Previous Prize-Winners

MacCurtain/Cullen Prize in Irishwomen’s History

2025 – Maeve Hagerty, University of Oxford

2024 – Norman Owens, University of Galway

2023 –  Sophia Traxler, QUB

2022 – Isabella Cullen, TCD

2021 – Helene Haak, University of Limerick

2020 – Melissa Shiels, UCC

2019 – Deirdre Foley, UCD

2018 – Susan Byrne, UCD

2017 – Caroline Kane, Maynooth University

2016 – Claire Goodwin, MA in History, Open University

2014 – Ruth Cahir, MA Irish History, QUB

2012 – Celine Connell, MA Modern Irish History, TCD

2011 – Bláthnaid Nolan, UCD

2010 – Mary Gibbons, UCC (inaugural prize winner)

Anna Parnell Travel Grant

2016 – Rita McCarthy, University of Limerick

2015 – Blathnaid Nolan, UCD and Maeve O’Riordan, Maynooth University

2014 – Paul Huddie, QUB

2013 – Emma O’Toole, NCAD

2012 – David Durnin, UCD and Laura Kelly, NUIG

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