'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 5: Senior 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
Senior Research Fellowships were awarded to the following applicants for 2005-2006:
Dr. Barra Boydell, Dept. of Music, NUI Maynooth
“Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland”
A comprehensive encyclopaedia covering all musical activity in and relating to Ireland, from art music to popular, today and in the past, and involving leading national and international scholars. This project will both reflect the extent of current scholarship and establish a marker for future research into music in Ireland.
Professor
Pádraig Breathnach, Dept. of Irish, University College
Dublin
“Chronicle Poems of the Nine Years’ War by Dubhthach Óg Ó Duibhgeannáin,
addressed to Ó Néill (1598)”
A book-length first-ever edition of two long compositions (600 lines) by a single author with accompanying philological and historical commentary and appendices. These poems constitute a unique and substantial cultural record from the circle of the principals of the War of 1592-1601.
Professor
David Fitzpatrick, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin
“History of the Orange Order, 1795-1995”
A study of social, cultural, economic, political, military and paramilitary functions and activities of the Loyal Orange Institution in Ireland, with comparative reference to other fraternities and to associated institutions outside Ireland.
Professor
Anne Fuchs, Humanities Institute of Ireland, University
College Dublin
“The Return of the Repressed? Violence, Destruction and the End of World
War II in German War Diaries and Postwar Narratives”
The research project investigates the dominant thesis according to which the experience of German mass death at the end of the war was repressed in the postwar period. I will analyse representations of the air raids, destruction, mass death and the end of the war in war diaries, postwar literary narratives of the 1950s and in post-1990 German literature.
Professor
Johnnie Gratton, Dept. of French, Trinity College Dublin
“Sophie Calle Project Artist”
A comprehensive study of the work of the French writer/photographer, Sophie Calle, grounded on a theorization of the notions of 'project' and 'project art', and focusing in particular on the photo-textual nature of her projects and the main types of project represented in her work.
Dr.
Liam Mac Mathúna, Dept. of Irish, St. Patrick’s
College Drumcondra
“The Linguistic and Literary Significance of Irish/English Code-Mixing
in Irish-Language Texts, 1600-1900”
The project will examine the phenomenon of Irish/English code-mixing in Irish-language literature from 1600 to 1900. It will identify and analyse the genres, which accommodated English in an ancillary role, and will critically assess the linguistic and literary interaction between the two languages.
Professor
David Scourfield, Dept. of Ancient Classics, NUI Maynooth
“Delivering consolation: the ancient consolatory letter and its contexts”
The aim of the project is to conduct research leading to a book on the ancient letter of consolation, treating the entire surviving corpus, both Greek and Latin, from the sociohistorical, literary, and philosophical/religious points of view.
Professor
Keith Sidwell, Dept. of Classics, University College Cork
“A handbook of Irish Neo-Latin and an early edition of Dermitius O’Meara’s
Ormonius”
(a)
To coordinate the writing of, to contribute articles to and
edit A Handbook of Irish Neo-Latin.
(b) To complete an edition, with translation and commentary,
of Dermitius O’Meara’s Ormonius (London 1615).
Dr.
Bernadette Whelan, Dept. of History, University of Limerick
“US Presidents, foreign policy and Ireland: from Wilson to Hoover, 1913
to 1929”
This study examines the formulation, development and implementation of United States policy towards Ireland in the period 1913 to 1929. I have completed a manuscript on the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge under the headings set out in the attached table of contents. To-date researchers who have examined the diplomatic relationship between America and Ireland in the twentieth century tended not surprisingly to focus on the national question, emigration and world war two and the post-1945 period. However, during the past ten years historians of diplomatic history can now access American, Irish and British diplomatic archives to a much greater extent than was the case previously and this allows US-Irish diplomatic relations to be contextualised within a specific presidency and period.
Professor
Harry White, Dept. of Music, University College Dublin
“Music and the Irish Literary Imagination”
This book identifies music as a formative influence in Anglo-Irish literature. It addresses the canonic status of Irish music as intelligencer of verbal feeling in the works of Moore, and then examines how structural paradigms in European music have informed the work of Synge, Joyce, Beckett, Friel, Murphy and Heaney.
Funded by the Irish Government under the National Development
Plan 2000-2006.