Page Compiled By: Martin Melaugh
The information on the CAIN site is freely available to anyone with Internet access. This has been made possible through the generosity of the funders listed below. Editorial control of content remains with CAIN.
2024: Department for Communities
CAIN received funding from the Department for Communities on 8 November 2024. This funding is to support work on the Associated Site PRONI Records on CAIN. The fieldwork will be completed by the end of March 2025 and will involve a selection of official documents from PRONI, for the years 2002 and 2003, being added to the CAIN Archive.
2024: Reconciliation Fund, DFA
Funding on 19 June 2024 from the Irish government's Department of Foreign Affairs - Reconciliation Fund will be used to process an eighth batch of records (1989, 1990, and 1991) from the National Archives, Ireland, and these will be added to NAI Records on CAIN.
2024: Ulster University
In January 2024 CAIN received core funding from Ulster University.
2023: The National Lottery Heritage Fund
On 16 June 2023 the Heritage Fund awarded a development grant to CAIN to explore ways to engage with new audiences using the theme of \u2018home\u2019. The Home in Troubled Times project is a collaboration between Ulster University, Derry City and Strabane District Council, and the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies.
2023: Reconciliation Fund, DFA
Funding on 13 June 2023 from the Reconciliation Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), will be used to process a seventh batch of records (1992, 1993, and 1994) from the National Archives, Ireland.
2023: Ulster University
In January 2023 CAIN received core funding from Ulster University.
2022: Ulster University
In January 2022 CAIN received core funding from Ulster University.
2021: Department for Communities
Funding on 8 November 2021 to support PRONI Records on CAIN (years 1997 and 1998).
2024: Department for Communities
Funding received on 5 January 2024 to support PRONI Records on CAIN (years 2000 and 2001).
2023: Department for Communities
Funding on 14 February 2023 to support PRONI Records on CAIN (year 1999).
2020 - 2021: Initiatives of Change Committee in Ireland
Donation on 1 September 2020 towards maintaining CAIN as a living/staffed endeavour.
2020: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT
Grant awarded in July 2020 for a project to complete the CAIN Chronology of the Conflict.
2020: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT
Grant awarded in December 2019 to digitise speeches and statements of John Hume for a new section on CAIN.
2019 - 2020: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT
Funding in September 2019 to process a fifth batch of records (1986–88) from the National Archives, Ireland.
2019 - 2020: ARK
Financial support to cover CAIN costs from 1 August 2019 to 31 July 2020 while core funding was sought.
2018: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT
Grant (Dec 2017) for 'Documenting the Impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland' undertaken in 2018/19.
2016 - 2019: Ulster University
Core funding received in March 2016.
2016: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT
Funding (Dec 2015) to process 920 records (1981–85) from the National Archives, Ireland.
2013 - 2014: European Union's PEACE III programme
Funding for the Accounts of the Conflict project; funded work completed in December 2014.
2014: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT
Funding (1 July 2014) to add 926 records (1974–80) from the National Archives, Ireland to NAI Records on CAIN.
2013: Reconciliation & Anti-Sectarianism Funds, DFAT
Funding (1 December 2012) to add a selection of 750 records (1970–74) from the National Archives, Ireland.
2012: Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister (OFMdFM)
Funding to enhance datasets and facilitate access to CAIN.
2010: AHRC
Award for the project: Visualising the Conflict (2010–2011), under the DEDEFI Scheme.
2006 - 2012: ESRC
ARK secured core funding via ESRC Large Grant Scheme (RES-060-23-0015); CAIN staff covered by a proportion.
2006 - 2008: AHRC
Funding for the project: 'Remembering': Victims, Survivors and Commemoration in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland.
2002 - 2005: The Atlantic Philanthropies
ARK core funding covering the costs of running CAIN.
2002: University of Ulster
Funding received in 2002.
1999: Central Community Relations Unit (CCRU)
Funding to continue work on the CCRU Associated Site.
1999: University of Ulster
Funding to cover a gap between two awards.
1998 - 1999: Department for Education Northern Ireland (DENI)
Funding to continue development of the CAIN archive.
1998 - 1999: Central Community Relations Unit (CCRU)
Funding to digitise community relations materials and develop an Associated Site within CAIN.
1996 - 1997: eLib
Initial funding from the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) of the Higher Education Funding Councils.
Original Partners
The development of the CAIN service was initially undertaken (1996 to 1997) by three partner institutions: the University of Ulster, Queen's University of Belfast, and the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. CAIN has also received considerable support from ARK and INCORE.
CAIN contains information and source material on the conflict and politics in Northern Ireland.
CAIN is based within Ulster University.