Irish Times Literature Prizes

Irish Literature Prize: Fiction

Winner:
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
(hardcover; 15.50 Irish pounds) [Add To Basket]
(paperback;6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
(hc; 17.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 7.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
After Rain by William Trevor
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(pb; 7.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Winner:
Inventing Ireland by Declan Kiberd
(hc; 22.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 9.90 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Aisling Ghear by Breandan O Buachalla
(hc; 25.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Summer Soldiers by A.T.Q. Stewart
(pb; 14.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Winner:
New Selected Poems by Paul Muldoon
(pb; 8.80 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Collected Poems by Eavan Boland
(hc; 17.65 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 10.80 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Collected Poems by John Montague
(hc; 22.95 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 13.95 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: A.S. Byatt (Chairperson), Michael Davitt, Emma Donoghue, Jerusha McCormack, John A. Murphy)

Winner:
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
(hardcover; 15.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
(hc; 0436202840; 17.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(paperback; 7.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
(hc; 17.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 9.90 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Jack Miles (Chairperson), Carlo Gebler, Rabbi Julia Neuberger)

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Irish Literature Prize: Fiction

Winner:
A Maid's Tale by Kathleen Ferguson
(pb; 5.99 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
A Seduction of Morality by Tom Murphy
(pb; 7.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
An Dochtuir Athas by Liam Mac Coil

Winner:
Straight Left by Paddy Devlin
(pb; 8.95 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
The Boys by Christopher Fitz-Simon
(pb; 10.90 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Ireland: A New Economic History by Cormac O Grada
(pb; 17.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Winner:
Collected Poems by Robert Graecen
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Ruined Pages by Padraic Fiacc
(pb; 7.99 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Pillow Talk by Paula Meehan
(hc; 13.30 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Brendan Kennelly (Chairperson), Angela Bourke, Eugene McCabe, Ruth Dudley-Edwards, Carla De Petris)

Winner:
The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Cotezee
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
(hc; 16.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
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(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
(hc; 16.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Eavan Boland (Chairperson), Joel Conarroe, Terry Eagleton)

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Irish Literature Prize: Non Fiction

Winner:
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
(hc; 18.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 8.80 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
A History of Ulster by Jonathan Bardon
(hc; 35.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 16.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
(hc; 27.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 14.30 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Winner:
The Fallen and Other Stories by John MacKenna
(pb; 6.95 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Here Comes John by Bridget O'Connor
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Rejoice by Carl Tighe
(hc; 23.95 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Eavan Boland (Chairperson), Angela Bourke, Shane Connaughton, Robert Kee, Augustine Martin)

Winner:
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
(hc; 16.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
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(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
(hc; 27.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 11.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Joel Conarroe (Chairperson), Clare Boylan, John Carey)

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Irish Literature Prize: Fiction

Winner:
The Butcher Boy by Eugene McCabe
(hc; 16.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 8.80 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
The Portable Virgin by Anne Enright
(hc; 15.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Reading Turgenev by William Trevor
(pb; 8.80 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Winner:
Selected Poems by Derek Mahon
(pb; 9.90 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Marconi's Cottage by Medbh McGuckian
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]
The Man Who Was Marked by Winter by Paula Meehan
(pb; 5.99 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Eavan Boland (Chairperson), Kevin Barry, Ciaran Carson, Polly Devlin, Sean Mac Mathuna)

Winner:
Mating by Norman Rush
(hc; 17.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
A Case of Curiosities by Allan Kurtzwell
(hc; 25.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Jazz by Toni Morrison
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(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Sean O Mordha (Chairperson), Lucy Ellmann, Josephine Hart, Thomas Kilroy, Robert Towers)

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Irish Literature Prize: Non Fiction

Winner:
Ireland, 1912-1985 by Professor J.J. Lee
(hc; 75.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 20.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence by Marianne Elliott
(hc; 35.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 15.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Biting at the Grave by Padraig O'Malley
(pb; 15.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Winner:
The South by Colm Toibin
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
The Second Prison by Ronan Bennett

(Judges: Colm O Briain (Chairman), Roy F. Foster, Victoria Glendenning, Declan Kiberd, Dervla Murphy)

Winner:
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
(pb; 8.80 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
(pb; 8.80 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Sean O Mordha (Chairman), Maureen Freely, Christopher Hope, Jahn McGahern, Sue Miller)

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Irish Literature Prize: Fiction

Winner:
Amongst Women by John McGahern
(hc; 14.40 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
The Journey Home by Dermot Bolger
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Family Sins by William Trevor

Winner:
Belfast Connection by Ciaran Carson
( hc; 10.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 6.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]
The Magdalene Sermon by Eilean ni Chuilleanain
(hc; 9.90 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 5.50 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Colm O Briain (Chariman), Douglas Dunn, Thomas Flanagan, Victoria Glendenning, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill)

Winner:
Possession by A.S. Byatt
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(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Affliction by Russell Banks
(pb; 12.99 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Amongst Women by John McGahern
(hc; 14.40 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
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Irish Literature Prize

Winner:
The Men Who Loved Evelyn Cotton by Frank Ronan
(hc; 14.40 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 by R.F. Foster
(pb; 11.00 IRP) [Add To Basket]
The Trouble with Sarah Gullion by Michael P. Harding
The Last of Deeds by Eoin McNamee
(pb; 6.60 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Colm O Briain (Chairperson), Seamus Deane, Thomas Flanagan, Patrick MacEntee, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain)

Winner:
Libra by Don DeLillo
(pb; 8.80 IRP) [Add To Basket]

Shortlist:
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
(pb; 5.99 IRP) [Add To Basket]
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
(pb; 8.80 PB) [Add To Basket]
The Remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro
(hc; 13.30 IRP) [Add To Basket]
(pb; 7.70 IRP) [Add To Basket]

(Judges: Denis Donoghue (Chairperson), Paul Gray, Sean O Mordha, William Trevor, Katharine Whitehorn)

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In announcing the Literature Prizes in 1988, The Irish Times described the scheme as: "offering Irish writers, novelists as well as those in other categories, a new opportunity to work towards a prize which is comparable with that available to writers in other countries. It will aim to encourage experimentation and innovation and will help to maintain and raise standards in Irish writing in its many aspects. It recognises that Irish writing is not, and must not be, in any sense, insular. The institution of an award with an international dimension in addition to a purely Irish award, will allow Irish writers to be judged against international standards."

* The Literature Prizes were originally jointly sponsored by the Irish Times and Aer Lingus from 1988 to 1992 and thereafter sponsored by the Irish Times.

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