Cultural Innovation
Working with international collaborators to offer cultural touch points and create new lenses for how we see the world.
Spotlights
Irish Literary Culture
Creating New Perspectives
Home to one of the world's most influential literary giants and a globally significant archival collection, UCD attracts dynamic, distinguished and emerging writers and academics who channel Ireland’s legacy in creating new lenses through which to view the world.
Joyce's Legacy
As the educational home of James Joyce, UCD upholds a strong tradition of literary creativity and the exploration of cultural heritage. Through practice-led research, international collaborations and engagement with communities and cultural practices, we are sharing valuable insights from the past, platforming unheard voices and creating new networks. Press play to watch our film for #Bloomsday100 'Re: Joyce - A Life in the Day’.
Visit UCD Arts & HumanitiesThe past speaks to the present
Through nationally and internationally funded projects and partnerships, UCD researchers are exploring histories across many disciplines and developing new approaches and digital tools that empower humanity and help address today’s pressing societal and scientific challenges. Watch the video to learn about Emilie Pine's award-winning Research Impact Case Study.
Browse case studiesHistory Hub
Making the most recent academic research available on-line to everyone who loves history. Podcasts feature historians from UCD and beyond talking about subjects from medieval to modern history, both Irish and international. Play History Hub video or listen to the podcast below.
ListenVoices in Humanities
Featuring more than 200 recorded lectures, papers, interviews and presentations from, or supported directly by, the UCD Humanities Institute. Since the launch of the series, the podcast has been downloaded around the world more than 145,000 times. Watch the video to learn about the Institute or listen to the podcast series below.
ListenIlluminating UCD's world-class collections
UCD Library is currently developing the campus's first open access Cultural Heritage Centre. This major project will bring cultural treasures from UCD Library together in one engaging space, where the university community and wider public can enjoy world-class collections from the Archives, the National Folklore Collection, and Special Collections as never before. We spoke to Director of Cultural Heritage, Katherine McSharry about this exciting project.
UCD recognised by UNESCO for rare Folklore Collection
The National Folklore Collection at UCD is recognised by UNESCO for its world significance and outstanding universal value to culture. The audio and film recordings, manuscripts and rare printed materials in the Collection span many aspects of human endeavour, from material culture to oral literature, language and artistic expression. The Irish Folklore Commission worked to document the traditions of Ireland at a point in time when the Irish language was in serious decline, while the effects of urbanisation and industrialisation had not yet eroded older cultural patterns and practices. A range of these rich archival treasures can now be accessed digitally through Dúchas and UCD Digital.
Publications
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August 2015
Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in "Ulysses": Becoming the Blooms
Oxford University Press
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July 2021
Ethical Data Curation for AI: An Approach based on Feminist Epistemology and Critical Theories of Race
Conference Paper,Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
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October 2022
“It Has Made Me Think”: Engaging the Public with the History of Health in the Modern Irish Prison
Journal of Medical Humanities
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