ERIN Catalogue : Europe's Reception of the Irish Melodies and National Airs: Thomas Moore in Europe
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 191426009
- Type
- H - Website content
- Month
- June
- Year
- 2019
- URL
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http://www.erin.qub.ac.uk/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- For most of the 20th century Irish poet-songwriter Thomas Moore was side-lined as a ‘non canonical figure’, but his song series the Irish Melodies and National Airs inspired hundreds of responses from musicians and writers in translations, new musical settings, and editions. His ‘oriental romance’ Lalla Rookh (1817) inspired dozens of songs, operas and extended musical works. So, Moore was a central cultural figure for the best part of a century although not recognised as such. ERIN offers a unique network analysis, investigating the cultural articulation of national identity in 19th-century Europe through Moore’s musical works. It offers the first systematic study of this cultural network through its database catalogue which unites the collections of eight European repositories of particular significance with respect to their holdings on Moore. The database structure – designed by PI McCleave and PDRA O’Hanlon - supports the discovery of networks and chains of cultural transmission in Europe through accessible indexing and methodical data entry that locates and describes over 1000 European imprints which represent seven decades of cultural exchange. ERIN is innovative in considering the temporal and spatial aspects of networking through its four curated OMEKA exhibitions and their associated collections of indexed images. These are the scholarly outputs of the ERIN website; the podcasts and the blog are its public-facing aspect.
ERIN’s website launched with its blog in January 2017, accumulating outputs until 1 September 2017. By that date all outputs were published, although the catalogue had data added to it through to 31 December 2020. PI McCleave was responsible for 50% of the catalogue and 75% of the OMEKA output; PDRA O’Hanlon, employed by Queen’s from 2015-2017, contributed the remainder of these scholarly outputs.
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