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

AIRO Mapping Tools

AIRO has developed two new mapping tools providing information on island-wide distribution of facilities and services, and the spatial distribution of deprivation on an All-Island basis.
Full details are available here

NCG Director Position

NCG is currently seeking applications for the role of Director. See here for further details.

ESPON Ireland

The new ESPON Ireland website has been launched, providing information on the ESPON 2007-2013.
Click here for more information.

Ireland After NAMA

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

Events:

30th January
Networks and Flows in Economic Space
A One Day Conference on Economic Geography
Keynote Speaker: Henry Wai-Chung Yeung, National University of Singapore
Venue: Renehan Hall, NUI Maynooth
Time: 9am - 7pm

6th March
Crime Fiction and Contemporary Ireland
An audience with Declan Burke, Gene Kerrigan and Niamh O'Connor
Venue: Renehan Hall, NUI Maynooth
Time: 5pm - 7pm

8th March
Local Government Reform: Myth or Reality?
A one day symposium
Venue: Renehan Hall, NUI Maynooth
Time: 10am - 5pm

Click here to see past NIRSA events.

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