The Irish Book Awards are annual awards made to books in various categories, the only literary awards supported by all Irish bookstores. First awarded in 2006, they grew out of the Hughes & Hughes bookstore's Irish Novel of the Year Prize which was inaugurated in 2000. Since 2007 the Awards have been an independent not-for-profit company. There are currently nine categories, seven of which are judged by the Irish Literary Academy, two by a public vote.
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Irish Book Awards are annual awards made to books in various categories, the only literary awards supported by all Irish bookstores. First awarded in 2006, they grew out of the Hughes & Hughes bookstore's Irish Novel of the Year Prize which was inaugurated in 2000. Since 2007 the Awards have been an independent not-for-profit company. There are currently nine categories, seven of which are judged by the Irish Literary Academy, two by a public vote. There is also a lifetime achievement award.
Current awards
- Hughes and Hughes Irish Novel of the Year
- The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- The Dublin Airport Authority
Dublin Airport Authority plc is the state-owned airport authority in the Republic of Ireland. The authority also owned the Great Southern Hotels which had nine sites throughout the island of Ireland and international investments are held by Aer Rianta International...
Irish Children's Book of the Year - junior
- The Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children's Book of the Year - senior
- International Education Services Ltd Best Irish Newcomer of the Year
- The Irish-Published Book of the Year
- The Energise Sport Irish Sports Book of the Year
- The Tubridy Show Listener's Choice Book of the Year (voted for by the public)
- The Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year (voted for by the public)
- The Ireland AM
Ireland AM is Ireland's only breakfast television programme. The show is broadcast live every weekday morning by TV3.- Early years :...
Crime Fiction Award
- Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature aka Lifetime Achievement in Literary Ireland Award
Hughes and Hughes Irish Novel of the Year
- 2003: That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
-Life:Born in Dublin, McGahern spent his childhood in the parish of Aughawillan near Ballinamore, County Leitrim until his mother, who was the local primary school teacher, died. The family then moved to Cootehall, County Roscommon to live with their father who was a Garda sergeant in the village...
- 2004: Dancer by Colum McCann
Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction, whose novels include Songdogs, This Side of Brightness, Dancer, and Zoli. McCann teaches fiction at CUNY Hunter College's ....
- 2005: Havoc in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
Ronan Bennett is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He was born and raised in a devout Roman Catholic family at the picturesque Merville Garden Village in Whitehouse, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. Since its creation in the late 1940s, Merville has always been a mixed Roman...
2006 winners
- Irish Novel: The Sea
- Plot summary:The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult....
by John BanvilleJohn Banville is an Irish novelist and journalist. His novel, The Book of Evidence , was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005...
- Irish Non-Fiction Book: In the Dark Room by Brian Dillon
- Irish Children's Book: The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
Kate Thompson is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. She is the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers...
2007 winners
- Irish Novel: Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
- Irish Non-Fiction Book: Connemara by Tim Robinson
- Irish Children's Book - junior: The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers is an artist, designer, illustrator and writer from Northern Ireland. He graduated from the University of Ulster with a degree in Visual Communication....
- Irish Children's Book - senior: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
John Boyne is an Irish novelist.He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize. But it was during his time at Trinity that he began to get published. To pay his way at that stage of his career,...
- Best Irish Newcomer: The Goddess Guide by Gisele Scanlon
- Irish-Published Book: Lifelines: New and Collected ed. by Niall McMonagle
- Irish Sports Book: Back from the Brink by Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath is a former football defender, a long-time member of the Republic of Ireland national team. He was one of the first Irish celebrities of mixed-race background.-Childhood:...
- Listener's Choice: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
- Irish Popular Fiction Book: Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a fictional Irish rugby legend created by journalist Paul Howard. The character of Ross is a satirical depiction of a wealthy, self-obsessed, "D4", rugby union player...
2008 winners
- Irish Novel: The Gathering
The Gathering is the fourth novel by Irish author Anne Enright. It won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, eventually chosen unanimously by the jury after having largely been considered an outsider to win the prize...
by Anne 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...
