'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 4: Research Fellowship 2005
Assessment Board Members
- Chair: Professor Gustav Björkstrand
Åbo Akademi University
Finland - Professor Patrick Birkinshaw
Law School
University of Hull - Professor Joanna Bourke
School of History, Classics & Archaeology
Birbeck College - Professor Kathleen Burk
Department of History
University College London - Professor Rhona Flin
School of Psychology
University of Aberdeen - Professor Nigel Gilbert
Pro Vice-Chancellor
Department of Sociology
University of Surrey - Professor William Gillies
Department of Celtic Studies
University of Edinburgh - Professor Nick Hammond
Gonville & Caius College
Cambridge - Professor Bengt Hansson
The Swedish Research Council
Department of Philosophy
University of Lund - Professor Keith Hartley
Department of Economics and Related Studies
University of York - Professor Lloyd Laing
Department of Archaeology
University of Nottingham - Professor Norman Vance
Department of English
University of Sussex - Professor Charles W. J. Withers
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
University of Edinburgh
Research Fellowships were awarded to the following applicants for 2005-2006
Dr. Liam Chambers, Dept. of History, Mary Immaculate
College Limerick
“A History of the Irish Colleges, Paris, 1578-1997”
Moving beyond the institutional focus of earlier historians, this history of the Irish Colleges in Paris analyses their significance for the development of Irish émigré communities in France, their impact on Irish Catholicism and their role as cultural interfaces mediating between Irish and continental European thought.
Dr.
Nicholas Daly, School of English, Trinity College Dublin
“White Years: Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s”
This is a pioneering study of a watershed decade in literary and cultural history. It will provide a richly detailed account of mid-Victorian Britain that should become a standard work, and a theoretical intervention on the links between literature and history.
Dr.
Róisín Healy, Dept. of History, NUI Galway
“Colonialism within Europe: Prussia/Germany in Poland and Britain in Ireland
1795-1918”
This project entails a comparison between the practice and experience of colonial rule in Ireland and Prussian Poland from 1795, the last Polish partition, until the move to independence around 1918. With special reference to language and religion, it asks whether these cases constitute a distinctively intra-European model of colonialism.
Dr.
Liz Heffernan, Faculty of Law, University College Dublin
“Scientific Evidence in the Irish Courts”
The project will examine the impact of science upon the adjudicative process in the Irish courts. Drawing on experience in the United States and elsewhere, it will critically assess the theoretical underpinnings of expert scientific testimony and the practical rules governing its admissibility at trial.
Dr.
Mervyn O’Driscoll, Dept. of History, University College
Cork
“The challenge of nuclear France, 1945-63”
Britain’s nuclear non-proliferation policy towards France’s independent nuclear weapons programme in the context of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ and European integration.
Dr.
Síofra Pierse, French Department, UCD
“Voltaire’s Historiography: Literary Construct and World Vision”
A textual analysis of Voltaire’s historiographical theorising in the entire corpus of his historiographical and historical writings. The intention is to ascertain the core literary components and strategies employed, and to explore Voltaire’s discourse as an Enlightenment philosophe’s novel engagement with established conventions.
Dr.
Jacinta Prunty, Department of Modern History, NUI Maynooth
“Power, prestige and pragmatism: urban map-making in Ireland, 1610-1920s”
This project aims to explore the role of maps and map-making in the power struggles around place, property and control that characterised Irish town life from (most explicitly) the early modern period to the foundation of the Free State.
Dr.
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, Dept. of Modern History, NUI
Maynooth
“António Oliveira Salazar: A Biography”
I intend to carry out the remaining research needed to produce the first modern single-volume biography of Salazar, who governed Portugal from 1932 to 1968. This work will combine original research and the best of recent writing in Portugal and elsewhere on Salazar’s career and times.
Dr.
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Spanish Department, UCD
“Contested Histories: A Comparative Study of Approaches to the Past in
Contemporary Spanish and Portuguese Fiction”
This project examines the importance of cultural memory in the transition from repressive dictatorship to democratic politics in Spain and Portugal through a comparative study of novelists writing since the mid 1970s.
Dr.
Kevin Rockett, School of Drama, Trinity College Dublin
“Film Distribution and Exhibition in Ireland: A Social and Economic History”
This project, which will complete the last major area of exploration within Irish Film Studies, will trace the history of commercial film exhibition and distribution in Ireland from the 1890s to the present. Additionally, alternative film exhibition, including the film society movement, will be detailed.
Funded by the Irish Government under the National Development
Plan 2000-2006.