‘Massacres, Myths and Memory’ – the 1641 Depositions Digitisation Project
The most ambitious Irish research project in the humanities commences in Trinity
The cross-institutional initiative between Trinity College Dublin, Aberdeen University and Cambridge University was launched in 2008. This three-year project aims to transcribe and digitise the manuscript collection comprising 3,400 depositions, examinations and associated materials, in which Protestant men and women of all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641. The digitised documents will be made available online for the benefit of both the academic community and the general public.
The project has received €1M in grant-aid, the largest research grant in the humanities ever to be awarded in Ireland. The money has been granted by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK, as well as Trinity College Library.