Previous Years Awards - 2003

Postdoctoral Scheme

Assessment Board Members

• Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
  Centre for the Study of Human Rights
  London School of Economics
• Professor Barbara Adam
  School of Social Sciences
  Cardiff University
• Professor Robert A. Dodgshon FBA
  University of Wales
  Aberystwyth
• Professor Nick Emler
  Department of Psychology
  University of Surrey
• Professor Alan Hughes
  Director of the Centre for Business Research
  University of Cambridge
• Professor Michael Moriarty
  Queen Mary and Westfield College
  University of London
• Professor Edward Page
  Department of Political Science
  London School of Economics
• Professor Isabel Rivers
  St Hugh's College
  University of Oxford
• Dr. Alistair McFadyen
  School of Theology & Religious Studies
  University of Leeds
• Professor Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
  Department of Celtic Studies
  Harvard University
• Professor Patricia Thane
  Institute of Historical Research
  University of London

Dr. Adam Bartley - University College Cork

Commentary of Lucian’s Dialogi Marini
The proposed project is a commentary on the ancient Greek work, these brief dialogues, which were written by the Greek satirist Lucian. There is no modern commentary on these works. The proposed work would be a tool for others and new research in its own right.

Dr. Abigail Chantler - Trinity College Dublin

E. T. A. Hoffmann' s Music and Aesthetics
This monograph will discuss Hoffmann' s compositional practice in relation to his aesthetic theory and his activities as a conductor and music critic. Hoffmann's musical aesthetics will be examined within the broader context of developments in the history of ideas; and his music criticism studied in relation to the writings of other musical commentators of the period.

Dr. David Deane- Trinity College Dublin

After Nietzsche: Nietzschean Ontology and Semiotics in Christological Metaperspective
This project aims to highlight the curious affinity between the ontology and semiotics of the Nietzschean tradition and certain traditional christological authropologies such as can be found in Paul, Augustine and most recently, in the works of Karl Barth.

Dr. Clodagh Downey - University College Cork

A new edition of literary materials relating to Niall Noigiallach and the sovereignty of Tara
This project involves the edition of three Middle Irish texts dealing with Niall Noigiallach’s legendary accession to the kingship of Tara, incorporating introductory material, textual editions, translations, textual notes and indices. Primary objectives are facilitating access to the texts as well as their appraisal as literary, historical and linguistic sources.

Dr. Helena Fuller - National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Irish Catholic mentalité; an examination of the factors which have influenced its evolution from the turn of the century, using autobiographical works, fiction, journals and contemporary spiritual/devotional material. The findings should provide an interesting background against which to judge criticisms often made that Irish Catholicism is narrow, anti-intellectual etc.

Dr. Sinéad Helena Furlong - Trinity College Dublin

Re-Viewing Modernist Fiction: Colour as an Aspect of The Visual in James, Proust, Woolf and Fitzgerald
This study examines colour and its aesthetic, associative and symbolic functions, in a corpus of texts which demonstrate the shifts in the modern viewing experience. It will contribute to current critical debates concerning the visual in literature.

Dr. Angela Gleason - Trinity College Dublin

The aim of the project is to prepare and edit my doctoral thesis for publication. In view of the following;
a) re-structuring the work to correspond with the Early Irish Law series,
b) amending the work to appeal to a broader audience
c) the edition and translation of several Old and Middle Irish legal texts.

Dr. Clare Guest - Trinity College Dublin

Ornament in the theatre of representation: Pirro Ligorio and the speculative role of the arts in the late Renaissance
This study of the role of ornament in the later Renaissance has two parts. A reading of the architecture of Pirro Ligorio, with whom Mannerist ornament reaches its greatest decorative and speculative density, and a study of the theory of the various arts and their inter-relations, as illuminated by a richer understanding of ornament.

Dr. Eldrid Herrington - University College Dublin

Civil War; Revision, and Self-Representation
This work examines the ways in which American writers change their ways of writing about the self, as well as the texts they write, in the light of the national experience of civil war.

