Using Geocomputation and R as a Methodological Tool: Re-Creating Spatial Structures of the Irish Republican Army in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland.
This article explores how geocomputational processes can be utilised to re-create historical spatial boundaries using Irish historical data. For this study, a series of spatial objects representing Irish Republican Army (IRA) brigades in County Limerick during 1921 were re-created in R using the Mil...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 1 - 17 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Mar2025
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