Previous Years Awards - 2000

Postgraduate Scheme

Post Graduate scholarships were awarded to the
following applicants for 2000-1:

Mary Almar Barry, B.A (UCC), H.Dip. (UCC), M.A. (UCC), M.Phil. (UCC), attending TCD, “Networks of Interaction between Third-Level Education and the High-Tech Industrial Sector in Ireland”.

Guy Beiner, B.A. (Tel Aviv), attending UCD, “Bliain na bhFrancach: An Archaeology of Social Memory”.

Sunnhild Bertz, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “The Dublin Metropolitan Office Sector: the Changing Geography of Demand”.

Jennifer Brown, B.A. (UCD), M.A. (Bruges), attending UCD, “Managing European Justice and Home Affairs: Adaptation in Ireland and Finland”.

Marina Burke, B.A. (TCD), M.A. (UCD), attending UCD, “The Place of Esfir Shub in the Evolution of Fiction and non-Fiction Editing Techniques”.

David Butler, B.A. (Essex), H.Dip. (NUI), B.Sc. (UCD), attending TCD, “A Poetics of Existential Estrangement: Kafka, Beckett, Onetti”.

Deirdre Byrnes, B.A. (UCC), H.Dip. (UCC), M.Phil. (UCC), attending UCD, “Telling their Story and Writing History: the Quest for Authenticity in the Work of Monika Maron and Hans Joachim Schädlich”.

Anthony Caleshu, B.A. (Lafayette), M.A. (Alabama), attending NUIG, “A Critical Study of the Poetry of James Tate”.

Gemma Carney, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “An Examination of the Responses of Irish Policy-Makers to the Challenge of International Standards in Gender Equality Policy.

Michael Caulfield, B.A. (UCC), attending UCC, “A Critical Edition of the Zoilomastix of Philip O’Sullivan Beare c.1626”.

Thomas Chadwick, B.A. (NUIG), attending NUIG, “Trade, Theory and Plantation in Britain’s World View, 1580-1620 and 1680-1720: Comparison and Contrast”.

Diarmuid Clifford, B.A. (NUIG), H.Dip.(NUIG), attending NUIG, “An Edition of a Tale concerning Flann Mac Lonáin and the God Óengus”.

Vanda Clayton, B.A. (UCD), M.R.U.P. (UCD), attending TCD, “The Non-Profit Housing Sector in Ireland”.

Sinead Conneely, B.A.(NUIG), LLM (Cantab.), attending TCD, “Family Mediation in Ireland”.

Maeve Connolly, B.A.(NCAD), M.A.( DCU), attending DCU, “Locating Irish Cinema: Between the National and the Transnational”.

Niamh Connolly, LLB (TCD), attending TCD, “Problems in Contractual Capacity”.
Dervila Cooke, B.A. (UCD), M.A (UCD), attending UCD, “Narrations of Self and Other in the Novels of Patrick Modiano”.

Michelle Cotter, B.A.(NUIM), M.A. (NUIG), attending NUIM, “Heritage and Over-Representation: Identity and Landscape in Yeats Country”.

Ann Coughlan, B.A. (NUIM), attending NUIM, “Identifying Local Approaches to the Organisation of Sustainable Rural Tourism in Ireland”.

Lucy Corcoran, B.A. (UCD), attending UCD, “Females and Warfare in Ancient Greece”.

Una Crowley, B.A. (NUIM), attending NUIM, “Experiencing the State and Civil Society – Responses to Official Settlement Policies Aimed at the Travelling Community: A Case Study of Navan Co. Meath”.

Fergal Davis, BCL (UCC), M.A. (Leeds), attending TCD, “The Development and Procedures of the Special Criminal Court”.

Deirdre Desmond, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “An Investigation of Embodiment and its Relationship to the Phenomenological Experience of Pain among Child Amputees in Different Cultures”.

Michael Dillon, BCL (UCD), BL (King’s Inns), attending UCD, “Intoxication as a Defence in Criminal Law”.

