2022
Ciara Breathnach, Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902, Oxford University Press
Honorable Mention: Kara E. Dempsey, An Introduction to the Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland, Routledge
2021
Camilla Fitzsimmons, Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights, Pluto Press
Honorable Mention: Liam Campbell, Room for the River: The Foyle River Catchment Landscape, Merdog Books
Honorable Mention: Emmanuel Destenay, Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923), University College Dublin Press
2020
Diane Urquhart, Irish Divorce: A History, Cambridge University Press
2019
Brendan O’Leary, A Treatise on Northern Ireland, 3 vols, Oxford University Press
2018
Sparky Booker, Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires. Cambridge University Press.
Honorable Mention: Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster, Oxford University Press.
2017
Breandán Mac Suibhne, The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland. Oxford University Press.
2016
Aidan Beatty, Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938. Palgrave Macmillan.
2015
Gavin M. Foster, The Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class, and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan.
2014
Ciaran O’Neill, Catholics of Consequence: Transnational Education, Social Mobility, and the Irish Catholic Elite, 1850-1900. Oxford University Press.
2013
William Jenkins, Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2012
Roisín Higgins, Transforming 1916: Meaning, Memory and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Easter Rising. Cork University Press.
2011
Heather Hamill, The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast. Princeton University Press.
2010
Robert Savage, A Loss Of Innocence: Television And Irish Society 1960-1972. Manchester University Press.
David Emmons (Honorable Mention), Beyond The American Pale: The Irish In The West 1845-1910. University of Oklahoma Press.
2009
Eric G.E. Zuelow, Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity in Ireland Since the Irish Civil War. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
James Livesey (Honorable Mention), Civil Society and Empire: Ireland and Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Yale University Press.
2008
David A. Wilson, Thomas D’Arcy McGee Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Eugene Hynes, Knock: The Virgin’s Apparition in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Cork University Press.
2007
Robin Chapman Stacey, Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland. University of Pennsylvania Press.
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.
Cormac Ó Gráda, Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. Princeton University Press.
2005
David Dickson, Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster 1630-1830. University of Wisconsin Press.
2004
Seán Ó Riain, The Politics of High-Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy. Cambridge University Press.
Michael de Nie, The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882. University of Wisconsin Press.
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.
2002
Paul A. Townend, Father Mathew, Temperance, and Irish Identity. Irish Academic Press.
Linda Connolly (Honorable Mention). The Irish Women’s Movement from Devolution to Revolution. Palgrave.
2001
Timothy J. Meagher, Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880-1928. University of Notre Dame Press.
James H. Murphy (Honorable Mention). Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the reign of Queen Victoria. Catholic University of America Press.
2000
Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary. Penguin.
1999
Cormac Ó Gráda, Black ‘47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory. Princeton University Press.