The National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) was established as a University Institute at NUI Maynooth in January 2001. NIRSA was initially funded under Cycle 2 of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI2) as part of the National Development Plan, 2000-2006. The Institute recently received further funding under Cycle 4 of that fund.

NIRSA's remit is to undertake fundamental, applied and comparative research on spatial processes and their effects on social and economic development in Ireland

The Institute, centred in NUI Maynooth, is a collaborative project between scholars from a number of social science disciplines, located in four partner institutions:

• NUI Maynooth
• Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
• Institute of Technology, Sligo
• Queen's University, Belfast

Working Paper 59:

A Haunted Landscape: Housing and Ghost Estates in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland

Ireland After NAMA

The Ireland After NAMA blog offers analysis of post-NAMA Ireland.

Opportunites

Please click here to see available positions at NIRSA

Forthcoming Events:

• There are no forthcoming events at this time.

Past Events:
• ISSP Summer School
  Participation, Praxis and Policy: Understanding and Contributing to Society and Economy
  Venue : NUI Maynooth
  21-25 June, 2010
  
  Click here for a full list of past events.
  
  Recent Publications
  
  The Atlas of the Island of Ireland
  Mapping Social and Economic Change
• Edited by: Justin Gleeson, Rob Kitchin, Brendan Bartley, John Driscoll, Ronan Foley, Stewart Fotheringham & Chris Lloyd
• People and Place: A Census Atlas of the Republic of Ireland
• Edited by Prof. Jim Walsh, Vice-President, NUI Maynooth