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The Centre was established in 1999 to manage a number of research projects in the field of Irish-Scottish Studies, following receipt of major funding under HEA’s PRTLI initiative. The Centre has pioneered team-based collaborative research on a scale and of a kind that was new to the Humanities in Ireland, and with continued PRTLI funding it has thrived as an interdisciplinary partnership between History, English, and Irish and Celtic Studies, exploring themes relating to Ireland, Scotland and the wider world. The Centre has provided invaluable training for a cohort of exceptional young scholars. It is now affiliated to the Trinity Long Room Hub and works closely with the University of Aberdeen's Research Institute for Irish Scottish Studies.

Mission

• To support and contribute to the strengthening of research and teaching in all fields touching on Irish and Scottish Studies in the university, and on Irish-Scottish, Irish-British and other comparative studies that have an Irish dimension.
• To champion multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and teaching in the fields of Irish, Scottish and comparative studies in the Arts and Humanities.
• To act as a conduit of public access to the pool of expertise in Irish, Scottish and comparative studies within the university.

The Centre hosts more than 25 projects grouped into 6 Research Clusters:
     Medieval Ireland, Scotland and Europe
     National Literatures
     The World of Print
     Ireland and Empire
     Language and Translation
     The Seventeenth-Century Origins of Modern Ireland

Directors:
     Professor David Dickson
     Professor Ian Campbell Ross
     Professor Damian McManus
     Dr Seán Duffy

Administrator: Ms Caoimhe ní Bhraonáin

CISCS links:
     ISAI Irish Scottish Academic Initiative
     Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen
     CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts
     De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
     The Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network (ECLRNI)
     1641
     Irish in Europe