2025
Claire Connolly, Irish Romanticism: A Literary History
Honorable Mention: Marion Quirici, Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing
2024
Vicki Mahaffey, The Joyce of Everyday Life
Honorable Mention: Amy Prendergast, Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
2023
Shirley Lau Wong, Poetics of the Local: Globalization, Place, and Contemporary Irish Poetry/em>g
Honorable Mention: Paige Reynolds, Modernism in Irish Women’s Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode
2022
Michael G. Cronin, Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish Writing
Honorable Mention: Adam Hanna, Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland
2021
Joe Cleary, The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization
Honorable Mention: Michele Holmgren, Canada to Ireland: Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism 1788-1900
2020
Elizabeth Grubgeld, Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland
2019
Mary Mullen, Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels, and Nineteenth-Century Realism
2018
Christina Morin, The Gothic Novel in Ireland: c. 1760-1829
2017
Patrick R. O’Malley, Liffey and Lethe: Paramnesiac History in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Ireland
2016
Cóilín Parsons, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature
2015
Tom Walker, Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of His Time
2014
Damien Keane, Ireland and the Problem of Information: Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication
2013
Edna Longley, Yeats and Modern Poetry
2012
Marilynn J. Richtarik, Stewart Parker: A Life
2011
Sinead Mooney, A Tongue Not Mine: Beckett and Translation
2010
Michael Rubenstein, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial
Honorable Mention: Sarah E. McKibben, Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry, 1540-1780
2009
Stephen Watt, Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing.
2008
Ronald Schuchard, The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts. Oxford University Press
Honorable Mention: John Wilson Foster, Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction
2007
Hugh Haughton, The Poetry of Derek Mahon. Oxford University Press
Honorable Mention: Emer Nolan, Catholic Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce
2006
Heather Clark, The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972
Honorable Mention: Margaret Mills Harper, Wisdom of Two: the Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W.B. Yeats
2005
Deana Rankin, Between Spenser and Swift: English Writing in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
Honorable Mention: A.M. Gibbs, Bernard Shaw: A Life
2004
Elizabeth Grubgeld, Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative
2003
Helen Lojek, Contexts for Frank McGuinness’s Drama
2002
Susan Cannon Harris, Gender and Modern Irish Drama
2001
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Ireland’s Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular Culture
Honorable Mention: Gregory Castle, Modernism and the Celtic Revival
2000
Declan Kiberd, Irish Classics
1999
Christopher J. Wheatley, Beneath Ierne’s Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century