Peggy O’Brien Biennial Book Prize, Irish Association for American Studies

Peggy O’Brien biennial book prize

PEGGY O’BRIEN

Named in honour of Professor Peggy O’Brien, a founder of the Irish Association for American Studies, the biennial prize of 500 Euro is awarded for the best monograph published in American Studies.
A scholar and a poet, Peggy O’Brien is the author of four collections of poems: Sudden Thaw, Frog Spotting, Trusting Ice and most recently Tongues. She is also the editor of the Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry and the author of the critical study, Writing Lough Derg: from William Carleton to Seamus Heaney. She spent half her teaching career at
Trinity College, Dublin and the other half at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Peggy resides in Massachusetts and travels frequently to Ireland.

how to enter

APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2027 PEGGY O’BRIEN BIENNIAL BOOK PRIZE ARE NOW OPEN

Named in honour of Professor Peggy O’Brien, a founder of the Irish Association for American Studies, the biennial prize of 500 Euro is awarded for the best monograph published in American Studies.

The IAAS Prizes Committee is currently accepting submissions of scholarly monographs in American subjects with a publication date of 2024 or 2025. Entries are welcome from any field, discipline, or period within American Studies.

The following rules apply:

Authors must be members of the IAAS, and normally resident on the island of Ireland. (In the case of co-authored monographs, at least one
author should fulfill the residency requirement.)
Entries must be scholarly monographs. We are not accepting edited collections for
this prize.
Entries should have a publication date of 2024 or 2025.
Authors should submit a short biography and three non-returnable hard copies of
their entry.
Deadline for submissions is 1st March 2026.

Please contact Julie Sheridan with any queries.

Julie Sheridan

c/o Michael Hinds, Ph.D.

School of English,

Dublin City University,

All Hallows Campus,

Dublin 9