Centre for Neo-Latin Studies

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Postgraduate Research


The Project has a successful record of attracting funding for PhD research through the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Centre welcomes proposals for future research projects, whether on specific texts or on the Latin culture of Ireland in the period. Students are expected to graduate with advanced knowledge of Latin, textual scholarship and relevant historical methods. The Centre offers to its postgraduates additional training in languages and research methods, as well as guidance for historical contextualisation. Further enquiries should be addressed to Dr Jason Harris:  j.harris@ucc.ie; or John Barry:  j.barry@ucc.ie

Two PhD students are currently engaged in research at the Centre:
  1. Nienke Tjoelker, The Alithinologia of John Lynch (Classics/History Dept)
  2. Nóirín Ní Bheaglaoi, Gerald of Wales and the Mapping of Ireland (History Dept)

Nienke Tjoelker
Nienke Tjoelker
History and Classics Departments, UCC
Research Interests
  • The writings of John Lynch
  • Neo-Latin stylistics

Thesis
An analysis of the Alithinologia (1664) of John Lynch, setting the text in its historical and biographical context, and analysing its Latinity. The project includes a translation of and commentary upon the text.
Supervisors
John Barry & Jason Harris
Funding
Irish Research Council

 Nóirín Ní Bheaglaoi
Nóirín Ní Bheaglaoi
History Department, UCC

Research Interests
  • The manuscripts of Gerald of Wales
  • Late-medieval and early-modern cartography

Thesis
An assesment of the influence of Gerald of Wales upon the mapping of Ireland up to the early-modern period. The project includes analysis of maps attached to  manuscripts of Gerald of Wales's writings about Ireland, and continues up to the work of Abraham Ortelius.
Supervisor
Jason Harris
Funding
Irish Research Council


Two PhD theses have been completed at the Centre in recent years:

  1. David Caulfield,  The Tenebriomastix of Don Philip O'Sullivan Beare (Classics Dept, 2004) 
  2. Meghan King, The Hebdomada Mariana of Richard Stanihurst (Classics Dept, 2008)