'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 1: Postgraduate Scholarship 2005

Assessment Board Members

• Professor John Deathridge,
  (Chair of Board)
  King Edward Professor of Music,
  King's College, London.
• Professor Stefan Berger,
  School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures,
  University of Manchester.
• Professor Brian Caraher,
  School of English,
  The Queen’s University Belfast.
• Professor Fintan Cullen,
  Department of Art History,
  University of Nottingham.
• Professor Hastings Donnan,
  School of Anthropological Studies,
  The Queen’s University Belfast.
• Dr Nancy Edwards,
  Department of History & Welsh History,
  University of Wales.
• Professor Richard English,
  School of Politics and International Studies,
  The Queen’s University Belfast.
• Professor Norman Ginsburg,
  Department of Applied Social Studies,
  London Metropolitan University.
• Professor Brian Ilbery,
  School of Science and the Environment,
  Coventry University.
• Professor Alvin Jackson,
  School of History and Classics,
  University of Edinburgh.
• Professor Paul Jeffcutt,
  School of Management and Economics,
  The Queen’s University Belfast.
• Professor Richard Jenkins,
  Department of Sociological Studies,
  University of Sheffield.
• Dr Ronan McDonald,
  School of English and American Literature,
  University of Reading.
• Professor Maire Messenger-Davies,
  School of Media and Performing Arts,
  University of Ulster.
• Dr Michael Morris,
  Department of Philosophy,
  University of Sussex.
• Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh,
  Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic,
  St John’s College,
  Cambridge.
• Professor Robert Pearce,
  Professor of the Law of Property and Equity,
  Vice-Chancellor,
  University of Wales.
• Professor Roger Pearson,
  Professor of French,
  The Queen's College,
  Oxford.
• Professor Michael Power,
  Department of Clinical and Health Psychology,
  University of Edinburgh.
• Professor Jim Samson,
  Department of Music,
  Royal Holloway,
  University of London.
• Dr John Skåtun,
  Senior Lecturer in Economics,
  University of Aberdeen.
• Professor Alan Smith,
  UNESCO Chair of Education,
  University of Ulster.
• Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly,
  Professor of German Literature,
  Exeter College,
  Oxford.
• Professor Peter Weinreich,
  School of Psychology,
  University of Ulster, Jordanstown.

Postgraduate scholarships were awarded to the following applicants for 2005-6:

A B C D E F G H - K L M Mc N O P - R S T - W

Ms Karen Andersen - UCD
The Secularisation debate in Western Society: Ireland as a Unique Case.

Ms Mary Basquel –Fahy - UCD
Organisational Change and the Culture of Bullying : A Qualitative Study.

Mr Cormac Begadon - NUIM
The Evolution of Catholic Society and Culture in Enlightenment Dublin, 1745-1815.

Ms Jackie Blackman - TCD
Samuel Beckett and the Jewish Dimensions in Eleutheria, Waiting for Godot and Endgame.

Mr Julian Bloomer - TCD
The political ecology of insecure rural livelihoods in Lesotho.

Ms Paula Brudell - TCD
The incorporation of dissent in the regeneration and renewal of Dublin’s inner city.

Mr Ian Campbell - TCD
John Lynch’s Science of Truth: Culture, Kingship, and ethnicity in Seventeenth Century Ireland.

Ms Mairéad Carew - UCD
Archaeology, Nationalism and Identity in Ireland, 1922 – 48.

Mr John Clarke - UCD
Anglo-American relations and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974.

Ms Miriam Clyne - NUIG
Irish Medieval Premonstratensian Monasteries and their European Context.

Ms Aoife Collins - UCD
Britain, Europe and the Special Relationship: How Whitehall Coped with Harold Wilson’s European and American Policies, 1974 – 1975.

Ms Catherine Connolly - NUIG
English Merchants and Opportunities in Virginia and the West Indies, 1600 – 1630.

Mr Brian Cooper - UCD
Narrating the “Dark Back of Time”: Anxiety, Memory and Fantasy in the Later Novels of Javier Marias.

Ms Niamh Cullen - UCD
The Cultural Politics of Turin, 1918 – 1928.

Ms Rose De Faoite - NUIG
Movement of Objects and People in early Medieval Europe.

Ms Leonie Duignan - NUIM
The Echtrae or ‘Expedition’ as an Early Irish Literary Genre.

Ms Gillian Dooley - UL
R & D Tax Credits in Ireland: Implementation and Evaluation in an Evolutionary Framework.

Mr Eamonn Dunne - UCD
An Exploration in Contemporary Theory.

Mr Stan Erraught - UCD
The Aesthetic Construction of the Political Subject in Kant and Hegel.

Mr Darragh Farrell - NUIM
Democracy Developed or Delayed? The Office of the High Representative and Political Participation in the Republika Srpska.

