The 2020-21 Maynooth University MA Scholarship in Early Irish and Celtic Studies has been awarded to Kimberly Lifton. Kim is currently completing a BA in History and Literature at Hamilton College, New York. She spent a semester at King’s College London in Autumn 2018 (receiving an Excellence Scholarship), where she began a research project for which she was subsequently awarded an Emerson Grant for Undergraduate Research. This work was presented as “Reputation and Representation of the Black Prince: Edward of Woodstock’s Fama and National Identity in the 14th Century” at a number of undergraduate conferences in the US. Kim has trained in medieval English and French languages, literatures and palaeography, and hopes to pursue a PhD on the formation of ethnic identity in medieval Britain, after spending the year acquiring Old Irish and Middle Welsh with us here in Maynooth. She intends to write her MA dissertation on the Book of Leinster version of the Lebor Gabála Érenn in its twelfth-century geopolitical context.