Paul Dillon, B.A. (UCD), attending UCD, “Labour and Politics in Kerry, 1879-1916”.

Marion Dowd, B.A. (UCC), M.A. (UCC), attending UCC, “Irish Caves: A Study of Burial Ritual, Deposition and Veneration, in Context”.

Michael Dowling, B.A.( Portsmouth), MSc (Stirling), attending TCD, “Internet Related Stocks; Cross Sectional and Time Series Analysis of Stock Pricing Efficiency and the Development of an Appropriate Valuation Model”.

Daragh Downes, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “The Fear and Trembling of Malte Laurids Brigge”.

Orla Egan, B.A. (UCC), M.A. (UCC), attending TCD, “An Analysis of the Evolution of the Lesbian Community in Cork 1975-2000”.

Garrett Fagan, B.A. (Leeds), M.Phil. (TCD), attending TCD, “Literary and Polemical Representations of Ireland, 1576-1612”.

Borbála Faragó, B.A. (Eötuös Loránd University, Budapest), M.A. (Eötuös Loránd University, Budapest), attending UCD, “Hibernicising the Muse: the Theory of Inspiration in Contemporary Irish Poetry”.

Kevin Forkan, B.A. (NUIG), M.A. (NUIG), attending NUIG, “The Ulster Scots and the National Covenant, 1637-1649”.

Charlotte Fryatt, B.A. (Cantab), attending TCD, “Allegory in Irish Poetry 1950-Present”.

Siobhan Garrigan, B.A. (Oxford), M.A. (Union Theological Seminary, New York), attending Milltown Institute Dublin, “Understanding Liturgy as Communicative Action”.

Sandra Hayes, B.A. (UCD), H.Dip. (UCD), attending UCD, “An Investigation of the Emotional Well-Being of Women following Childbirth”.

Celine Healy, B.A. (UCD), H.Dip. (UCD), attending TCD, “Using Drama in Education to Promote a Holistic Approach to Language Teaching”.

Valerie Heffernan, B.A. (UCD), M.A. (UCD) attending UCD, “Provokation aus der Peripherie Untersuchungen zur Frage von Autorität in Robert Walsers Mikrogrammen”.

Aine Heneghan, B.A. Mod. (TCD), attending TCD, “Theory and Praxis: the Relationship between Adorno’s Aesthetics and the Music of Alban Berg”.

Marta Herrero, B.A. (Barcelona), M.A. (Lancaster), attending TCD, “The Making of Collections of Modern Art: The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and the Irish Museum of Modern Art”.

Emer Hopkins, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “The Metaphysics of Identity: Elgar and ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ (1900)”.

Brendan Howe, B.A. (Oxon.), M.A. (Kent), attending TCD, “Comparative Military Interventions: the Question of Legitimacy”.

Alison Kelly, B.A.(TCD), attending TCD, “Hosea and the Exodus :the Emergence of Tradition”.

James Andrew Kelly, B.A (UCD), M.A. (UCD), attending UCD, “The Influence of Parking Pricing on Modal Choice, Congestion and Environmental Quality”.

Ronan Kelly, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “Fashioning the Past: the Texts and Contexts of Thomas Moore’s Historical Representations, 1825-1847”.

Róisín Kennedy, B.A. (UCD), attending UCD, “Art Criticism in Ireland 1939-1991”.

Sean Kennedy, B.A. (TCD), M.A. (NUIG), attending NUIG, “Beckett and the Ends of Ascendancy”.

David Larkin, B.A. (UCD), M.A. (UCD), attending UCD, “Wagner and Liszt: A Musically Symbiotic Relationship?”

Massimo Leone, B.A., M.A. (Siena), DEA (Paris VII), M.Phil. (TCD), attending NUIM, “Textual and Visual Patterns of Representation in 17th-century Hagiography”.



Patrick Lyons, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “Eamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta: Beatha agus Saothar”.

