The Role

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

We are seeking an excellent postdoctoral researcher with skills in historical research and in the organisation of the records associated with that research. This is a joint project between the Department of History, Maynooth University and the Historical Commission for the Cause for the Canonisation of Frank Duff (1889-1980), Legion of Mary. The project mentor is Dr Jacinta Prunty, head of the Department of History, Maynooth University.

The person appointed will have a proven record of archival research and of publication, appropriate to career stage. They will have an overall understanding of the historical context (religious, social, economic) in which this project on the life of Frank Duff (1889-1980) is situated.