The Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin, announced last August a grant to the Academy of c. €3.5 million for the three-year project Humanities Serving Irish Society.
The Royal Irish Academy is designated as lead institution in a major national research programme, involving six of the seven universities and two ITs. The centrepiece of the HSIS collaboration will be the establishment of the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) in the Academy. The DHO will be a sophisticated web-based humanities resource, designed and managed by the Academy, which will store, preserve and provide access to the increasingly complex range of e-resources now being created in the humanities.
