Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
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The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was created in 1976 by the notable Irish American
businessman, Dr Dan Rooney
, owner and chairman of the NFL franchise, Pittsburgh Steelers
.
The prize is awarded to Irish
writers aged less than 40 who are published in Irish or English. Although often associated with individual books, it is intended to reward a body of work. Originally worth £750, the current value of the prize is €10,000.
The award is administered in the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing of the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin
.
Irish American
Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who can trace their ancestry to Ireland. A total of 36,278,332 Americans—estimated at 11.9% of the total population—reported Irish ancestry in the 2008 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau...
businessman, Dr Dan Rooney
Dan Rooney
Daniel Milton "Dan" Rooney is the United States Ambassador to Ireland. He is chairman emeritus of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team in the National Football League , which was founded by his father, Art Rooney. Rooney was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000 for his contributions...
, owner and chairman of the NFL franchise, Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers
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.
The prize is awarded to Irish
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
writers aged less than 40 who are published in Irish or English. Although often associated with individual books, it is intended to reward a body of work. Originally worth £750, the current value of the prize is €10,000.
The award is administered in the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing of the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin
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List of recipients
- 1976: Heno Magee
- 1977: Desmond HoganDesmond HoganDesmond Hogan is an Irish writer.Hogan was born in Ballinasloe in east County Galway, Ireland. His father was a draper. Educated locally at St. Grellan’s Boys’ National School and St. Josephs’s College, Garbally Park...
- 1978: Peter SheridanPeter SheridanPeter Sheridan is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and director. He lives in the north side of Dublin.His plays have a lyrical, vivid style amid tough dialog highlighting the difficulty and the promise of life in Ireland's capital. Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature...
- 1979: Kate Cruise O'BrienKate Cruise O'BrienKate Cruise O'Brien was an Irish writer.The third and youngest child of the politician and diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien, she was born in Dublin, and grew up in Howth. She went to school in Dublin and studied English in Trinity College Dublin...
, A Gift Horse (short stories) - 1980: Bernard FarrellBernard FarrellBernard Farrell is an Irish dramatist, best known for his play I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell, which parodies American psychobabble and the Irish reaction thereto....
- 1981: Neil JordanNeil JordanNeil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...
- 1982: Medbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Biography:She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast...
; Special prize awarded to Seán Ó TuamaSeán Ó TuamaSeán Ó Tuama was an Irish poet, playwright and academic.-Life:Raised in Cork city and educated at the North Monastery school and University College Cork, Ó Tuama first came to prominence in 1950 with his anthology of modern Irish language poetry titled Nuabhéarsaíocht 1939-1949.Notable academic...
and Thomas KinsellaThomas KinsellaThomas Kinsella is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.-Early life and work:Kinsella was born in Lucan, County Dublin. He spent much of his childhood with relatives in rural Ireland. He was educated in the Irish language at the Model School, Inchicore and the O'Connell Christian...
for An Duanaire / Poems of the Dispossessed - 1983: Dorothy Nelson, In Night's City (novel)
- 1984: Ronan SheehanRonan Sheehanright|thumb|Ronan Sheehan at the [[West Port Book Festival]]Ronan Sheehan is an Irish novelist, short story writer and essayist. He was an early member of the Irish Writers' Co-operative and its Secretary from 1975 to 1983. He received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1984...
- 1985: Frank McGuinnessFrank McGuinnessProfessor Frank McGuinness is an award-winning Irish playwright and poet. As well as his own works, which include Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen and...
, Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (play) - 1986: Paul Mercier
- 1987: Deirdre MaddenDeirdre MaddenDeirdre Madden is an author from Toomebridge, County Antrim in Northern Ireland. She was educated at St Mary's Grammar School, Trinity College, Dublin and at the University of East Anglia . In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at University College, Cork and in 1997 was Writer Fellow at Trinity...
, Hidden Symptoms (novel) - 1988: Glenn PattersonGlenn PattersonGlenn Patterson, born in Belfast in 1961, is a novelist.He attended Methodist College Belfast. He graduated from the University of East Anglia where he studied Creative Writing under Malcolm Bradbury...
, Burning Your Own (novel) - 1989: Robert McLiam WilsonRobert McLiam WilsonRobert McLiam Wilson is a Northern Irish novelist. He attended St Malachy's College and studied at University of Cambridge; however, he dropped out and, for a short time, was homeless. This period of his life profoundly affected his later life and influenced his works...
