Marsh’s Library is pleased to announce a public call for Visiting Research Fellowships of between one and three months duration. The Fellowships may be held at any point from 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2016. The monthly stipend is set at €2,000 per month.
Marsh’s Library is a perfectly preserved library of the late Renaissance and early Enlightenment. The collection consists of about 30,000 printed items and 300 volumes of manuscripts, with particular strengths in British and continental European history and culture.
Marsh’s Library invites research proposals which consider our rich holdings across a number of themes. These include, but are not restricted to:
- Travel literature and ethnography
- The history of readership and ownership
- Annotations, marginalia and ephemera
- Concepts of science and scientific endeavour
- The Enlightenment
- Religious conflict, toleration and sectarianism
- The Huguenots
- French social, cultural and intellectual history
Benjamin Iveagh Library: The holdings of Marsh’s Library were augmented in 2009 with the donation by the Guinness family of the library of Benjamin, 3rd Earl of Iveagh. This important collection has great strengths in Irish history, literature and bookbinding from the eighteenth century to the late twentieth century.
The Benjamin Iveagh Library remains at the former Guinness residence of Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park. The selection committee welcomes applications which consider the Benjamin Iveagh Library either on its own terms, or in conjunction with the main holdings of Marsh’s Library.
The closing date for this call is 5:00 p.m. (Irish time) on Friday, 20 December 2013.
For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHN945/research-fellowships-at-marshs-library-dublin
