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Past Awards and Grants

2026

Inés Praga Award TFG: “The Representation of Chronic Pain in Literature and Art: Sinéad Gleeson and Frida Kahlo” – Paula Lorenzo Espinar

Inés Praga Award PhD Dissertation: “Queering Girlhood: Representations of Sapphic Adolescents in Contemporary Irish Young Adult Fiction” – Iria Seijas Pérez

Emigrant Support Programme – Research Project Grant: “Narrating Violence after Conflict: Trauma, Memory and Literary Representations of Political Violence in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country” – Olga Fernández Vicente

Emigrant Support Programme – Predoctoral Research Grant: “Of Rats and Sea Captains: The Relevance and Subversiveness of Queer Irishness in Dan Simmons’ The Terror and Its Adaptation” – Alba Jimeno Ruiz de Larrinada

Emigrant Support Research Award: Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society: Breaking New Ground (Routledge, 2025) – Amor Barros-del Río (ed.)

A Nation, not A Parish: The Homewhere-s and Elsewhere-s of 1930s Irish Culture (Peter Lang, 2025) – Germán Asensio Peral, Madalina Armie and Verónica Membrive (eds.)

 

2025

Inés Praga Award PhD Dissertation: ” Cultural Approximations to Migration and Mobility in Colum McCann’s Work” – María del Rosario Casas Coelho

Eibhear Walshe Predoctoral Research Grant: “Planetary Crisis and Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: Precarity and Relationality in Sally Rooney’s Fiction” – Natalia Jiménez Pérez

Eibhear Walshe Postdoctoral Research Grant: “Corporality and Institutionalisation in Contemporary Ireland: A Gender-Based Analysis in John Banville’s Crime Fiction” – Auxiliadora Pérez Vides

 

2024

Inés Praga Award TFG: “‘They laugh heartily’: Humour, Laughter and Power in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Sarah Kane’s Blasted” – Mónica Bru

Inés Praga Award PhD Dissertation: “An Enriching Interplay in Irish Culture: The Presence and Functions of Traditional Folklore in Four Contemporary Irish Novels” – Catalina Wajs Tauscher

“Oscar Wilde, the short story writer” – Regina Martínez Ponciano

AEDEI Grant: Lydia Freire Gargamala

 

2023

Inés Praga Award TFM: “Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn: Connections Between the Irish Literary Revival and the Counter-Revival” – Jorge Antonio Garate

 

2022

Inés Praga Award TFM: “Historical (Im)politeness in Irish English: A Pilot Study of Reproaches between
Family Members in the context of Letter Writing” – David Sotoca Fernández

“Borders, Secrecy and the Crypt in Anna Burns’ Milkman” – Felicity Smith

Inés Praga Award PhD Dissertation: “Unreliability in contemporary Irish fiction: Narration, Masculinities, and the
Affects of Trauma, Guilt and Shame in Damian McNicholl’s A Son Called Gabriel, and John Boyne’s A History of Loneliness and The Heart’s Invisible Furies” – Alicia Muro Llorente

“The Hero of Hibernia: Masculinity in 20th and 21st century Irish Literature through Corpus Stylistics” – Cassandra Sian Tully de Lope

 

2021

Inés Praga Award PhD Dissertation: “Myles nag Copaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn (1940-66) and Irish Politics” – German Asensio Peral