The Bursary was originally established by the University, in association with Clare Co. Council and the Clare GAA Co. Board, to mark the sesquicentenary of the birth of Michael Cusack, founder of Cumann Lúthchleas Gael in Carron, Co. Clare in 1847. The Bursary, financed by the Council, the University and the Clare GAA Co. Board, will support a student engaged in an M.Litt research project on some aspect of the cultural heritage of Clare. For the next award it is intended that the research project will focus on some aspect of the history of the GAA in Clare.

The Bursary amounts to a total value of €10,000 (including remission of course fees) per annum and will be tenable for two years, subject to satisfactory progress. The holder shall not at the same time hold a Local Authority Higher Education Grant.

The holder will be required to register fulltime for the M.Litt. Degree under the normal conditions, under the direction of the appropriate School.

Dr. Paddy Moriarty Fund

The ESB have agreed to fund the establishment of the Dr. Paddy Moriarty Fund in memory of the former Chief Executive and Cathaoirleach of the ESB. The Fund will support three postgraduate fellowships, with a preference for PhD Programmes, although Masters Degree support would not be ruled out, to be known as the Paddy Moriarty Fellowships, in the amount of 20,000 per annum for the next ten years. The Fellowships will be tenable in Engineering, Quality, Innovation, Labour Economics/Labour Law/Industrial Relations, or Irish Studies (including Gaeilge), preference to be given in the first year to a PhD student in Electrical Engineering. One new award will be made each year and, in steady state, three such fellowships will be supported at any given time. In addition, support from the Fund will be given to Irish arts activities in the University, in the amount of €12,000 per annum.

Postgraduate Scholarships (2) in Women's Studies

Each Scholarship will be for a maximum amount of €12,000 per annum for three years leading to the degree of PhD in Women’s Studies. Broad research areas within Women’s Studies include: Women’s Creative Practices; Irish Women’s Writing and Literary History; Feminist Literary/Theory; comparative women’s creative practices; women and Irish-Australia. Women’s activism (local and global); Women and Governance; Women and International Affairs. Application forms and further details are available from Women’s Studies.

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College of Business, Public Policy and Law

Dr. Paddy Moriarty Fund

The ESB have agreed to fund the establishment of the Dr. Paddy Moriarty Fund in memory of the former Chief Executive and Cathaoirleach of the ESB. The Fund will support three postgraduate fellowships, with a preference for PhD Programmes, although Masters Degree support would not be ruled out, to be known as the Paddy Moriarty Fellowships, in the amount of 20,000 per annum for the next ten years. The Fellowships will be tenable in Engineering, Quality, Innovation, Labour Economics/Labour Law/Industrial Relations, or Irish Studies (including Gaeilge), preference to be given in the first year to a PhD student in Electrical Engineering. One new award will be made each year and, in steady state, three such fellowships will be supported at any given time. In addition, support from the Fund will be given to Irish arts activities in the University, in the amount of €12,000 per annum.

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College of Engineering and Informatics

Dr. Paddy Moriarty Fund

The ESB have agreed to fund the establishment of the Dr. Paddy Moriarty Fund in memory of the former Chief Executive and Cathaoirleach of the ESB. The Fund will support three postgraduate fellowships, with a preference for PhD Programmes, although Masters Degree support would not be ruled out, to be known as the Paddy Moriarty Fellowships, in the amount of 20,000 per annum for the next ten years. The Fellowships will be tenable in Engineering, Quality, Innovation, Labour Economics/Labour Law/Industrial Relations, or Irish Studies (including Gaeilge), preference to be given in the first year to a PhD student in Electrical Engineering. One new award will be made each year and, in steady state, three such fellowships will be supported at any given time. In addition, support from the Fund will be given to Irish arts activities in the University, in the amount of €12,000 per annum.

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College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

The Doctor John F. Keenan Travelling Scholarship

This Scholarship is endowed by the late John F. Keenan, B.A., M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. (a graduate of the University 1892-1897), who by his Will bequeathed to the University certain portions of his estate for the promotion of Medical Research. The original Endowment, as ascertained by the Executors of the donor on the seventh day of March, 1947, consisted of securities and cash valued at €7063 (approx.). The present value of the Scholarship is €12,500.
Údarás na hOllscoile, having accepted the Bequest has founded the above Scholarship, and has adopted the following rules in regard to it:—

The value of the Scholarship shall be as determined by Údarás na hOllscoile.

The Scholarship is available to a graduate in Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of either sex of Irish parentage, who has:—
(a) obtained Honours in the M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. Examination;
(b) presented for the M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. Examination not later than the month of December in the sixth year of medical study;
(c) been adjudged by the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences to have attained an adequate Honours Standard in the undergraduate course as a whole;
(d) been adjudged by the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences to have shown special aptitude for research during the undergraduate course.
Note: For the purpose of (b) above there shall not be counted: 
(i) an extra year spent in taking a Medical B.Sc. Degree;

(ii) time lost owing to illness properly certified.

