Nuacht Faoi Udair: News of Authors

Each year, the editors of New Hibernia Review select the outstanding learned essay to have appeared in the past year's volume to receive the Roger McHugh Prize. The prize is named for the late Roger McHugh, first professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College, Dublin (UCD), and includes a $300 cash award. The award is funded in part by the office of Dr. Hugh Brady, president of UCD, and also by the generosity of Dr. Maureen Murphy of Hofstra University. We are delighted to announce that the seventh award has been presented to Dr. Paige Reynolds of the College of the Holy Cross, for her seminal analysis of the collateral publications of the Abbey in "Reading Publics, Theater Audiences, and the Little Magazines of the Abbey Theatre." Reynolds's article appeared in volume 7, number 4 (Winter, 2003).

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Congratulations to poets Moya Cannon and John F. Deane on their election to Aosdana, the affiliation of creative artists in that is sometimes described as the Irish academy of arts and letters. Selected by peer nomination and vote, membership in Aosdana writers, painters, composers, and other cultural leaders who have made outstanding contributions to Ireland's artistic life. Cannon and Deane are each past winners of the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry presented by the Center for Irish Studies (in 2001 and 1998, respectively). Readers of New Hibernia Review have also enjoyed selections of their work: John F. Deane's long poem, "The Return" appeared in the inaugural issue of this journal, volume 1, number 1 (Spring, 1997), and a suite of poems by Moya Cannon appeared in volume 5, number 4 (Winter, 2001).

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In "Frederick Douglass in Ireland: The Dublin Edition of His Narrative," which appeared in the Spring, 2001, issue of New Hibernia Review (volume 5, number 1), Patricia J. Ferreira examined both the Abolitionist's celebrated trip to Ireland in 1846, and the importance of the Irish edition of his account. Dr. Ferreira's article is now collected in the latest edition of Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 141, (ISBN 0-7876-6929-6) published by the Gale Group. In addition to the text edition, the volume also appears as an e-book, and in an on-line subscription version for libraries