Centre for Equality Studies: Pursues the inter-disciplinary study of significant equalities and inequalities in human life. Based at University College Dublin.
Centre for European Studies: Based at Trinity College Dublin.
Centre for Gender and Women's Studies: Based at Trinity College Dublin.
Centre for Peace and Development Studies: Based at the University of Limerick
Children's Research Centre: Based at Trinity, this is the only centre of its kind and is sponsored by the Departments of Psychology and Social Policy, respectively.
Dublin European Institute: Offers three postgraduate programmes at the University College Dublin. Information on the role, function, purpose and objectives of the institute.
Employment Research Centre: Based at Trinity College, this centre has done much EU-sponsored research. The centre headed by Prof. James Wickham has a well maintained site with excellent information on each of the projects including the full reports. Also includes a Labour Market Observatory.
Geary Institute: Combines programmes from Sociology, Social Policy, Economics, Politics, The Centre for Equality Studies and the Institute for British-Irish Studies. Based at University College Dublin.
Institute for British-Irish Studies: This institute mirrors similar ones in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England and is based at UCD.
International Famine Centre: The centre is involved in research, advocacy, and action on the ground in countries threatened by famine. Based at University College Cork.
National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA): National University of Ireland, Maynooth
NUIG: Social Science Research Centre:: Embraces the full range of the social sciences at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
The Irish Centre for Migration Studies: Promoting the study of historical and contemporary migration, to and from Ireland. Based at University College Cork.
The Locus Project: Aims to produce a new Historical Dictionary of Irish placenames and tribal names to replace Fr Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum. Based at University College Cork.
The Policy Institute: A collaboration between the Department of Politics and Economics in Trinity College Dublin.
UCD: Social Science Research Centre: Promotes and develops research by the staff of the Departments of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at University College Dublin.
Women's Education and Research Resource Centre: WERRC is a feminist centre developing multi-disciplinary feminist research, theory and scholarship at University College Dublin.