'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 1: Post-Graduate Scholarship 2009

Assessment Board Members

• Chair: Prof. Michael Banner
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK

• Prof. Ian Armit
University of Bradford, UK

• Dr. Simon Ball
University of Glasgow, UK

• Prof. Arnd Bohm
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

• Prof. Thomas Brady
University of Berkeley, USA

• Prof. Mary Bryden
University of Reading, UK

• Dr. Claire Connolly
Cardiff University, UK

• Dr. Murray C. Clark
Sheffield Hallam University, UK

• Prof. John Darby
University of Notre Dame, USA

• Dr. Philip Drake
University of Stirling, UK

• Prof. Robin Elliott
University of Toronto, Canada

• Prof Dick Ellis
University of Birmingham, UK

• Prof. Robin Frame
University of Durham, UK

• Prof. Patrick Hanafin
University of London, Birbeck, UK

• Prof. Raymond Hickey
University of Essen, Germany
• Dr. Colum Hourihane
Princeton University, USA

• Dr. Leo Howe
University of Cambridge, UK

• Prof. Brian Ilbery
University of Gloucestershire, UK

• Prof. Pertti Kansanen
University of Helsinki, Finland

• Dr. Matthew Kelly
University of Southampton, UK

• Prof. Lorna McKee
University of Aberdeen, UK

• Prof Judith Mossman
University of Nottingham, UK

• Prof. Brian O Conchubhair
Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA

• Dr. Éamonn Ó Ciardha
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

• Dr. Jacqueline O'Reilly
University of Brighton, UK

• Prof Bob Osborne
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

• Dr. Senia Paseta
St. Hugh's College, Oxford, UK

• Prof. Roger Pearson
Queen's College, Oxford, UK

• Prof. Michael Power
University of Edinburgh, UK

• Prof. Ben Quash
King's College London, UK

• Prof. Shaun Richards
Staffordshire University, UK


• Dr. Karen Rodham
University of Bath

• Dr. Fiona Ross
University of Bristol

• Dr. John Skätun
University of Aberdeen

• Dr. Susan Stuart
University of Glasgow

• Dr. Tamás Váradi
Institute of Linguistics, Budapest

Post-Graduate scholarships were awarded to the following applicants for 2009-10:

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z

Marja Almqvist (NUIG)
Women Re-Imagining Dayton: The prospects for transformative women’s movements in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Marco Amici (UCC)
New Intersections: History, Crime and Innovation in Italian Narrative at the Turn of the Millennium

Marina Ansaldo (NUIG)
Fortune and the Troilus and Cressida Story

Elaine Aylward (WIT)
CRN: An analysis of the impact of the roles and relationships between regional stakeholders on network development in a rural environment.

Ciaran Brewster (UCC)
Craniometrical Study of Population History in the Upper Palaeolithic

Quentin Broughall (NUIM)
The rehabilitation of ancient Rome in English culture, c.1870-1918.

Jennifer Browne (UCC)
Toleration and pluralism in absolutist France: a historical and critical commentary of Pierre Bayle’s France Toute Catholique.

Cristina Bucur (DCU)
The executive policy-making process in Central and Eastern Europe

Adriana Bunea (TCD)
Explaining interest group influence in EU policymaking: A network approach

Lorcan Byrne (UCC)
A Culture a part: Understanding & Overcoming Social Exclusion in Limerick.

Audrey Rachel Cahill (NUIG)
Child Deprivation in Contemporary Ireland - A Philosophical Perspective

Laura Cahillane (UCC)
The Genesis, Drafting and Progress of the Irish Free State Constitution

Jane Carroll (TCD)
Landscapes in Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising Sequence [1965 -1977]

Rachael Carroll (TCD)
Volume and Volatility in Target Stocks

Aideen Carty (UCD)
Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: Friendship and Power in the Archaic Mediterranean.

Anna Clayden (NUIG)
Irish Domestic Violence Legislation in Focus

Niamh Cleary (TCD)
Restitution from Public Authorities in Ireland

Katherine Collins (DIT)
Return on Investment: Informal and non-formal learning in commercial organisations.

Tim Collins (NUIG)
Music Mountain: Exploring Identity, Place and Memory in the regional music of Sliabh Aughty and its Diaspora.

David Conlon (NUIG)
Body, Nation, and Space: Argentine Literature in Response to Dictatorship.

David Convery (UCC)
A study of the history and collective memory of Irish defence of the Spanish Second Republic

Gessica Cosi (UCD)
Eamon de Valera, the United States and Irish America: 1919-1924.

