Nuacht faoi Údair / News of Authors

Each year, the editors of New Hibernia Review present the Roger McHugh Award for the outstanding article in the previous year’s volume, recognizing what they believe is the article most likely to be consulted by future scholars. The wining article for volume 12 (2008) is “Handing Away the Trump Card? Peadar O’Donnell, Fianna Fáil, and the Non-Payment of Land Annuities Campaign, 1926–32,” by Timothy M. O’Neil of Central Michigan University. O’Neil’s article appeared in volume 12, number 1 (Spring, 2008), and provides a scrupulously researched account of the political debates in the new Free State concerning Article 5 of the Anglo-Irish Treaty University, which agreed to reimburse Britain for war expenses and to compensate Unionist landowners for damaged property.

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. It is funded in part by the office of Dr. Hugh Brady, president of UCD, and by the generosity of Dr. Maureen Murphy of Hofstra University.