Welcome to the UCD School of Politics and International Relations, the oldest and the largest of its kind in the Republic of Ireland.
SPIRe is a dynamic, multi-faceted and highly-international school offering exciting and professionally-valuable programmes of study at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our academic staff are engaged in cutting-edge research on a wide variety of political issues, including ethno-political conflict, human rights, and Ireland's role in the European Union, to name just a few. They come from eleven countries across three continents; most are political scientists but economics, philosophy, and sociology are also represented in our ranks. The School is also home to three research centres: the Centre for Development Studies, the Dublin European Institute, and the Institute for British-Irish Studies.
Announcements of new programmes and events will be posted here. If you have any questions, please contact us directly.
Professor Paul Walsh
Head of School
UCD School of Politics and International Relations
Events / Conferences
- A one day workshop "Small States in International Negotiationes. Punching above their weights?" Organised by Dr Diana Panke will take place on Friday May 14th 2010. The workshop is Fully funded by the Irish Research Council for teh Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). For more details, please contact Diana Panke (diana.panke@ucd.ie)
- Human Rights and Political Theory, a conference organised by SPIRe in honour of Professor Attracta Ingram, April 23 2010.
- Regulation in the Age of Crisis
The 3rd Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance will be held in UCD from 17-19 June 2010. It is hosted by UCD School of Law, UCD School of Politics and International Relations, UCD School of Business, UCD Global Finance Academy, The Institute of Public Administration and Trinity College Dublin.
