Each year a small number of individual accomplishments are recognised through the annual Research Achievement Awards, which are awarded in consideration of specific achievements over the last 3-5 years.
This year two members of the Arts and Humanities Institute received the following awards:
The 2020 Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Research Achievement Award is to Prof Terence Dooley of the Department of History. Prof Dooley has been instrumental in creating a field in Irish history - that of the systematic study of Irish "Big Houses" and their associated estates. As founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates, he has presided over eighteen annual conferences in Maynooth, bringing in national and international scholars of the highest reputation to Maynooth co-editing 6 volumes arising from this research. In addition he has published 13 books, two monographs and many book chapters and articles. He is a researcher of international standing and has been asked to collaborate in the most important collective efforts regarding Irish history of the past decade: The Cambridge History of Ireland; the Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland; the Atlas of the Irish Revolution; the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History; Art and Architecture of Ireland.
The 2020 Early Career Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Research Achievement Award is to Dr Bernhard Bauer, postdoctoral researcher in Early Irish and the Arts and Humanities Institute. Dr Bauer’s research is in the field of Celtic Studies and Historical Linguistics with a special focus on cross-cultural contacts and multilingualism in the early Middle Ages and his research methods cross over into the fields of Digital Humanities, cultural history and manuscript studies which highlights the interdisciplinary aspect to his work. He publishes in leading peer review journals in his field such as Ériu, Études Celtiques and Celtica. He was awarded a prestigious Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grant in 2018 and also was awarded a MUAHI Early Career Research Grant which comprises seed funding for developing an ERC Starter Grant application. Since June 2017 Dr Bauer has delivered 19 presentations in eight different countries in Europe and overseas, seven of them as an invited speaker.