Dear AEDEI friends,
We are very pleased to announce the names of the awardees of the 2026 Emigrant Support Programme Grants.
Pre-Doctoral Research Grant awarded for the proposal entitled “Of Rats and Sea Captains: The Relevance and Subversiveness of Queer Irishness in Dan Simmons’ The Terror and Its Adaptation”. Awardee: Alba Jimeno Ruiz de Larringa
Research Project Grant awarded for the proposal entitled “Narrating Violence after Conflict: Trauma, Memory and Literary Representations of Political Violence in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country”. Awardee: Olga Fernández-Vicente
Our warmest thanks go to the panel experts for their invaluable support in the assessment process. The committee was deeply impressed by the overall quality of the applications received.
Huge congratulations to both Alba and Olga on this well-deserved achievement. AEDEI is delighted to support such promising and high-quality research in Irish Studies.
With all best wishes,
The AEDEI Executive Team