Sociology Departments in Ireland

Department of Sociology. Trinity College Dublin. Head of the Department
Prof. Robert Holton. - http://www.tcd.ie/Sociology/

Department of Sociology, University College, Dublin. - http://www.ucd.ie/sociolog/profile.html

Department of Sociology Safari, O'Donovan's Road University
College Cork Cork Ireland tel. 353-21-4902318/4902807 fax. 353-21-4272004. - http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/sociology/

University of Limerick, combining politics and sociology. - http://www.ul.ie/~govsoc/ &
http://www.ul.ie/~govsoc/sociology/

Migration Studies at the Department of Geography, University College Cork - http://migration.ucc.ie/structureandpersonnel.htm

Brendan Halpin - Sociology Group - Department of Sociology, University of Limerick
brendan.halpin@ul.ie - Papers: http://wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie/~brendan/papers/

Court rulings recognise bullying as 'occupational risk'
... (Josep Espluga-Trenc, Department of Sociology, Autonomous University
of Barcelona). - http://www.eiro.eurofound.ie/2002/07/feature/es0207202f.html

Centre for Equality Studies - http://www.ucd.ie/~esc   Based at UCD
Centre for European Studies - http://www.tcd.ie/European_Studies/   Based at TCD
Centre for Gender and Women's Studies - http://www.tcd.ie/Womens_Studies/index.html   Based at TCD. The site is very attractive, but has not been updated in quite some time.
Centre for Peace and Development Studies - http://www.ul.ie/cpds   Based at the University of Limerick
Centre for Social and Educational Research - http://www.dit.ie/DIT/appliedarts/cser/   Based at DIT.
Children's Research Centre - http://www.tcd.ie/Childrens_Centre   Based at Trinity

Corcaigh Univ. Ireland http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/sociology

Dublin European Institute - http://www.ucd.ie/dei/index.html   Based at UCD
Employment Research Centre - http://www.tcd.ie/erc   Based at Trinity College, this centre has done much EU-sponsored research. The centre headed by Prof. James Wickham has a well maintained site with excellent information on each of the projects including the full reports. Also includes a Labour Market Observatory.
Institute for British-Irish Studies - http://www.ucd.ie/~ibis   This institute mirrors similar ones in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England and is based at UCD.
Institute for the Study of Social Change - http://www.ucd.ie/~issc/   This new institute looks set to be one of Ireland's leading centres for third level research into the Social Sciences and combines programmes from Sociology, Social Policy, Economics, Politics, The Centre for Equality Studies and the Institute for British-Irish Studies. Based at UCD,
Irish placenames and tribal names: LOCUS - http://www.ucc.ie/locus/   Based at UCC
Research Consortium Against Drugs - http://www.tcd.ie/Research/projects/drugs/   Based at TCD
Social Science Research Centre: NUIG - http://www.nuigalway.ie/ssrc/   The Applied Research component at NUIG.
Social Science Research Centre: UCD - http://www.ucd.ie/~ssrc/index.htm   The Appled Research centre at UCD.
The International Famine Centre: - http://www.ucc.ie/famine/   Based at UCC
The Irish Centre for Migration Studies - http://www.ucc.ie/icms/   Based at UCC
The National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) - http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/  Based at NUIM
The Policy Institute - http://www.tcd.ie/Policy_Institute/   This Institute is a collaboration between the Department of Politics and Economics in Trinity College. The site is updated but very basic and hard to navigate.
WERRC (Women's Education and Research Resource Centre) - http://hermes.ucd.ie/~werrc/  Based at UCD.