Past Winners
The years of publication/broadcast for which the prize was awarded is given. In earlier years the Prize was identified by the year of award, but the official website now gives year of publication/broadcast.
- 2009-10: Timothy Knatchbull, From a Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten Bomb
- 2009-10: Guy Hibbert and Oliver Hirschbiegel, Five Minutes of Heaven
- 2007-08: David Park, The Truth Commissioner
- 2007-08 Special Award: Fergus D’Arcy, Remembering the War Dead
- 2005-06: Richard English, Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland
- 2005-06 Special Award: Michael Longley
- 2003-04: Tom Dunne, Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798
- 2003-04 Special Award: Garret Fitzgerald
- 2001-02: Linen Hall Library, Troubled Images Project
- 1999-2000: David McKittrick, 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
- 1997-98: Peter Hart, The IRA and its Enemies; Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923
- 1995-96: Norman Porter, Rethinking Unionism: An Alternative Vision For Northern Ireland
- 1995-96: Sebastian Barry, The Steward of Christendom
- 1993-94: Fionnuala O'Connor, In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland
- 1991-92: Brian Keenan, An Evil Cradling
- 1989-90: John H. Whyte, Interpreting Northern Ireland
- 1989-90 special citation: Blackstaff Press
- 1987-88: David McKittrick and Mary Holland, newspaper columns
- 1986: Frank McGuinness, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
- 1986 Special Award: Hubert Butler
- 1985: Brian Friel, Translations
- 1984: Oliver MacDonagh, States of Mind: a Study of Anglo-Irish Conflict, 1780-1980
- 1984: Padraig O'Malley, The Uncivil Wars: Ireland Today
- 1983: John Bowman, De Valera and the Ulster Question, 1917-1973
- 1982: Fortnight Magazine
- 1981: F.S.L. Lyons, Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939
- 1980: Robert Kee, Ireland: A Television History
- 1979: Stewart Parker, I'm A Dreamer, Montreal
- 1979: Dervla Murphy, A Place Apart
- 1978: A. T. Q. Stewart, The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster 1609-1969
- 1978: Mícheál Mac Gréil, Prejudice and Tolerance in Ireland
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