RIFNET will alter the conversation around the Irish family. For too long, understandings of the family have been constrained by an over-emphasis on the 'traditional' unit. Comprised of a heterosexual married couple and their offspring within one household, this understanding is, and has always been, but one expression of the family. In the Republic of Ireland, the family is defined by the constitution in Article 41. This article has been a 'contentious' issue in the Irish State (Visser, 2018), and one which is to be subject to a nationwide conversation in the form of a citizen's assembly, and ultimately a referendum. As senior parliamentary researcher Anna Visser noted in 2018, 'there is a dominant view amongst policy-makers and commentators that it is desirable to amend or repeal Article 41.2.' On both sides of the border, important legal changes have been made in recent years in regards to family and reproductive law (Marriage Equality, ROI 2015, NI 2019), while other changes are still being worked through or demanded (for example, the recent extension to the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes (2019), and renewed attention on the 27th constitutional amendment (2004) which denied citizenship rights to children born in Ireland to non-Irish or British parents). Working in different fields, scholars of the Irish family have long pointed out the conceptual problems of the 'traditional' Irish family. Nuclear, white, Catholic, settled, and heterosexual, this idea of the 'traditional' Irish family does not, and has never, matched the messy reality. Indeed, the problem is not just conceptual. This view of the family has long been used as the basis of family regulation in Ireland for centuries to the detriment of women, men and children. Generations of Irish families have deviated from the traditional model. Yet, their stories have been overlooked, overshadowed and omitted from the narrative. Historians, sociologists and legal scholars have all captured the lives of historical and contemporary communities of Irish women and men whose family experiences sit outside the assumed norm. While each of these fields have developed a rich disciplinary body of literature, these perspectives have not yet been considered together. RIFNET sits at this nexus and makes an important intervention in scholarship and society to provide academic scholarship and resources. In bringing to the fore marginalised stories and side-lined experiences, this research network provides a powerful challenge to dominant narratives of the family. RIFNET will engage with the latest international research on the concept of family (Finch, 2007;Morgan, 2020), and in turn, will provide a model for analysing the family within a supposed homogeneous society which will be internationally significant. We aim to push the boundaries of existing knowledge to create a new model that captures the broad diversity and messy realities of Irish family life. Through a series of workshops and impact activities, RIFNET brings together scholars, policy-makers and the general public to engage in critical discussions about the Irish family, both past and present. The work is divided across five work packages, from which the following outputs will flow: * An embedded research network. * 2xECR Research seminar presentations. * Archival research on the family. * A primary source collection of oral histories and images for future analysis and research. * A methodological model for accessing, preserving and disseminating diverse family experiences in Ireland. RIFNET members may present findings on The Conversation or Radio Teilifis Éireann (RTÉ)'s 'Brainstorm' or through partner networks. * Academic workshop facilitating wider networking. * Special issue of high-impact journal. * Online exhibition of audio-visual sources on the Irish family. * A searchable and interdisciplinary academic database of researchers and research on the Irish family. *Biographies of RIFNET members.

