Dublin City Council Culture Company: Open Call for Historians in Residence
Closing date for submissions: Thursday 31 July 2025
About this open call:
We are looking for up to six historians who would like to spend two years in residence with Dublin City Libraries and Dublin City Council Culture Company, engaging with local communities, conducting research and promoting access to our historical collections, so that everyone in Dublin City has an opportunity to feel a connection to their local history.
By engaging with local communities and keeping people front and centre of history, the Historians in Residence help the people of Dublin City feel a connection to their local history.
Dublin City Council Historians in Residence programme is created by Dublin City Libraries, and is delivered in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. The residency programme will be managed by Dublin City Council Culture Company.
Five Dublin City Historians in Residence will work in neighbourhoods across the city to encourage local people to engage with history, and to promote its sources and discussion, especially the historical collections in Dublin City Library and Archive of Dublin City Council. The sixth Historian in Residence is specifi cally for Children, creating space, opportunities and resources for children to uncover the stories of the places where they live, planting seeds for a lifelong connection to the history of Dublin.
Timeline
- Open call issued: 16 June 2025
- Deadline for submission of application: 31 July 2025
- Interviews of shortlisted historians: w/c 01 September 2025
- Issue of contracts: 01 October 2025
- Residency dates: 2 January 2026 to 31 December 2027 (c. three days per week for 48 weeks over each 52 week period each of the 2 years)