Centre for Human Settlement and Historical Change
NUI, Galway
In cooperation with the Centre for Irish-German Studies & Dept. of Languages
and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick
Postgraduate Scholarships available
Information Sheet on Position Leading to a Master's / Doctoral Degree
Thank you for your interest in our MA/PhD scholarship. Scholarships are
worth £9000 per annum, for a period of from one to two years. University
fees (approximately £2000 for EU students, £4500 for non-EU students) will
be deducted from this. The remaining sum will be paid in the form of a
monthly stipend by the university. Additional funds may be available for
travel where it is necessary to the research. Non-EU students are also
eligible to apply for a limited number of special scholarships which will
offset the higher fee charged for students in this category.
The successful applicant will register as a full-time MA/PhD student in the
College of Humanities, University of Limerick. She or he will be attached to
the Centre for Irish-German Studies within the Dept. of Languages and
Cultural Studies, and will work along with other researchers in the new
Centre for Human Settlement and Historical Change at NUI, Galway. The latter
Centre's research is divided into seven areas, within which various specific
research projects are being undertaken.
The scholarship about which you have enquired is part of a project entitled
"Cross-cultural Travel". The project participants are: Dr D. Carey,
Professor E. Bourke, Dr H. Rasche, Dr R. Healy, Dr J. Conroy (all NUI,
Galway) Professor S. Rivière, Dr G. Holfter, and Dr J. Fischer (University
of Limerick). The phenomenon of travel has enormous impact on individuals,
communities, nations, and international relations. Our task within the
overall project will concentrate on preparing a fully annotated selection of
nineteenth-century German writers' accounts of their travels in Ireland,
accompanied by extensive critical commentary and translation. This work will
further our understanding of the process of defining cultural identity in
Ireland and Germany in the nineteenth century, and provide an important
alternative perspective on insular historical change. Within our area other
researchers will be engaged in investigations of imaginary voyages, and in
the writings of French travellers to Ireland.
Despite substantial international academic interest in Ireland and in the
position it has occupied in the German imagination (Holl, Hennig, O'Neill,
Oehlke, Dohmen, Holfter), the number and significance of the group of German
travellers who visited Ireland in the nineteenth century and who wrote
perspicacious accounts of their journeys is not widely appreciated in
Ireland due to the lack of readily accessible translations. A few texts are
indeed well-known among scholars and historians, such as Pückler-Muskau's
volume of 1831, Kohl's in 1843 and Venedey's in 1844. But several more
(Clement, Hartmann, Rodenberg) have escaped the attention of the reading
public and academic world despite their acute ethnographic observations and
their engagement with the Irish imagination, which in turn enriched German
literature, philology and political thinking (e.g. the figure of Daniel
O'Connell). We hope to build up a microfiche archive of all the original
German-language texts as well as to bring out a series of bilingual critical
editions of the works of travel writers.
One or two MA/PhD scholarship(s) are now available for one to two years
within this project, with the following specifications:
The chosen candidate will help in the project of identifying
nineteenth-century German travel writers to Ireland and locating the
original texts. Having acquainted her/himself with the existing body of
literature, she/he will then work on a high-quality critical bilingual
edition of one or more of the travel writers. The candidate will be required
to do additional research work into selected issues relating to
nineteenth-century German travel accounts of Ireland; the precise topic has
to be agreed with the supervisor. A high honours primary degree in German
and/or History or an MA in German or History, complete written and oral
fluency in German and English and experience in translation from German to
English will be decisive factors in the selection of the candidate.
There is no formal application form for these scholarships. Applications may
be made by sending a full curriculum vitae (including names of two referees)
by post, fax or email to the project convenors listed below. Applicants may
be invited to submit samples of written work and may be interviewed. Closing
date for receipt of applications is 18 May 2001.
Please send you application to
Dr. Joachim Fischer or Dr. Gisela Holfter
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Centre for Irish-German Studies
Department of Languages
and Cultural Studies
University of Limerick
Limerick / Ireland
http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/irish-german.html
Dr. Gisela Holfter
Lecturer in German and Co-Director Centre for Irish-German Studies
Department of Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Limerick
Limerick / Ireland
Tel: +353-61-202395
Fax:+353-61-202556
http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/irish-german.html
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