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Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana Fhoras na Gaeilge/ACIS Prize for Books in the Irish Language | ELEVENTH ANNUAL ACIS ANNUAL PRIZES FOR BOOKS IN IRISH STUDIESThe American Conference for Irish Studies sponsors five prizes annually for books on Irish subjects, open to books published worldwide (and a sixth prize for the year’s outstanding dissertation). The prize-winning books will be announced in Spring 2010 and awarded at the ACIS business meeting, where the selection committee’s encomium is read. Each prize also carries a cash award of $500. In addition, ACIS announces the awards in its Newsletter, received by all members; with a display ad in the Irish Literary Supplement; on its website; and in press releases to Irish Studies journals and list serves. ELIGIBILITYAll books submitted for the next round of awards must have a publication date of 2009. Anyone, including the author, may submit books for consideration. ACIS members who wish to nominate a book should contact the relevant committee chair, who will then contact the publisher. Edited collections; fiction; poetry; and anthologies of literature are not eligible. Copies of the books nominated must be sent to each of the members of the appropriate committee (listed below) by 1 February 2010. Overseas publishers in particular should be aware that the February 1 deadline for a postmark is firm. No book may compete for more than one of the three disciplinary prizes (Donnelly, Durkan, Rhodes), but an author's first scholarly monograph (or collection of original essays) may be submitted to the Murphy prize committee in addition to one of the three disciplinary committees. Authors may contact the committee chair to determine whether their book has been submitted for a prize. Prize chairs may choose to reassign entered works. Please do not send copies of books to ACIS officers. For more information contact the chair of the Book Prize Committee, Sean Farrell (sfarrel1@niu.edu) and/or the relevant specific book prize committee chair (see below). PRIZE COMMITTEESAuthors and nominators should be guided by what academic audience the book addresses. Books addressed primarily to historians and/or social scientists should go to the Donnelly committee. Books addressed primarily to literary scholars should go to the Rhodes committee. Books that are addressed to students of language or culture (including especially the visual and performing arts) should go to the Durkan committee. Books addressed to an interdisciplinary audience (e.g., works in cultural studies, gender studies and postcolonial studies) may be submitted to any of the three committees. James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences: Cara Delay Paul Townend Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature Mary Helen Thuente Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture Jack Morgan Eva Roa White Edward Hagan Jason Knirck Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana Fhoras na Gaeilge/ACIS Award for Books in the Irish Language Traolach Ó Riordáin Professor Géaróid Denvir |