Muiris MacCartaigh, B.A. (TCD), M.A. (UCD), attending UCD, “Accountability in Irish Parliamentary Politics”.

Cathal McCarthy, B.A (MICL), attending MICL, “An Application of Rationalism in the German Military Tradition from 1815 to 1945”.

Bridget McCormac, B.A. (NUIM), M.A. (NUIM), attending NUIM, “The Eucharist in Ireland between Reformation and Restoration”.

Frances McGee, B.A. (NUIM), M.A. (UCD), attending TCD, “A New Look at Chaucer’s Parson’s Tale and the Retraction as Political Documents”.

David McGuire, B.A. (NUIG), H.Dip. (NUIG), Diplome d’Études (Universite d’Auverene), MBS (UL), attending UL, “The Influence of Cultural and Managerial Values on Human Resource Development: An Empirical Investigation”.

Marian McHugh, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “Savonarola: Religion and Florentine Art”.

Belinda McKeon, B.A. (TCD), attending UCD, “Back to the Texts Themselves: Bracketing the Psychoanalytic Approach to Literature”.

Sean Molloy, B.A. (TCD), M.A. (DCU), attending UL, “Reformulating Realism in Theory and Practice”.

Rachel Magshamhrain, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “The Representation of Pathology in the Literature of Heinrich V.Kleist and its Relevance in Modernity”.

Maeve Mangoang, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “The Effects of Temporal Lobectomy on Spatial Representation and Spatial Navigation in Human Neurological Patients”.

Paula Mayock, B.Ed. (NUIM), M.Ed. (UCD), attending TCD, “Young People and Drugs in Urban Contexts”.

Terence Meagher, BSc (TCD), BA (UCD), attending TCD, “G.E.M. Anscombe’s Philosophy of Mind”.

Paul Murray, B.A. (NUIG), attending NUIG, “Sovereignty and Minority Rights: the Partition of Ireland in an International Context”.

Julie Ní Chomhraí, B.A. (NUIM), attending NUIM, “Eagrán D’Ábhar Neamhfhoilsithe Béaloidis a Bailíodh ó Stiofán Ó hEalaoire agus Staidéar Teangeolaíochta ar an Ábhar Céanna”.

Treasa Ní Chonaola, B.A. (NUIG), H.Dip. (NUIG), Dip.Soc.Sci. (UCC), attending UCD, “Contact between English and Irish in North Connacht”.

Anne Nolan, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “The Growth in Demand for Public Transport in Dublin and the Role of Bus Deregulation”.

Aileen O’Carroll, B.A. (TCD), H.Dip. (UCD), M.Soc (UCD), attending TCD, “Working Time in the Irish Software Sector; a New Economy of Time?”

Cliona O’Carroll, B.A (UCC), attending UCC, “Migrancy, Dislocation and Displaced Cultural Forms: Experiences of the Irish in Berlin”.

Rachel O’Connor, B.A. (NUIM), M.A.(NUIM), attending NUIM, “The Creation of the Self in Modern Ireland”.

Daithí Ó Corráin, B.A. (TCD), H.Dip. (UCC), attending TCD, “The Dynamics of Border Politics in Ireland, 1949-1973”.

Kevin O’Donnell, B.A. (TCD), H.Dip. (TCD), attending TCD, “An Edition of the Early Irish Saga ‘Talland Étair’ (Siege of Howth)”.

Danielle O’Donovan, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “The Application of Evolved Methodologies to the Study of Irish Late Gothic Architecture”.

Suzanne O’Neill, B.A. (TCD), attending TCD, “Technical Efficiency and Productivity Growth in Irish Agriculture”.

Mark O’Riordain, BCL (UCD), BL (King’s Inns), attending UCD, “Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Ireland”.

Jill Pearson, B.A. (Western Ontario), MSc. (LSE), attending UL, “Career Mobility Patterns: a Study of Organisational Gender Composition Effects on the Careers of Men and Women”.

