University College Dublin [UCD] Foundation is a company limited by guarantee that was in-cooperated in 1997. The organisation registered with the Charities Regulatory Authority and Revenue Commission of Ireland. The sole objective of the foundation is to raise funds for the furtherance of education and research carried out by UCD.

This collection features the documentation of two grants given by The Atlantic Philanthropies to University College Dublin Foundation between 1995 and 2013 totaling 45,480,250. The grants featured amount to 13,606,000 and were given in for projects titled, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research and Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation.

The records presented in this collection typify as business records, reports, grant proposals, and printed ephemera. This collection is related to oral history interviews given by Kelly Fitzgerald, an Assistant Professor in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore at UCD, and Hugh Brady who is vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol and a Professor of Medicine, and President Emeritus of University College Dublin (UCD) where he severed as a president from 2004 until 2013.