James Cross (TCD)
Decision-making in the European Union: Explaining Outcomes through Negotiation and Deliberation.

Guinevere Darcy (UL)
Códmheascadh agus códmhalartú I measc cainteoirí óga Gaeltachta [Code-mixing and Code-switching among young Gaeltacht Irish speakers]

Amy Daughton (TCD)
Toward an Intercultural Hermeneutic in a Global World

Jacoba de Vries (DIT)
Freedom of Movement from Below: Migrant Workers from Latvia in Ireland.

Emer Delaney (TCD)
La Donna, l’Italia, il voto: Language and gender in the Italian women’s suffrage movement, 1871 – 1922.

Elaine Linda Desmond (UCC)
Risk, Democracy and GM Foods - Andhra Pradesh, India: A Case Study.

Aoife Dooley (UCD)
A historical perspective on language, gender and culture in the Irish Independent’s Gaelic column from 1905 – 1970s

Loredana Dreptate (UCD)
The effects of initial trust on trust development and negotiation strategies used during intergroup negotiations

Aoife Duffy (NUIG)
Reconceptualising transitional justice: A socio-legal examination of the efficacy of transitional justice mechanisms in societies recovering from ethnic conflict

Jonathan Dunne (UL)
Improving Primary Science Learning and Teaching through Tutorial Dialogues

Simon Dunne (DCU)
Existential concerns in Point-of-Care Testing.

Iris Elliott (NUIG)
Progressing Women’s Human Rights in Ireland: the transformative potential of local-global activism

Paul John Ennis (UCD)
Space, Place, and Separation in the work of Martin Heidegger

Elaine Farrell (UCD)
Taboos and Penitence: Christian Conversion and Popular Religiosity in Ireland. (Centuries VI-VII)

Jennifer Farrell (DCU)
Managerial Cognition and Strategic Inertia in the Irish Health Service

Jennifer Farrell (UCD)
Prophecy as History: Classical and Christian Concepts of the Past in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'.

Mel Farrell (NUIM)
“Few Supporters and no organisation”? Cumann na nGaedheal 1923-1933.

Jack Fennell (UL)
The Irelands That We Dreamed Of: Irish Science Fiction, 1850 to the Present Day.

Alan Fernihough (UCD)
Reconsidering the Costs of Famine: An Economic Analysis of the Long-Run Effects

Daniel Finn (UCC)
Challengers to Provisional Republicanism 1970-1990.

Fergal Finnegan (NUIM)
Welcome to the knowledge factory? A longitudinal study of the experience of working class university students and their construction of knowledge in the era of lifelong learning

James Fitzgerald (DCU)
Reading Between the Lines: A Study of al Qaeda and Islamist Terrorism Through the Lens of Discourse Analysis.

Wesley Flannery (NUIG)
Marine Spatial Planning in the Irish Context

Suzanne Forbes (UCD)
Society, Print and Politics in Ireland, 1692-1725.

Robert Furze (DCU)
The Visceral Screen: between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg.

Susan Galavan (TCD)
Architecture and Affluence: Dublin, the Suburban Form 1840-1900.

Patricia Garcia (DCU)
Fantastic Journeys in Everyday Places: Contemporary Representations of Space in Fantastic Literature.

Elizabeth Geary (TCD)
Real and Imaginary Travel in Gide and Michaux.

Robert Gillanders (UCD)
The Effects and Effectiveness of Foreign Aid

Catriona Gleeson (NUIG)
Archaeological evidence for social differentiation in the Irish medieval town

Adrian Goodwin (UCC)
“The Language of Space”: The Influence of Twentieth Century Irish Gay and Lesbian Narrative on the “Post-Gay” moment in Irish Literature.

Pauline Graham (UCD)
"Discerning Musical Roles in Early Modern England: Exploring Authorial Identity,
Confessional Divisions and Political Allegiances in William Byrd’s Three Masses and Great Service"

Fiona Hackett (UCD)
Faultlines: Visualising Southern California –Human Dreams and Fragilities in the Landscape.

Theresa Harney (NUIM)
Gender and Sexuality in Post-Apartheid South African Literature

Raimondas Ibenskas (TCD)
Factors of Party System Consolidation in European Democracies

Seferin James (UCD)
Rethinking hierarchy and différance in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida

David Jameson (TCD)
‘Romance-Across-the Divide’: A Study of Mixed Marriage in Irish Literature from 1945 to 1970.

Anita Jarczok (UL)
Ana?s Nin and feminism – discursive construction(s) of her reputation

Declan William Kavanagh (NUIM)
Mollies and Catholics: homophobic discourse and Irishness in mid-eighteenth-century literary narratives.