Lynda Porter, B.A. (UCD), M.A. (UCD), attending UCD, “Evaluating the Impact of Changes in Locational Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment and the Mix of Firms that Constitute Multinational Presence in Alternative Investment Locations”.

Robert Powell, B.SC (Iowa), M.A. (UCC), attending UCC, “Reassessing Muirchú’s Life of Patrick: Saint, Text and Community in Medieval Insular Hagiography”.

Carol Power, B.A. (UCC), H.Dip. (UCC), attending UCC, “An Assessment of Linkages in the Cork Electronics Industry: How Deeply Embedded is the Industry within the Region?”

James M. Quin, B.A. (NUIM), M.A. (NUIM), attending NUIM, “Changing Sexual States: Transition and Gay Sex Tourism in Slovakia”.

Martina Roche, B.A. (NUIM), M.A. (NUIM), attending NUIM, “Cancer in the South Eastern Health Board Area: Actual Occurrence vs Public Perceptions of Risk”.

Olivia Rodgers, B.A. (UCD), H.Dip. (DIT), attending UCD, “Images of Disability in the Media and the Public Perception of it: Testing the Strength of a Visual Image on Social Identity”.

Patricia Ronan, B.A. (Marburg), MA (Marburg), attending NUIM, “Aspects of the Syntax of Verbal Nouns in Medieval Irish with Reference to Similar Constructions in Basque and Medieval Welsh”.

Kenneth Rooney, B.A. (UCC), M.A. (UCC), attending UCC, “Timor Mortis: Aspects of the Macabre in Late Middle English Narrative”.

Olwen Rowe, B.A. (UCD), M.A. (NUIG), attending NUIG, “Re-visiting Myth: Contemporary Women’s Poetry in Mexico and Ireland”.

Cathriona Russell, B.Ag.Sc. (UCD), B.A. (TCD), M.A. (UCD), attending TCD, “A Theological Perspective on the Ethics of Transgenic Practice in Food Production”.

James Ryan, B.Sc. (UCD), M.A.(UCD), attending DCU, “An Investigation into the Organisational Factors that may Contribute to Scientific Productivity”.

Sarisoy Selen, B.A. (Bogazigi University), MBA (Maine), attending TCD, “Understanding International Capital Flows: Geography and Policy”.

Ian Stewart, B.A. (NUIG), H.Dip. (UCC), attending NUIM, “Analogy and Metaphor: Developing Empirical Models using Relational Frame Theory”.

Karen Thompson, BBS (TCD), attending TCD, “The Effect of National Culture on Leadership”.

Kasey Treadwell-Shine, B.A. (Smith), M.A. (NUIM), attending NUIM, “Governance and the Neighbourhood: Roles and Responsibilities in Regeneration”.

Anna Regina Uí Chollatáin, B.A. (Carysfort), M.A. (NUIM), attending NUIM “An Claidheamh Soluis: Anailís ar Phríomhpháipéar Ré na hAthbheochana”.

Fintan Vallely, B.A. (UCD), M.A. (QUB), attending UCD, “The Concert Flute in Irish Traditional Music: Cultural Commissar of Popular Political Ideology”.

Katherine Von Stackleberg, B.A (TCD), M.Litt. (TCD), attending TCD, “The Roman Garden: Private Space and Public Space”.

Catherine Ware, B.A. (UCC), M.A. (Brown University), attending TCD, “The Poetics of Claudian: Panegyric in the Ancient Epic Tradition”.

Teresa Whitaker, B.A. (TCD), M.Soc. (UCD), attending UCD, “Grave Matters: what can the Study of Wills tell us about the Family in Ireland (1951-96)”.

Jeannine Woods, B.A. (NUIM), M.A. (NUIG), attending NUIG, “Colonialism and Symbolic Violence: a Comparative Study of the British Colonial Project and the Language Question in Ireland, Scotland and India”.