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The extraordinary story of Sinann -- the inspirational figure who gave her name to Ireland longest river -- and how she arose Ireland's resilient female icons
Ralph Kenna, Chris Thompson, Isolde Ó Brolcháin Carmody +7
When local authorities recently selected a neoclassical male "river god head" of colonial origin to represent Ireland's longest river, it was welcomed as "harking back to Irish myt…
"The greatest Poet that has [n]ever existed" -- A Narrative Networks Analysis of the Poems of Ossian
Ralph Kenna, Padraig MacCarron, Thierry Platini +2
Surprising as it may seem, applications of statistical methods to physics were inspired by the social sciences, which in turn are linked to the humanities. So perhaps it is not as…
Network analysis of the Kyiv bylyny cycle -- east Slavic epic narratives
Petro Sarkanych, Nazar Fedorak, Yurij Holovatch +3
In recent times, the advent of network science permitted new quantitative approaches to literary studies. Here we bring the Kyiv bylyny cycle into the field - East Slavic epic narr…
Narrative structure of A Song of Ice and Fire creates a fictional world with realistic measures of social complexity
Thomas Gessey-Jones, Colm Connaughton, Robin Dunbar +4
Network science and data analytics are used to quantify static and dynamic structures in George R.R. Martin's epic novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, works noted for their scale and c…
Network Analysis of the Viking Age in Ireland as portrayed in Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh
Joseph Yose, Ralph Kenna, Máirín MacCarron +1
Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh ("The War of the Gaedhil with the Gail") is a medieval Irish text, telling how an army under the leadership of Brian Boru challenged Viking invaders and…
A scientists' view of scientometrics: Not everything that counts can be counted
R. Kenna, O. Mryglod, B. Berche
Like it or not, attempts to evaluate and monitor the quality of academic research have become increasingly prevalent worldwide. Performance reviews range from at the level of indiv…