The John O’Donovan Archive
Perry O’Donovan presents an ambitious and vast digital project. It has clearly been in gestation for a substantial period of time and the MA DAH programme offered an opportunity to give it a kickstart and to provide the researcher with an impetus to deliver a superb digital artefact. The John O’Donovan Archive seeks to gather together materials relating to the life and times of historian and textual scholar John O’Donovan (1806-61) — Seán Ó Donnabháin in Irish — for the purpose re-presenting (and re-assessing) them in this, the early 21st century.
I have just seen an image of the oil painting of John O’Donovan as a young man. The portrait is painted with a very dark background.
Do you know the name of the artist? I think I have a family portrait by the same artist.
John O’Donovan’s work with the Ordnance survey on local place-names was obviously of great value.