Mr Stephen Gallagher - UCD
The Arcadia of Sannazaro: The Annotated Editions of the Cinquecento.

Ms Katharina Greiner - UCC
Fairytale & the Cinderella metaphor in Spanish women’s writing.

Ms Astrid Haberleitner - NUIM
Photography, Narrative and post-Memory in Contemporary German and Austrian Writing on the Holocaust.

Ms Emma Heffernan - NUIM
Trust, Risk and Choice: The Lived Experience of Prostitute Women in Ireland.

Ms Elizabeth Heggs - NUIM
The emergence of liberal politics in Waterford city, 1802-1843.

Ms Siobhan Howard - NUIG
The effect of negative emotions, social variables and personality on psycho physiological indices of stress.

Mr David Kearney - UCC
The Changing Regional Geography of Irish Traditional Music Within Ireland.

Ms Caroline Kelleher - NUIM
The ‘hidden costs’ of sexual violence: A Multi-dimensional approach to the impact and experience of trauma.

Ms Mary Helena Kelly - NUIM
Investigating the hyphenated geographies of Anglo-Irish literature.

Mr Adam Kelly - UCD
Contemporary American Fiction: “Passage by way of the Undecidable”.

Ms Grainne Kelly - UL
A surprising organisational homecoming? A qualitative study of the intercultural re-entry experience of Irish senior female managerial executives.

Ms Claire Keogh - NUIM
Cognitive diffusion in a coping strategy for negative self-referential thoughts: An experimental analysis.

Mr Michael Keyes - NUIM
The Political funding of Irish nationalism 1823 – 1890.

Ms Catherine Kilcoyne - UCD
Contemporary Irish poetry - Rewriting rurality.

Mr Colin King - UL
Civilising the Criminal Process: The Emergence of a Hybrid System of Justice to Combat Organised Crime.

Mr Jonathan Lavelle - UL
Developing a definitive picture of Employment Relations in multinational corporations in an organisational context.

Mr Francis Lawrence - UCD
A Palaeographical, Repertorial and Liturgical Study of MS. Rawlinson C.892- A Twelfth Century Irish Gradual.

Mr Thaddeus Lawton - TCD
The influence of Urban Design on Social Space and Attachment to Place: A Comparative Study of Three European Cities - Dublin, Amsterdam and London.

Ms Aintzane Legarreta - UCD
Girl meets politics - Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle.

Ms Catherine Long - UCD
Gnomes in Old English and Old Norse Wisdom and Heroic Poetry.

Ms Laura Malone - NUIM
Eagrán de Bhrisleach Mhór Mhaighe Muirtheimhne agus Deargruathair Chonaill Chearnaigh.

Ms Anne Markey - TCD
Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales: The folk-tale as the father of all fiction.

Ms Elaine Martin - NUIM
The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation in Nelly Sach’s Poetry: Contexts and Practices.

Mr Charlie McBride - NUIG
New playwright development in Ireland and UK.

Mr Dermot McCarthy - UL
A Privatisation and Employee Share-Ownership: A Stakeholder approach to Public Enterprise Reforms?

Mr Anthony McDonnell - UL
Human Resource Management in Multinational Call Centres Survey and Case Study Evidence from Europe’s Call Centre Capital.

Mr. Tiernan McGarry - UCD
Burials of the Irish Iron Age and transitional periods 600BC-AD600.

Ms Helen McGrath - WIT
Cross-cultural structured networks: development and policy impacts.

Mr Noel McGrath - UCD
Perfecting Security Interests in Ireland: Time for a Change?

Ms Kathy McIlvenny - TCD
The poetics of the fetish in Proust’s A la recherché du temps perdu.

Mr David McMahon - UCD
Concepts of Establishment: The Anglican Constitution in Ireland and the Old South 1690 – 1720.

Ms Sarah McNamara – MIC (UL)
Newspaper Production, the Print Industry and Book Trade in Limerick, 1830-40.

Ms Yolanda Melgar Pernias - UCD
Gender discourse in the works of Ángeles Mastretta and Sandra Cisneros.

Ms Sarah Louise Melnyk - UCC
The Arthurian Legend in Scottish and English Literature.

Ms Olivia Mollen - TCD
The effect of Macroeconomic shocks on Firm Performance.

Ms Lisa Moran - NUIG
Tacit Knowledge as Resistance: The Impact of Rural Knowledge – Based Cultures on the Implementation of Environmental policy in Connemara.

Ms Marie Moran - UCD
Identity Politics and the Logic of Capital: Investigating the silencing of critical dissent.

Ms Louisa Moss - NUIM
Insular Celtic Vocabulary of probable non-Indo-European Origins.

