Prof. Kane Recovers Meaning of Text through Early Modern Irish

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Brendan Kane, Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut

Professor Brendan Kane, specializing in early modern Britain and Ireland, details the recent recovery of an Irish source on The National Archives’ blog. Along with UConn Greenhouse Studios’  and , Professor Kane translated the text of an early seventeenth-century land dispute from the Irish midlands. The text was shared via twitter by the The National Archives’ archivists and came to the attention of Professor Kane and the Greenhouse Studios due to their in-depth involvement with Léamh.org.

To read more about the discovery process as well as the analysis of the document, follow this link.

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