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ECIS Open Bursary 2026-7

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society (ECIS) is now inviting applications for the ECIS Open Bursary 2026-7. The ECIS Open Bursary may be used for the purpose of supporting archival research, the organisation of symposiums/conferences which are… 

CFP: ECIS Annual Conference 2026

The 2026 Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag is scheduled to take place in Queen’s University Belfast on 11-12 June 2026. Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers (in English… 

Inaugural Early Career Scholar bursary 2025

The Eighteenth Century Ireland Society has awarded its first postgraduate and early career scholar bursary to Maria Zukovs (University of St. Andrews). Maria’s research examines Dublin press coverage of the French Revolution from 1788 to… 

The A. C. Elias Ireland – North America Research Travel Fellowship for 2025

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The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) has awarded the A.C. Elias Ireland – North America Research Travel Fellowship for 2025 to Dr Keith Ó Riain. The fellowship will assist Dr. Ó Riain in completing textual research at the Huntington Library in California necessary for completing his edition of the Irish-language poet Éadbhard de Nógla (c. 1715-1785).

Peter Richard

ECIS Postgrad Bursaries 2024: Peter Richard 

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I am a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, Australia. My research focus is on the concept of charity as reflected in the writings of John Donne and Jonathan Swift, and more generally the intersection of religion, law and literature in Anglophone cultures of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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Postgraduate and Early Career Bursary

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The ECIS postgraduate and early career scholar bursary may be used for the purpose of supporting archival research, the organisation of symposiums/conferences which are either wholly or substantially of relevance to studies of eighteenth-century Ireland,… 

Lydia Freire Gargamala

ECIS Postgrad Bursaries 2024: Lydia Freire Gargamala

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I am a doctoral candidate in Irish Literature at the University of Vigo, Spain, with research interests that lie at the intersection of literature, feminism, and environmentalism. My Ph.D. project, entitled “An Ecofeminist Analysis of…