May 2016 - Chiefs and Clans Essay Prize on Gaelic Ireland

The winner of the 2016 Chiefs and Clans Essay Prize on Gaelic Ireland was announced on 7th June, by Dr Katherine Simms of Trinity College Dublin, who is Chair of the adjudication panel. The winner, Simon Egan, a postgraduate student at  UCC will receive his prize later in the year for his essay:  An Irish context to a Scottish disaster: James IV, the O'Donnells of Tyrconnell and the Road to Flodden.

The annual prize is jointly sponsored by The Irish Council of Chiefs and Chieftains and Clans of Ireland in association with Trinity College Dublin History Department.