Irish Times Literature Prize

From 1988 to 1992, this award was sponsored jointly by the Irish Times and Aer Lingus. There is a separate International Fiction Prize.

1989
The Man Who Loved Evelyn Cotton by Frank Ronan
1990
Fiction: Amongst Women by John McGahern
Poetry: Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson
1991
Non-fiction: Ireland 1912-1985 by J.J. Lee
First book: The South by Colm Toibin
1992
Fiction: The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Poetry: Selected Poems by Derek Mahon
1993
Non-fiction: An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
First book:The Fallen and Other Storie by John MacKennas
1995
Fiction: A Maid's Tale by Kathleen Ferguson
Non-fiction: Straight Left by Paddy Devlin
Poetry:Collected Poems by Robert Greacen
1997
Fiction: Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
Non-fiction: Inventing Ireland by Declan Kiberd
Poetry: New Selected Poems by Paul Muldoon
1999
Fiction: Shadow-Box by Antonia Logue
Non-fiction: The Good Listener: Helen Bamber: A Life Against Cruelty by Neil Belton
Poetry: Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
2001
Fiction: The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
Non-fiction: The Burning of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke
Poetry: The Weather in Japan byMichael Longley

International Fiction Prize

1989
Libra by Don DeLillo
1990
Possession by A.S. Byatt
1991
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
1992
Mating by Norman Rush
1993
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1995
The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
1997
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
1999
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
2001
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje