“Shattered Glass and Toppling Masonry”: The Irish Revolutionary Period and Aesthetic Transitions in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

Our final report from the 2024 BAIS Bursary Prize winners comes from Declan Houten (University of Liverpool). Declan’s bursary enabled him to attend and present at two conferences: Due to the bursary, I was able to attend four days of the Joyce Symposium in Glasgow, where I was presenting on the final day. This symposium […]

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“Losing the run of ourselves:” Comedies of Appetite and Excess in Celtic Tiger Literature

Here we have 2024 BAIS Bursary winner Ellen O’Leary (University of Oxford). Ellen used her bursary to conduct extensive research at Irish theatre archives: The bursary allowed me to conduct a week of research in the theatre archives at the Hardiman Library at the University of Galway. It provided the funding for me to travel […]

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Extricating the Work of Flann O’Brien, Seán O’Casey, Brendan Behan and Pádraic Ó Conaire from Narrative Theory’s Normative Realist Assumptions

Our next 2024 BAIS Bursary awardee is Mikelyn Rochford (University of York). Mikelyn’s bursary enabled her to present her research in Poland: My bursary helped fund my registration and travel costs to participate in a conference hosted by the Polish Association for Irish Studies with the theme “Mobility of Forms,” which took place from the […]

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A Comparative Study of Women’s Economic Agency in Medieval Ireland and Iceland

The second report from our 2024 Bursary Prize winners comes from Hannah Evans (University of Liverpool). Hannah used her BAIS bursary to attend conferences in Iceland and France and disseminate her research findings: The BAIS Bursary Prize 2024 facilitated my attendance at two academic conferences this year, where I had the opportunity to present my […]

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Ulster Loyalists and the British White Working Class: An Exploration in Modern Alienation

Our final report from the 2023 BAIS Bursary Prize winners comes from Peter Bothwell (University of St Andrews). Peter’s bursary enabled him to travel to Northern Ireland to conduct integral interviews for his doctoral project: The bursary allowed me to travel to Northern Ireland to conduct three rounds of interviews for the project. The project […]

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