The School of Celtic Studies has begun accepting applications for the Bergin Fellowship.

The aim of the Fellowship scheme is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to provide promising researchers near the start of their career with relatively well-resourced medium-term positions in a world-class research environment from which to launch their academic careers. On the other, it aims to stimulate the research programmes of the Institute with periodic infusions of new people and ideas.

Candidates should have several years of relevant research experience. If not already holding the degree of PhD (or equivalent) they should be working towards this degree.

For further information on the Fellowship position and the application procedure, please consult our website at http://www.celt.dias.ie/

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Visiting Fellowships, 2006/2007, Faculty of Arts, National University of Ireland, Galway

The Faculty of Arts at NUI Galway offers a number of visiting fellowships each year. The stipend in each case is EURO 12,000 for a period of residence of one semester in Galway. The recipient of an Arts Faculty Fellowship will be affiliated to a particular department or centre and will be required to participate fully in the activities of the host department or centre.

A letter of application for a visiting fellowship, accompanied by a full Curriculum Vitae, should be sent to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts before 31 January 2006.

Applicants should indicate the semester they would hope to avail of the Fellowship, and outline how their tenure of the Fellowship will be of benefit to the host department, its students, and the Faculty of Arts in general. It is advisable to liaise with the host department in advance of applying.

NUI Galway Arts Faculty - http://www.nuigalway.ie/arts/
NUI Galway English Department - http://www.nuigalway.ie/enl

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Peter G Phialas Professorship, UNC Chapel Hill
The Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications from senior scholars for the Peter G. Phialas Professorship in Twentieth-Century British and/or American Literature. We seek a distinguished scholar with a proven record in teaching excellence, with an on-going commitment to a range of teaching. The field of specialization is open, but we especially invite scholars working in transatlantic, postcolonial, Anglophone diasporic, or American ethnic literatures to apply. More information on the UNCH website

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Assistant professor in Modern Irish Literature, University of Oregon
The University of Oregon English Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in the field of Modern Irish Literature. We welcome in particular candidates whose scholarship engages issues of empire, colonialism, ethnicity, or race. We are interested in candidates who have research programs that complement those of an active, diverse, and interdisciplinary faculty, and who can teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the field. Minimum requirements: Ph.D. in English or related field in hand by time of appointment strongly preferred. Salary for this position is competitive. To learn more about the English Department, see http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~engl/

Applicants should send a letter, c.v., references, and a research sample by November 5 to: English Department Head, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1286

Funded M.A. Opportunities
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to work on the following theme: "The French Connection: The Impact of Flaubert, Proust and Camus on the Fictions of John McGahern." This opening comes about as a result of funding awarded under the Strand I Postgraduate Programme to the National Centre of Franco-Irish Studies in IT Tallaght. The successful candidate will have her/his fees and registration covered and will receive a
trainee allowance of EURO 900 a month for the 24 months it will take to complete the research.

Applicants should ideally have a 2:1 Honours Degree or better in English (Irish Studies) and French (or at least demonstrate a competence in the latter). This opening will be advertised also in the national media during the month of August.

Interested parties should submit a CV to: Dr. Eamon Maher, Director, National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, IT Tallaght, Dublin 24

http://www.it-tallaght.ie/humanities/languages/franco_irish_studies/
E-mail: Eamon.maher@it-tallaght.ie
Phone: 01-6287345
Mobile: 087-9846116

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UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: VISITING SHORT-TERM PROFESSORS IN ANY FIELD OF IRISH STUDIES (posted 12th July 2005)
This is to notify all colleagues and friends of an exciting opportunity which has arisen at our University in the field of Irish Studies.

As a result of a collaborative plan between the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Irish community in Sydney, funds have been made available to support the appointment of a series of short-term Professors in Irish Studies for the period of at least 2006-2007 inclusive. These are short-term appointments which would suit persons taking Sabbatical Leave or those who can negotiate a period of Leave Without Pay from their home institution. It is expected that the successful candidates will come to the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, for a period of around six months which will include one full teaching session, and will offer an undergraduate course in an area of their interest while they are here. Teaching sessions run from March - June and July-October. It will be possible to arrange some flexibility in the timing of the visit, recognising that teaching session dates may not neatly overlap between Irish institutions and UNSW.

