[2] Notable winners include Richard F. Hayes (1933), Robert Dudley Edwards (1935), G. A. Hayes-McCoy (1937 & 1969), Hugh Kearney (1959), Maureen Wall (1961), Kevin B Nowlan (1967), Nicholas Canny (1977 & 2003), Karl T. Hoppen (1985 & 2017), Jacinta Prunty (1997), Maurice Bric (2009), Bernadette Cunningham (2011), Elva Johnston (2013), and the Israeli historian Guy Beiner (2019), who stands out for not having been born or raised in Ireland (but graduated from University College Dublin and holds a PhD from NUI).
In 1929 the prize was shared between three recipients – John C. Conroy, John J. Webb and Helena Concannon (each awarded 25 pounds) and in 1977 it was shared jointly by Nicholas P. Canny (for The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland) and by Ruth Dudley Edwards (for Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure)[7][8] (whose father, Robert Dudley Edwards, had received the prize in 1935 for Church and State in Tudor Ireland)[9]).
[11] The NUI also offers a more junior Publication Prize in Irish History, intended for historians at an early stage of their academic careers and valued at 3,500 Euros.
2011 Bernadette Cunningham, The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century (Four Courts Press).
2007 William J. Smyth, Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c. 1530-1750 (Cork University Press).