Irish Legal History Society essay contest
The Irish Legal History Society (ILHS) has announced its 2026 essay prize, now in its fifth year.
Submissions are invited by 31 May on any topic within Irish legal history, broadly conceived, from both undergraduates and postgraduates.
Previous winning essays include:
- Emma Quinn's (NYU) ‘The Sovereignty of Silence: Women Witnesses to the Carrigan Report and the Rise and Fall of Professional Womanhood in Ireland, 1880-1937’,
- Noah Williams (UCD) ‘Nationalism, Homophobia, and a Victorian Dublin Subculture’,
- Kerri Armstrong's (Northumbria University) ‘Drunk, Deviant and Disgraced: Women and Crime in Late Nineteenth Century Belfast’,
- Andrew Byrne Keefe (Harvard), ‘An Act, a Fact, or a Mistake?: How Martial Law Contoured the Irish Rebellion of 1798’.
Prize-giving will be held at a future ILHS event, and winning essays will also be considered for publication in History Ireland.