Previous Years Awards - 2000

Postdoctoral Scheme

Fellowships were awarded to the following applicants for 2000-1:

Colin Barr, D.Phil (Cantab), affiliated with NUI Maynooth, “Prelates, Patriots and Professors: Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-80” (Dept. of Modern History).

Ruth Anne Barton, M.A. (UCD), D.Phil. (UCD), “Whatever they are…they're not Church of England" Irish Comic stereotypes in British cinema, 1903-1916” (Centre for Film Studies).

Stefan Bergh, D.Phil. (Stockholms Universiteit), affiliated with NUIG, “Defining ritual space in the Irish Neolithic. Enclosures, passage tombs and symbolic zones” (Dept. of Archaeology).

Pádraig de Paor, D.Phil. (Queen’s University Belfast), affiliated with NUIG, “Language and Redemption: Contemporary Poetry in Irish in the context of the Gaelic tradition” (Dept. of Modern Irish).

David Robert Hutchinson Edgar, D.Phil. (UCD), affiliated with TCD, “A Unique Library: The Chester Beatty Library Biblical Papyrus Library in Context” (School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theology Studies).

Alan English, M.A. (UCD), D.Phil. (TCD), affiliated with TCD, “Paul Verlaine” (Dept. of French).

Síle Harrington, M.Phil. (TCD), D.Phil. (Essex), affiliated with Dun Laoghaire Inst of Art & Design, “Development of the semantics of the verb lexicon in first and early second language acquisition of Irish” (Humanities).

Jefferson Holdridge, M.A (UCD), D.Phil. (UCD) affiliated with UCD, “Unspeakable Home: The Postcolonial/Postmodern Aesthetics of Contemporary Irish Poetry” (Dept. of Anglo-Irish Literature).

Kathryn Laing, M.Phil (Oxon), D.Phil. (Oxon), affiliated with NUI Galway, “Recovering "The Sentinel" and the Emergence of Rebecca West as novelist, feminist and political thinker” (Dept. of English).

Fearghal McGarry, D.Phil. (TCD), affiliated with NUI Maynooth, “A Biography of Eoin O'Duffy” (Dept. of History).

Conor McCarthy, M.A.(UCD), D.Phil. (Sussex ), affiliated with NUI Galway, “The Origins of English Studies in Ireland” (Dept. of English).

Adrian Millar, D.Phil. (Sheffield), D.Phil. (UCD), affiliated with UCD, “The Construction of Loyalist identity in Belfast: A Lacanian psychoanalytic approach” (Dept. of Politics).

Anne Mulhall, M.St. (Oxon) D.Phil. (Oxon), affiliated with NUI Galway, “Shadows and substances: metaphorical modes, 1650-1700” (Dept. of English).

Conn Murphy, M.A. (UCD), M.Phil. (Cantab), P.Phil. (Cantab), affiliated with UCC, “The Architecture of Monastiraki, Amari, Crete” (Dept. of Archaeology).

Harvey O’Brien, M.A. (UCD), Ph.D. (UCD), affiliated with UCD “Irish eyes: Ireland in documentary” (Centre for Film Studies).

Emer O’Hagan, M.A. University of New York), D.Phil. (QUB), affiliated with DCU “An analysis of social partners roles in industrial economies: a comparative study of Ireland, Germany and the UK” (Dept. of Business Studies).

Deana Rankin, M.St. (Oxon), D.Phil. (Oxon), affiliated with NUI Galway “Before Swift: English writing in Ireland in the seventeenth century” (Dept. of English).

Clodagh Tait, D.Phil (UCC), affiliated with NUI, Maynooth “Roman Catholic Martyrdom and society in Ireland from the sixteenth century to the present” (Dept. of History).