Troubled Geographies:
A Spatial History of Religion and Society in Ireland

The Troubled Geographies project led to a number of publications, some of which are still in preparation or under review. Further details will be made available as they appear. Those currently or shortly available include:

• Gregory I.N., Cunningham N.A., Lloyd, C.D., Shuttleworth I.G. and Ell P.S. (2013) Troubled Geographies: A spatial history of religion and society in Ireland. Indiana University Press: Bloomington. This web-site is the companion to this book.
• Gregory I.N. and Cunningham N. (2015) “‘The judgement of God on an indolent and unself-reliant people’?: The impact of the Great Irish Famine on Ireland's religious demography” Journal of Historical Geography, 51, pp. 76-87. See DOI:  10.1016/j.jhg.2015.07.001
• Gregory I.N., Cunningham N.A. and Shuttleworth I. (in press, 2015) “Geographical Information Systems as a research tool for religious studies,” in Woodhead L. (ed.) How to Research Religion: Putting methods into practice. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
• Cunningham N.A. and Gregory I.N. (2014) “Hard to miss, easy to blame: Peacelines, interfaces and political deaths in Belfast during the Troubles” Political Geography, 40, pp. 1-15. See DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.004
• Cunningham N.A. (2014) “Troubled Geographies: A Historical GIS of religion, society and conflict in Ireland since the Great Famine” in Gregory I.N. and Geddes A.Y. (eds.) Towards Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, pp. 62-87.
• Ell P.S., Cunningham N. and Gregory I.N. (2014) “No spatial watershed: Religious geographies of Ireland pre- and post-Famine” in Corporaal M., Cusak C., Janssen L. and van den Beuken R. (eds.) Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Peter Lang: Oxford, pp. 197-224.
• Cunningham N. (2013) “‘The doctrine of vicarious punishment’: Space, religion and the Belfast Troubles, 1920-22” Journal of Historical Geography, 40, pp. 52-66. See DOI:   10.1016/j.jhg.2013.01.001
• Cunningham N.A. and Gregory I.N. (2013) “Religious change in 20th century Ireland: A spatial history” Irish Geography, 45, pp. 209-233. See DOI: 10.1080/00750778.2013.835965
• Lloyd C.D., Gregory I.N., Shuttleworth I.G. and Lilley K.D. (2012) “Exploring change in urban areas using GIS: Data sources, linkages and problems” Annals of GIS, 18, pp. 71-80. See DOI:  10.1080/19475683.2011.647079

The project team also gave a wide range of presentations including:

• The project team organised a session on “Troubled Spaces: Territoriality and the Troubles in Northern Ireland” at the Social Science History Association meeting in Miami (24/10/08). Cunningham presented a paper on “New approaches to the Troubles in Northern Ireland” and Ell presented on “Towards an Irish Historical GIS: Long-term change in Irish religion, 1861-2001.”
• “Troubled Geographies: Two centuries of religious division in Ireland,” Lancaster, 28/11/07 AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Phase I Launch Conference
• “Using GIS to understand space and time in the Digital Humanities” Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan 26/5/08. Invited faculty seminar.
• “Troubled Geographies: Two centuries of religious division in Ireland” Oxford, 10/7/08. Encounters and Intersections: Religion, diaspora and ethnicities
• “Analysing religious change and political violence in Ireland: A GIS approach” Colchester, 22/8/08. Historical GIS 2008
• “From historical censuses to Lake District literature: Uses of GIS in the humanities” Sheffield, 13/10/08. Invited presentation at Digital Technology: Its role in humanities research
• “Harnessing digital technologies for spatio-temporal analysis in historical research: A GIS approach to long-term religious division in Ireland” Belfast, 11/12/08. Network of Expert Centres in Digital Arts and Humanities
• “Geographical Information Systems as a research tool for the humanities” Dublin, 12/12/08. Invited presentation at 1641 Depositions Workshop
• “Historical GIS in Britain and Ireland: Progress and possibilities” NUIM, Maynooth, Ireland 12/2/09. Invited faculty seminar
• “Censuses, literature and newspapers: Using Geographical Information Systems to bring geography into the Digital Humanities” Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 13/2/09. Invited seminar.
• “A Place in the Digital Humanities:Using GIS to better understand humanities geographies” Kyoto, Japan, 27/2/09. Invited presentation at the 1st International Symposium on Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Culture.
• “Religion has its Place: An HGIS of Religious Change and Conflict in Ireland Since the Famine” University College Cork, 15/5/09. Conference of Irish Geographers
• “Censuses, literature and newspapers: quantitative and qualitative approaches to studying the past with GIS” Academia Sinica, Taiwan 9/10/09. Keynote presentation at GIS in the Humanities and Social Sciences
• “‘Maimed at the start’: Belfast and the impact of the Troubles” Long Beach, 15/11/09. Social Science History Association
• “Troubled Geographies: Ireland’s religious divides in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” London, 29/3/10. Invited presentation at Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion
• “Long-term religious change and stability in Ireland: A geographical analysis.” Manchester, 26/10/12. Keynote presentation at Eurel Conference.