Fellowship bursaries – Old Library, Irish College, Paris
abevan January 21st, 2010
The Irish College, Paris, offers two fellowship bursaries to encourage research on its Old Library and Historical Archives collections. The purpose of the fellowships is to establish the intellectual and academic value of the holdings. More details about the collections’ content and access to the online catalogues can be seen here.
The areas of research are open, depending on the candidate’s interests, and could be about a historical subject, an author, our manuscripts, the provenance of part of the collection, the bindings…
The bursary is for €2000 per month over a three-month period between May and October (+accommodation and travel) for scholars with specific research interests.
We are looking for an output which would add to our knowledge of the library and to the information which we can put into the public domain. Priority will be given to research subjects examining a corpus of books instead of one book in particular.
2008 and 2009 Fellows pursued the following research:
-“Visualising Irish History”: the role of visual materials in the representation of the past and of national identity (focusing on 16 illustrated histories and studies of Ireland)
-“Lire plume à la main” (study of the “marginalia” in the books of the Old Library)
-“Kingship in Ireland and France”: the Old Library of the Irish College, Paris, and Hiberno-French politics in the 17th century.
Deadline for receipt of applications : 26th March 2010
CV + summary of your proposed research (approx. 500 words) + preferred dates + any additional relevant documentation to be sent to:
Carole Jacquet, Head of Libraries and Archives, Centre Culturel Irlandais – Irish College, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, France.
or email: cjacquet@centreculturelirlandais.com
Tel: 00 33 1 58 52 10 33 / 83; Fax : 00 33 1 58 52 10 99
