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CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts CELT, conceived by Profes- Irish history in over 1,000 and beyond, CELT’s web- ing. CELT also includes there will be materials for and October 2008, our sor Donnchadh Ó Corráin, text documents, including site celt.ucc.ie is the high- stand-alone projects, travel, economy, histori- corpus has grown by over is Ireland’s biggest single bibliographical information est ranking UCC individual such as Writers of Ireland ography and politics from 3.4 million words in 285 Internet corpus of scholarly and background material. research project in pages (2006) funded by UCC. Un- the early modern period, new texts, and we are multilingual XML-encoded All documents have been served per day; with 10% der PRTLI 4, CELT makes including hitherto unpub- looking forward to pub- electronic texts on Irish his- edited by CELT staff to TEI of successful page requests available a) materials for lished items; b) Irish sagas lishing more online. We tory, literature, and poli- standards. from UCC. Authors of Ireland (1600– and hagiographical texts; would like to acknowl- tics. Founded in 1991, it CELT has been a leader CELT’s funding comes 1900) including editions and c) materials relating to edge the help of CELT vol- was Ireland’s first website. in electronic text editing. from private donors, public provided by members of the history of science from unteers who enthusiasti- It has 11.5 million words Widely used by the schol- bodies (HEA, IRCHSS), and History and other UCC de- the early modern era. cally give of their time to from over 1,000 years of arly community in Ireland through its own fundrais- partments. In addition, Between February 2006 make more texts available. History Literature History of Science Nearly 90 historical and historicist texts, many with English trans- Old and Middle Irish literature offers a rich treasure chest. Although CELT has started to make available elec- lations, make up CELT’s offering in this section. Geoffrey Keating’s CELT has about 130 texts, many with English translations, there are tronic texts from the history of medicine and astronomy. Irish medical texts nearly Foras Feasa is online. The Irish Annals, made accessible online when- many more on our list. are unique in Europe, in that the Latin was ever you need to check, verify, or compare entries, are a great re- translated into the vernacular. Much has been added to them, which allows fasci- source and essential for medieval Irish historians. All the major an- nating insights into contemporary health. nals are on CELT, and a few will be published in 2009, such as the Searchable texts also complement well- known existing projects, such as ISOS Annals of Clonmacnoise. (DIAS). ISOS has been engaged for years in the digitisation and online presentation of manuscript images from major Irish re- search libraries. Above . éıgentach eıle aır ocus ag a mbeıth a chuıngıll saor ın gach énní. Sa geımhredh, umorro, toghthar ın uaır bhus teo ocus mar an cétna don errach ocus don foghmhar óır rannchuıdıd rıs ın samradh ocus reıs an geımhredh oır as anns na rannuıbh ıs nesa don tsamhradh dıbh dlıghıd ın uaır bheıth mar uaır an tsamhraıdh ocus ıs na rannoıbh ıs Anglo-Irish Literature from the 18th and 19th century also is at the nesa don geımredh toghthar ın uaır bhus teo mesurrda. fMS page/column 9/17g Tr. cause and who has his desire free in every one heart of CELT, and growing. Pick Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, thing. Yet, in the winter, let the time that is warmer be chosen and so also of the spring and of the autumn, for Thomas Osborne Davis, James Clarence Mangan, Sheridan Le Fanu, these warmer times are apportioned towards the summer Bram Stoker, or Oscar Wilde. Political documents and writings com- and towards the winter, for it is in the portions that are nearer to the summer of them that the time should be like plement the literary works, from Spenser to de Valera, and from Sir the time of summer and the portions which are nearer the winter let the time of moderate warmth be chosen. John Davies to James Connolly. Source H. Cameron Gillies, Regimen Sanitatis: The Rule of Health, A Gaelic Medical Manuscript of the Early Sixteenth Century or perhaps older from the Vade Mecum of the famous Macbeaths, physicians to the Lords of the Isles and the Kings of Scotland for several centuries. Glasgow, 1911. http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G600010/ Right From the Middle Ages well into the modern era, the raised urine glass symbolised the learned doctor. In the medicine of the Humours, emissions and secre- tions enabled inferences about what went on inside the body. Thus the colour and sediment of the urine demon- strated the proportions of the four fluids; blood, phlegm, and the yellow and black bile. [Iatromathematisches Hausbuch, 14th cent. Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Hand- schriftenabteilung, MS C 54 fol. 53v] Editorial Board • Professor Johan Corthals, University of Hamburg • Professor Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha, DIAS Project Director: Dr Hiram Morgan, Department of History, UCC ([email protected]) • Professor Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, NUIG Project Manager: Beatrix Färber, Department of History, UCC ([email protected]) • Mr Peter Flynn, EPU, UCC ucc Technical Consultant: Peter Flynn, Electronic Publishing Unit, UCC ([email protected]) • Dr Anthony Harvey, RIA Coláıste na hOllscoıle Corcaıgh Research Assistant: Emer Purcell, Department of History, UCC ([email protected]) University College Cork • Dr Kevin Murray, UCC T • Professor Joseph F. Nagy, UCLA CELT Project, 2 Carrigside, College Road, Cork +353 21 490 2736 • Professor Gregory Toner, University of Ulster at Coleraine.