Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book2012Claire Connolly. A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829. Cambridge University Press 2010Sean O. Moore. Swift, the Book and the Irish Financial Revolution. Johns Hopkins University Press 2010Michael Rubenstein (Honorable Mention). Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial . University of Notre Dame Press 2009Padhraig Higgins. A Nation of Politicians: Gender, Patriotism, and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press 2008Ray Cashman. Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community. Indiana University Press. 2008(Honorable Mention) Willeen Keough. The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, 1750-1860. Columbia University Press. 2007James M. Smith. Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment. University of Notre Dame Press 2007Paige Reynolds (Honorable Mention). Modernism Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle. Cambridge University Press 2006Heather Clark. The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972. Oxford University Press 2005Kyla Madden. Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858. McGill-Queen's University Press 2005George Cinclair (Honorable Mention). Gibson, Wake Rites: The Ancient Irish Rituals of Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida 2004Joseph Lennon. Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History. Syracuse University Press 2003Colin Barr. Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865. University of Notre Dame Press 2002Susan Canon Harris. Gender and Modern Irish Drama. Indiana University Press 2001David Gleeson. The Irish in the South. University of North Carolina Press 2000Sean Farrell. Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster, 1784-1886. University Press of Kentucky 1999Margot Gayle Backus. The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press |