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

James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences

2009

Eric G.E. Zuelow. Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity in Ireland Since the Irish Civil War. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009

2009

Padhraig 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

2009

Gerry Smyth. Music in Irish Cultural History. Irish Academic Press

2009

Stephen Watt. Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing. Cambridge University Press

2009

Brian Ó Conchubhair. Fin de Siecle na Gaeilge. Clóchomhar/Cló Iar-Chonnachta

2008

David A. Wilson. Thomas D’Arcy McGee Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857. McGill-Queen’s University Press

2008

Eugene Hynes. Knock: The Virgin’s Apparition in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Cork University Press

2008

Harry White. Music and the Irish Literary Imagination. Oxford University 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.

2008

Ronald 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

2008

Nicholas Wolf. “Language Change and the Evolution of Religion, Community, and Culture in Ireland, 1800-1900.”. University of Wisconsin-Madison

2008

Richard L. Jordan. “The Second Coming of Paisley: Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics in a Transatlantic Context” . Louisiana State University

2008

Máiréad Ní Chinnéide. An Damer: Stair Amharclainne. Gael-Linn.

2007

Robin Chapman Stacey. Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland. University of Pennsylvania Press

2007

Clair Wills. That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War. Harvard 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

2007

Hugh Haughton. The Poetry of Derek Mahon. Oxford University Press

2007

Honorable Mention. Catholic Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce. Syracuse University Press

2007

Alison Dean Harvey. "Irish Realism: Literary History and National Politics, 1870-1922" . English, University of California, Los Angeles

2006

William 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

2006

Cormac Ó Grada. Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. Princeton University Press

2006

David Stifter. Sengoídelc: Old Irish for Beginners. Syracuse University Press

2006

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

2006

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

2006

Margaret Mills Harper (Honorable Mention). Wisdom of Two: the Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W.B. Yeats. Oxford University Press

2006

Douglas Kanter. British Unionism: Politics, Public Opinion, and the Government of Ireland, 1740-1848.". Florida Atlantic University

2005

David Dickson. Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster 1630-1830. University of Wisconsin Press

2005

Tony Crowley. Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland, 1537-2004. Oxford University Press

2005

James MacKillop (Honorable Mention). Myths and Legends of the Celts. Penguin

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

2005

Deana Rankin. Between Spenser and Swift: English Writing in Seventeenth-Century Ireland. Cambridge University Press

2005

A.M. Gibbs (Honorable Mention). Bernard Shaw: A Life. UNSW Press

2005

Not Awarded. .

2004

Sean O Riain. The Politics of High-Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy.. Cambridge University Press

2004

Michael de Nie. The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882.. University of Wisconsin Press

2004

Philip O' Leary. Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State. Pennsylvania State University Press

2004

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

2004

Elizabeth Grubgeld. Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative. Syracuse University Press

2004

Audrey Scanlan-Teller. "Bishops, Abbots, Kings, and Crosses: Twelfth-Century Irish High Crosses in Munster as Monuments of Ecclesiastical Reform.". University of Delaware

2003

Kerby 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

2003

Helen M. Burke. Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theatre, 1712-1784 . University of Notre Dame Press

2003

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

2003

Helen Lojek. Contexts for Frank McGuinness's Drama. Catholic University of America Press

2003

Sarah E. McKibben. "Endangered Masculinities: Political Rhetorics of Gender in the Irish Colonial Context" . Cornell University

2002

Paul A. Townend. Father Mathew, Temperance, and Irish Identity. Irish Academic Press

2002

Linda Connolly (Honorable Mention). The Irish Women's Movement from Devolution to Revolution. Palgrave

2002

Ben Levitas. The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1916. Oxford: Clarendon Press

2002

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

2002

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

2002

Ina Ferris (Honorable Mention). The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland . Cambridge University Press

2002

Cara Delay. "The Fire of Devotion: Catholicism, Conflict, and Community Life in Rural Ireland, 1850-1920.". Brandeis University

2001

Timothy J. Meagher . Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880-1928 . University of Notre Dame Press

2001

James H. Murphy (Honarable Mention). Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the reign of Queen Victoria. Catholic University of America Press

2001

Sebastian D. G. Knowles. The Dublin Helix. University of Florida Press

2001

Maureen Waters. Crossing Highbridge. Syracuse University Press

2001

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

2001

Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. Ireland's Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular Culture . University of Notre Dame Press

2001

Gregory Castle (Honarable Mention). Modernism and the Celtic Revival. Cambridge University Press

2001

Robert Dogett. "'Deep-Rooted Things': Empire and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of William Butler Yeats.". University of Maryland

2000

Angela Bourke. The Burning of Bridget Cleary. Penguin

2000

Eamonn Wall. From the Sin-E Café to the Black Hills. University of Wisconsin Press

2000

Tony Crowley. Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland, l366-l922. Oxford University Press

2000

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

2000

Declan Kiberd. Irish Classics . Harvard University Press

2000

Ben Novick. Oxford University, "Ireland's Revolutionary War?: Nationalist Constructions of Irish Identity.". Oxford University

1999

Cormac O Grada. Black ‘47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory . Princeton University Press

1999

Maria Tymoczko. Translation in a Postcolonial Context: Early Irish Literature in English Translation. St. Jerome Publishing

1999

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

1999

Christopher J. Wheatley. Beneath Ierne's Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century . University of Notre Dame Press

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