Humanities Institute of Ireland Research Programme: Identity, Memory and Meaning in Ireland

SPCD Personnel: Dr Diarmaid Ferriter & Dr P.J. Mathews
Partners: St Patrick's College, Drumcondra; UCD: Professor Declan Kiberd (English), Dr Tony Roche (English), Dr Angela Bourke (Modern Irish), Professor Mary E. Daly and Dr Michael Laffan (History); Dr Anne Fogarty (English), Dr Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith (Modern Irish), Professor Cormac Ó Gráda (Economics), Úna Nic Gabhann (Modern Irish); Dr Steve Coleman, (NUI Maynooth); Dr Finbar Cullen, Professor Lynn Innes (University of Kent), Professor Fredric Jameson (Duke University), Professor James Clifford (UC Santa Cruz), Professors Kevin O'Neill and Kevin Kenny (Boston College), Professor Joan N. Radner (American University).

Identity, Memory and Meaning in Ireland is an interlocking programme of studies which will re-examine the matter of Ireland, in English, in Irish and bilingually, and host visitors whose theoretical perspectives can inform a radical interrogation of the mind of a changing society. Collaborative links are in place with the Irish Studies Program at Boston College, USA, and the Center for Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal.
The current strand of the project is concerned with the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Rising in 1966.

Funding body: PRTLI Cycle 1 -c. €7 million

 

 

Last Updated: Thursday September 21 2006