Denise Keating (UCD)
Childhood in early medieval Ireland: perspectives from osteology and archaeology.

Fiona Kelly (UCD)
The Effects of Trauma and Migration on the Mental Health Needs and Outcomes of Migrants in Ireland

Ian Kenneally (NUIG)
An examination of the role of the Irish and international newspaper press in Ireland and their relationships with the Irish and British governments from the truce of 1921 to the Boundary Commission of 1925

Rachel Kidney (DCU)
Attachment Styles and the Leadership Process: A longitudinal multi-level analysis.

Robert Kilroy (TCD)
Marcel Duchamp: Resolving the Textual & Visual Studies problematic.

Nora King (NUIG)
Confessions in Literature from Webster to Defoe: the Demise of Auricular Confession and its Implications for the Transgressing Subject.

Christina Mary Kinsella (NCAD)
Interrupting Othering: An Examination of the critical interstices between ethics and aesthetics regarding the construction of meaning and identity in artistic production

Ewa Kobialka (UCD)
The role of language and social ties in Polish adult migrants’ identity construction in Ireland. The study of sociolinguistic variation and naturalistic second language acquisition contexts

Colin Lahive (UCC)
‘Milton and Romance: Vernacular Romance and Chivalric Traditions in Paradise Lost’

Dorothy Maria Leahy (NUIM)
The meaning and experience of stroke in young adults: an interpretive phenomenological analysis.

Caitlin Lewis (UCD)
Irish Post feminist Culture: Producing and Consuming Female Identity in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland.

John Lonergan (UCD)
Cork English: An acoustic study.

Steffen Magister (TCD)
Political Ideas in the Narrative Sources of Late Ottonian and Early Salian Germany (983-1056)

Caroline Maguire (MIC-UL)
Peasants into Patriots: Instruments of radical politicisation in provincial Ireland 1860-1907.

Garret Maher (NUIG)
Transnational Migration: Brazilian Experience in Ireland.

Dolores McCabe (NUIM)
Nature and the City: an Ethnographic Enquiry into Urban Sustainability.

Sarah McCann (NUIG)
The Irish in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Felim McGrath (TCD)
Conflict and Coexistence: Apulia in the Eleventh Century

Mairead McGrath (TCD)
Negotiating Myth: Fantasies of Male Parthenogenesis in Aeschylus’ Eumenides

Eoin McGuirk (TCD)
Essays on the Political Economy of Developing Countries

Lisa McInerney (DCU)
Virtual Networks of Terror

Therese McIntyre (NUIG)
Folk Memory v. Historical ‘Fact’: The Creation and Representation of ‘Heroes’ in Irish Traditional Folksong.

Aoife McLoughlin (MIC-UL)
The Time of our Life: How Technological Advances are affecting or Temporal Experience.

Richard Morrisroe (UCC)
The Placebo effect: Implicit and Explicit Expectancies.

Una Carmel Murray (UCC)
Is mainstreaming a valid development strategy for integration of cross-cutting issues in policy agendas in developing countries? The case of child labour elimination

Aisling Murtagh (UCC)
Defining principles and characteristics of alternative food

Ruth Musielak (UCD)
Water Sources: Improvement in the Irish designed landscape, 1660-1800

Adrian Naughton (UCD)
“Fortified and bewildered”: Buile Shuibhne and Anglo-Irish Literature.

Ailbhe Ni Ghearbhuigh (NUIG)
The French Connection: The influence of French writing on the Gaelic Revival 1893-1939.

Clíodhna Ní Lionáin (UCD)
The legacy of Míl: Irish-Iberian connections in prehistory.

Méadhbh Nic an Airchinnigh (NUIG)
Caointeoireacht na Gaeilge: Béalaireacht agus Litearthacht.

Blátnaid Nolan (UCD)
Power, Punishment, and Penance

Bernadette Noonan (UCC)
The Linguistic, Educational and Social Integration of Migrant Children into Primary Education in the Irish Context: Lessons (not) to be Learned from Germany's Migration Experience sine the 1950s.

Ciarán Seán Ó Gealbháin (UCC)
Ó bhailte na tuaithe go bruach na farraige: Traidisiún na hAmhránaíochta sna Déise.

Noel O Murchadha (UL)
Sprioctheangacha agus spriocanna teanga I measc cainteoirí óga Gaeilge I gceantair Ghaeltachta na Mumhan. [Target language varieties and language targets among young Irish speakers in Munster Gaeltacht regions]

Marie Elena O'Brien (UCC)
The Archaeology of Capitalism and Social Control: Irish Industrial Villages and Dissenter Communities.

