Nicholas Wolf

Presentations

Select Conferences

• "Creating a Digital Edition of Brooklyn’s Irish-Language An Gaodhal Newspaper, 1881-1904," American Conference for Irish Studies, San Jose, CA, June 2023.
• "Elusive Education-Policy Planning around Non-English Languages in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland," Victorian Literary Languages Research Network, Dublin, Ireland, August 2022.
• "Irish Linen and American Cotton: The Financial Networks of the Early Nineteenth-Century Brown Brothers Company," Midwest Conference American Conference for Irish Studies, LaCrosse, WI, October 2022.
• "A New Metric for an Old Question: Intergenerational Transmission and Irish-Language Shift, 1851-1891," American Conference for Irish Studies, Derry, Ireland, June 2021.
• "Mining for Charm Information in Large-Scale Digital Library Corpora," 18th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Zagreb, Croatia, September 2021.
• "Data Mining, Large-Scale Bibliographic Analysis, and Other Computational Approaches to Irish Studies," Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 2020.
• "Using Intergenerational Transmission as a New Marker of Irish-Language Shift, 1851-1891," Mid-Atlantic American Conference for Irish Studies, New York, NY, November 2019.
• "The Impact of Ireland, 1912–1985, on the Historiography of the Irish Language," 30th Anniversary Reflections on J.J. Lee's Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland, April 2019.
• "Restrain, Liberate, Kill: Parsing the Language of Blocking Sickness in Irish Charms," Meeting of ISFNR Committee on Charms, Charmers, and Charming, Pescara, Italy, May 2019.
• "Tracing Irish Studies through Citations and Library Holdings: A Data-Driven View," American Conference for Irish Studies, Boston, MA, March 2019.
• "Native and Nonnative Saints in Nineteenth-Century Irish-Language Charm Historiola," Verbal Charms and Narrative Genres Conference, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, December 2017.
• "Unpacking the Family Networks of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Ledgers" Global Diaspora Congress, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, August 2017.
• "Mining Fifty Years of ACIS National Meeting Programs," American Conference for Irish Studies, Kansas City, MO, April 2017.
• "Trends and Trajectories in Irish Studies: Text Mining the Éire-Ireland Archive," Mid-Atlantic American Conference for Irish Studies, Washington, DC, November 2017.
• "Building a Picture of Charm Types, Practices, and Extent in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland," 9th Conference for the International Committee for Charms, Charmers, and Charming, Cork, Ireland, May 2016.

Talks and Invited Lectures

• "The Emergence of the Global Irish-Speaking Population in the Nineteenth Century: Implications and Impacts," Invited Talk, Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar, February 2024.
• "Pinpointing Rates of Nineteenth-Century Language Shift in Ireland: A Return to the Census Data," Invited Talk, Dublin City University/Fiontar, March 2021.
• "Corpas Litríochta na Gaeilge sa Naoú hAois Déag: Amharc Domhanda," Invited Lecture, CUNY Lehman, April 2019.
• "Digital Resistance: On Digital Humanities as Counter-Narrative in Irish Studies," Plenary Lecture, Midwest American Conference for Irish Studies, Columbia, MO, October 2017.
• "A Historical Sketch of the Irish Speakers of New York State," Invited Lecture, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, September 2016.
• "Reflecting on Contemporary Digital Scholarship as an Act of Composition," The Future of the Contemporary: An International Colloquium, Dublin, Ireland, February 2016.
• "An Irish-Speaking Island," Invited Lecture, American Irish Historical Society, New York, NY, February 2015.
• "Ireland's Other 'Silence'? Reexamining Language Shift in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century," Thomas D'Arcy McGee Memorial Lecture, St. Mary's University, Halifax, NS, March 2015.
• "The National School System and the Irish Language in the Nineteenth Century," History of Education Seamus Heaney Lecture Series 2015, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, October 2015.
• "Needs and Approaches for Today's Third-Generation Digital Humanities Projects," Digital Humanities and Irish Literary Studies Colloquium, University College Dublin, Ireland, December 2013.
• "New Approaches, Digital and Conceptual, to the Geolinguistic Landscape of 19th c. Britain and Ireland," Triangle Global British History Seminar, Research Triangle Park, NC, October 2013.
• "Recovering the Irish Language of the Nineteenth Century: A Measure of the Challenge," Invited talk, Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar, University of Melbourne/Newman College, Australia, December 2011.
• "Pilgrims, Apparitions, and the Resurgence of the Laity in Irish Historiography," Symposium on Modern Irish and British History Honoring James Donnelly, Madison, WI, November 2008.