Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
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
- 1976: Heno Magee
- 1977: Desmond Hogan
- 1978: Peter Sheridan
- 1979: Kate Cruise O'Brien
- 1980: Bernard Farrell
- 1981: Neil Jordan
- 1982: Medbh McGuckian
- 1983: Dorothy Nelson
- 1984: Ronan Sheehan
- 1985: Frank McGuinness
- 1986: Paul Mercier
- 1987: Deirdre Madden
- 1988: Glenn Patterson
- 1989: Robert McLiam Wilson
- 1990: Mary Dorcey
- 1991: Anne Enright
- 1992: Hugo Hamilton
- 1993: Gerard Fanning
- 1994: Colum McCann
- 1995: Philip MacCann
- 1996: Mike McCormack
- 1997: Anne Haverty
- 1998: David Wheatley
- 1999: Mark O'Rowe
- 2000: Claire Keegan
- 2001: Keith Ridgway
- 2002: Caitríona O'Reilly
- 2003: Eugene O'Brien
- 2004: Claire Kilroy
- 2005: Nick Laird
- 2006: Philip Ó Ceallaigh
- 2007: Kevin Barry
- 2008: Leontia Flynn
- 2009: Kevin Power
- 2010: Leanne O'Sullivan
- 2011: Lucy Caldwell
- 2012: Nancy Harris
- 2013: Ciarán Collins
- 2014: Colin Barrett
- 2015: Sara Baume
- 2016: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- 2017: Elizabeth Reapy
- 2018: Caitriona Lally for Eggshells
- 2019: Mark O'Connell for To Be a Machine (nonfiction)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Author Mark O'Connell awarded € 10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019 , irishtimes.com, September 23, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019