The six annual prizes are as follows:

• Church of Ireland Historical Society Prize - 250 euro
• Diarmuid Whelan Prize in Political and Intellectual History - 250 euro
• Irish Economic and Social History Society Prize - 200 euro
• Military Heritage Annual Award - 350 euro
• Robert Dudley Edwards Prize, for best undergraduate paper- 250 euro
• Saothar Prize for Irish Labour History - 250 euro

To Presenters of Papers:
Please note the conditions for the each prize and please remember to send them by email attachment (not posted to a remote website), and in Microsoft Word docs, by the relevant closing dates.
If you have any further queries don’t hesitate to email me.

Best wishes

Dr Deirdre McMahon

2012 Conference Prize Winners:

• Diarmuid Whelan Prize in Political and Intellectual History: Kenneth Coyne (NUIG)
• Military Heritage of Ireland Trust Prize: Paul O Brien (Mary Immaculate College - Luimneach)
• Robert Dudley Edwards Prize for best Undergraduate Paper: Barry Sheppard (QUB)
• Saothar Prize for Irish Labour History: Michael Anthony Dwyer (UCC)
• Irish Economic and Social History Prize: Tbc shortly
• Church of Ireland Historical Society Prize: No award made

• Diarmuid Whelan Prize in Political and Intellectual History: Deirdre Kelly (UL)
• Robert Dudley Edwards Prize for best undergraduate paper: Robyn Atcheson (QUB)
• Saothar Prize for Irish Labour History: Giulia Ní Dhulchaointigh (TCD)
• Irish Economic and Social History Prize: None awarded
• Military Heritage Annual Award: None awarded
• Church of Ireland Historical Society Prize: Not available

• Church of Ireland Historical Society Prize: Suzanne Forbes (UCD)
• Irish Economic and Social History Prize: Gordon Rees (QUB)
• Military Heritage Annual Award: Paul Maguire (St Patrick’s, Drumcondra)
• Robert Dudley Edwards Prize for best undergraduate paper: Helen Esther Luettgen (UCC)

The Comhaltas na gCumann Staire would like to thank all those who submitted their papers and would also like to express its sincere gratitude to the academic judges who took time out from their busy schedules to assess the applications.

The Church of Ireland Historical Society wishes to award a prize of 250 euro for the best paper delivered at the conference of the Irish History Students’ Association for 2013 on a subject related to the history of the Church of Ireland (before or after the Reformation). The winner of the prize will be invited to address one of the biannual day-conferences of the Church of Ireland Historical Society in 2014.
If you gave a paper at the 2013 conference, and wish to be considered for the prize, you must send by email attachment a typed and footnoted version (in Microsoft Word) of your paper by 31 August 2013 to Dr Deirdre McMahon, at Department of History, Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, Limerick (Deirdre.McMahon@mic.ul.ie). Please make sure that your name, institutional affiliation and contact details (mobile and email) are included. The winner of the prize will be announced at the November meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society. Papers should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words inclusive of footnotes and bibliography.
The Society reserves the right not to make an award if there is no suitable candidate.

The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland will award a prize of €200 to the student whose paper, read at the Irish History Students' Association Annual Conference in Belfast 2013, is deemed outstanding by a panel of judges, and which, through new research, adds to our knowledge of the economic history of Ireland.
Papers should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words long, inclusive of footnotes and bibliography, and should be clearly marked with the applicant's name, college affiliation, contact details (mobile and email), and the words 'Irish Economic and Social History Society Prize'. They should be submitted by 31 August 2013 and sent by email attachment (in Word) to: Dr Deirdre McMahon, Department of History, Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, Limerick, email: Deirdre.McMahon@mic.ul.ie
The papers will be assessed by a panel of judges and the result will be announced in the autumn semester of 2013. The prize will be presented at the following year's Conference in 2014. The judges reserve the right not to award the prize if no essay meets the required standard.

