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It was our great pleasure, today, Thursday, 17th October 2024, to announce the Craig Dobbin Legacy Scholarship awardees at a reception held in the UCD University Club.

The Craig Dobbin Legacy Programme (CDLP) is an initiative of the Ireland Canada University Foundation (ICUF), the UCD Centre for Canadian Studies, and UCD’s College of Arts and Humanities. Celebrating the legacy of Craig Dobbin’s contribution to Ireland-Canada academic relations, the programme aims to plant seeds for a whole new phase of UCD engagement with Canadian universities over the coming years.

The awardees are as follows:

UCD Craig Dobbin Scholarship Awardees – Projects and Host Universities:

Professor Michael Brophy
“Eco-soundings: French Canadian Poetry in the Anthropocene”
University of Sherbrooke, Québec

PhD Candidate, Samantha Cade
“(The Missing) Exploring the Canadian Irish Connection: A Theatrical Journey through Historical and Contemporary Immigration, Emigration, and Migration via Site-Specific Archival-Based Theatre”
University of St Michael’s College, University of Toronto

Professor Danielle Clarke 
“An Edition of the Poetry of Lady Anne Southwell”
Dalhousie University, Halifax

Professor Mary Gallagher
“Arrival: Louis Hémon’s Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal Itinerary”
Carleton University, Ottawa

Dr Jermiah Garsha
“Orange Shirts, Pink Paint: Red Paint Revisited and the Queering of Decolonisation”
Toronto Metropolitan University

Professor Lizbeth Goodman
“Voices of Voice: Valorising Artist-led Innovation through Community Engagement in Canada and Ireland”
OCAD University, Toronto

Dr Paul Huddie
“Ireland, Atlantic Canada and the Crimean War: Imperial Connectivity and Shared Experiences?”
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax

Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
“Irish Visual Culture, Social Conflict, and Crisis in Canada (c.1840-1900)”
University of St Michael’s College, University of Toronto

Dr Alice Mauger
“Alcohol and the Irish in Ontario since c. 1945”
York University, Toronto

Dr Andrew McDiarmid
“Transplanting Financial Traditions: Irish Mutual Aid Tontines in Canada”
York University, Toronto

Dr Joe McGrath
“Normalising Good: A Trajectory to Professionalising the Banking Sector”
Dalhousie University, Halifax

PhD Candidate, Donna Rose
“Collecting, Interpreting, and Mediating the Material Heritage of Ireland’s Institutional Systems”
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, who partner with University of British Columbia, and The Woodland Cultural Centre

Professor Paul Rouse
“Hurling and Lacrosse: Tradition, Modernity and Play”
Memorial University, Newfoundland

Dr Rebecca Stephenson
“Science of Apocalypse”
University of Toronto

Dr Jennifer Wellington
“Bringing the War Home: Trophies, Looting and Canadians at War”
Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario

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Canadian Craig Dobbin Scholarship Awardees – Projects, Home University and Host Schools

Dr Yann Allard-Tremblay
“Amplifying Harmonious Resonances in Traditions of Political Thought”
McGill University, Montreal
UCD School of Philosophy

Dr Lisa Boivin
“Land Out of Sight (ní húret’île): Holding our Ancestral Lands and Identities”
KITE (Knowledge, Innovation, Talent, Everywhere) Research Institute at Toronto Rehab Hospital
UCD School of Geography & SMARTlab Centre

Professor Glenda Bonifacio
“Filipino Catholics in Ireland: Gender, Migration and Representations”
Lakehead University, Ontario
UCD School of English, Drama and Film

Professor Philip Branigan
“On the Role of Multiple Head-movement in the Diachrony of Irish Grammar”
Memorial University, Newfoundland
UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore

Professor Robert Currie
“Assessing Irish Extradition Law: What Lessons for Canada (and vice versa)?”
Dalhousie University, Halifax
UCD Sutherland School of Law

PhD Candidate, Kirsten Feldner
“Irish Folk Music as Collective Memory and Digital Harmony: Recording Eighteenth-Century Songbooks in Collaboration with University College Dublin’s Sound Archive”
McMaster University, Ontario
UCD School of Music

PhD Candidate, Allison Graves
“Affective Economies and Crisis in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction”
Memorial University, Newfoundland
UCD School of English, Drama and Film

Dr Maxwell Hartt
“Reframing Age through Play”
Queen’s University, Kingston
UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Professor Renée Hulan
“Uninhabited Islands in the Literary Cultures of Ireland and Canada”
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax
UCD School of English, Drama and Film

PhD Candidate, Andrew Lochhead
“Walking Belfield & Beyond: Making Visible Connections to Slavery at University College Dublin and Environs through Movement-based Performance”
Toronto Metropolitan University
UCD School of History

Clemens Merkel & the Bozzini Quartet
“Sharing a Practice Research Methodology Through Collaborative Creative Praxis”
Concordia University, Montreal
UCD School of Music

PhD Candidate, Kanishka Sikri
“Theorizing Violability in the Life Narratives of Irish Women”
York University, Toronto
UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice

Dr Lindsay Thistle
“Staging World War II and the Holocaust: Violence and Victims in the Age of Heroism, 1945-1975”
Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics & School of English, Drama and Film

Dr Mark Turner
“Auto/ethnographic Filmmaking in Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador and Inuit Nunangat, 1922-1999”
Memorial University, Newfoundland
UCD School of English, Drama and Film

Professor Michael Vance
“The Irish Soldier Settlers of Nova Scotia, 1818-1838”
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax
UCD School of History

Dr Margo Wilson
“Experiences of Physicians in Pregnancy and Parenthood”
Memorial University, Newfoundland
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life

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