Research Programme 2009-2013
HII research objectives are directly aligned with UCD’s strategic plan to 2014: Forming Global Minds. The area of Global Ireland has been prioritised as one of the university’s four major research themes. The selection of these themes has highlighted the need to strengthen both human and physical infrastructure to enable UCD to achieve further capacity in these priority areas. The HII conceptual focus on the histories and cultures of Ireland and its European neighbours leverages existing expertise within the UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies. The HII’s overarching theme of ‘Society, Culture and Change’ seeks in particular to contribute to Global Ireland’s concern to increase knowledge and understanding of social and cultural transformations in Ireland through the ages in a comparative European context. The overarching theme consists of three research strands: Material & Visual Culture; Cultural Translation; Cultural Memory. The following initiatives are currently affiliated to the Humanities Institute: Centre for Canadian Studies; GREP Centre for the Study of Gender, Culture and Identities; IRCHSS/Department of the Taoiseach funded‐project ‘Protestants, print and Gaelic culture in Ireland, 1567‐1722’