The DARIAH-IE National Committee brings together distinguished scholars, technologists, and practitioners from across Ireland’s academic and cultural institutions to support National Coordinator Professor Jennifer Edmond (TCD).
Anthony Corns (The Discovery Programme)
Anthony Corns is the Technology Manager for the Discovery Programme for the past 24 years and is responsible for the management of the applied technology research, including: project management, 3D data capture at a range of levels (aerial lidar, terrestrial scanning, close range scanning, SfM), GIS for cultural heritage, dataset management and archiving, metadata, promotion and dissemination of the use of technology within cultural heritage. He has participated in several EU-funded projects including CHERISH, 3D-ICONS (CIP), ARIADNE (FP7), 5DCulture, and ArchaeoLandscapes Europe (Culture 2007-2013). He is currently the representative for Ireland on the COST Action CA23141 – Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology (MAIA), chair of CARARE (Europeana Archaeology & Architecture aggregator) and a member of the new EU project 3D-4CH to develop an online Competence Centre for 3D heritage.
Professor David Crowley (National College of Art and Design)
Professor David Crowley is Head of the School of Visual Culture and Head of Research at NCAD. Previously, he was a professor in the School of Humanities at the Royal College of Art, London, leading the Critical Writing in Art & Design programme. After studying design history at the University of Brighton, the Royal College of Art and the Kraków Academy of Fine Art in the 1980s, he has worked as a writer, critic, curator and academic.
He has a longstanding interest in visual culture, particularly graphic design, co-authoring Graphic Design: Representation and Reproduction since 1800 (1996) with Paul Jobling. He serves on the editorial board of Eye magazine and curated the Warsaw International Poster Biennale exhibition, The Poster Remediated (2016).
Major curatorial projects include Cold War Modern at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2008-9, co-curated with Jane Pavitt); The Power of Fantasy: Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland at BOZAR, Brussels (2011); Sounding the Body Electric: Experimental Art and Music in Eastern Europe at Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (2012) and Calvert 22, London (2013); and Notes from the Underground: Alternative Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1968-1994 (2016-18). His most recent exhibition is Henryk Stażewski: Late Style (2023).
His authored books include National Style and Nation-State: Design in Poland (1992), Warsaw (2003), and Ultra Sounds: The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio (2019). He co-edited three landmark volumes with Susan Reid: Socialism and Style (2000), Socialist Spaces (2003), and Pleasures in Socialism (2010).
Crowley has presented research internationally at institutions including MoMA, Yale School of Architecture, Tate Modern, and the Getty Centre. He was on the management team of the EU-funded Nep4Dissent project and currently serves on the advisory board of the Triennale der Moderne. He is presently working on ‘Socialist Phantasmagoria’, exploring artists’ responses to socialist consumerism.
Professor Anna Hickey-Moody (Maynooth University)
Prof Anna Hickey-Moody is Director of the Arts and Humanities Institute and inaugural Senior Academic Leadership Ireland (SALI) Professor of Intersectional Humanities. Her qualitative and theoretical research explores intersecting angles of disadvantage through philosophical and creative approaches. Anna came to Maynooth to develop interdisciplinary research culture exploring intersectionality across the humanities.
Prior to joining Maynooth, Anna was Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, where she held an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship called Interfaith Childhoods. For this project, Anna created responsive arts-based research design that allowed collaboration with hard-to-reach communities through building strong relationships with children through art making. She worked with schools, communities and religious organisations across Australia and the UK to collect and share stories of faith told by diverse religious and secular people. This method developed public understandings of belonging in superdiverse, multicultural cities.
The research participants’ voices appear in Faith Stories: Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubling Times (MUP, 2023). Anna also led the Creative Research in Methods and Practice (CRiMP Lab), whose work features in New Materialist Affirmations, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2024. This feminist research laboratory supported queer and gender diverse researchers working at the intersection of creative practice as research method, visual sociology and creative anthropology at RMIT.
Before RMIT, Anna was Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, with previous positions at Goldsmiths London and Monash University Melbourne. She supervises PhD projects exploring religion, disability, sexuality, gender, race, and youth, having published widely on how these factors shape young lives. Currently, Anna is documenting stories from regional brown coal mining areas, examining relationships between pleasure and class in mining communities.
Dr Beth Knazook (Digital Repository of Ireland)
Beth Knazook is the project manager, research data at the Digital Repository of Ireland where she is working to advance the Repository’s support for FAIR research data through alignment with European and international infrastructures and policies. She is currently participating in a FAIR-IMPACT support action dedicated to the development of national level FAIR action plans as well as leading the DRI’s Legacy Data Preservation Pilot, designed to make the Repository accessible to researchers with closed data projects at risk of loss.
Beth was previously the Work Package Lead for the Cultural Heritage Case Study (WP13) in the WorldFAIR Project, a Horizon Europe funded initiative to promote global cooperation on FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data policy and practice. She was also a Task Lead on the EOSC Future Project, an EU-funded initiative to implement the European Open Science Cloud, aimed at giving European researchers wide access to FAIR data and related services.
In her past work, she was the preservation coordinator for the Portage Network, an organisation established by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries to foster a national research data culture through the provision of services and infrastructure (now a part of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada). She has also worked as the digitisation manager for Huron County Library and curator of special collections for Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Archives. She currently teaches professional development courses focused on managing and sharing photograph collections for Library Juice Academy and the Society of American Archivists.
