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School of History reaps research funding
The Monastic Ireland project received funding of €369,000 from the Irish Research Council for its three-year ‘Monastic Ireland: Landscape and Settlement’ research project under the Advanced Project Grant scheme (2013-16).
The Monastic Ireland project received funding of €369,000 from the Irish Research Council for its three-year ‘Monastic Ireland: Landscape and Settlement’ research project under the Advanced Project Grant scheme (2013-16). The Monastic Ireland project was established in 2010 by Dr Rachel Moss (TCD), Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Discovery Programme), Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton (UCC) to create a web-based resource relating to medieval religious houses in Ireland c. 1100-1700. To date the project researches collected the baseline data of historical synopses, images, transcriptions of relevant primary documents and tourism information relating to monasteries and friaries across Ireland. This part of the project received €15,000 in further funding from Fáilte Ireland and the material will be made available via the web to the non-specialist audience in 2014.
The current ‘Landscape and Settlement’ project employs a post-doctoral researcher and two assistant researchers. The project investigates the role of the religious orders in the establishment and development of urban and rural settlement across the country, placing the Irish studies in a broader European context. The project is divided into three modules, dealing with the twelfth-century transformation, the spread of ‘new’ orders and their interface with local politics and social provision, and Dissolution and survival.
For more information see:
http://www.tcd.ie/History_of_Art/research/monastic_ireland.php