Patrick Egan, PhD

Patrick Egan (Pádraig Mac Aodhgáin), PhD, is an international scholar specializing in digital humanities, ethnomusicology and archival metadata. He is a lecturer in digital humanities at University College Cork. As a wide-ranging creative, Patrick is also a performer of Irish traditional music on concertina. He is a researcher of cultural heritage, developer of digital artefacts, digital preservation workflow, digital timeline visualisations and gives papers at conferences in Ireland, England, Europe and North America.

Patrick Egan at the American Folklife Center, 2019. Photo by Steve Winnick
Patrick Egan at the American Folklife Center – Photo by Steve Winnick