Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grants Awards

Congratulations to Dr.Bronagh McShane, Research Assistant, RECIRC, NUI Galway who won an award for her study on ‘Irish women religious in exile during the early modern period: a case study of the Irish Dominican Convent of Bom Sucesso, Lisbon’.Established in 1639 by the Irish Dominican, Fr Dominic O’Daly (1595-1662), the Bom Sucesso convent located in Belí©m on the outskirts of Lisbon city, holds an important position in the history of Irish religious foundations on the Continent, being one of the first continental convents founded specifically for Irish women religious. Congratulations also to Dr. Lindsay Ann Reid, Lecturer in English, NUI Galway who won an award for her project ‘Go, Little Ring: Graven Posies and Subjective Objects in Early Modern England’. This project examines the literary attributes of early modern English ‘posy rings’, the inner bands of which were often engraved with self-referential messages of love and devotion.