Council of Irish Chiefs and Clans of Ireland Prize in History 2023
The Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains and Clans of Ireland (Finte na hÉireann) in association with the History Department of Trinity College, Dublin and History/Ireland magazine is offering a prize of €500 for the winning entrant in an essay competition on Gaelic Ireland.
Entry is open to all persons over 18 years who are NOT on the academic staff of a history department in any third-level institution.
Essay must be on a topic dealing with any aspect of the political, social or cultural history of Gaelic Ireland (within the date-range 400 to 1690 A.D), such as Irish kingship, lordship, land-holding, genealogy, family history etc. It should be approximately 2,000 words in length and accompanied by full footnote references to sources used, with a bibliography at the end (footnotes and bibliography will not be counted as part of the word-length). It may be written in English or Irish.
Entries, with candidate's name, address and contact details should be e-mailed (preferably) as an attached MS-Word file to:mksimms@tcd.ie or posted to:
'Chiefs and Clans Prize'
c/o Katharine Simms,
History Department,
School of Histories and Humanities,
Trinity College Dublin,
Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland
To arrive by 1st June 2023
or e-mailed as an attached MS-Word file to: mksimms@tcd.ie by 1st June 2023
The prize will only be awarded for an entry deemed to be of publishable standard. Subject to editorial approval, a version of the paper should appear in a subsequent issue of History/Ireland. Both the winner and other entrants whose papers are deemed of publishable standard may be invited to contribute their work to a projected volume of essays on Gaelic Ireland, which is a central goal of this competition.