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