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Gender and County: The 1641 Depositions of women in Co. Meath

Gender and County: The 1641 Depositions of women in Co. Meath. The 1641 Depositions – Digital humanities in action (HI 7012) Gráinne Kelly 01538497 November 2013. Overview. Objective Why Co. Meath? Why women in Co. Meath? Research Methods: Quantitative Findings Qualitative Finding.

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Gender and County: The 1641 Depositions of women in Co. Meath

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  1. Gender and County: The 1641 Depositions of women in Co. Meath The 1641 Depositions – Digital humanities in action (HI 7012) Gráinne Kelly 01538497 November 2013

  2. Overview • Objective • Why Co. Meath? • Why women in Co. Meath? • Research Methods: • Quantitative Findings • Qualitative Finding

  3. Objective To present Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Depositions of women in Co. Meath

  4. The Depositions in Co. Meath

  5. The Depositions in Co. Meath

  6. Depositions given by women in Co. Meath

  7. What do they tell us?

  8. Conclusions Close reading = insight Looking at metadata= patterns Access to digitised material (and online search tools) Volume of material involved precludes further close reading Interesting and worthy case study

  9. So finally… Any Questions?

  10. Bibliography http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#c=Meath Canny, Nicholas ‘The 1641 Depositions: A Source for Social and Cultural History’. History Ireland. N. p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. Canny, Nicholas P. Making Ireland British, 1580-1650. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Print. Clarke, Aidan ‘The 1641 Depositions’ Treasures of the Library, Trinity College, Dublin. Ed. Peter Fox. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy for TCD Library, 1986. Print. McGrath, Bríd. ‘County Meath from the Depositions’. RiochtnaMidhe: records of Meath Archaeological and Historical Society 9 (1994-5): 24-41 Print. Ohlmeyer, Jane. ‘ANATOMY OF PLANTATION: The 1641 Depositions’. History Ireland 17.6 (2009): 54–56. Print. TCD ‘1641 Depositions’. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. TCD ‘Cultura-Project’. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. TCD ‘Down Survey’. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. Tompson, Richard S. The Atlantic Archipelago: A Political History of the British Isles. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986. Print. Studies in British History v. 1.

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