our projects

Depositor: 
James Williams, Sheila Greene, Erika Doyle, Elaine Harris, Rory McDaid, Sinéad McNally, Brían Merriman, Elizabeth Nixon, Lorraine Swords .

Description
Growing Up in Ireland is a longitudinal study which follows two cohorts of children, aged nine months and nine years.  The study was officially launched in 2007 and will be completed in 2013.  There is an embedded qualitative module, the data from which will be archived in the Irish Qualitative Data Archive. The data includes children’s interviews, transcripts of the parents’ interviews, field notes for each family and visual data consisting of the contents of time capsules created by the children. This involves a range of worksheets and drawings.

 
Growing Up in Ireland is a Government study. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is funding it in association with the Department of Social Protection and the Central Statistics Office. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is overseeing and managing the Study, which is being carried out by a consortium of researchers led by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Trinity College Dublin.
The catalogue record can be found here.
Status:
Data available from 1st October 2011.
 

Depositors:
* Dr. Heather K. Crawford

Description:
This oral history examined the relationship between Protestants and Catholics and the notion that southern Protestants are somehow not really Irish.  The data set highlights that there are still underlying tensions between the confessions based on 'memories' of events long buried in the past. Oral history interviews with representatives of both confessions, look at various aspects of everyday life in today's Republic - education, marriage, segregation, Irish language, social life. The data-set comprises of over a hundred interviews conducted throughout Ireland.
 
Dr Crawford's book, which is based on the interviews, is available at UCD press.
 
Audio from the speeches made at the press launch which address aspects of the research process are available here.
 
Status:
Archived and available for re-use under the following terms:

Until March 16th 2012, the IQDA must request permission from the depositor in order to distribute the dataset. Thereafter IQDA may distribute the dataset for research and teaching purposes without asking permission from the depositor, but must notify the depositor of any request for access to the dataset.
 
If you are interested in using this dataset, please return the Data Access Request Form and return it to us at IQDA, T14 John Hume Building, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.
 
Reviews of "Outside the Glow"
Richard English's  review in The Irish Times.
John Spain's review in The Irish Independant.
John Burke's review in The Sunday Business Post
Heather Crawford speaking on the Today with Pat Kenny show.