Professor Brian MacCraith:

While I have the microphone in front of me, I will return to Senator O'Donnell's comments. The strength of digital technology is discipline-agnostic. It comes down to the creativity of the educator and the learner. If I could promote a university that is not represented here, just to show our ecumenical approach, UCD developed an outstanding model last year around James Joyce's "The Dead", which captured spoken voice, music, video, archives and one just saw on an app the strength of digital technologies to impart something so exciting. We are developing a new module for secondary schools around the contested histories from 1910 to 1922, the North and South perspectives, right through to 1916. It is remarkable what one can draw on for that to engage students. It is a completely new learning experience. It straddles the arts and the humanities, right across all the disciplines.