Mission Statement
The aims of the IRISH SEMINAR include the creation of a cosmopolitan community of young scholars: the eighteenth-century Republic of Letter reconfigured for the 21st century. It provides an intellectual infrastructure for scholarly collaboration, balancing the theoretically rich with the empirically rigorous. It adopts a flexible pluralisation of approaches, less constrained by the firmness of institutional boundaries and disciplinary consolidation. It is self-reflexive about professional and intellectual formation, while seeking to generate a supportive environment which nurtures the intellectual poise and confidence of young scholars.