Research

Doctoral Research at the Centre for Irish Studies

Jack B Yeats and John Sloan: Ireland and America, 1910-1916

Jenny Mc Carthy, Arts Faculty Postgraduate Fellow

This project will compare and contrast the illustrations by Jack B Yeats, in the Irish magazine 'A Broadside', with the illustrations by John Sloan in the American magazine 'The Masses', and to examine the social, cultural, and political significance of their work.

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann: (re)shaping tradition 1951-1972 

Anarchism in Irish Culture and History

Leo Keohane , Arts Faculty Postgraduate Fellow

This project focusses on an examination of Anarchism, both as a political philosophy and as a kind of mentalité, in Irish culture and history. The intention of this work is to inquire into the possibility of a relationship between the philosophy of anarchism and the record of rebelliousness in Ireland.

Irish migration to Cuba, 1835-1844

Margaret Brehony, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar

This project will focus on the accounts of 300 Irish railroad workers, contracted in New York in 1835, to work in Havana and investigate the many questions concerning their recruitment, their experience, and their survival/settlement on the island of Cuba. Situating this migratory experience within a context of race and class politics, at a time of nationalist struggles, in two colonial islands, on either side of the Atlantic the research proposes to examine the position of this group of Irish immigrants as colonized ’Other’ within the Iberian Atlantic system of slavery and colonial labour.

Beyond the local: redefining regionalism in the traditional music of Sliabh Aughty and its diaspora

Tim Collins, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar

This thesis will examine the Sliabh Aughty dialect of Irish traditional music, which encompasses the traditional music communities of East Clare and East Galway. The indigenous dialectical traits, and that of its New York-based diaspora will be explored to evaluate the contribution of this archaic genre to Irish and Irish-American music culture.

Italian ’readings’ of Ireland

Debora Biancheri, Lady Gregory Fellow

This project explores policies and strategies of translation informing the Italian translations of contemporary Irish authors. Primary areas of interest are translation studies, literary theory and comparative literatures.

Empire and Irish Historiography: Sylvester O’Halloran’s A General History of Ireland 1778. Claire E. Lyons Galway Doctoral Fellow.

Claire Lyons, Galway Doctoral Fellow

Within the context of the consolidation of the British Empire in the post 1763 period, and the threat to imperial security presented by the advancing war in the American colonies, this thesis views O’Halloran’s last major antiquarian work, A General History of Ireland within a framework of an innovative attempt to engage London, as the administrative capital of the Empire, directly in Catholic relief politics.

Coming ’home’: Place, identity and second generation return migration

Sara Hanafin, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar

This project will examine the experience of the second generation Irish from Britain who have chosen to return to their parental homeland.  It will explore the multiple meanings of home to migrant communities, the emotional attachment people develop for particular places and the way in which this feeling of connection to place can shape identity. 

Culture economies: traditional Irish music and the concept of sustainable rural development

Verena Commins, Connect Doctoral Fellow

This project proposes to conceptualise the link between culture and sustainable rural development by problematizing traditional Irish music as a cultural resource. Informed by historical cultural policy, the study will attempt to rationalize the different ways in which peripheral localities and communities have tapped into the resource of traditional Irish music, and how this informs ideas of self-identity in an increasingly multicultural society.

The French Connection: the influence of French writing on the Galeic revival 1893-1939

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar

Through a systematic investigation of the literary and critical work of key figures in the Gaelic revival, this study will assess the extent to which the emergence of new literary forms and ideas in Irish are directly or indirectly attributable to the influence of French writing and culture.

Historical ’fact’ vs folk memory: the creation and representation of ’heroes’ in the Irish ballad tradition

Therese McIntyre, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar

This project will examine the construction of ’heroes’ in the Irish ballad tradition, their relationship to accepted historical narratives, and the influence of song in Irish social memory.

The French Connection: the influence of French writing on the Galeic revival 1893-1939

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar

Through a systematic investigation of the literary and critical work of key figures in the Gaelic revival, this study will assess the extent to which the emergence of new literary forms and ideas in Irish are directly or indirectly attributable to the influence of French writing and culture.

Frank Conlon, Postgraduate Fellow

This project is focused on the evolution of industrial development policy in Ireland from the establishment of the state up to the outbreak of the Second World War.  He is particularly interested in the types of enterprises supported during the period, the measures used to provide that support and the influence those measures may have had on later policies.

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