'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 5: Senior Research Fellowship 2006

Assessment Board Members

  • Chair: Professor Gustav Björkstrand
    Åbo Akademi University
    Finland
  • Professor Patrick Birkinshaw,
    Law School,
    University of Hull.
  • Professor Nigel Gilbert
    Pro Vice-Chancellor,
    Department of Sociology,
    University of Surrey.
  • Professor Bengt Hansson,
    The Swedish Research Council
    Swedish.
  • Professor Lloyd Laing,
    Department of Archaeology,
    University of Nottingham.
  • Professor Joe Lee
    Director, Glucksman Ireland House,
    New York University.
  • Professor Breandán Ó Buachalla
    O’Donnell Professor of Irish Language & Literature,
    University of Notre Dame.
  • Professor Mary O’Sullivan
    Associate Professor of Management,
    The Wharton School.
  • Professor Ann Rigney
    Comparative Literature,
    Utrecht University.
  • Professor Alan Smith,
    UNESCO Chair,
    University of Ulster.
  • Professor Norman Vance,
    Department of English,
    University of Sussex.
  • Professor Charles W. J. Withers,
    Professor of Historical Geography,
    University of Edinburgh.
  • Professor John Henley
    The Management School & The Department of Business Studies,
    The University of Edinburgh.
  • Professor Dianne Parker,
    School of Psychological Sciences,
    University of Manchester.
  • Professor Jeremy Richardson,
    Editor, Journal of European Public Policy,
    Nuffield College.
  • Professor Miltiades Hatzopoulos,
    Director,
    Research Centre for Greek & Roman Antiquity.

 

Senior Research Fellowships were awarded to the following applicants for 2006-2007:

 

Dr. Anne Byrne - NUIG
“Narratives of Ireland: A historical and contemporary account of the Harvard-Irish Survey 1930-1936”

The historical, socio-political context of the survey is reconstructed, re-assessing impacts for scholarship and communities studied. Unpublished diaries suggest a reappraisal of debates concerning the “small-farm family” account. The contemporary consequences of historical narratives of key actors and experts on the making and shaping of Irish rural identity are interrogated.

 

Professor Don W. Cruickshank - UCD
Don Pedro Calderón: A Biography of his Secular Career

Calderón’s literary career (1620-1681) is bisected by his ordination (1650). The single serious biography (in Spanish, untranslated) dates from 1924. My biography, seizing the opportunity to profit from eighty years’ covers the period when Calderón wrote for the public theatres.

 

Professor Nicholas Daly – UCD
“White Years: Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s”

A wide-ranging study of a watershed decade in literary and cultural history. It will provide a richly detailed account of mid-Victorian British culture that should become standard work, and offer a theoretical intervention on the links between literature and history.

 

Professor Jacqueline Hill - NUIM
‘Defending Protestant Ascendancy: the role of John Giffard of Dublin, 1792-1819’

John Giffard’s role in resisting Catholic emancipation is examined as a vehicle for a fuller and more rounded investigation of that campaign, illuminating its demotic and elite aspects, associational culture, use of the press and the links with monarchy.

 

Dr. Alan Kramer - TCD
“Italian and Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war in the First World War”

The treatment of Italian prisoners of war in Austro-Hungarian captivity and Austro-Hungarian prisoners in Italy is a little-researched topic. The most troubling question to be answered is why almost 20% of captured Italian soldiers died, a far higher death-rate than for prisoners in France, Britain or Germany.

 

Dr. James Levine - TCD
“Numbers, Names and Descriptions: Frege and Russell on Arithmetic and Semantic Analysis”

A comprehensive study whose purpose is to explain not only why Frege and Russell accept different philosophical interpretations of their shared logicist account of arithmetic but also why they develop fundamentally different styles of semantic analysis.

 

Professor Kathleen Lynch - UCD
“Affective Equality”

The aim is to develop the concept of affective equality from an equality of condition perspective, and to explore its interrelationship to economic, political and socio-cultural equalities. Four academic papers will be submitted to journals and I will work on co-authoring a book on Equality and Social Inclusion: An Affective Equality Perspective.

 

Professor Stephen Mennell - UCD
“The Controlled Decontrolling of Emotional Controls in Military Training: A Study in the Comparative-Historical Sociology of Emotions”

Modern people are generally socialised into repugnance at the use of violence. In military training, they have to be trained to overcome these inhibitions, but in a highly controlled way that makes great demands on emotional management. This comparative-historical study of military training is designed to test this hypothesis.

 

Dr. Jennifer Todd - UCD
“Trajectories of Identity Change”

Aim: A comparative theoretical account of change in ethno-national identity, explaining variation across times and across social groups.
Method: Qualitative analysis of an extensive set of interviews already collected in Ireland and comparison of trajectories of identity shift with those found elsewhere in Europe.


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