Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize
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The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize was created in 1977, in memory of Christopher Ewart-Biggs
, British
Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland
, who was assassinated by the IRA
in 1976.
Founded by Jane Ewart-Biggs
following the death of her husband, its stated goal is to promote peace and reconciliation in Ireland, a greater understanding between the peoples of Britain
and Ireland
, or closer co-operation between partners of the European Community.
It is awarded to a book, a play or a piece of journalism that best fulfills this aim, published during a two-year period up to December 31 of the year preceding the prize year. The value of the prize is £5000.
Whether or not it has succeeded in achieving, or even contributing to, peace and reconiliation in Ireland (as at 27th June 2011) is best judged by the people of Ireland themselves.
Christopher Ewart-Biggs
Christopher Ewart-Biggs, CMG, OBE was the British Ambassador to Ireland and an author. He was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Sandyford, Dublin....
, British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
, who was assassinated by the IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
in 1976.
Founded by Jane Ewart-Biggs
Jane Ewart-Biggs, Baroness Ewart-Biggs
Felicity Jane Ewart-Biggs, Baroness Ewart-Biggs was a British politician and wife to the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, who was murdered in office...
following the death of her husband, its stated goal is to promote peace and reconciliation in Ireland, a greater understanding between the peoples of Britain
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and Ireland
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...
, or closer co-operation between partners of the European Community.
It is awarded to a book, a play or a piece of journalism that best fulfills this aim, published during a two-year period up to December 31 of the year preceding the prize year. The value of the prize is £5000.
Whether or not it has succeeded in achieving, or even contributing to, peace and reconiliation in Ireland (as at 27th June 2011) is best judged by the people of Ireland themselves.
Past winners
- 2008: David ParkDavid ParkDavid Park was a painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s.-Biography:...
, The Truth Commissioner - 2007: Richard EnglishRichard EnglishRichard English is a historian from Northern Ireland. He was born in Belfast in 1963. His father, Donald English was a prominent Methodist preacher. He studied as an undergraduate at Keble College, Oxford, and subsequently at Keele University, where he was awarded a PhD in History...
, Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Staff/English/ - 2005: Tom Dunne, Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798 http://www.lilliputpress.ie/newsstory.html?id=5
- 2003: Linen Hall LibraryLinen Hall LibraryThe Linen Hall Library is located at 17 Donegall Square North, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the oldest library in Belfast and the last subscribing library in Northern Ireland. The Library is physically in the centre of Belfast, and more generally at the centre of the cultural and creative life...
, Troubled Images Project http://www.linenhall.com/northernIrelandPoliticalCollection.asp - 2001: David McKittrickDavid McKittrickDavid McKittrick is a Belfast-born journalist who has reported on Northern Ireland since 1971.-Professional career:McKittrick began his career as a reporter for the East Antrim Times. He joined the Irish Times in 1973 as a reporter in Belfast, becoming Northern editor in 1976 and London editor in...
, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton, Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1187050.stm - 1999: Peter Hart, The IRA and its Enemies; Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923
- 1997: Norman Porter, Rethinking Unionism: An Alternative Vision For Northern Ireland
- 1995: Sebastian BarrySebastian BarrySebastian Barry is an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. He has been shortlisted twice for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and has won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year....
, The Steward of Christendom - 1993: Brian Keenan, An Evil Cradling
- 1991: John H. Whyte, Interpreting Northern Ireland
- 1989: David McKittrickDavid McKittrickDavid McKittrick is a Belfast-born journalist who has reported on Northern Ireland since 1971.-Professional career:McKittrick began his career as a reporter for the East Antrim Times. He joined the Irish Times in 1973 as a reporter in Belfast, becoming Northern editor in 1976 and London editor in...
and Mary HollandMary HollandMary Holland was an Irish journalist who specialised in writing about Ireland, and in particular Northern Ireland. Born in Dover but raised in Ireland, she married a British diplomat, Ronald Higgins; they lived in Indonesia, but the marriage was eventually annulled.Originally working in fashion...
, newspaper columns - 1981: Brian FrielBrian FrielBrian Friel is an Irish dramatist, author and director of the Field Day Theatre Company. He is considered to be the greatest living English-language dramatist, hailed by the English-speaking world as an "Irish Chekhov" and "the universally accented voice of Ireland"...
, The Communication Cord - 1979: Stewart ParkerStewart ParkerJames Stewart Parker was a Northern Irish poet and playwright.He was born in Sydenham, Belfast, of a Protestant working class family. While still in his teens, he contracted bone cancer and had a leg amputated...
, I'm A Dreamer, Montreal - 1979: F. S. L. LyonsF. S. L. LyonsFrancis Stewart Leland Lyons was one of Ireland's premier historians.-Biography:Lyons was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1923, but soon moved to Boyle in County Roscommon where his father was a bank official...
, Culture and Anarchy in Ireland 1890-1939