Funding: ASECS's A. C. Elias, Jr., Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 - 16:45

The Elias Fellowship awards up to $2500 to support "documentary scholarship on Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act of Union (1800), by enabling North American-based scholars to travel to Ireland and Irish-based scholars to travel to North America" for research. Projects conducting original research on any aspect of 18C Ireland qualify, but recipients must be ASECS members with permanent residence in the United States or Canada or be members of its Irish sister organization. Submit applications to the two trustees: James May (jem4@psu.edu; 1423 Hillcrest Rd / Lancaster, PA 17603), and Jason McElligott, Keeper, Marsh’s Library, (St. Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8, Ireland;jason.mcelligott@marshlibrary.ie). Applications should be accompanied by a cover letter requesting the project's consideration and indicating contact addresses and the Society to which the applicant belongs. They need contain a short curriculum vitae (no more than 3 pp.), a project description (3 pp. or less, on contribution to the field and work done and to be done during the proposed research), a one-page bibliography of related books & articles, a short budget, and two signed letters of recommendation. Please submit all the materials but the letters as one Word 84 The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, September 2022 file or PDF. The two letters should be sent confidentially from their authors to May and/or McElligott. If signed letters cannot be supplied as PDFs, an original copy should be mailed to one of the trustees. Information on the Elias Fellowship is posted at the ASECS website and that of the Marsh's Library.