The Scholarship shall be awarded by Údarás na hOllscoile on the recommendation of the Academic Council made after consultation with the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. The College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences shall, for the purpose, consider the report of the Professor of Medicine and of the Extern Examiner in Medicine. Údarás na hOllscoile may withhold the Scholarship if sufficient merit be not shown.

(a) The Scholarship shall be awarded once only in every four years, shall be awarded in the month of January, and was first awarded in January, 1951;
(b) If the Scholarship be not awarded in the official year of award, it may be awarded in any one of the three succeeding years of a four-year period;

(c) Should no award be made in a four-year period, more than one Scholarship may be subsequently offered.

Only Graduates in Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences of the four years preceding the first day of January of the year of award, are eligible for the Scholarship.

The Candidate to whom the Scholarship is awarded shall before being permitted to take up the Scholarship first serve as a House Physician in a Recognised General Hospital for a period of not less than six months or more than twelve months, unless he/she has already done so. He/she shall then pursue a Course of Research in Medicine and Health Sciences at some centre abroad approved by the Professor of Medicine in the University.

The Scholarship is tenable by the Scholar for a period of two consecutive years. The said two-year period shall commence from the day of termination of period of service as House Physician or (in the case of a candidate who has already served as House Physician) from the date of award of the Scholarship. The Scholarship shall in the first instance be awarded for one year only, but may be continued by Údarás na hOllscoile for a second year on the recommendation of the Academic Council. Before making such recommendation, the Academic Council must be satisfied of the progress of the scholar and shall consider the report of the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and the report of the Head of the Research School in which the Scholar is engaged.

Candidates shall lodge their applications for the Scholarship with the Admissions Office of the University not later than the first day of December of the year immediately preceding the year of award.

The Scholarship will be paid in equal half-yearly instalments. The first instalment will be paid on receipt of official notification from a Research Centre abroad to the effect that the Scholar has commenced work there.

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College of Science

Dr. Paddy Moriarty Fund

The ESB have agreed to fund the establishment of the Dr. Paddy Moriarty Fund in memory of the former Chief Executive and Cathaoirleach of the ESB. The Fund will support three postgraduate fellowships, with a preference for PhD Programmes, although Masters Degree support would not be ruled out, to be known as the Paddy Moriarty Fellowships, in the amount of 20,000 per annum for the next ten years. The Fellowships will be tenable in Engineering, Quality, Innovation, Labour Economics/Labour Law/Industrial Relations, or Irish Studies (including Gaeilge), preference to be given in the first year to a PhD student in Electrical Engineering. One new award will be made each year and, in steady state, three such fellowships will be supported at any given time. In addition, support from the Fund will be given to Irish arts activities in the University, in the amount of €12,000 per annum.

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Other Scholarships/Awards

The Michael Davitt Fellowship

A doctoral Fellowship in honour of Michael Davitt, the founder of the Land League, was established by the University in 1997-8. The Fellowship, to support doctoral research on different aspects of the life and work of Michael Davitt, and on areas of academic enquiry relating thereto, is financially supported by An Roinn Oideachais agus Eolaíochta. In the arrangements for awarding the Davitt doctoral Fellowship, the University proposes to acknowledge the special interest in the legacy of Davitt of the Trustees of the Michael Davitt Museum Association.

The areas of proposed research which will be recognised as appropriate for the award of the Davitt doctoral Fellowship will, in the first instance, relate to the academic disciplines of History and Politics. While the initial Fellowship was awarded for research on some aspect of the latter part of Davitt’s career, thereafter, it will be open to the Fellowship board to advise the University on any particular areas of research which might be attached to the award of the Fellowship from time to time. The areas of proposed research which will be recognised as appropriate for the award of the next Davitt doctoral Fellowship are: research on socioeconomic or cultural change in the West of Ireland, from a social science or historical or economic perspective; a study of a West of Ireland community from an anthropological point of view; a study, from the economic, sociological or historical point of view, of the literature of planned interventions in regard to community or rural development in the West of Ireland, in terms of development strategies or specific development programmes.

Only one Fellowship will be funded at any particular time.

The holder shall register full-time for the Ph.D degree course in accordance with the normal conditions.

The Fellowship will comprise a maintenance grant* of the value of the maximum payable to holders of Local Authority Higher Education Grants, together with remission of tuition fees for the Ph.D degree course. The maintenance grant will be payable in three equal instalments, following confirmation of registration. The Fellowship will be tenable for three years, subject to satisfactory progress throughout the tenure of the award.

(*Further details available ó Oifig an Rúnaí um Ghnóthaí Acadúla).