Prize Guidelines

James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize

Michael J. Durkan Prize

Donald Murphy Prize

Robert Rhodes Prize

Adele Dalsimer Prize

Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana Fhoras na Gaeilge/ACIS Prize for Books in the Irish Language

Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book

2009

Padhraig Higgins. A Nation of Politicians:  Gender, Patriotism, and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press

2008

Ray Cashman. Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community. Indiana University Press.

2008

(Honorable Mention) Willeen Keough. The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, 1750-1860. Columbia University Press.

2007

James M. Smith. Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment. University of Notre Dame Press

2007

Paige Reynolds (Honorable Mention). Modernism Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle. Cambridge University Press

2006

Heather Clark. The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972. Oxford University Press

2005

Kyla Madden. Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858. McGill-Queen's University Press

2005

George Cinclair (Honorable Mention). Gibson, Wake Rites: The Ancient Irish Rituals of Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida

2004

Joseph Lennon. Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History. Syracuse University Press

2003

Colin Barr. Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865. University of Notre Dame Press

2002

Susan Canon Harris. Gender and Modern Irish Drama. Indiana University Press

2001

David Gleeson. The Irish in the South. University of North Carolina Press

2000

Sean Farrell. Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster, 1784-1886. University Press of Kentucky

1999

Margot Gayle Backus. The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press

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