In addition, the Professor who is appointed to the position will be expected to take part in the life of the relevant School or area, to which he/she will be attached, and to give some guest talks and/or public lectures to interested members of the broader community, in their own area of interest. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers an interdisciplinary major in Irish Studies, drawing on elements from European and Australian Studies, with contributions from the Schools of English, History, Media Film and Theatre, and other areas on occasion. Applicants interested in any area of Irish Studies will be considered provided their teaching can be encompassed within the Faculty's general teaching interests. There are also a number of postgraduate students working on Irish Studies topics.

Details of the Irish Studies activities at UNSW are available at
www.irishstudies.arts.unsw.edu.au

Further information about the position is available at
http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/employment/01070501.htm

Or contact Professor Annette Hamilton, Dean, FASS, at a.hamilton@unsw.edu.au, for further information regarding the position and associated conditions. Potential applicants might like to submit a summary cv prior to proceeding to a formal application.

The University of New South Wales is the venue for the 2006 IASIL conference - see the conference page on this website for more info.

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Editorial Assistant: The History of the Irish Book
School of Languages and Literature
Faculty of Arts

Ref: C04/816

This post was originally advertised on the jobs.ac.uk website. Posted to IASIL on 1 June 2005.

The postholder will assist Professor Robert Welch in his general editorship of The History of the Irish Book, to be published by Oxford University Press (2005-08).

Applicants must hold a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent, and a PhD in a relevant subject area. They must also be able to provide evidence of relevant quality research output equating to national or international excellence.

The post is tenable for two years and eleven months and is based at the Coleraine campus.

Closing Date: 17 June 2005
Interview Date: 22 July 2005

View job details on http://www.ulster.ac.uk/jobs Alternatively T: (028) 7032 4946 or E: jobs@ulster.ac.uk quoting the relevant reference.

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Postgraduate Research Studentship
Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages

This post was originally advertised on the jobs.ac.uk website. Posted to IASIL on 1 June 2005.

A research studentship, attached to the Chair of Comparative Ethnology and Folk Life (Professor Ullrich Kockel), is available at the University's Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages. Applications are invited from UK, European Union and overseas students. Applicants must hold or expect to obtain in summer 2005 the minimum of an upper second class honours degree (or equivalent) including an appropriate discipline, such as European ethnology, cultural/social anthropology, folkloristics, or cultural studies, and should be able to demonstrate skills and experience in field and/or archival work at or above the level expected of a good final year dissertation in the respective subject area.

The successful candidate will enrol in September 2005, on a full-time programme of research studies leading to the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The studentship will comprise fees and an annual stipend of £12,000 and will be awarded for a period of up to three years subject to satisfactory progress. The studentship is tenable in the Faculty of Arts at the Magee campus.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 17 June 2005.

Interviews will be held in early July 2005.

Applicants should submit a completed research application form together with a research proposal on no more than two sides of A4, outlining their initial research questions, sources, and methodology. Proposals should address one or more of the following themes; comparative projects will be particularly welcome:
• cultural encounters in the context of historical and contemporary migrations within the British Isles, and between the British Isles, Europe and North America
• religious heritages in Ireland, and among the Irish Diaspora
• heritage, tradition and identity in border regions and other ethnic frontiers
• sustainable development of communities, localities and regions, involving heritage/traditions as resources
• economy as culture, including informal economy relationships
• alternative lifestyles, including the cultural impact of "countercultural" immigrants
• history of ideas in Irish and European ethnology

Application materials are available at http://www.ulster.ac.uk/research/rps/forms/rs1.pdf
and completed applications should be returned to: Hazel Campbell, Research Office, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, BT52 1SA.
T: +44 (0)28 7032 4729. E: hj.campbell@ulster.ac.uk

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Research Fellows
Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast

This post was originally advertised on the jobs.ac.uk website. Posted to IASIL on 1 June 2005.

Ref: 05/W330B

Post 1: Literature and Urban Culture in Belfast
Posts 2 and 3: Irish Studies

Applications are invited for the above positions that are available for one year initially to develop, research and prepare work for publication in the field of Irish Studies.

Applicants for all posts must have a PhD awarded in a relevant discipline, publications in print or in press, demonstrable viable research proposal and evidence that the proposed research will contribute to the RAE. Applicants for post 1 must also have proposed research in the fields of nineteenth and twentieth century Belfast with reference to literature and urban culture. Further criteria will be given in the further particulars for the posts.

