Research Projects

The Dictionary of Irish Biography is Ireland’s national biographical dictionary. Devised, researched, written and edited under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, its online edition covers over 10,000 lives. 

DMLCS helps build a research infrastructure to interpret Western European thought from writings penned across a thousand years of history.

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is an interactive, trusted digital repository for social and cultural content held by Irish institutions.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) is a public history project for the study of modern Irish history through diplomacy. DIFP aims to make the history of Irish foreign policy accessible to all and promotes public engagement with the history of Ireland’s international relations.

Tá an tionscnamh taighde seo ag réiteach foclóir stairiúil don Ghaeilge sa tréimhse 1600-2000./This research project is engaged in the production of an historical dictionary of Irish in the period 1600-2000.

The aim of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) project is to record the topographical development of a selection of Irish towns both large and small.

The New Survey of Clare Island is a unique multidisciplinary endeavour that together with Robert Lloyd Praeger’s first Clare Island Survey provides an invaluable body of research informing future conservation of natural and built heritage of Ireland and Europe.