Ciara McCaffrey (University of Limerick)
Ciara McCaffrey (BA, MLIS) is the University Librarian and Director at the University of Limerick. She has held roles in a number of Irish university libraries in a career spanning twenty five years. and has led many transformational innovations in library spaces, collections, systems and services to drive forward UL’s digital change agenda.
She is the Chair of the Consortium of National and University Libraries in Ireland (CONUL) and is a member of the Irish Universities Association Librarians Group and the LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) Library Architecture Group. She was previously co-chair of LIBER’s Digital Skills for Library Staff and Researchers Working Group and co-chair of the National Open Research Forum (NORF) Skills and Competencies Working Group. More information and open access versions of her publications are available on her LinkedIn and ORCID profiles.
Sian McInerney (The Hunt Museum)
Sian McInerney is a cultural heritage professional working with The Hunt Museum as Collections & Research Manager. The Hunt Museum has gained a reputation for innovating with and sharing its digital collection, opening up the Hunt collection for reuse, engagement and research. She has project managed European funded projects for the museum including Europeana Archaeology and The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages, and currently 3DBigDataSpace specialising digital cultural heritage sharing of the Hunt Collection. She also has a particular research interest in the life and career of Irish designer Sybil Connolly and managed the digitisation of the Sybil Connolly archive at the Hunt Museum. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Sociology (TCD, 2005), an M.A Cultural Policy & Arts Management (UCD, 2011) and an M.A. by Research (TUS, 2017) measuring economic and social impacts of art and cultural activity.
Dr Pádraic Moran (University of Galway)
Dr Pádraic Moran is a lecturer in Classics in the University of Galway. His research focuses on texts and manuscripts from western Europe in the period between the fourth to ninth centuries AD, and particularly on the impact of Latin culture in Ireland. He has created several digital editions and databases, exploring topics including network analysis, Linked Open Data and text-similarity detection. He is Director of the Digital Humanities Research Centre at the University of Galway.
Dr Órla Murphy (University College Cork)
Dr Órla Murphy is Head of the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, Ireland. She has held numerous leadership roles in the Irish SSH context. Most recently she served as Irish National Representative and Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee of COST-EU, and Irish National Representative on the Social Science and Humanities Special Working Group of ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. Nationally, she co-chairs ACERR, The Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository, with Dr Katie Sweeney, and serves as a committee member of Sonraí, the NORF-funded national data stewardship body.
She has been a board member at DRI, the Digital Repository of Ireland, and national coordinator of DARIAH Ireland with Dr Justin Tonra at NUIG. At her home university, she has contributed as deputy chair of the teaching and learning committee and chair of the digital education advisory group, particularly during the COVID period. She has been teaching online since 2008 and co-designed the first online MA in the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences in 2012. She has taught students online from Shanghai to Seattle, and most recently supervised two MA cohorts in Egypt who produced work with and for the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation.
She specialises in knowledge representation, specifically textuality and the impact of text technologies on the world, from Socrates to XR, with particular focus on Digital Humanities. Her research explores the integration of emerging digital technologies within humanities scholarship and pedagogy.
She has designed and developed innovative degrees promoting a standards-led approach, using international best practice for digitisation in its multiple forms to create reusable learning objects that are malleable across platforms and accessible to diverse publics.
Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) Committee chair
Prof Jane Ohlmeyer is the Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin and former Chair of the Irish Research Council. She was the founding Head of the School of Histories and Humanities in TCD, Trinity’s first Vice-President for Global Relations (2011-14) and Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute (2015-20)
Jenny O’Neill (HEAnet)
Jenny is a Research Engagement Officer at HEAnet with 13 years of experience supporting Ireland’s research infrastructure and data management. She is passionate about promoting Open Research practices and implementing FAIR data principles across Ireland’s research community.
In her role, she supports research data management initiatives nationwide and helps deliver critical components of national research infrastructure. She works to increase HEAnet’s visibility by building partnerships, influencing policy, and facilitating knowledge exchange between researchers.
She holds an MLIS from University College Dublin (First Class Honours, Wilson Foundation Award) and is involved in key national initiatives including developing IRL DataSpace, IRL-DSSC, and EOSC Ireland. She serves on the Sonraí Committee, Ireland’s data stewardship network, and coordinates RESIN InfoShares, monthly informal sessions where research community members connect and share insights.
Her work focuses on making research more open, accessible, and valuable to society through strong communication skills and collaborative partnerships.
Professor Declan O’Sullivan (ADAPT)
Declan O’Sullivan is a Professor in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, joining Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 2001.
Declan’s research expertise is in the field of Artificial Intelligence with a particular focus on knowledge and data engineering. He is currently the computer science co-Principal Investigator collaborating on a number of significant Digital Humanities projects, including the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (https://virtualtreasury.ie/) and the ERC project VOICES (https://voicesproject.ie/). Past interdisciplinary projects include SEAROBEND (https://searobend.adaptcentre.ie/) and FAIRVASC (https://fairvasc.eu/).
Declan was presented with an “Excellence in Supervision of Research Students” award from Trinity in 2024. He was also elected as a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin for the quality of his research and contribution to college in 2019. Declan has 13 years of research experience in industry, having worked for IONA Technologies and with Broadcom Eireann Research before joining TCD. During this time he achieved a successful track record as lead researcher, and in coordinating international research projects and the transfer of research into products.
He is a co-champion of the Trinity Digital Engagement interdisciplinary theme, and a Principal Investigator at the Research Ireland (Taighde Eireann) ADAPT Research Centre (http://www.adaptcentre.ie). He was a member of the National Open Research Framework NORF steering committee (2019-2023) and Ireland’s Open Data Governance Board (2019-2023).
