Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

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The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature is an Irish literary prize awarded annually to an aspiring Irish writer under 40.

The award was donated in 1976 by Dan Rooney, President of the Pittsburgh Steelers and US Ambassador to Ireland since 2009. Since 2007, the Rooney Prize has been administered by the Oscar Wilde Center for Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin . It is endowed with 10,000 euros (as of 2019). In 2019, a non-fictional work was awarded for the first time.

Award winners

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Individual evidence

  1. Author Mark O'Connell awarded € 10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019 , irishtimes.com, September 23, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019