2025
Molly-Claire Gillett, Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice
2024
Ruth Duffy, Healthcare and the Troubles
Honorable Mention: Shahmim Akhtar, Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race, and nation, c. 1850-1970
2023
Elizabeth DeYoung, Power, Politics and Territory in the “New Northern Ireland”: Girdwood Barracks and the Story of the Peace Process
Honorable Mention: Renee Fox, The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
Honorable Mention: Darragh Gannon, Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912-22
2022
R.J.C. Adams, Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution?, Oxford University Press
Honorable Mention: Samuel K. Fisher, The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783, Oxford University Press
2021
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature
Honorable Mention: Patrick McDonagh, Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-1993
2020
Eugene Costello, Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900
2019
Amy Mulligan, A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain, and the Poetics of Space, 700-1250
2018
Sparky Booker, Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires
2017
Hidetaka Hirota, Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
Honorable Mention: Peter D. O’Neill, Famine Irish and the American Racial State
2016
Peter Leary, Unapproved Routes: Histories of the Irish Border, 1922-1972
2015
Nels Pearson, Irish Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett
Honorable Mention: Cian T. McMahon, The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840-1880
2014
Nicholas Wolf, An Irish-Speaking Island: State, Religion, Community, and the Linguistic Landscape in Ireland, 1770-1870
2013
Benjamin Bankhurst, Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora, 1750-1764
2012
Claire Connolly, A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829
2011
Lee A. Smithey, Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
2010
Sean D. Moore, Swift, the Book and the Irish Financial Revolution
Honorable Mention: Michael Rubenstein, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial
2009
Padhraig Higgins, A Nation of Politicians: Gender, Patriotism, and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland
2008
Ray Cashman, Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community
Honorable Mention: Willeen Keough, The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, 1750-1860
2007
James M. Smith, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment
Honorable Mention: Paige Reynolds, Modernism Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle.
2006
Heather Clark, The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972
2005
Kyla Madden, Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858
Honorable Mention: George Cinclair Gibson, Wake Rites: The Ancient Irish Rituals of Finnegans Wake
2004
Joseph Lennon, Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History
2003
Colin Barr, Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865
2002
Susan Canon Harris, Gender and Modern Irish Drama
2001
David Gleeson, The Irish in the South
2000
Sean Farrell, Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster, 1784-1886
1999
Margot Gayle Backus, The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order