'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' (FSFDH) is a collaborative UK-Ireland project between the University of Sussex (UK), Technological University Dublin (Ireland) and Maynooth University (Ireland). Partners include Cambridge Digital Humanities (UK), the Digital Repository of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The project will make the field of Digital Humanities (DH) more inclusive by applying feminist approaches that link cultures, communities, and repositories, and will embed intersectional feminist praxis, as a critical methodological approach, across DH environments. FSFDH will develop and publish an interoperable 'Full Stack Feminist' (FSF) methodology and toolkit, that can be applied by DH communities & organisations, helping to create more inclusive and representative digital cultural heritage. The toolkit is built through an exploration of 3 stacks and work packages: data and archives; infrastructure, tools & code; access, experience, and integration. "Full stack" means we are concerned with issues related to inequalities in DH that span from the infrastructure layer to the representation layer - it reaches, and cuts, across all types of environments. Each stack will be analysed through an intersectional feminist lens to inform the development our open-source toolkit, comprised of various components, including workflows, coding tutorials, a manual, artefacts and a range of published literature. The toolkit will support strategic policy developments and ethics in communities, organisations, and institutions by being made accessible and distributed to digital humanists, social scientists, policymakers, computer scientists, software developers, data journalists, archivists and community archivists, digital artists. Our project will embed social values and humanities methodologies, from back-end development to front-end user interfaces, ensuring feminist inclusionary methodologies are incorporated in the full stack of digital development processes. It is designed to recode DH as a field informed by intersectional feminism and is dedicated to the creation of an inclusive, self-aware, and critically engaged praxis. FSFDH is intersectional, that is, it takes seriously the multiple, overlapping systems of oppression that operate within and across society, and which manifest in our digital environments. FSFDH expands on a framework of engagement seeded in the AHRC-IRC funded network 'Intersections: Feminism, Technology and Digital Humanities' (IFTe). This new project will continue to confront and challenge 'systemic limitations to DH's positive impact on society and culture. Drawing on intersectional feminist theory and practice, its goal is to build an inclusive and responsive DH, able to grapple with complex societal and community needs' (www.ifte.network). It represents a set of feminist approaches that is led by theory, praxis, and action-research. It challenges the perpetuation of algorithmic bias, of gendered and binary information systems, of documenting, digitising, and prioritising the histories and work of "dead white [cis] men". It embeds feminist praxis across and within the development cycle of DH projects, using the "full stack" metaphor to guide interventions in, for example, building inclusive and representative data models, rethinking controlled vocabularies, and critiquing our assumptions of access controls. Digital Humanities has a problem. It is built from inherited heteronormative, gendered, and frequently racist brick and mortar. 'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' will address this by enhancing and diversifying public access to and engagement with digital cultural heritage and intersectional feminist methods, through the application of FSF and development of the open-source FSF toolkit.

The Digital Edgeworth Network explores and analyses the manuscript archive of the celebrated author Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) and the Edgeworth family. This collaborative digital network project responds to the scale and scope of the Edgeworth papers, taking an interdisciplinary approach that can in the future be scaled up via an open access digital resource for the use of scholars in history, literature and politics. The rich and varied collection of papers related to the Edgeworth family from the 17th to the 19th century is divided by the Irish Sea and also cut off from its original home in Edgeworthstown, County Longford. The manuscript archives split almost equally between the National Library of Ireland, Dublin and the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, comprise many thousands of items including manuscript drafts, drawings, family correspondence, of which only a tiny percentage is available in print, and even less is subject to scholarly editing. The Edgeworth archive offers important evidence (manuscript drafts and correspondence) about the literary career of one of the most influential novelists of the early nineteenth century, Maria Edgeworth; the educational, agricultural and political theory and practice of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817); the ways in which an extended family with connections in Ireland, England, Europe and India, communicated and collaborated in the production of art, literature, and scientific knowledge; the history of Anglo-Irish relations in a period of political contest and transformation. Inspired by a 12 volume print scholarly edition (1993,2003) under the general editorship of Edgeworth's biographer, Marilyn Butler, there has been a significant surge in critical interest in the work. Selections of Edgeworth's letters have appeared in print, most recently Valerie Pakenham's Maria Edgeworth's Letters from Ireland (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2017). Print editions of letters and the fiction do not however communicate the breadth, variety and relevance of the extended correspondence and related network made apparent in the archive. Digital humanities' approaches and techniques make it possible not only to increase access to the manuscript archive, but also to analyse and understand it in new ways that offer potential to academic researchers and for cultural heritage. This timely proposal builds on an existing informal network and, in the context of the changing climate of British-Irish relations, solidifies and embeds previously informal connections to promote better understanding or our shared past for mutual benefit. Through collaboration between specialists in literary history, correspondence networks, digital technology, and heritage, the network will explore ways of re-uniting a divided archive and communicating its significance. The proposed activities cross disciplinary, geographical and sectoral boundaries and promote collaboration between academic researchers at the Universities of Cork and Oxford, libraries at Dublin and Oxford, and a cultural heritage organization (Edgeworthstown District Development Association). The network's public activities -- including the development of new resources at Edgeworthstown and the stimulation of creative responses from local school children to the manuscript materials in the Bodleian libraries and the National Library of Ireland -- have been designed to promote community and creative engagement with the resources, focusing on understanding better the global connectedness of Maria and her family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This work will provide the basis for exploring the future use of digital technology to bring archival images and information to life, enabling rich heritage experiences, as well as the wider dissemination of new scholarly understanding.

