Our Data
The Irish Qualitative Data Archive hosts both a catalogue of Irish qualitative research, a photographic archive and an archive of data collections that researchers can access and use for secondary analysis. If you want to find out what qualitative research has been conducted in Ireland, you should consult the catalogue of Irish qualitative research. If you are interested in what data we are archiving, look below. This page contains information about the data collections we currently in our archive or that are being prepared for addition to the archive. All data from the projects will be available for digital download. However the majority of the data will only be available to bona fide researchers who have signed legal access agreements that guarantee ethical re-use of the data. These access forms can be found here. If you are interested in submitting your data to the archive, please contact us. .................................................................................................................
Outside the Glow. Protestants and Irishness in Independent Ireland
The Career Trajectories, self identities and re-settlement strategies of returning Irish Migrants
The Second World War and Irish Women
Life Histories and Social Change in Ireland in 20th Century Ireland
Suburban affiliations; social relations in the Greater Dublin Area
Towards a Dynamic Approach to Research on Migration and Integration
Raccer: Re-use and Archiving of Complex Community-Based Evaluation Research
Ned Cassidy Photographic Archive
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Towards a Dynamic Approach to Research on Migration and Integration
Depositors:
* Dr. Mary Gilmartin (Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth)
* Dr. Bettina Migge (University College Dublin)
Description:
This longitudinal qualitative study of migrants to Ireland will track sixty migrants, from two migrant cohorts over a two year period, through interviews, observation, shadowing and visual methods. The project will, for the first time, provide detailed information on migrants and their experiences of integration in Ireland over an extended period, using an interdisciplinary framework that, in turn, will provide the basis for extended studies and international comparative research.
Status:
The project will run until December 2010 and will be archived on completion.
The career trajectories, self identities and re-settlement strategies of returning Irish migrants
Depositors:
* Prof. Mary P. Corcoran (Department of Sociology and NIRSA, NUI Maynooth)
Description:
Irish migration at the turn of the twenty-first century encompassed many complex and multi-dimensional processes. Whereas Irish emigrants were once drawn almost exclusively from the agricultural and laborer classes, in the closing decades of the twentieth century emigration came to permeate the entire social system. Thus, Irish migrants are to be found not just among the ranks of skilled and semi-skilled labor, but also among the trans-national professional elite that crisscrosses the globe. In recent years, considerably more people entered Ireland than left, bringing the country's migratory profile more into line with its European partners. This dataset comprises 20 qualitative interviews with a cross-section of emigrants who left Ireland in the 1980s and returned in the 1990s. The interviews were carried out in late 1997 and early 1998. Particular attention was paid to motivations for leaving and their experiences abroad in terms of professional and personal development.
Status:
In preparation for archiving
Ned Cassidy Photographic Archive
Depositors:
* Mr Edward Cassidy (In association with Dr. Brendan Bartley Department of Geography and NIRSA, NUI Maynooth and the Irish Architectural Archive)
Description:
The Ned Cassidy Photographic Archive comprises more than 30,000 photographs relating to various aspects of the built environment for all towns and settlements across the Republic of Ireland with a population of more than 500 people. The photographs cover the period from the 1970s to the present day and were compiled systematically by Edward Cassidy who served as Planning Officer with An Bord Pleanala in the 1980s and was Chief Planning Advisor at the Department of the Environment and Local Government before his retirement in the 1990s. The Archive is the only known photographic repository which contains images for a full set of towns in Ireland for this period. Most of the images are in hard copy format and the IQDA is producing high quality digital copies of the original hard images provided by Ned Cassidy to facilitate on-line electronic access to the Archive.
Status:
Partially archived. In the process of digitizing images and building a digital repository which will be made available to academics, scholars, educators and others engaged in bone fide research.
NIRSA Photographic Archive
Depositors:
* Various
Description:
The NIRSA Photo Archive is a photographic record of the people and places of Ireland, both North and South. The Archive has an emphasis on society, economy and environment, and seeks to capture the everyday landscapes and activities of Irish life. It is an ongoing project, with many new photographs added each month.
Status:
Ongoing
Growing Up in Ireland
Depositor:
Professor Sheila Greene (AIB Professor of Childhood Research and Director of the Children’s Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin).
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.
Status:
Ongoing. Initial data is in preparation for archiving.
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