The Military Heritage of Ireland Trust Ltd will give an award, ordinarily annually, of €350 to the student whose paper, read at the Irish History Students' Association Annual Conference in 2013, is deemed outstanding by a panel of judges, and which, through new research, adds to our knowledge of the military heritage of Ireland.
Papers should not be previously published and should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words long, inclusive of footnotes, and should be clearly marked with the applicant's name, college affiliation, contact details (mobile and email), and the words 'Military Heritage Prize'. They should be submitted by 31 August 2013 and sent by email attachment (in Word) to the Secretary of The Military Heritage of Ireland Trust Limited at the following email address:
Dr Deirdre McMahon, History Department, Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, Limerick Deirdre.McMahon@mic.ul.ie
The papers will be assessed by a panel of judges and the result will be announced in the autumn semester of 2013. The prize will be presented at the following year's Conference in 2014. The judges reserve the right not to award the prize if no essay meets the required standard.
In assessing the papers the Trust will be cognisant of the worldwide nature of Irish military heritage and the range of military operations embraced by that term. It is not merely a record of individual or group activity, of the success and failure of military leadership in battlefields, campaigns and wars. It also includes service in peace support operations and in the maintenance of law and order in aid to the civil power duties. Furthermore the impact of such activities on the economic, political or social life of the communities of the participants may be relevant to the paper. Consequently submitted papers must concentrate on one or more of these aspects of our military heritage within this broad definition and, through their research and written presentation, expand our knowledge of the history of the Irish soldier.
In Memory of Major Charlie Trainor MM

A prize of €250 will be awarded to the undergraduate paper, read at the IHSA - CCS Annual Conference in Belfast in 2013, which is deemed outstanding by a panel of judges. The prize is in memory of Robert Dudley Edwards, former Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin, who was for many years the Senior Archivist of the IHSA to which he gave his constant support.
Papers should be between 4,000 and 6000 words long, inclusive of footnotes and bibliography, and should be clearly marked with the applicant's name, college affiliation, contact details (mobile and email), and the words 'Robert Dudley Edwards Prize'. They should be submitted by 31 August 2013 and sent by email attachment (in Word) to Dr Deirdre McMahon, History Department, Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, Limerick, Deirdre.McMahon@mic.ul.ie
The papers will be assessed by a panel of judges and the result will be announced in the autumn semester of 2013. The prize will be presented at the following year's Conference in 2014. The judges reserve the right not to award the prize if no essay meets the required standard.

The Irish Labour History Society will award the Saothar prize of 250 euro to the student whose paper, presented at the CCS - IHSA Annual Conference, is deemed outstanding by a panel of judges, and which, through new research, adds to our knowledge of labour history. Papers should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words long, inclusive of footnotes, and should be clearly marked with the applicant's name, college affiliation, contact details, and the words 'Saothar Prize for Labour History'. Applicants should consult the ‘Guidelines for Contributors’ published in Saothar volume 29 (2004). They should be submitted by the 31st August and sent by email attachment (in Word) to: John.Cunningham@nuigalway.ie The papers will be assessed by a panel of judges and the result will be announced in October. The prize will be presented at the following year's Conference. The judges reserve the right not to award the prize if no paper meets the required standard.

The Diarmuid Whelan Prize in Political and Intellectual History is offered by the School of History in UCC in memory of their colleague Dr Diarmaid Whelan who died at the age of 37 in May 2010.
If you gave a paper at the IHSA-CCS conference this year (2013), and wish to be considered for the prize, you must send by email attachment a typed and footnoted version (in Microsoft Word) of your paper by 31 August 2013 to Dr Deirdre McMahon, at Department of History, Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, Limerick (Deirdre.McMahon@mic.ul.ie). Please make sure that your name, institutional affiliation and contact details (mobile and email) are included. Papers should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words long, inclusive of footnotes and bibliography.
The papers will be assessed by a panel of judges and the result will be announced in the autumn semester of 2013. The prize of €250 will be presented at the following year's Conference in 2014. The judges reserve the right not to award the prize if no essay meets the required standard.