Communicating the legacy of child abuse and helping victims heal

Research team and collaborators

Principal investigator: Dr Emilie Pine
Data analytics: Professor Mark Keane, Dr Susan Leavy
Multimedia: John Buckley, Maeve Casserly, Tom Lane
Survivors’ Stories: Dr Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, The Christine Buckley Centre

Funding

Industrial Memories was included by the Irish Research Council in its 2017 Annual Report: “in which we select a few awardees to feature their projects as a sample of the ground-breaking research funded by the Council”. Dr Pine has built the project, in tandem with the Irish Memory Studies Network, supported by the following funding:

2015-19 Irish Research Council New Horizons (€216k)
2014 Irish Research Council New Foundations (€6k)
2014 UCD Seed Funding (€4.5k)
2012 Irish Research Council New Foundations (€5.1k)

Appointments (leading from role as PI of Industrial Memories)

Advisor to Minister of Children and Youth Affairs on dealing with national institutional history (2018+)
Executive Board Member, Christine Buckley Support and Education Centre for Survivors of Institutional Abuse (2019+)
Elected Committee Member, Languages, Literature, Culture and Communications Committee, Royal Irish Academy (2018+)

Website

User statistics (May 2018-June 2019):

26,755 views
7,084 users
Repeat users: 10%
Top ten user countries of origin: Ireland, USA, UK, France, Australia, Canada, China, Russia, Germany, Spain

The Industrial Memories website has been archived by the National Library of Ireland, and the (opens in a new window)100Archive (which archives the top 100 online projects).

Academic publications

Emilie Pine, ‘Witnessing abuse: digital methodologies for understanding difficult pasts’, in Irish Literature in Transition 1980-2020 (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2019) ed. by Paige Reynolds and Eric Falci.

Emilie Pine, Maeve Casserly, Tom Lane, ‘Walks of Experience: Taking and Making Digital Audio Tours: digital interventions in the memory and cityscapes of Tel Aviv and Dublin’, forthcoming Theatre Research International (2019).

Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Emilie Pine, ‘Patterns in Language: Text Analysis of government reports on the Irish industrial school system using word embedding’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (April 2019), (opens in a new window)https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz012

Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, ‘Digital Reading as Active Witnessing: Re-reading the Ryan Report’, Eire-Ireland (Spring/Summer 2017) 52.1-2, DOI: (opens in a new window)https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2017.0009

Emilie Pine, ‘Commemorating Abuse’, (2013) http://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast34.html