The Eighteenth-century Celtic Tiger Etienne Clavière James Stafford (Cambridge) discusses his research trip to archives in Belfast and Dublin to examine papers on 18th and 19th century political thought. My Ph.D. considers the history of political and economic thought concerning Ireland in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. I consider the impact of new […]

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Visiting with Sydney Morgan in the Archives One of our bursary winners, Muireann Crowley (University of Edinburgh) discusses how her BAIS funding helped her take a research trip to Dublin. In June 2015, I undertook a research trip to Dublin to consult manuscript and printed materials held in the National Library of Ireland (NLI) and […]

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A Trip to the National Library of Scotland One of our bursary winners, Naomi Lloyd Jones (King’s College London) discusses how her BAIS funding helped her complete her archival research on Scottish reactions to Irish Home Rule. The funding I received from BAIS helped me to undertake the final research trip of my PhD. I […]

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A Trip to the Cork Archives One of our bursary winners, Robin Adams (Oxford) describes his research trip to Cork. The BAIS bursary has been an excellent resource from which to draw and afforded me a period of deep archival work for my PhD thesis, which analyses the financing of the First Dáil during the […]

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Sourcing a regional history of Irish workhouse children One of our 2015 bursary winners, Simon Gallaher (Cambridge) writes about how he used his funding to research Irish Poor Law Unions and children’s lives between 1851 and 1911. My BAIS bursary has made a helpful contribution to my archival research at the National Archives in Dublin, the […]

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Wolf Hunting in the Royal Irish Academy One of our 2015 bursary winners, Tom O’Donnell (University College London) writes about how he used his bursary funding for a research trip to Dublin. The help I received from the BAIS bursary allowed me to spend a week in Dublin this summer at the Royal Irish Academy […]

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“I Campi di Athenry”: Researching Music and The Northern Irish Troubles One of our 2015 bursary winners, Richard Parfitt (Oxford) writes about how he used his bursary funding for an intensive research trip to Belfast. With the help of the BAIS bursary, I arrived in Belfast last month for two weeks of intensive research, focusing on […]

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