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Economic history; Irish historical Public - No restriction finances, trade, (18th to 20th century), historical fiscal dataset construction, open linked data.

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Dr Aidan Kane is a lecturer ineconomics at the University of Galway.His BA and PhD are from the University of Dublin, Trinity College.His research interests are principally in Irish economic history, and in particular, the construction of historical datasets, mainly related to Irish Public - No restriction finance, from the 18th century to the present, and on Irelands 18th century international trade, using a range of web, programming, and relational database technologies. He is currently also working on maritime economic history, working on databases of 19th steamships built in Britain and Ireland, on the analysis of technological and industry change in shipping through a database of Lloyds Register from the 1780s to the 1860s, and a separate project on the evolution of cotton spinning machinery in 19th century Britain. He also has an interest in the political economy of innovation policy in Ireland, having served as director of the Universitys Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC) from 2002 to 2006. (CISC is now titled the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.nuigalway.iewhitakerinstituteWhitaker Institute ). He teaches Irish economic history, financial economicsmacroeconomics at undergraduate and postgradlevel, and he supervises students in respect of final year projects, thesesplacements in taught postgraduate programmes, and at PhD level.Dr Kane was previouslyprogramme director of the Higher Diploma in Economic Science at the University of Galway, previously director of undergraduate studies in economics, and head of economics fromNovember 2016 to May 2019 at the University of Galway. Find out more about his work on Irish economic history data reflected in the Duanaire projecta target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.duanaire.ieDuanaire: a treasury of digital data for Irish economic history Duanaire is building a repository of Irish economic history data.At present, the focus is on 18th century Irish fiscal data, and on amajor project near completionto digitise, capture, and make availablean extensive dataset on Irelands 18th centuryinternational trade.

Research Interests

Keywords: economic history, Irish economic history, fiscal history, economic history data management.My research interests are principally in Irish economic history, and in particular, the construction of historical datasets, mainly related to Irish Public - No restriction finance, from the 18th century to the present, using a range of web, programming, and relational database technologies. These include R, Perl, MySQL, and php, as well as the use of OCR technologies for data capture. Current projects are focussed on a major dataset on Irelands international trade in the 18th century, and on the application of linked data technologies to economic history data.I have recently worked in maritime economic history, particularly in respect of work on 19th century steamships built in Britain and Ireland, and on an analysis of data on shipping from Lloyds Register of Shipping from c1780 to 1860, as well as a separate project on the evolution of cotton spinning machinery in 19th century Britain.I also have an interest in the political economy of innovation policy in Ireland, having served as director of the Universitys Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC) from 2002 to 2006. (CISC is now titled thea target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.nuigalway.iewhitakerinstituteWhitaker Institute

Teaching Interests

I teach a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including a module on financial economicsmainly for 2nd year artsbusiness and economics students, an Irish economic history module mainly taken by second yeararts undergraduates, a module on the contemporary Irish economy in a global context mainly taken byfinal year undergraduates, and a new postgrad module on financial and economic history,along with continuing supervision of final year projects, masters thesis, and PhD theses.

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  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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BA (Mod.) PhD

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