- Irish Non-Fiction Book: Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter
Diarmaid Ferriter is an Irish author, historian, and university lecturer. He has authored several books on the subject of Irish history. Diarmaid attended St. Benildus College in Kilmacud in Dublin.-Career:...
- Irish Children's Book - junior: The Story of Ireland by Brendan O'Brien
Brendan O'Brien is a senior Irish journalist on RTÉ's Prime Time current affairs programme.In 1983, O'Brien won a Jacob's Award for his reporting on the RTÉ current affairs programme, Today Tonight....
- Irish Children's Book - senior: Wilderness by Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. He won the Booker Prize in 1993....
- Best Irish Newcomer: With My Lazy Eye by Julia Kelly
- Irish-Published Book: Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter
- Irish Sports Book: Trevor Brennan: Heart and Soul by Trevor Brennan
Trevor Brennan is a former rugby union player for Barnhall, Bective Rangers, St Marys College RFC, Leinster Rugby, Stade Toulousain and Ireland; being capped 13 times. He played either in the or as a ....
with Gerry Thornley
- Listener's Choice: Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter
- Irish Popular Fiction Book: Take A Look at Me Now by Anita Notaro
- Lifetime Achievement: William Trevor
William Trevor, KBE is an Irish author and playwright.Trevor has resided in England since the 1950s. Over the course of his long career he has written several novels and hundreds of short stories. He is best-known for his short stories....
2009 winners
- Irish Novel: The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture is a 2008 novel written by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry.-Plot Summary:The main character is a one-hundred year old woman, Roseanne McNulty, who now resides in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. Having been a patient for some fifty years or more, Roseanne decides to...
by Sebastian 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.-Life and works:...
- Irish Non-Fiction Book: Stepping Stones by Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin.-Early life:...
and Dennis O'Driscoll-Life:Born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland, he was educated by the Christian Brothers and then University College Dublin . He entered civil service in 1970, Assistant Principal Officer, Dublin Customs office, Castle House S., Dublin 2. As a civil servant he later engaged in the task-force...
- Irish Children's Book - junior: Before You Sleep by Benji Bennett
- Irish Children's Book - senior: Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire by Derek Landy
Derek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter. He has written two screenplays that have been made into films -- the IFTA award winning Dead Bodies and the IFTA nominated Boy Eats Girl starring Samantha Mumba. Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script...
- Best Irish Newcomer: Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O'Brien
Ronan O'Brien is an Irish author, winner of the 2009 Irish Book Awards "Newcomer of the Year" for his first novel Confessions of a Fallen Angel....
- Irish-Published Book: The Parish by Alice Taylor
Alice Taylor is Commissioning Editor, Education for Channel 4, where she is developing a number of informal learning projects involving ARGs, casual gaming and other interactive entertainment formats. Before this, she was the Vice President of Digital Content for BBC Worldwide...
- Irish Sports Book: Ronan O'Gara, My Autobiography by Ronan O'Gara
Ronan John Ross O'Gara is an Irish rugby union rugby player, occupying the position for both Munster and Ireland.-Early life:...
- Listener's Choice: The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture is a 2008 novel written by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry.-Plot Summary:The main character is a one-hundred year old woman, Roseanne McNulty, who now resides in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. Having been a patient for some fifty years or more, Roseanne decides to...
by Sebastian 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.-Life and works:...
- Irish Popular Fiction Book: This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
Marian Keyes is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for her work in women's literature.-Biography:Born in Limerick and raised in Monkstown, Keyes earned a law degree from Dublin University, but immediately disregarded it, left Ireland and became a waitress in London, feeling as...
- Irish Crime Fiction Award: Blood Runs Cold by Alex Barclay
Eve "Alex" Barclay is an Irish crime writer.Barclay studied journalism at university and worked for a period in fashion and beauty journalism as a copywriter in the RTÉ Guide. In 2003, she left the fashion industry to write Darkhouse, the first of two novels featuring NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi...
- Lifetime Achievement: Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men and to society as a whole.-Life and career:...