FORUM FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES IN IRELAND
FORUM UM LÉANN NA MEÁN-AOISE AGUS AN RENAISSANCE IN ÉIRINN
This the Forum’s RESOURCES page has but one simple aim in life: to be useful. Without further ado, here are our proudly functional categories:
- PUBLIC REPOSITORIES OF KNOWLEDGE: LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS
- THE PROPAGATION OF KNOWLEDGE: CENTRES, DEPARTMENTS, AND PROGRAMMES
- GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT: featuring links to job advertised here (by date of deadline), a section on the job market (inc. international), and the Roughest of Rough Guides to the PhD. Including postgraduate studentships, postdoctoral fellowships, and assorted other Funding Opportunities.
- USEFUL LINKS TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD ONLINE: resources for Medieval and Renaissance studies – a gateway to the/our virtual world.
Please do tell us about other websites you would like to see added to the RESOURCES pages. This part of the Forum is under construction; it will be expanded to spread over several inter-connected “satellites.” For some cogitations on the current state of affairs in the planning department please see FMRSI Resources: The Next Steps (comments very very very welcome).
LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, & MUSEUMS
IRELAND (and THE UK)
- ALCID (enabling access to all Irish university libraries, for members of any Irish university library)
- British Library (UK)
- Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
- Dublin City University Library
- Dublin Institute of Technology Library
- Irish Manuscripts Commission
- Marsh’s Library, Dublin
- Mary Immaculate College Library, Limerick
- Mater Dei Insitute Library
- National Archives (UK)
- National Archives of Ireland
- National College of Art and Design Library
- National Library of Ireland, Dublin
- NUI Galway: James Hardiman Library
- NUI Maynooth Library and the Russell Library (manuscripts, archives, early printed books)
- PRONI: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Library
- Royal Irish Academy LibraryDublin
- St Angela’s College Sligo (NUI Galway) Library
- St Patrick’s College Drumcondra Library
- SCONUL: Society of College, National, and University Libraries (the largest borrowing scheme for higher education researchers in Ireland and the UK)
- Trinity College Dublin Library: manuscripts – early printed books
- University College Cork Library: manuscript special collections
- University College Dublin Library
- University of Limerick Glucksman Library
EUROPE
See Ménestrel: Lieux et acteurs de la recherche and the links on PECIA (left-hand side of the page)
THE REST OF THE WORLD…
CENTRES, DEPARTMENTS, AND PROGRAMMES
Whilst the primary aim here is to promote interdisciplinary centres (e.g. the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at TCD), we will also make some attempt to list as many university departments as possible that offer courses and programmes in the area; with a bias towards interdisciplinarity. It is hoped that this information might be useful to students interested in pursuing Medieval and Renaissance studies: from choosing course options to full degrees, undergraduate or postgraduate. Ph. D study is a whole other kettle of fish: the roughest of guides is provided here below.
CENTRES AND NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES:
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS)
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIA)
Humanities Institute of Ireland (HII)
Royal Irish Academy (RIA)
UNIVERSITIES, DEPARTMENTS, AND PROGRAMMES:
Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth)
Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)
Research centres:
CISCS: Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies
CMRS: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Irish Annals
Long Room Hub
Medieval History Research Centre
MNES: Centre for Medieval and Near Eastern Studies
Undergraduate options:
School of Drama, Film and Music
School of English
School of Histories and Humanities
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies
Postgraduate taught courses:
Graduate Studies: Taught Masters and Doctoral Programmes (full list of all courses)
M. Phil in Comparative Literature
M. Phil in Early Irish
M. Phil in Literary Translation
M. Phil in Medieval History
M. Phil in Medieval Language, Literature, and Culture (interdisciplinary, c/o CMRS)
M. Phil in Musicology and Music Theory
M. Phil in Reformation and Enlightenment Studies
Postgraduate Diploma in Old Irish
Research centres:
Irish Centre for Galician Studies
University College Dublin (UCD)
Research centres:
Centre for the History of the Media
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, UCD
Arts & Human Sciences (full list of degrees offered)
College of Centre for the History of the Media, UCDArts & Celtic Studies
School of Archaeology
School of Art History & Cultural Policy
School of Classics
School of English & Drama
School of History & Archives
School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore & Linguistics
School of Languages, Literatures & Film
School of Music
Graduate School of Arts & Celtic Studies (full list of taught courses offered)
Graduate and Higher Diplomas in Irish Folklore; Graduate Diploma in Medieval Welsh
M.A. in Archives and Record Management
M.A. in Comparative Literature
M.A. in French and Francophone Studies
M.A. in Italian Studies
M.A. in Medieval Literature and Culture (English)
M.A. in Medieval Studies (History)
M.A. in Musicology
M.A. in the History of the Media
EUROPE
See Ménestrel: Lieux et acteurs de la recherche and the links on PECIA (left-hand side of the page)
THE REST OF THE WORLD …
WORK IN PROGRESS …
A second list will be appearing here at a later date; to include centres, departments, and programmes overseas with which FMRSI members and their institutions have connections; and the most important instances of the genre worldwide (for example Bangor, Leeds, and York; and Harvard, Notre Dame, and the PIMS).
