"Postdoctoral Researcher / Senior Postdoctoral Researcher - DiAgnostic Project"

Department: School of Celtic Studies

Vacancy ID: 039783

Closing Date: 22-Feb-2026

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 experienced postdoctoral researcher or senior postdoctoral researcher for the research project DiAgnostic – Tracing Diatopic Variation in a Corpus of Old Irish.

This project is conducted with the financial support of an Advanced Laureate Award from Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland under Grant number IRCLA/2023/2124 and is led by Professor David Stifter. DiAgnostic aims at making methodological progress in trying to answer the question if the Early Irish language, especially in its Old Irish form, showed regional diversi­fication, i.e. dialects. We expect to make a significant contribution to the de­scription and the under­stand­ing of the development of the Early Irish language and of its socio­his­to­rical context, including implica­tions for its prehistory. Work is carried out primarily within the discipline of historical linguistics with a strong em­phasis on methods of digital humanities, but other aspects of linguistics such as syntactic theory, sociolinguistics, and the philology of Early Irish texts play a role as well.

Salary

Post-doctoral Researcher: €46,305 – €52,862 p.a. (6 points)

Senior Post-doctoral Researcher: €54,308 p.a. (1 point with increment)

To be appointed at the grade of Senior Post Doctoral researcher, candidates will have a minimum of two years Post Doctoral experience and are required to demonstrate past relevant advanced research experience.

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.

Closing Date:

23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Sunday the 22nd of February 2026.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified above. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system.

Late applications will not be accepted.

Maynooth University is an equal opportunities employer

The position is subject to the Statutes of the University