Judith O'Connell (NUIG)
The Socialisation of Nationalism: From Celtic myth to Celtic Tiger and back again.

Steven O'Connor (UCD)
Irish Officers in the British Armed Forces, 1921-1950

William O'Dea (UCC)
‘Belfast Politics’: Rational Dissent and Political Thought in Eighteenth Century Ireland.

Sinead O'Donnell (NUIG)
The Right to Independent Living and Role of Human Rights Law

Barbara O'Donoghue (UCC)
Ford, Carter and Cambodia: US Foreign Policy and the Khmer Rouge.

David Colin O'Dwyer (UL)
The Necessity, Legitimacy and Legality of a DNA Identification Database in Ireland

Cian O'Mahony (UCC)
“A King for the Queene”: Samuel Sheppard’s The Faerie King and his reception of Spenser’s epic authority.

Sarah O'Malley (NUIG)
Reconnecting Children and Nature? A Sociological Study of Environmental Education in Ireland

Anthony O'Reilly (NUIM)
Developing a Reliable and Valid Implicit Test for Attitudes and Social Biases

Sean O'Reilly (TCD)
The operation of the Irish Act of Union, 1801-1820

Roisin O'Shea (WIT)
Judicial Separation and Divorce in the Circuit Court.

Jane Power (UCC)
Venture capital (VC) funding of Irish high-technology and high-potential start-ups

Ciaran Priestley (NUIM)
Community Experience of the 1798 Rebellion

Michael Pyper (TCD)
From the Quixotic to the Kafkaesque: A biopolitical comparison of literary madness.

Mary Quirke (NUIM)
An evaluation of the effect of the Healthy Schools (HS) programme on the psychological well being of primary school children living in a deprived area

Yolanda Reyes (NUIG)
Anti-Establishment Female Characters in XXI Century Mexican Cinema: Subverting the Golden Age.

John Reynolds (NUIG)
A Critical Third World Approach to International Law and the Question of Palestine

Corinna Ricasoli (UCD)
Non Omnis Moriar – Faith, Mortality and the Artist in Baroque Italy.

Andrea Rigon (TCD)
Power and Conflict in the Development of Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

Alessia Risi (UCC)
Destabilizing Function and Political Commitment: Female Figures in Italian Crime Fiction, 1980 to the Present.

Fergus Robson (TCD)
Conscription, Community and Counter-Revolution, the Aveyron 1780-1800.

Patricia Ruiz de Azua (TCD)
Judges’ decision making process in child protection and welfare cases in the Republic of Ireland

Martin Russell (UCD)
Irish-America in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: Challenging the cultural paradigms of memory and identity in U.S. foreign policy.

Daniel Schultz (TCD)
Diffusion of Power in Democracies

Amanda Slevin (UCD)
Hegemony and hydrocarbons: A study of the control and ownership of Irish gas and oil.

Adrian Smith (DIT)
Formal strategies from Cologne: the experimental aesthetic in the music of Kevin Volans, Gerald Barry and Raymond Deane.

Morgan John Stack (DCU)
Sourcing and Framing the "War on Terror": An Analysis of the Irish Times World News Section 2001-2005.

Martii Steinke (UL)
German-speaking Refugees in Northern Ireland 1933-1945

Maire-Luise Theuerkauf (UCC)
The Celtic background of the Tristan legend: the case of Tochmarc Emire.

Brendan Tobin (NUIG)
Customary law, traditional knowledge and human rights

Janis Umblijs (TCD)
Modelling return migration: investigating the decision to remain in Ireland by Latvian immigrants in the context of the 2004 EU enlargement.

Frederieke van Dongen (UL)
Moral behaviour as a function of positive emotions

Wijnand Van Tilburg (UL)
Bored to be wild: Aggression as means to overcome state boredom

Paolo Virtuani (UCD)
The Order of the Knights Hospitaller in Medieval Ireland

Bairbre Anne Walsh (UCC)
Claude McKay and the Transnational Novel

Barry Whelan (NUIM)
Ireland and Spain, 1939-1955: Diplomatic, Political and Cultural Relations from the Second World War to Membership of the United Nations.

Guy Woodward (TCD)
Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland and the Second World War

Zsuzsanna Zarka (NUIM)
Irish perceptions of Hungary and Austria-Hungary, 1815-1918

Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska (TCD)
Goddesses with Upraised Arms in Crete and Cyprus: A Comparative Study

Funded by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 2007-2013.