Centre for Neo-Latin Studies

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New Funding Sought

The Centre's Renaissance Latin Texts of Ireland project is a unique enterprise of great importance to the history of Irish intellectual culture, but it currently lacks the basic funding that would allow us to maintain and develop its research activities.

We are seeking two different strands of funding:
  1. Overall project funding
    • Large research grants from the Irish Government, the European Union, and private benefactors. These would allow us to advance to the next stage of the Renaissance Latin Texts of Ireland project.

  2. Targeted funding
    • Small-scale private benefactions. At present, we are seeking benefactions to enhance the services we provide for the wider academic and cultural community through:
      • expansion of our corpus of on-line texts
      • establishment of a prestigious lecture series to introduce our research to the public and place it in an international context.

Value for Money

The activities of the Centre are of central importance to Irish historians and literary scholars in an age in which advanced knowledge of Latin is increasingly rare. Scholars at the Centre have a record of high productivity and prestigious publications. All out-put that has been enabled by external funding is prominently acknowledged in our work. We are also willing to attach the name of significant benefactors to specific project activities or facilities, such as the proposed lecture series.
Past Funding Record

The Centre for Neo-Latin Studies is based in the Department of Classics, University College Cork, and is run in collaboration with the Department of History. A small core of academic staff can therefore be maintained without external funding. However, in order to pursue major research projects, such as the Irish Neo-Latin Project additional, external funding is essential.

The Centre has a strong record of gaining funding:
  • In 2003 a major research grant was won from the Higher Education Authority for the Renaissance Latin Texts of Ireland Project
  • Four postgraduate students have won IRCHSS scholarships to fund their research at the Centre
  • Funding has also been secured through research awards within University College Cork


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