We are pleased to announce our bursary winners for 2019, which will be presented at the Embassy of Ireland on 16th May 2019. This was an exceptionally competitive field and we thank Dr Erika Hanna (Bristol) for chairing our panel of judges as they made their decisions.

Jess McIvor: ‘Women at war: Comparing the representation of Irish and Spanish Women combatants in visual and memory culture’

James Bright: ‘Loyalty in Captivity: Ideas and Identity among Ulster Loyalist paramilitary prisoners, 1968-1998’

Victoria Brown: ‘Visibility and belonging – The English in Ireland since 1960’

Beth Kitson: ‘The Lives of Irish Women in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Transnational and Comparative Approach’

Daniel Booker: ‘Bureaucracy and Power: The Exchequer and King John (1199-1216)’

Rachel Kowalski: ‘Micro-Patterns of Violence; Disaggregating the Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign, 1969-1979’

Aimee Walsh: ‘Republican Feminism(s): Literature and Women’s History of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ conflict’