Closing date: 4.00 pm, Friday 17 June 2005

Please visit website for further information and to download the application pack - www.qub.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively contact the

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Irish Government Senior Scholarship - History and Culture of Ireland: Modern History Faculty, Hertford College, Oxford

Advertisements have recently appeared for the abovementioned position. A copy of the advertisement follows. Candidates should seek further details/confirmation from the email address below.

The scholarship is attached to Hertford College, under the aegis of the Carroll Professor of Irish History, and is tenable for one year from 1 October 2005. Preference will be given to candidates who have recently been awarded a postgraduate degree and wish to develop their work further or initiate a new project, but those in the final stages of a postgraduate degree will not be excluded, particularly if they have a special reason to study at Oxford. The Irish Government Scholar, who will be a member of the Hertford MCR, will receive accommodation, a maintenance grant, appropriate SCR dining rights, and fees where applicable. Limited teaching may be available.

Applications (by curriculum vitae and covering letter with a programme of work) should arrive with the Secretary of the Modern History Board, Modern History Faculty, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD, telephone (01865) 277253), e-mail: administrator@history.ox.ac.uk, from whom further particulars are available, by Monday 6 June 2005.

Candidates should ask three referees to submit letters of support by the same date.

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Posts in Irish Studies and Irish/Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader/Chair in Irish-Scottish Studies (2 posts)
The College of Arts and Social Sciences is seeking to recruit academic staff at any level, to strengthen its record of excellence in research and teaching in this theme. To date, these strengths have been in arts and humanities, and these new posts have been introduced to extend expertise into the social sciences. Successful applicants will be based in an appropriate School, contributing to research and teaching activities within the School. They will also be expected to contribute to the development of the internationally renowned Research Institute of Irish Studies and the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies.

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Lecturer in Modern Irish Prose Literature in English
To complement a recent senior appointment in the area, the School of Language & Literature seeks to appoint a specialist in any area of Irish fiction in English from the Revival to the present. Candidates with expertise in Joyce or Beckett are particularly encouraged to apply. The successful applicant must demonstrate an ability to consider Irish writing in the light of developments in modern fiction more generally. Candidates' work will also necessarily reflect a critical awareness of contemporary trends in literary theory and interpretation.

Online application forms and further particulars for both posts are available from www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs. Alternatively email jobs@abdn.ac.uk

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Irish Theatre Magazine Seeks Editor(s)

irish theatre magazine is the publication of record for contemporary theatre in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The magazine is entering a period of change in anticipation of editor-in-chief Karen Fricker’s departure from the organisation. Itm would like to hear from individuals interested in joining our team, either as a section editor (reviews, features, news, books) or as editor-in-chief. Please send CV and cover letter to publisher@irishtheatremagazine.ie or 44 East Essex Street, Dublin 2, Ireland by 28 April, 2005. Enquires welcomed to publisher Nik Quaife at the above address.

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NUI Maynooth - Lecturer/Junior Lecturer in English

Applications are invited for a permanent full-time lecturing position in the Department of English commencing on 1 September 2005. Ideally, candidates for the post should have the following:

... Research qualifications (ordinarily to Ph.D. level), publications and teaching experience in Literary and Cultural Theory; in addition,

... An interest in gender studies and/or new literatures in English would be welcome.

The English Department at Maynooth is keen to build upon its strong research profile by extending its range of expertise in Cultural Studies and Literary Theory. The successful applicant, however, will be required to teach well outside his/her area of expertise, and flexibility in that regard is essential.

Salary Scales (new entrants): Lecturer: ¤46,090 - ¤74,715 p.a. (7 points); Junior Lecturer: ¤33,888 - ¤39,905 p.a. (5 points)

Prior to application, further details of the post should be obtained from the Personnel Officer, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Confidential Fax: 01 7083940; E-mail: personnel@nuim.ie

Applications in writing, including a full C.V., together with the names, addresses, fax and telephone numbers of three referees, whom the University may contact, should be forwarded to the Personnel Officer, so as to arrive not later than Friday, 15 April, 2005.