Ms Suzanne Mulcahy - UCD
‘The Promise of Multiculturalism’: An analysis of the Feasibility and Desirability of an EU Policy on Immigration and Multiculturalism.

Mr Paul Naessens - NUIG
Medieval Lordly Settlement on the Atlantic Seaboard.

Ms Helena Ní Ghearáin - UL
Lexical Modernisation in the Irish language: Planning, Authority, Power.

Ms Áine Ní Léime - TCD
Employment Orientation and Work-Related decision-making among older worker in the Irish Civil Service.

Mr Neil O’Boyle - TCD
A productivist exploration of Irish Advertising.

Ms Laura O’Brien - UCD
Satire and Symbolic Politics: Caricature in the Second French Republic, 1848-1852.

Mr Stephen O’Connor - NUIM
The Volunteers of 1778 – 1793 - Iconography and Identity.

Ms. Angela O’Flaherty - UCC
French woman’s literary responses to the experience of war in the last century, with particular emphasis on the First and Second World Wars.

Ms Annette O’Herlihy - NUIG
Tenth-Century Reforms and the Imagery of the Temple: The influence of the Exegetical Writings of Bede on the Reform Programme of Bishop Aethelwold.

Mr Seamus O’Keeffe - UCC
James Fitzmaurice: Catholic Opposition to Tudor Rule and national identity formation within the Atlantic Archipelago, 1560 -1580.

Mr Conor O’Malley - UCD
Listening to your Thoughts: Measuring Auditory Imagery Ability.

Mr Donncha O’Rourke - TCD
Propertius reading Vergil reading Callimachus.

Mr Kevin O’Sullivan - TCD
Irish Foreign Policy on Sub-Saharan Africa, c. 1960-1975.

Mr Anthony Owens - UCD
Limits of the Nation: Congress and the Implementation of “National Origins”, 1924.

Ms Deirdre Parsons - TCD
‘And louers sonnets turn to holy psalmes’: The religious sonnet sequences of the sixteenth century.

Mr Fergal Rhatigan - NUIM
From cult and ritual to development, the attitudes beliefs and work practices of Religious Missionaries, Medical Professionals, and Development Professionals.

Ms Nicola Rooney - TCD
The role of the hierarchy and lower clergy of the Catholic church in fostering national identity in northern Ireland and the Basque country.

Ms Stéphanie Sachet-O’Riordan - UL
A corpus-based study of classroom interaction in French: Discourse analysis and pedagogic applications.

Ms Zari Saeedi Talab - TCD
Complex Predicates in Modern Persian (An Indo-European Language): A Role and Reference Grammar.

Ms Emma Saunders - TCD
Symbols from the Wine-Dark Sea? Marine Imagery in Aegean Bronze Age Iconography.

Ms Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan - UCD
The administrative reforms in the 2000-2005 European Commission: the impact of New Public Management on the structuring of the European Bureaucracy.

Ms Sarah Sinnamon - UCD
Flow: An Empirical Investigation of the causes, correlates and consequences of flow states in Musicians.

Ms Samantha Smith - TCD
Improving equity and efficiency in Irish Healthcare: Application of an econometric model to identify options for improving healthcare financing and supply.

Ms Jennifer Smyth - TCD
Pamphlets of the early – reformation preacher, Jacob Strauss.

Ms Eimear Spain - UL
The nature of the defences of necessity and duress.

Mr Stuart Stamp - NUIM
Over-indebtedness and Poverty: the Implications for Policy.

Ms Regina Standún - NUIM
The Rural Austrian Volksstück and the Irish Peasant Play of the 20th Century – A Comparative Study.

Mr Mark Sweetnam - TCD
The Theology and Thought of John Donne.

Mr Liam Thornton - UCC
The Legal Regulations of Reception Conditions for Asylum Seekers in Ireland in light of International Human Rights Law and Best Practice: Towards a Rights Based Approach.

Mr Robin Turk - UCC
Industry and Ideology: 19th and 20th Century Monasticism.

Mr Olivier Van Parys - TCD
Why are cars so expensive in this Country and what can be done about it? - An application of the Latest Advance of Demand & Market Power Modelling.

Mr Declan Webb - NUIG
Bilingualism: oral and or written. A comparative study of minority language visibility, service prioritization, and the role of the Commissioners for Official Languages in Ireland and Canada in promoting linguistic duality.

Mr Mark Wehrly - NUIM
Government by journalism: Sligo and the newspaper industry, 1885-1927.

Ms Lorraine White - UL
An Investigation of the effectiveness of annual hours agreements in Irish manufacturing industry.

Mr. Niall Williams - NUIG
Ethnic identity among the Volga Germans in Russia, 1870 – 1918.

Mr Christopher Wilson - NUIM
Psychological Acceptance and Relaxation as Coping Strategies: An Experimental Analysis.

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