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Anglo-Irish Identities,
June 22 to July 24, 2009
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Hesburgh Library Irish Studies Collections

Notre Dame boasts one of the finest collections of rare Irish texts, printed maps, and music outside of Ireland. Scholars of Anglo-Irish literature, history, and thought will find particularly valuable the massive William B. Todd Collection of Edmund Burke, the A.A. Luce Berkeley Collection, the Collection of Grattan's Political Pamphlets, the Heinz J. Vienken Swift Collection, and the Loeber Collection of Irish Fiction.

Scholars will also have access to the Francis O'Neill Collection of Irish Music (which includes a broad range of materials), and the David J. Butler Collection of Irish maps and sea charts, along with rare collections related to the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Act of Union of 1801. Many of these collections include materials not available in Ireland. The distinctive collection of Anglo-Irish materials also includes a first edition of Molyneux's Case of Ireland Stated (1698), an original letter and first editions of Swift, a copy of Locke's Second Treatise annotated by the revolutionary Robert Emmet, and many early editions of the principal authors to be considered, along with a major microfilm collection of Maria Edgeworth's papers and an Edgeworth manuscript.

Another of Notre Dame's most valuable research tools for the student of eighteenth-century Ireland is "The Eighteenth-Century Online." The Library also owns "The Eighteenth Century," an interdisciplinary microfilm collection of approximately 250,000 titles between 1700-1800. The Library is one of the very few in the United States to hold the complete collection.

For the earlier pre-1700 period, the Library owns the complete microfilm of Wing-Early English Books and an extensive collection of Irish language materials supplemented by a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant.

The Irish Studies Librarian (who is fluent in the Irish language) and the English and French Librarian will also be available to help the participants during the seminar. For more information on the Irish Studies collection, please consult the following website:The Irish Studies Resources page.

University Setting and Surroundings

Having hosted several NEH seminars and national and international conferences--including the recent American Conference for Irish Studies, the national meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and an international meeting (with the Irish Government) on the Great Irish Rebellion--Notre Dame's campus is uniquely suited to visiting scholars.

Especially beautiful in the summer months, Notre Dame offers many recreational activities, including swimming pools, tennis and squash courts, an eighteen hole golf course, lakes and boating, full gym facilities, and running and cycling paths.

The University continually hosts cultural events and activities year-round, and possesses a fine and varied collection of fine arts at its Snite Museum. Participants are encouraged to stay in one of the University's on-campus rooms and enjoy these amenities, but may also opt to stay in rental accommodations near the university. (Costs on campus are estimated at $??? per week for a single air-conditioned room). Depending on their choice of housing, Seminar participants may select an on-campus meal plan that can be used at any of Notre Dame's many dining facilities, or opt for their own cooking facilities. Daily and weekly informal meals and other social gatherings between Seminar faculty and participants are also planned.

Though the Seminar and the Notre Dame campus should keep participants busy and entertained, opportunities for amusement outside the University abound: Lake Michigan, with its many beaches and sights, is within driving distance (45 minutes), and the many enticements of Chicago are reachable by car or rail connection from South Bend.

Stipend

Individuals selected to participate in the five week NEH Seminar will receive $3,800. Stipends are intended to help defray travel expenses to and from the Seminar, books and other research expenses, and living expenses for the duration of the period spent in residence. The first check (1/2 of the stipend) will be waiting for participants when they arrive. The second check will be available during the third week. Stipends are taxable. Participants however are encouraged to save receipts related to expenses which may, given individual circumstances, be tax deductible.

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