Researchers
The Trinity Centre for the Book has access to various funding streams to support researchers who need to use Trinity’s collections. Some of these are listed below. We’d be interested to hear why and when you are visiting Trinity, and whether there is anything we can do to facilitate your research.
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Long Room Hub’s Visiting Fellowships
The Long Room Hub is Trinity’s interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Research Institute. The Visiting Fellowships allow researchers to spend between 1 and 4 months in Trinity carrying out research. Projects with a connection to the Library holdings are particularly welcome, and TCB would welcome inquiries regarding such projects.
Further information about Fellowships
Short-Term Visiting Research Fellowship - Irish Collections in the Library of Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University Library
The Trinity Centre for the Book, the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the Cambridge University Library Research Institute are offering a two-month visiting research fellowship in 2023/24 to explore, research and publish on/publicise related Irish collections in the Library of Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University Library. Examples of relevant collections may be Irish language manuscripts and Irish archives in both libraries, or collections of printed books such as the Cuala Press, Yeats, Freyer, and Sairséal agus Dill collections at TCD, and the Bradshaw Collection at Cambridge. The research fellowship is expected to cover travel and accommodation costs with a small fund for expenses (£10,000 in total), with approximately 1 month spent at each institution.
Applications are welcomed from early career scholars, Librarians, Archivists, Conservators, and those from related professional backgrounds.
Fellows must complete their research by 31 March 2024, and are expected to produce at least two blog posts, and to give a talk on their findings at either Trinity College Dublin or Cambridge University Library. Fellows who do not have residence rights/right to work in the UK and Ireland will need to arrange an applicable visa in order to undertake this role, and to cover the costs associated with this.
Applications should be made by emailing thebook@tcd.ie using the subject heading “Trinity / Cambridge Visiting Research Fellowship” with a CV detailing past research (max. 3 pages), alongside a cover letter (max. 500 words) describing the research project which would be undertaken during the fellowship period. The deadline for applications is Friday 30 June 2023, with the successful applicant confirmed in the third week of July.
Pollard Fellowship in Irish Bibliography
The Pollard Fellowship, granted to a postgraduate student, offers €5,000 to support research on Irish bibliography. The fellowship provides this postgraduate scholar with the opportunity to consult the Research Collections at the Library of Trinity College Dublin, including the Pollard collection, to research, and to write, while building connections with the Library and researchers in the Trinity Centre for the Book at Trinity College Dublin. In return, the student gives a presentation on their research at an appropriate forum at Trinity and also shares their experience via a blog post. The Fellowship may be awarded for a period of up to 3 months.
The Pollard Fellowship is part of a bequest of Mary “Paul” Pollard, former Keeper of Early Printed Books. The bequest also includes the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books, a collection of over 12,000 items, dating from the 17th century to the 20th century, with a special focus on Irish imprints, Irish writers, and books written for girls.
As well as extensive holdings of works by Maria Edgeworth, Barbara Hofland, and Mary Sherwood, there are adventure stories, schoolbooks, fables, moral tales, hymns, tracts, chapbooks, picture books, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. There are also many books of Irish myth and folktale. The Pollard Collection presents exciting opportunities for research on a wide range of themes relating to children’s literature and childhood, and associated disciplines such as education, English, history, sociology, gender studies, and popular culture.
Huntington Library – Trinity College – Marsh’s Library Exchange
The Huntington Library – Trinity College – Marsh’s Library Exchange allows a staff member, postdoctoral research or PhD student, working in the areas of Irish or British Literature; Irish, British or American History, History of Art or History of Science to spend a funded month at the Huntington Library in California. The award is offered every year, but alternates between the Schools of English and Histories and Humanities. Those interested in applying are invited to contact the Director of Global Relations in the School of English or Director of Research in the School of Histories and Humanities.