'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 2: Postdoctoral
Fellowship 2008
Assessment Board Members
• Chair: Prof. Przemyslaw Urbanczyk
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Prof. Michael Banner
Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
• Prof. Patrick Birkinshaw
University of Hull, UK
• Dr. Enda Delany
University of Edinburgh, UK
• Prof. David Dumville
University of Aberdeen, UK
• Prof. Robin Elliott
University of Toronto, Canada
• Prof. Peter Gray
Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Prof. Michael Kenneally
Concordia University, Canada
• Prof. Geert Lernout
University of Antwerp, Netherlands
• Prof. Katherine Lynch
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Prof. Jonathan Michie
Birmingham Business School, UK
• Prof. Harold Mytum
University of York, UK
• Prof. Brendan O’Leary
University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Prof. Karen Rowlingson
University of Birmingham, UK
• Prof. Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
University of Sussex, UK
Postdoctoral
Fellowships were awarded to the following applicants for 2008-2009
Dr. Juliana Adelman (Trinity College Dublin)
The Urban Animal: A Public History of Zoology in Dublin, 1830-80
Dr. Riánn Coulter (Trinity College Dublin)
The Impact of US Patronage on Irish Art 1900-2000
Dr. John Cunningham (University College Dublin)
Music for the Privy Chamber: Studies in the Music of William
Lawes 1602-45
Dr. Karen Devine (Dublin City University)
The Social Construct of Irish Neutrality
Dr. Tom Feeney (University College Dublin)
The Politics of mental health in independent Ireland: the making
and unmaking of the Mental Treatment Act 1945
Dr. Enrica Ferrara (Trinity College Dublin)
Theatre and Narrative in 20th Century Italian Literature
Dr. Susan Foran (Trinity College Dublin)
The Politics of Romance: Chronicling chivalry at the courts
of medieval Christendom
Dr. Majella Giblin (National University of Ireland
Galway)
High technology clusters of a small, open-economy: the role
of local and global linkages
Dr. Deidre Healy (University College Dublin)
Crime, Desistence and Reintegration
Dr. Sucheta Kapoor (University College Cork)
Prostitutes, Foreigners and Idiots: Flaubert’s Silent Muses
Dr. Richard Kirwin (National University of Ireland
Maynooth)
Universities, representation and the transformation of society
in the Holy Roman Empire 1500-1700
Dr. Edel Lamb (University College Dublin)
Reading Children in Early Modern Literature
Dr. Aine Larkin (Trinity College Dublin)
Photographic Motifs in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Dr. Robert Lynch (Trinity College Dublin)
Cahir Healy and the making of Northern Nationalism, 1922-1972
Dr. James Lyttleton (National University of Ireland
Galway)
Native and Newcomer in Early Modern Offaly, Shifting Cultural
Identities: an Archaeological Perspective
Dr. Edward Madigan (Trinity College Dublin)
The Better Part of Valour: Courage, Cowardice and Men Under
Fire in the British and Dominion Armies, 1914-1918
Dr. Dermot McCarthy (University of Limerick)
The Role of Privatisation and Employee-Share-Ownership in Determining
Organisational Change: A Case Study of Aer Lingus
Dr. Fergal McCluskey (National University of Ireland
Galway)
Among the ‘dreary steeples’; the unionist state and popular
republicanism in East Tyrone, 1919-1930
Dr. Deirdre McFeely (Trinity College Dublin)
Dion Boucicault’s Irish Melodramas: National Identity, Politics
and the Press
Dr. Miriam Moffitt (National University of Ireland
Maynooth)
An exploration of loyalism in Connaught, 1912-27: the influence
of local, spatial and demographic factors on social and political
experiences of Connaught’s Protestant community.
Dr. Griffin Murray (University College Cork)
The Cross of Cong and its Significance in Twelfth-Century Ireland
Dr. Barry Robertson (Trinity College Dublin)
Royalism in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-seventeenth century
Dr. Irinia Ruppo (National University of Ireland Galway)
Ibsen and the Irish Revival
Dr. Brian Sayers (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
Revolutionary and Scholar: The Life and Thought of John O’Mahony
(1815-1877)
Dr. Carrie Smith-Prei (National University of Ireland
Maynooth)
Illness, Gender and Spectatorship in Weimar Documentary Films
Dr. Jessica Smyth (University College Dublin)
Neolithic Settlement in Ireland: Building a New Approach?
Dr. Patrick Stokes (University College Dublin)
Self, Identity and Reflexive Cognition in Kierkegaard’s Thought
Dr. Sonja Tiernan (Trinity College Dublin)
The Life of Eva Gore-Booth: "An Angel Troubles the Waters."
Dr. Inga Volmer (Trinity College Dublin)
Europe’s Wars of Religions – A Comparative Study of Atrocities
Committed during the Thirty Years’ War on the Continent and
during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1618-1653
Dr. Patrick Walsh (University College Dublin)
The Bubble on the Periphery: Ireland and the South Sea Bubble
Dr. Ugo Zilioli (Trinity College Dublin)
Anti-Realism in Greek Philosophy
Funded by the Irish Government
under the National Development Plan 2007-2013.
