Research Projects
Current Research Projects
European Funded Projects
VOICES: Life and Death, War and Peace, c.1550–c.1700: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland (2023–2028)
PI: Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
https://voicesproject.ie/
STONE-WORK: Collective Achievement in Anglo-Irish Architectural Production, 1700–1800 (2023–2028)
PI: Professor Christine Casey
https://www.stone-work.eu/
4-OCEANS: Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers and Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE–c.1860 CE (2021–2027)
PIs: Professor Poul Holm and Dr Francis Ludlow
https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/4-oceans/
Research Ireland Laureate Awards
Witnessing War, Making Peace: Testimonies of Revolution and Restraint in Inter-War Ireland (2023–2027)
PI: Professor Anne Dolan
https://witnessingwar.com/
EMPIRE: Cromwellian Ireland and the Transformation of the English Atlantic World (2023–2027)
PI: Professor Micheál Ó Siochrú
https://empire-project.com/
Research Ireland Pathway Awards
Early Irish Hands: The Development of Writing in Early Ireland
PI: Dr Nicole Volmering
https://earlyirishhands.ie/
Enjambement in Latin Poetry: Prosody, Pragmatics and Word Order
PI: Dr Boris Kayachev
https://www.tcd.ie/classics/people/kayachev.php
TÚS: Pregnancy and Giving Birth in Ireland, 1950–2020
PI: Dr Deirdre Foley
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2025/trinity-researchers-secure-research-ireland-pathway-awards/
Other Nationally Funded Projects
Coastal TALES: Telling Adaptations; Living Environmental Stories for Coastal Resilience (2024–2027)
PI: Professor Poul Holm
Funder: Environmental Protection Agency, under the Belmont Forum Cultural Heritage and Climate programme
https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/projects/Coastaltales/
Normandy and Ireland Settlement Connections (NAISC) (2025–2028)
Funder: National Monuments Service
The project is connected with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland and forms part of preparations for the Norman Millennium in 2027.
https://virtualtreasury.ie/2026-new-releases
Signature Research Projects
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
https://virtualtreasury.ie/
Recently Completed Projects
The funded phases of these projects have concluded, but they continue to generate research, publications, resources, collaborations and public engagement.
FOODCULT: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, 1550–1650 (2019–2025)
PI: Professor Susan Flavin
Funding: European Research Council Starting Grant
https://foodcult.eu/
CHINACHILD: Slave-Girls and the Discovery of Female Childhood in Twentieth-Century China (2018–2024)
PI: Dr Isabella Jackson
Funding: Research Ireland/Irish Research Council Starting Laureate Award
https://chinachild.wordpress.com/
Trinity’s Colonial Legacies (2021–2024)
PIs: Dr Ciaran O’Neill and Dr Patrick Walsh
Funding: Philanthropic funding
https://histories-humanities.tcd.ie/research/colonial-legacies/
CLICAB: Climates of Conflict in Ancient Babylonia (2018–2023)
PI: Dr Francis Ludlow
Funding: Research Ireland/Irish Research Council Starting Laureate Award
Work and publications arising from the project continue.
https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/projects/CLICAB/
The Irish Foundation of Carolingian Europe: The Case of Calendrical Science (IFCE) (2018–2023)
PI: Dr Immo Warntjes
Funding: Research Ireland/Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate Award
https://www.tcd.ie/medieval-history/research/