We are seeking submissions for the 2025 Irish Legal History Society essay prize, now in its fourth year. We invite submissions (by 31st May 2025) on any topic with Irish legal history, broadly conceived, from both undergraduates and postgraduates.
To give students a sense of the scope, previous winning essays include:
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Noah Williams’ ‘Nationalism, Homophobia, and a Victorian Dublin Subculture’
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Kerri Armstrong’s ‘Drunk, Deviant and Disgraced: Women and Crime in Late Nineteenth Century Belfast’
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Maitiú Breathnach’s ‘Hidden Trials?: The Case of the Easter Rising Field General Court-Martials’
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Emma Quinn’s ‘The Sovereignty of Silence: Women Witnesses to the Carrigan Report and the Rise and Fall of Professional Womanhood in Ireland, 1880-1937’
Prize-giving will be held at a future ILHS event, and winning essays will also be considered for publication in History Ireland.