The 1641 Depositions - Multivolume series
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1749
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Irish Manuscripts Commission
- Open access status
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- Year
- 2014
- URL
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https://liveplymouthac.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/R4/Epv_1i96Z7dIm3u1I_ZSBcwBD29KTr1dv2Lgw_7BycHz1w
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The 1641 Depositions, Volumes I-XII is the first complete scholarly transcription of one of the most important sets of primary sources for British and Irish history in the seventeenth century. The depositions provide an unparalleled source of information for the contested nature of the 1641 rebellion in Ireland and wider social, cultural, economic, political and religious history. The twelve volumes of the depositions are the result of thirteen years of research and the richness of the material can be seen in the 8,021 individual depositions (6,680 pages). Each volume also provides a scholarly essay to the material in that volume.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The twelve-volume Irish Manuscripts Commission print edition of the 1641 depositions of which Murphy is Assistant Editor ensures the long-term sustainability and accessibility of the 1641 Depositions. Published over 6 years between 2014-2020, the transcribed online and print editions have opened up one of the most difficult to use and inaccessible Irish archive collections to scholars, students and the general public.
Murphy was one of three members of the core transcription and research team for the 1641 Depositions project based at Trinity College Dublin working with Professor Aidan Clarke, the general editor for the project. Over the course of three years, between 2007 and 2010, she was responsible for transcribing one third of the depositions (8,021 depositions) and checking the transcriptions of another third for accuracy. Murphy was a member of the core editorial board that made all the key palaeographical and editorial decisions for the volumes such retaining original spellings, procedure for "copy" depositions, handling of illegible or deleted material. She was also responsible for creating one third of the meta data and mark up for the project to make the depositions fully searchable.
In manuscript form the thirty-one volumes of the depositions amount to 19,010 pages in a variety of different hands, representing a mammoth technical and intellectual task of transcription, analysis, editorial intervention. A particular transcription difficultly for the project that Murphy helped to overcome was that a large number of the depositions were heavily crossed out in the 1640s as part of an editorial process by the original clerk to the deposition commissioners. As well as transcribing depositions, the complex nature of early modern Irish family names with the use of patronymics was another difficulty which the team overcame to make to make it possible to search and identify people within the volumes.
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- Non-English
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