Il Premio Rooney per la letteratura irlandese (Rooney Prize for Irish Literature) è un premio letterario assegnato annualmente ad autori irlandesi under 40 che scrivono in gaelico o inglese.
Istituito nel 1976 dal dirigente sportivo e ambasciatore statunitense in Irlanda Dan Rooney, è amministrato dall'Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing presso il Trinity College.
Sovvenzionato dal nipote di Dan Rooney, Peter Rooney, riconosce al vincitore un assegno di 10000 euro.
Albo d'oro 1976: Heno Magee 1977: Desmond Hogan 1978: Peter Sheridan 1979: Kate Cruise O’Brien, A Gift Horse 1980: Bernard Farrell 1981: Neil Jordan 1982: Medbh McGuckian 1983: Dorothy Nelson, In Night's City 1984: Ronan Sheehan 1985: Frank McGuinness, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme 1986: Paul Mercier 1987: Deirdre Madden, Hidden Symptoms 1988: Glenn Patterson, Burning Your Own 1989: Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle 1990: Mary Dorcey, A Noise from the Woodshed 1991: Anne Enright, The Portable Virgin 1992: Hugo Hamilton 1993: Gerard Fanning 1994: Colum McCann, Di altre rive (Fishing the Sloe-Black River) 1995: Philip MacCann, The Miracle Shed 1996: Mike McCormack, Getting It in the Head 1997: Anne Haverty, One Day as a Tiger 1998: David Wheatley, Thirst 1999: Mark O’Rowe, Howie the Rookie 2000: Claire Keegan, Dove l'acqua è più profonda (Antarctica) 2001: Keith Ridgway, Standard Time 2002: Caitriona O'Reilly, The Nowhere Birds 2003: Eugene O’Brien, Eden 2004: Claire Kilroy, All Summer 2005: Nick Laird, To a Fault 2006: Philip Ó Ceallaigh, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse 2007: Kevin Barry, There Are Little Kingdoms 2008: Leontia Flynn, Drives 2009: Kevin Power, Bad Day in Blackrock 2010: Leanne O’Sullivan, Cailleach: The Hag Of Beara 2011: Lucy Caldwell 2012: Nancy Harris 2013: Ciarán Collins 2014: Colin Barrett 2015: Sara Baume 2016: Doireann Ní Ghríofa 2017: Elizabeth Reapy 2018: Caitriona Lally, Eggshells 2019: Mark O’Connell, To Be a Machine 2020: Stephen Sexton, Oils & If All the World and Love Were Young 2021: Niamh Campbell, This Happy 2022: Seán Hewitt, Tongues of Fire e All Down Darkness Wide 2023: Michael Magee, Close to Home 2024: Suad Aldarra, I Don’t Want to Talk About Home 2025: Ferdia Lennon, Eroi senza gloria (Glorious Exploits)
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