Professor Robert William
Clark - Faculty of Law, University College Dublin
Data Protection in the
Public Sector
To critically assess the personal data privacy practices
followed by the Irish Public Sector. Issues relating to
personal identification numbers, research, data retention
and wiretapping rules and proposed legislation, as well
as CCTV usage will be examined, in the light of best practice
rules.
Professor Desmond M. Clarke
- Department of Philosophy, University College Cork
Descartes: An Intellectual
Biography
A novel, accessible presentation of the full range Descartes'
contribution to early modern thought, and of not just his
more well-known bequest to metaphysics in the Meditations,
by research into his work in mathematics, physics, and
physiology, and his response to the work of his contemporaries.
Dr. Monica Rachel Gale
- School of Classics, Trinity College Dublin
A commentary on the complete
poems of Catullus, to be published in the Cambridge Greek
and Latin Classics series. The commentary will deal with
matters of style and linguistic usage, textual problems
and literary interpretation, and include an introduction
offering a fresh reading of the Catullan corpus as a
whole.
Dr. Mairéad Hanrahan
- Department of French, University College Dublin
The Events of Writing:
The Fiction of Helene Cixous
The objective of this project is to complete a book on
the writing of Helene Cixous, one of the best-known figures
in literary studies today. To date, most critical attention
has focussed on her as a theorist; my book will concentrate
on her originality as a writer of fiction.
Dr. Niamh Hardiman - Politics
Department, University College Dublin
Between Worlds? The Irish
State in Comparative Perspective
This project examines the role the state has played in
modern Ireland in promoting economic development, constructing
social protection, and shaping the contours of family and
social life. It explores the institutional framework through
which political actors and the wider society are connected.
It adopts a comparative approach throughout.
Professor John Horne -
Department of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin
France and the Great War:
a Cultural and Social History
This is a history of the French experience of the Great
War that uses the latest monograph material and extensive
research at the national level to generate the argument
and framework of analysis while testing the arguments and
providing more detailed evidence through case studies based
on four départements.
Professor Declan Kiberd
- English Department, University College Dublin
Multicultural Irelands:Writing
from 1945 to the Present.
This will explore a national narrative which has increasingly
opened itself to minority traditions(Protestant, Irish-speaking,
traveller, socialist, ecological, multi-ethnic) and to
international influences.
Professor Máirín
Ní Dhonnchadha - Scoil na Gaeilge, Ollscoil
na hÉireann, Gaillimh
An edition of the Early
Irish law-text Cáin Adomnán, and a study
of its philosophical context
An edition for publication of Cáin Adomnán,
a law enacted on behalf of women, children and clerics
in AD 697 which claimed jurisdiction in Ireland and Britain,
and a study of the unitary philosophy which arguably underlies
both this law and diverse other forms, from the medieval
saint's vita to the modem political aisling.
Dr. Ailbhe Ní Chasaide
- Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity
College Dublin
The interaction of voice
quality and pitch in prosody: a study of production
and perception, based on Donegal and Mayo Irish
This project will explore the interaction between voice
quality ("tone of voice") and ill (pitch) in
prosody, using materials from the Donegal and Mayo dialects
of Irish. It will involve analysis of speaker's productions
and experiments using synthetic speech to test the perceptual
significance of analytic results.
Professor Kevin H. O’Rourke
- Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin
The Growth of World Trade
1000-2000: causes and consequences.
The world economy has undergone successive phases of integration
and disintegration over the past millennium. The project
will study the technological and political forces underlying
this experience, and the consequences for long run patterns
of growth, convergence and divergence.
Dr. Angela Ryan - Department
of French, University College Cork
The Absent Heroine: Tragedy
as Cultural Inscription
The Aristotelian model of the tragic hero is significantly
differentiated in the heroines of Euripides and Racine.
A comparative analysis extending to Cixous' heroines would
review the function of the tragic heroine and suggest implications
for a model of tragedy as cultural inscription.
Dr. Thérèse
Smith - Department of Music, University College Dublin
Untranscribed voices from
the past: Irish traditional song
The project will involve working with the first nine months
of the Munnelly collection, in the Department of Irish
Folklore, UCD, transcribing, analysing, and contextualising
the songs within the contexts of Irish song and Irish traditional
music, and of international folksong.
Dr. Douglas Smith - Department
of French, University College Dublin
Quartet for the End of
Time: Late Modernism in France 1945-1959
Proposing a cultural topography of Fourth Republic France,
this project takes as its starting point post- war theories
of the end of history and maps four significant spaces
explored by writers and artists once time and history are
deemed closed: the museum, the library , the prehistoric
cave, and the cinema screen.
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