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Academic Fellow in Irish and Celtic Studies Faculty of Arts -University of Ulster

The Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies at the School of Languages and Literature, University of Ulster has recently advertised for an academic fellow in Irish and Celtic Studies on the jobs.ac.uk website. The advertised closing date is 5 April 2005 Full details are available at: http://jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/HX119.html

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Women in Modern Irish Culture Project

Positions available in the School of English, University College Dublin

1 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, full time, 2 years
1 Research Assistantship (Irish Language), part-time

The Women in Modern Irish Culture project has been generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board Resource Enhancement Scheme. The project will be run jointly by Dr Maria Luddy of the History Department, University of Warwick and Dr Gerardine Meaney of the English Department, University College Dublin. The project will employ two post-doctoral research fellows, one based in Warwick, the other in Dublin. An additional researcher will deal with Irish language material. Both Fellows will be expected to spend considerable time researching in archives around Ireland and the United Kingdom. The exploration of Irish women’s literary past is hampered by a lack of information on who exactly these women writers were and what they wrote. In creating a detailed bibliographical database on Irish women writers, the Women in Modern Irish Culture project will, for the first time, provide the detailed factual knowledge necessary to allow further research into the significance of women’s contribution to Irish culture. The project will utilise, amongst other sources, the recent availability of archival directories from the Women’s History Project (www.nationalarchives.ie/wh) and the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols. 4 and 5, Irish Women’s Writings and Traditions (Cork/New York 2002). In essence the project will create a new electronic database that will provide information on over 1,200 Irish women writers. It will include Irish women writers working in the Irish and English languages, writing in all genres for the period 1800-2000. The database (which will be created by IT services at Warwick University) will be completely searchable and include information on subjects such as author’s date of birth, date of death, pseudonyms, published work, editions of work, publications in magazines, journals, pamphlets, etc., archival sources regarding the authors’ manuscripts, and secondary sources used in the compilation of the database. Through seminars, workshops and an international conference the work of the project will be brought to a broad audience of scholars and researchers.

Postdoctoral Researcher: The successful candidate will have a PhD in the field of Irish Women’s Writing or a related topic, the ability to carry out research independently and to utilize databases. They will also have excellent communication and organizational skills and some experience in the area of conference/seminar organization. Experience of detailed archival research, good computer skills and of work on a funded research project are also desirable. A research interest in nineteenth and/or twentieth century poetry would be an advantage.

Research Assistant: The successful candidate will have a first class or high 2.1 M.A in Irish or English Literature with a strong research interest in the field of Irish Women’s Writing. They will have demonstrated an ability to carry out research independently and to utilise databases. A research interest in bilingual writers and/or issues of translation would be an advantage.

Closing Date for Receipt of Applications MARCH 16TH 2005
For more information, please contact Dr Gerardine Meaney at gerardine.meaney@ucd.ie

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IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES PROJECT GRANTS - THE THOMAS MOORE HYPERMEDIA ARCHIVE

Positions available (2) for Doctoral Researchers at the National University of Ireland, Galway (2005-2008)

This project is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. It is seeking to recruit two researchers, each to undertake research leading to the award of a PhD degree under the supervision of the Project Director. Assigned research tasks must begin in September 2005, and be completed by September 2008.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE THOMAS MOORE HYPERMEDIA ARCHIVE PROJECT

The aim of this project is to collect the complete poetical, musical and prose works of Thomas Moore (1779-1852) in the form of an electronic hypermedia archive, publishable in a pilot form on the World Wide Web at the end of three years. The archive will be similar in design to existing projects such as the Walt Whitman Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org) or the William Blake Archive (www.blakearchive.org). Like a scholarly printed edition, the archive will establish reliable texts and annotation based on principles of sound scholarly editing, but unlike a print edition it will also provide a rich network of interconnected electronic materials: texts of the poetry and prose, digital music files that reproduce the musical accompaniments to Moore’s songs, image files of manuscripts and of illustrations that were published in various editions, portraits of Moore, commentary on Moore’s work and life, and a bibliography of Moore’s work and secondary criticism. Users of the archive will be able to gain rapid access to elements of Moore’s work at different levels of specificity. Full texts, particular lines or individual words can be easily retrieved according the needs of the student or scholar, and powerful searches and concordances can be conducted of a sort effectively impossible in the case of print editions. Visual and aural material hitherto difficult to access can be made easily available to users from almost anywhere in the world. Such research would enable closer study of Moore’s sources, influences and relationships to other writers, and would be a valuable teaching tool. The use of hypermedia is particularly appropriate for the editing of Moore’s work, since a large part of his achievement and appeal lies in the performative, musical and oral dimensions of his work, all of which can be more effectively reproduced through the use of hypermedia than through printed media alone.

