Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature

The project aims to explore Irishness in Australian literature and expects to generate new knowledge in Australianliterary studies. Using established and emerging methods, it expects to advance a critical and methodologicalframework of relational literary studies. Expected outcomes include an understanding of the formative role ofIrishness in Australian literary culture and a new way of integrating emerging and traditional methods of analysis.This project should provide significant benefits including new knowledge in Australian literary studies andadvanced methodological knowledge that combines human and computer-led approaches to literary analysis.Cultural benefits include enhancing Australias understanding of its cultural history