This project was inspired by a fascination
with how female characters
in works by Irish women writers
move through political spaces.
This project was inspired by a fascination
with how female characters
in works by Irish women writers
move through political spaces.
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We started with works by Irish women writers,
in which female characters cross through
and inhabit political spaces.
We found two authors who stood out
as writing novels and dramas
showcasing the mobility
or lack of mobility in politically segregated
areas of Northern Ireland,
such as Belfast:
Lucy Caldwell and Anne Devlin
Therefore, we took works by those authors
and created digital editions of those works
for research purposes
We created those digital editions using
Tesseract OCR software
Next, we used XML markup language to tag
what we thought were important features of the works:
characters and the locations in which
those characters move
We extracted that information
into CSV files and
imported them into QGIS
In QGIS, we created maps
highlighting the movement of female characters
across political boundaries
in comparison to male characters
The political spaces were determined using
census data
The maps were informative and
displayed interesting information
about the movement of female characters
through politically segregated Ireland.
For more information,
contact Fiona Carter at frabbitry@gmail.com or Kelli Maloy at kem25@pitt.edu