Such an archive represents a type of ongoing edition, easily modified and updated. At the same time, readers, scholars and libraries will continue to need reliable and annotated printed versions of Moore’s texts, and for this reason, the materials assembled for the Thomas Moore Archive will be used eventually to produce printed scholarly editions of Moore’s work.

There is at present no complete scholarly edition of Moore’s work, in spite of the fact that Moore was a major figure within European romanticism, and the most popular and influential Irish poet of the nineteenth-century. He was admired internationally as a poet, biographer, translator, satirist, musician, singer, orientalist and polemicist. His Irish Melodies had a profound impact on the Irish, English and American public, are still a vital part of the English-speaking popular song tradition. Moore was a close friend and confidant of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Robert Emmet, John Murray, Lord John Russell, Sir Walter Scott and other notable political and literary figures.

His Irish Melodies have been popular for nearly two centuries, and his long ‘Eastern’ poem Lalla Rookh (1817) was an international bestseller and a major contribution to European orientalism. Beethoven and Berlioz admired Moore’s songs and wrote musical arrangements for them, while Moore’s cultural nationalism inspired like-minded writers in many countries, including France, Poland, Italy, Germany, Russia and Hungary. Moore’s works were frequently reprinted in Britain, France and the US throughout the nineteenth century.

The corpus of Moore’s manuscript material is large, and scattered in various libraries and archives. Among his published works are over a thousand poems, three biographies, polemical prose works, a history of Ireland and a number of periodical reviews. Much of the work of the project during the three years of funding will involve locating, transcribing and digitising this material. The Project Director has responsibility for managing the project, making major editorial decisions, and undertaking digitisation and editing tasks. The project will also recruit two Doctoral Researchers for three years, who will undertake bibliographical and historical research, critically edit a selection of texts, and construct pilot hypermedia archives. The project will be hosted at the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change in NUI, Galway.

 

DESCRIPTION OF TASKS FOR DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Doctoral Researcher 1: The poetical works of Thomas Moore: a bibliographical study and pilot hypermedia edition.

The researcher will undertake the following tasks, the results of which will be submitted for the award of PhD:

• researching and compiling a complete bibliography of Thomas Moore’s poetical works, including songs and music;
• researching and writing a 20,000-word essay on the textual history and reception of Moore’s poetry;
• creating a pilot hypermedia archive of edited poems, songs, music, illustrations, commentary and bibliographical resources.

Doctoral Researcher 2: The prose works of Thomas Moore: a bibliographical study and pilot hypermedia edition.
The researcher will undertake the following tasks, the results of which will be submitted for the award of PhD:

• researching and compiling a complete bibliography of Thomas Moore’s prose, including fiction, political writings and essays;
• editing a selection of Moore’s uncollected letters;
• researching and writing a 20,000-word essay on the textual history and reception of Moore’s prose writings

• creating a pilot hypermedia archive of edited prose texts, with illustrations, commentary and bibliographical resources.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

A minimum of a Second Class Honours, Grade 1 primary degree (3.75 GPA) in a relevant field. A Master's degree or other postgraduate qualification is desirable. Proven expertise in at least two of the following areas is desirable for both positions:
Bibliographical studies
Critical editing
Romanticism
Nineteenth-century Irish culture
Use of electronic mark-up languages
Digitisation of texts
Web-authoring and design

Some musical knowledge would also be an advantage in the case of Doctoral Researcher 1.

FUNDING

Each doctoral researcher will be provided with a stipend of €12,700 annually for three years, subject to terms and conditions. PhD tuition fees for three years will be paid by the project. Research facilities will be provided by the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, NUI, Galway. Doctoral researchers will be expected to participate in and contribute to the activities of the Centre during the course of their funding.

