Previous Winners
2025 - Kevin Finnan Identifying the doctors who treated volunteers during the War of Independence", and Caitlín Smith "Cut off in the prime of their usefulness and actvity": maternal mortality rates in Belfast during the first half of the twentieth century.
No award beween 2023 and 2024
2022 - Bridget Keown "In the midst of the trouble area during rebellion" Gender and truama on the homefront of the Easter Rising.
No award beween 2019 and 2021
2018 - Triona Waters Remedying the ‘"growing evil": the curable and incurable patients of the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, 1827-1887.
2017 - David Kilgannon '"Something for the mental defectives of the West": Establishing a centre for the intellectually disabled at Bahola, Co. Mayo.
2016 - Stephen Bance Polio in Ireland. Rehabilitation and re-intergration in the mid-twentieth century.
2015 - Robyn Atcheson The Irish poor law and medical relief for the poor in Belfast in the 1840s.
2014 - Aisling Veale "A class of her own" Negotiating religious and medical identities in Ireland and on the Missions, 1945-1960.
2013 - Dr Clara Cullen War work on the Home Front: The central Sphagnum Moss Depot of Ireland at the Royal College of Science for Ireland 1915-19.
2012 - Dr Anne Mac Lellan Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England 1930-1960.
2011 - David Durnin War and Medicine: Irish Medical Involvement in the First World War.