2022
Molly-Claire Gillette, “Meaning and/in materiality: Learning and making in irish communities of craft”
2021
Ruth Coon, “The Impact of the Northern Ireland Troubles on Healthcare Provision and Medical Practice,” Queen’s University, Belfast
2020
Síobhra Aiken, “Ridding Ourselves of the Past: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War,” NUI Galway
2019
Daphne Wolf, “Two Windows: The Tenants of the De Freyne Rent Strike, 1901-1903”, Drew University
2018
Cory Wells, “‘Tie the Flags Together’: Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-19300” ,University of Texas, Arlington
2017
Jack Quin, “W. B. Yeats, Modern Poetry, and the Language of Sculpture,” University of York
2016
Marion Quirici, “Fitness for Freedom: Disability and Irish Modernism,” University at Buffalo
2015
Jay Roszman, “‘Outrage’ and ‘Justice’: Irish Agrarian Violence and British Governing Policy during the Age of Reform, 1835 to 1841,” Carnegie Mellon University
2014
Aidan Beatty, “The Life That God Desires: Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism 1884-1938,” University of Chicago
2013
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, “An Fhrainc Iathghlas? Tionchar na Fraince ar Athbheochan na Gaeilge, 1893-1922,” NUI, Galway
2012
Bryan Hazley, “The Irish in Post-War England: Experience, Memory and Belonging in Personal Narratives of Migration 1945-69,” University of Manchester
James Hamrick (Honorable Mention), “From Gaeltacht to Grub Street: The Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere in a Four-Nations Context,” University of Notre Dame
2011
Anna Teekell, “Irish Literature of the Second World War: The Stylistics of Neutrality,” Lincoln Memorial University
2010
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, “‘Ag Teacht le Cuan’: Irish Traditional Music and the Aran Islands,” University College Cork
2009
C.A. Shay, “Language, Land, Lore: A Critical Study of the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,” University of Kent
2008
Nicholas Wolf, “Language Change and the Evolution of Religion, Community, and Culture in Ireland, 1800-1900,” University of Wisconsin-Madison
Richard L. Jordan, “The Second Coming of Paisley: Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics in a Transatlantic Context,” Louisiana State University
2007
Alison Dean Harvey, “Irish Realism: Literary History and National Politics, 1870-1922,” University of California, Los Angeles
2006
Douglas Kanter, “British Unionism: Politics, Public Opinion, and the Government of Ireland, 1740-1848,” Florida Atlantic University
2005
Not Awarded.
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
Sarah E. McKibben, “Endangered Masculinities: Political Rhetorics of Gender in the Irish Colonial Context,” Cornell University
2002
Cara Delay, “The Fire of Devotion: Catholicism, Conflict, and Community Life in Rural Ireland, 1850-1920,” Brandeis University
2001
Robert Dogett, “‘Deep-Rooted Things’: Empire and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of William Butler Yeats,” University of Maryland
2000
Ben Novick, “Ireland’s Revolutionary War?: Nationalist Constructions of Irish Identity,” Oxford University