Ireland has particular importance in the global history of maps and map-making. Two centuries ago, the island became the first country to be mapped entirely at the large scale of six inches to one mile. While today this might seem unremarkable at the time it was a major achievement. Not only did the map-makers survey and record features on the ground, they recorded an impressive range of local details, including folklore, place-names, antiquities, religion and topography. All of this work was undertaken by the Ordnance Survey (OS) in Ireland during the 1820s-1840s. Very soon, 2024 will be the bicentenary anniversary of the start of this impressive feat, which offers us a timely opportunity to re-evaluate the impacts and legacies of the OS on the island of Ireland. This, then, is the main aim of the OS200 project as a UK-Ireland collaboration in Digital Humanities. This all-Ireland project, "OS200: Digitally Re-mapping Ireland's Ordnance Survey Heritage", will link together historic OS maps and texts to form a single freely-accessible online resource for the first time. Doing so will enable a team of researchers from across Ireland--north and south--to uncover otherwise hidden and forgotten aspects of the life and work of those from Britain and Ireland employed by the OS as they mapped and recorded landscapes and localities. Using new and innovative digital methods, techniques, tools and practices, OS200 will look 'behind the map' to those on the ground who surveyed Ireland's myriad townlands and gathered local stories. The project seeks to understand better this life 'in the field' through the records and accounts left behind by the OS. These legacies of the OS in Ireland are of immense public and academic importance and interest, yet over time what was once a connected corpus of material created by the OS has become fragmented and scattered across different collections. OS200 will reconnect and enrich these materials, recreating connections between memoirs, sketches, letters, name-books and maps, into the whole the OS originally conceived them to be. Timed to coincide with the upcoming bicentenary of the OS in Ireland, our project will offer an opportunity to reappraise the historic impacts of the OS's mapping of Ireland, and their lasting legacies. OS200 connects past and present using 21st-century technologies to analyse and visualise how the OS operated, on the ground, as surveyors encountered 'the surveyed'. This is so important in the context of Ireland, with the complex and sometimes troubled relationships between map-makers and the mapped, between outside authorities-in this case the OS as a state mapping agency-and local communities across the island. With Digital Humanities approaches, these relationships can be examined and explored in new ways to 'open up the map', to help us understand better the processes and practices involved when map-makers went out into the landscape and recorded what was there. For Ireland this work by the OS had great and lasting significance, not least in recording and authorising official place-names, a process captured though not without controversy by Brian Friel's well-known play, 'Translations'. Our UK-Ireland research collaboration between Queen's University Belfast and the University of Limerick, supported by the Royal Irish Academy, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and Digital Repository of Ireland, will re-examine how the OS not only mapped Ireland, but how also in the process they helped to transform it. Our new 'OS200 corpus' and research outcomes relate to the whole of Ireland, its townlands, parishes, fields, farms and loughs. As a result of this timely digital re-appraisal of the OS, not only will OS200 create a deeper and more critical understanding of the mapping and naming of Ireland's people and places, it will provide a tangible and lasting legacy itself, a new digital 're-mapping' of Ireland's OS heritage for all to engage with, study and discover.