, Ripley Bogle (novel) - 1990: Mary DorceyMary DorceyMary Dorcey is an Irish short story writer, poet and novelist.-Biography:Dorcey won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Literature in 1990 for her short story collection A Noise from the Woodshed. She is a member by peer election of 'Aosdana' the Academy of Irish Artists...
, A Noise from the Woodshed (short stories) - 1991: Anne EnrightAnne EnrightAnne Enright is a Booker Prize-winning Irish author. She has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction book and four novels. Before her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Enright had a low profile in Ireland and the United Kingdom, although her books were favourably reviewed...
, The Portable Virgin (short stories) - 1992: Hugo HamiltonHugo Hamilton-Life:Hamilton's mother was a German who travelled to Ireland in 1949 for a pilgrimage, married an Irishman, and settled in the country. His father was a militant nationalist who insisted that his children should speak only German or Irish, but not English, a prohibition the young Hugo resisted...
- 1993: Gerard Fanning (poet)
- 1994: Colum McCannColum McCannColum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He is a Professor of Contemporary Literature at European Graduate School and Professor of Fiction at CUNY Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing with fellow novelists Peter Carey, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize,...
, Fishing the Sloe-Black River (short stories) - 1995: Philip MacCann, The Miracle Shed (short stories)
- 1996: Mike McCormackMike McCormack (Irish writer)Mike McCormack is an Irish author. He has published a collection of short stories, Getting It In The Head, and two novels - Crowe's Requiem and Notes From A Coma....
, Getting It In The Head (short stories); additional Special Award presented to Vona Groarke and Conor O'Callaghan - 1997: Anne Haverty, One Day as a Tiger (novel)
- 1998: David Wheatley, Thirst (poems)
- 1999: Mark O'RoweMark O'Rowe- Personal Background :Mark O'Rowe was born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, to parents Hugh and Patricia O'Rowe. He grew up in Tallaght, a working class suburb just south of Dublin, and he claims that much of the violence in his work stems from watching and rewatching a tremendous amount of violent,...
, Howie the Rookie (play) - 2000: Claire KeeganClaire KeeganClaire Keegan is an Irish short story writer. She was born in County Wicklow in 1968, the youngest of a large Roman Catholic family. She travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was seventeen and studied English and Political Science at Loyola University...
, Antarctica (short stories), Special award presented to David MarcusDavid MarcusDavid Marcus was an Irish Jewish editor and writer who was a lifelong advocate and editor of Irish fiction.- Life and times :...
. - 2001: Keith RidgwayKeith RidgwayKeith Ridgway is a Dublin-born award-winning writer. He currently lives in Edinburgh.-Writings:Ridgway's first published fictional prose work was Horses, which appeared in Faber First Fictions Volume 13 in 1997. In 1998 The Long Falling, was published by Faber & Faber, London...
, Standard Time (short stories) - 2002: Caitríona O’Reilly, The Nowhere Birds (poems)
- 2003: Eugene O'Brien, Eden (play)
- 2004: Claire Kilroy, All Summer (novel)
- 2005: Nick LairdNick LairdNicholas 'Nick' Laird is a novelist and poet who was born, and grew up, in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he attained a first in English. He went on to work at the global law firm Allen & Overy in London for six years, before leaving to concentrate...
, To a Fault (poems) - 2006: Philip Ó CeallaighPhilip Ó Ceallaigh-Biography:Ó Ceallaigh has spent much of his life living in Eastern Europe, including many years in Romania. He has also lived in Russia during the early nineties, America thereafter, and then his first stint in Romania beginning in 1995. He spent two years in Galway, Ireland before returning to...
, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse (short stories) - 2007: Kevin BarryKevin Barry (author)Kevin Barry is an Irish writer from Limerick. In 2007 he won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his short story collection There are Little Kingdoms. In 2011 he released his debut novel City of Bohane...
, There Are Little Kingdoms (short stories) http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news.php?headerID=726&vs_date=2007-10-1 http://www.stingingfly.org/therearelittlekingdoms.html
- 2008: Leontia FlynnLeontia FlynnLeontia Flynn is an Irish poet born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. Flynn grew up in Ballyloughlin, south County Down, between the towns of Newcastle and Dundrum, very close to the well known Murlough Nature Reserve...
, Drives (poems)
- 2009: Kevin PowerKevin PowerKevin Power is an Irish writer and academic. He is enrolled in the PhD programme at University College Dublin. His novel Bad Day in Blackrock was published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin, in 2008...
, Bad Day in Blackrock - 2010 Leanne O'Sullivan, Cailleach: The Hag Of Bearahttp://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/1013/1224280972100.html