James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences2009Eric G.E. Zuelow. Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity in Ireland Since the Irish Civil War. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009 2009Padhraig Higgins. A Nation of Politicians: Gender, Patriotism, and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press 2009(Honorable Mention) James Livesey. Civil Society and Empire: Ireland and Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . Yale University Press 2009Gerry Smyth. Music in Irish Cultural History. Irish Academic Press 2009Stephen Watt. Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing. Cambridge University Press 2009Brian Ó Conchubhair. Fin de Siecle na Gaeilge. Clóchomhar/Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2008David A. Wilson. Thomas D’Arcy McGee Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857. McGill-Queen’s University Press 2008Eugene Hynes. Knock: The Virgin’s Apparition in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Cork University Press 2008Harry White. Music and the Irish Literary Imagination. Oxford University Press. 2008Ray 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. 2008Ronald Schuchard. The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts. Oxford University Press 2008(Honorable Mention) John Wilson Foster. Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction. Oxford University Press 2008Nicholas Wolf. “Language Change and the Evolution of Religion, Community, and Culture in Ireland, 1800-1900.”. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008Richard L. Jordan. “The Second Coming of Paisley: Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics in a Transatlantic Context” . Louisiana State University 2008Máiréad Ní Chinnéide. An Damer: Stair Amharclainne. Gael-Linn. 2007Robin Chapman Stacey. Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland. University of Pennsylvania Press 2007Clair Wills. That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War. Harvard University Press 2007James M. Smith. Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment. University of Notre Dame Press 2007Paige Reynolds (Honorable Mention). Modernism Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle. Cambridge University Press 2007Hugh Haughton. The Poetry of Derek Mahon. Oxford University Press 2007Honorable Mention. Catholic Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce. Syracuse University Press 2007Alison Dean Harvey. "Irish Realism: Literary History and National Politics, 1870-1922" . English, University of California, Los Angeles 2006William J. Smyth. Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland c. 1530-1750. Cork University Press / University of Notre Dame Press 2006Cormac Ó Grada. Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. Princeton University Press 2006David Stifter. Sengoídelc: Old Irish for Beginners. Syracuse University Press 2006Heather Clark. The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972. Oxford University Press 2006Heather Clark. The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972. Oxford University Press 2006Margaret Mills Harper (Honorable Mention). Wisdom of Two: the Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W.B. Yeats. Oxford University Press 2006Douglas Kanter. British Unionism: Politics, Public Opinion, and the Government of Ireland, 1740-1848.". Florida Atlantic University 2005David Dickson. Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster 1630-1830. University of Wisconsin Press 2005Tony Crowley. Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland, 1537-2004. Oxford University Press 2005James MacKillop (Honorable Mention). Myths and Legends of the Celts. Penguin 2005Kyla Madden. Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858. McGill-Queen's University Press 2005George Cinclair (Honorable Mention). Gibson, Wake Rites: The Ancient Irish Rituals of Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida 2005Deana Rankin. Between Spenser and Swift: English Writing in Seventeenth-Century Ireland. Cambridge University Press 2005A.M. Gibbs (Honorable Mention). Bernard Shaw: A Life. UNSW Press 2005Not Awarded. . 2004Sean O Riain. The Politics of High-Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy.. Cambridge University Press 2004Michael de Nie. The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882.. University of Wisconsin Press 2004Philip O' Leary. Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State. Pennsylvania State University Press 2004Joseph Lennon. Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History. Syracuse University Press 2004Elizabeth Grubgeld. Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative. Syracuse University Press 2004Audrey Scanlan-Teller. "Bishops, Abbots, Kings, and Crosses: Twelfth-Century Irish High Crosses in Munster as Monuments of Ecclesiastical Reform.". University of Delaware 2003Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. Doyle. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815. Oxford University Press 2003Helen M. Burke. Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theatre, 1712-1784 . University of Notre Dame Press 2003Colin Barr. Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865. University of Notre Dame Press 2003Helen Lojek. Contexts for Frank McGuinness's Drama. Catholic University of America Press 2003Sarah E. McKibben. "Endangered Masculinities: Political Rhetorics of Gender in the Irish Colonial Context" . Cornell University 2002Paul A. Townend. Father Mathew, Temperance, and Irish Identity. Irish Academic Press 2002Linda Connolly (Honorable Mention). The Irish Women's Movement from Devolution to Revolution. Palgrave 2002Ben Levitas. The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1916. Oxford: Clarendon Press 2002Susan Canon Harris. Gender and Modern Irish Drama. Indiana University Press 2002Susan Cannon Harris. Gender and Modern Irish Drama. Indiana University Press 2002Ina Ferris (Honorable Mention). The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland . Cambridge University Press 2002Cara Delay. "The Fire of Devotion: Catholicism, Conflict, and Community Life in Rural Ireland, 1850-1920.". Brandeis University 2001Timothy J. Meagher
. Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880-1928 . University of Notre Dame Press 2001James H. Murphy (Honarable Mention). Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the reign of Queen Victoria. Catholic University of America Press 2001Sebastian D. G. Knowles. The Dublin Helix. University of Florida Press 2001Maureen Waters. Crossing Highbridge. Syracuse University Press 2001David Gleeson. The Irish in the South. University of North Carolina Press 2001Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. Ireland's Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular Culture
. University of Notre Dame Press 2001Gregory Castle (Honarable Mention). Modernism and the Celtic Revival. Cambridge University Press 2001Robert Dogett. "'Deep-Rooted Things': Empire and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of William Butler Yeats.". University of Maryland 2000Angela Bourke. The Burning of Bridget Cleary. Penguin 2000Eamonn Wall. From the Sin-E Café to the Black Hills. University of Wisconsin Press 2000Tony Crowley. Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland, l366-l922. Oxford University Press 2000Sean Farrell. Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster, 1784-1886. University Press of Kentucky 2000Declan Kiberd. Irish Classics . Harvard University Press 2000Ben Novick. Oxford University, "Ireland's Revolutionary War?: Nationalist Constructions of Irish Identity.". Oxford University 1999Cormac O Grada. Black ‘47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory . Princeton University Press 1999Maria Tymoczko. Translation in a Postcolonial Context: Early Irish Literature in English Translation. St. Jerome Publishing 1999Margot Gayle Backus. The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press 1999Christopher J. Wheatley. Beneath Ierne's Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century . University of Notre Dame Press |