Dr. Brock Holden - National University of Ireland Galway

The Practice of Lordships in Ireland and the March of Wales, 1170-1270
A broad geographical and chronological consideration of the baronial families who held estates in both Ireland and Wales during the century 1170-1270 to delineate, compare, and contrast the nature of Anglo-Norman aristocratic lordship (seigniorial governance, economic development and exploitation, castle building, military recruitment, etc,)in Ireland and Wales.

Dr. Anthony Keating - Dublin City University

The Appearance and Reality in the Documentation of Sexual Offences in the Irish Free State and Republic 1930-1959.
The project will focus on the differential that exists between the published documentary accounts of sexual crime in Ireland and the actual level of these crimes. Utilising formally restricted documents, newspapers, private archives and oral histories in order to establish the true level of these offences in the Irish Free State and Republic.

Dr. Jarlath Killeen - University College Dublin

Faith and Writing: Culture and Catholicism in Early Nineteenth Century Ireland
This project will examine the relationship between religion and culture in Ireland, between the Union and the Famine. It will pay particular attention to the structuring of social and literary relations through the interpretative paradigm of the Gothic form which became the means to resolve the theological and political tensions raging in the country.

Dr. Gerard McElligott - University College Dublin

English royalist propaganda in Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, 1641-1661
The first attempt to write a history of royalist propaganda during the English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century. This project will focus on the newspapers produced by the royalists in three different locations – Oxford, London and The Netherlands – during the 1640s and 1650s.

Dr. Yvonne McKenna - University of Limerick

"Transforming Spaces and Engendering Diaspora: Irish Women Religious in England and Ireland"
Undertake research project; submit for publication at least one paper based on this research. Continue to publish articles based on PhD thesis in refereed journals. Submit book proposal to publisher; secure book contract. Prepare scholarly monograph based on revised version of PhD combined with Fellowship research.

Dr.Brenda Moore-McCann - Trinity College Dublin

Ireland in Perspective: The Art of Brian O 'Doherty / Patrick Ireland
This project aims to develop and expand certain areas incompletely extrapolated in my Doctoral thesis. The themes and analyses outlined in my thesis, the first in relation to this artist's work, will thus be enriched and facilitate its presentation into the public domain.

Dr. Mary Murphy - University College Cork

New Skills for Early Years Educators: Promoting Parent and Family involvement in Early Years education and Care
This project will develop a model for the training of early years educators from a variety of backgrounds in the skills needed to promote parent and family involvement, an essential element of quality care and education. A conceptual framework as well as practical support materials will result.

Dr. Salvador Ryan - National University of Ireland, Maynooth

‘Sowing the seed: popular interpretations of Scripture in the Gaelic world, 1445-1654’
This project will examine how individuals in Gaelic Ireland encountered the bible in the late medieval and early modern periods, and what they made of it. Sources include the large corpus of bardic religious poetry, in addition to annalistic, hagiographical and preaching material.

Dr. Sineád Ní Shuinéar - Trinity College Dublin

Irish Travellers in the 21st Century: An Ethnographic Survey
My doctoral research indicates heretofore unsuspected internal differentiation within "the Travelling community". I propose to carry out a county-by-county survey of Irish Travellers, correlating surnames, territoriality, and intermarriage, and ascertaining attitudes/relations between these groups.

Dr. Nadia Smith - St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra

Dorothy Macardle
A biography of historian/journalist/dramatist Dorothy Macardle, commissioned by the editors of the Radical Irish Lives series at Cork University Press. The biography will assess Macardle as a writer and a political and social activist, placing her in the historical context of Ireland between 1914 and the 1950s.

Dr. Michelle Woods - Dublin City University

East West Central : Translations into Central Europe
This project aims to conduct research in preparation for a book which surveys translations into the Central European region (post-WWII) and which secondly, provides case studies of these translations. It will focus on the agendas behind, and the consequences of, cultural, political and ideological influences through translations of literary text.

Funded by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 2000-2006.