2024
Shahmima Akhtar, Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race, and nation, c. 1850-1970
Honorable Mention: Kelly Matthews, Brian Friel: Beginnings
2023
Julia Obert, The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor, Oxford University Press
2022
Síobhra Aiken, Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War, Irish Academic Press
Honorable Mention: Jack Quin, W.B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture, Oxford University Press
2021
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice , University of Wisconsin Press
Honorable Mention: Kathryn Milligan, Painting Dublin: Visualizing a Changing City 1886-1949 , Manchester University Press
2020
Claudia Kinmonth, Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings: 1700-2000, Cork University Press
2019
Sinéad Moynihan, Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The ‘Returned Yank’ in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to the Present, Liverpool University Press
2018
Margaret Kelleher, The Maamtrasna Murders Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, University College Dublin Press.
2017
Philip O’Leary, An Underground Theatre: Major Playwrights in the Irish Language 1930-80. University College Dublin Press.
2016
Ray Cashman, Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border. University of Wisconsin Press.
2015
Anne O’Dowd, Straw, Hay, & Rushes in Irish Folk Tradition. Irish Academic Press.
2014
Nicholas Wolf, An Irish-Speaking Island: State, Religion, Community, and the Linguistic Landscape in Ireland, 1770-1870. University of Wisconsin Press.
2013
Colin Graham, Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography. Belfast Exposed.
2012
Robert Kanigel, On an Irish Island. Knopf.
2011
Jack Morgan, New World Irish. Palgrave MacMillan.
2010
Jennifer Keating-Miller, Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature. Palgrave MacMillan.
2009
Gerry Smyth, Music in Irish Cultural History. Irish Academic Press.
2008
Harry White, Music and the Irish Literary Imagination. Oxford University Press.
2007
Clair Wills, That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War. Harvard University Press.
2006
David Stifter, Sengoídelc: Old Irish for Beginners. Syracuse University Press.
2005
Tony Crowley, Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland, 1537-2004. Oxford University Press.
James MacKillop (Honorable Mention), Myths and Legends of the Celts. Penguin.
2004
Philip O’Leary, Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State. Pennsylvania State University Press.
2003
Helen M. Burke, Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theatre, 1712-1784. University of Notre Dame Press.
2002
Ben Levitas, The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1916. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Ina Ferris (Honorable Mention), The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland. Cambridge University Press.
2001
Sebastian D. G. Knowles, The Dublin Helix. University of Florida Press.
Maureen Waters, Crossing Highbridge. Syracuse University Press.
2000
Eamonn Wall, From the Sin-E Café to the Black Hills. University of Wisconsin Press.
Tony Crowley, The Politics of Language in Ireland, l366-l922: A Sourcebook. Oxford University Press.
1999
Maria Tymoczko, Translation in a Postcolonial Context: Early Irish Literature in English Translation. St. Jerome Publishing.