly depending on location, season and age and ranged from the highly formal through to informal, and public to private.
Articles by Rachel Murphy
Papers by Rachel Murphy
Urban History, Apr 3, 2023
Dublin at the turn of the nineteenth century had limited permanent employment opportunities compa... more Dublin at the turn of the nineteenth century had limited permanent employment opportunities compared to Belfast, and for poor families financial instability manifested in limited life expectancy. This article focuses on young adult cohorts in Dublin city. By cross-referencing names and addresses from death records with census, court and prison records, it casts new light on the lives of the city's most disadvantaged people. It applies a digital humanities framework and uses historical Geographical Information Systems to explore patterns in cause of death, and to reveal more about household income, casual labour, women's work and community networks. We contend that the cautions about the occlusion of commercial sex work in historical data should be extended to the lowest strata of the working classes more generally and that it is only through granular analyses that the fine lines between poverty and destitution can emerge.
This paper discusses the collaboration of higher education computer scientists, data scientists a... more This paper discusses the collaboration of higher education computer scientists, data scientists and historians to design and adapt a set of resources and digital assets that can be used by students and local communities to transcribe historical data. We show that an agile software design and development approach to co-creating such tools has great pedagogical merit both for the end users and the creators of the tools themselves. We note that effective interdisciplinary collaboration requires pooling resources and mutual respect for domain expertise. As part of the project took place during the SARs-Cov-2 pandemic, we also pivoted to a completely online environment. This means that we have a proven model for classroom, online and blended formats alike that we intend to use in the future also for "citizen scientist" events. In this way, the Open Education Resources can be used in a more accessible and inclusive way.
2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
Death and Burial Data: Ireland 1864-1922 (DBDIrl), is a digital humanities project, which uses hi... more Death and Burial Data: Ireland 1864-1922 (DBDIrl), is a digital humanities project, which uses historical civil registration of death as its primary dataset. The overarching aim of this project is to provide enriched and clean historical Irish data for analysis, in a eXtreme Model-Driven Development (XMDD) fashion. This paper discusses how e-learning environments were used to enrich these partially indexed data in an online, hybrid and blended learning group instruction format over four years. It describes how the DBDIrl data entry application, called Historian Dime App (HDA), evolved over a number of iterations to create a more user friendly interface, in an interdisciplinary collaboration of historians and computer scientists enabled by the XMDD approach. It discusses how the development process of HDA benefitted successive cohorts of history students engaged in a curricular Practice-based learning (PBL) project that follows a transcribathon model as defined by the Folger Library 1. We adapted the model for postgraduate teaching and learning in the humanities and took a reflexive approach to student/user feedback to evolve the HDA over four versions. It resulted in enhanced features, higher rates of user satisfaction, and a more responsive data curation and storage mechanism. This effort achieved our original aim of obtaining clean and accurate outputs from the students' project work.
Éire-Ireland, 2020
Submitted as part of the Virtual Heritage Network Ireland Conference 2016, held at University Col... more Submitted as part of the Virtual Heritage Network Ireland Conference 2016, held at University College Cork, this poster presents the transdisciplinary nature of the Deep Maps project and the digital methods employed for data curation and dissemination. Poster presentation was co-authored by Breda Moriarty, Michael Waldron, Orla-Peach Power and Rachel Murphy and under the direction of Principal Investigators Professor Claire Connolly and Dr. Rob McAllen.
Geography matters! In any reading of literature or history, paper or digital, our imaginations ar... more 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.[
Conference Presentations by Rachel Murphy
The Deep Maps team joined this gathering of scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields t... more The Deep Maps team joined this gathering of scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields to reflect on the coastal environment of the west of Ireland.
Workshops by Rachel Murphy
Invited to present at Irish Research Council Workshop "Networking the Digital Environmental Human... more Invited to present at Irish Research Council Workshop "Networking the Digital Environmental Humanities" (NDEH) organised by Dr. Charles Travis, Trinity College Dublin. This paper formed part of the panel 'Ireland and the Digital Environmental Humanities'
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