The Brian Farrell book prize

The executive committee of the PSAI has decided to name its annual book award, The Brian Farrell book prize, in honour of Prof. Farrell's long distinguished contribution to the study of politics in Ireland both as an academic and broadcaster.

The PSAI awards an annual prize for the best book published in political science by a member of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. The prize is awarded each year at the annual conference.

The competition is open to single-authored and jointly-authored books written by PSAI members and published in the previous year. Nominations for the book prize are sough each year in May. The closing date for this year's prize is 31st May 2012.

Previous Winners
The 2011 Brian Farrell Book Prize was awarded to Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge, James McAuley and Catherine McGlynn. Their book titled 'Abandoning Historical Conflict? Former Political Prisoners and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland' is published by Manchester University Press.

Prize Rules

• All nominees must be members of the Political Studies Association of Ireland
  
  
• Please provide evidence of the publication date, which must be between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011
  
  
• Nominations must be made on the form here and accompanied by 1 copy of each of your nominated books, and submitted by the deadline of 31st May 2012 to:
  
  PSAI Book Prize Committee
  c/o Dr. Bernadette Connaughton
  Department of Politics and Public Administration
  University of Limerick
  Limerick