The Douglas Gageby Irish Times Fellowship

To honour The Irish Times former editor the Douglas Gageby Fellowship is awarded annually by The Irish Times Trust to a young journalist at the beginning of his/her career for a sustained reporting project on a particular theme. In the last two years these have included an international assignment on the faces of Islam, and a study of the effects of migration in Ireland.

For 2008 the trust has invited applications from fellowship candidates for a project based in Northern Ireland, a place and people very close to Douglas Gageby’s heart, on the following broad theme: “Out of the night . . . the emerging Northern Ireland: continuity and change, crossing political borders and borders in the mind – voices, faces, places, and currents that express its dynamics, diversity and future.”

The fellowship will provide the recipient with attractive financial support and agreed expenses. The recipient will be required to complete his/her project within an agreed time-frame and submit articles based on his/her research for publication in The Irish Times. The recipient must be in a position to take up the fellowship within four months of the date of award.

Applicants living in countries other than Ireland and the United Kingdom may (by priorarrangement with the Administrator) send their entries by e-mail.

Selection of the successful individual will be made exclusively by a Selection Committee nominated by The Irish Times Trust and The Irish Times and a short-list of candidates will be selected and interviewed.

Terms and Conditions

• Permanent employees (and their families) of The Irish Times and their agents are not eligible to apply.
• Only one application will be accepted from each candidate. Applications which are not received by the closing date will be ineligible.
• The right not to award the fellowship is reserved in the event that no suitable submission is received.
• Afull set of terms and conditions is available on written request to The Administrator, The Douglas Gageby Irish Times Fellowship.
• Hand/courier-delivered applications will not be accepted. Entry is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.
• All inquiries to: gagebyfellowship@irish-times.ie