APPLICATION

To apply for one of the positions, please send an academic CV detailing your qualifications to the Project Director before 1 April 2005, including the names of two academic referees. An interview may form part of the assessment process. For further information or discussion contact the Project Director:

Dr Sean Ryder
Department of English
National University of Ireland, Galway
Tel. +353-(0)91-493009
email sean.ryder@nuigalway.ie

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Chair in Drama, Queen's University Belfast

Queen's university is seeking a chair in drama. Candidates are expected to have a PhD or evidence of advanced academic study in the field. In addition, applicants must demonstrate a strong record of research publications or other relevant output in any aspect of Drama Studies equivalent to RAE 3*/4*, with evidence of further plans for the near future. Applicants must also demonstrate experience and an understanding of the practical dimensions of Drama Studies and hold an established track record of teaching in Drama Studies at tertiary level. Additional criteria will be available in the further particulars for the post. According to the advertisement, it is anticipated interviews will be held on Thursday 21 April 2005.

Salary will be determined in accordance with the appropriate Professorial ranges as applied within the University. A three-year research studentship will be attached to the post. There is also a generous relocation package provided, as appropriate.

For further information about the division, http://www.qub.ac.uk/lla/drama/index.htm.

Download an application pack on http://www.qub.ac.uk/jobs

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BURSARIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR MLITT IN IRISH AND SCOTTISH STUDIES (posted January 2005), UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) recently celebrated its fifth anniversary and to mark this occasion is offering at least five scholarships and bursaries for suitably qualified candidates to pursue interdisciplinary research and graduate training on the history, literatures, languages and cultures of the two countries. Graduate students accepted into this programme may focus on either Irish or Scottish Studies, or both. 

The Institute offers a taught MLitt programme that addresses the specific research interests of individual students while educating them about resources outside their proposed area of interest, thus helping them to conceptualise their scholarship and set it within a wider, historical, literary, linguistic or ethnological framework.

Further information at www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/mlitt or from Dr Shane Murphy (MLitt Programme Co-ordinator), email: sam@abdn.ac.uk

 

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PhD Scholarships at the University of Melbourne.

The University of Melbourne recently announced two scholarships for scholars working in Irish Studies

(a) GENDER, VIOLENCE AND THE IRISH IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons for an Australian Research Council funded PhD scholarship on the above topic to commence in early 2005.

This scholarship arises from an ARC Discovery Grant (DP0450643) awarded to Professor Elizabeth Malcolm and Dr Dianne Hall, entitled 'Scalded Memory: Gender, Violence and the Irish, 1169-1921'. Combining analysis of gender and violence, the project aims to research changes in types and meanings of violence both in Ireland and among the Irish abroad.

As a member of the research team, the PhD student will examine an aspect of gender, violence and the Irish in nineteenth-century Australia.

The scholarship is available for three years, from a date to be negotiated in early 2005, and will be pegged to the ARC's salary scales (currently AUS$23,886 p.a.).

The successful applicant must have a good honours degree in History, or another relevant discipline, and meet the entry requirements for PhD study in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne (see http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au for details).

A letter of application, with 1) a curriculum vitae, 2) the names and addresses of two referees, 3) a detailed research proposal and 4) a sample of academic writing (at least 3,000 words in length), should be submitted to:Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia,

by Friday, 14 January 2005.

Further information can be obtained from Professor Elizabeth Malcolm: e.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au, ph. +61-3-8344 3924; or Dr Dianne Hall: dhall@unimelb.edu.au, ph. +61-3-8344 5971.

(b) GERRY HIGGINS POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN IRISH STUDIES

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons for a PhD scholarship on an aspect of THE HISTORY OF IRELAND or of THE IRISH DIASPORA. Topics on all periods and areas of Irish history and all countries of the Irish Diaspora will be considered.

The scholarship, which carries a stipend of AUS$23,886 p.a., is available for three years, from a date to be negotiated in early 2005.

The successful applicant must have a good honours degree in History, or a related discipline, and meet the entry requirements for PhD study in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne (see http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au for details).

A letter of application, with 1) a curriculum vitae, 2) the names and addresses of two referees, 3) a detailed research proposal and 4) a sample of academic writing (at least 3,000 words in length) should be sent to:

Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA

by Friday, 14 January 2005.

Further information can be obtained from Professor Elizabeth Malcolm: e.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au; phone +61-3-8344 3924; fax +61-3-8344 7894

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Assistant Professor of Irish Studies, St Mary's, Halifax, Canada