Project title: The Canadian Family Archives of Irish Ceramic Designer Frederick Vodrey (1845-97)

Sponsor: AGF Project Title: Study of Irish Language speakers in 19th century Ontario Home University: UL University to Visit: University of St Michael’s College, University of Toronto

The Atlantic Telegraph’s First Transatlantic Telegraph Cables from Valentia Island in Kerry To Trinity Bay in Newfoundland in 1856

University (at time of Scholarship): University of Ulster Destination University: University of New Brunswick Subject of Research: A study of the Royal Canadian Navy and the Londonderry Naval Base in the Second World War

Investigating Ireland’s links with French-Canada & the complexity and richness of images of Ireland in Canada in the first half of the C19th.

Irish Georgian Silver in Canada

John J. Heanne, High Commissioner to Canada 1935-1950

An Investigation of the Inter-Relationship between the Enlightenment, the Expansion of Europe, and the Post-Coloniality of Settler Colonies

  Currently: postdoctoral fellow at University of Ottawa Sponsor: Dr Craig Dobbin Scholarship Project Title: Story of the Self Determination League for Ireland in Canada & Newfoundland University (at time of scholarship): Concordia University visited: UCD Simon’s article, entitled “Entre nationalisme irlandais et canadien-français : les intrigues québécoises de la Self Determination for Ireland League  Read more »

My research in Ireland, supported by Scotiabank through the ICUF in 2004, was critical to my early development as a scholar of Irish economic and social history. I was able to spend a long period in archives, converse with other scholars, and further a research programme that later received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.