2018 Award Winners

An Post Irish Book of the Year

• Notes to Self by Emilie Pine (Tramp Press)

TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year Winner

• Lighthouses of Ireland by Roger O’Reilly (Collins Press)

National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year (Junior) 

• The President’s Cat by Peter Donnelly (Gill Books)

National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year (Senior)

• Blazing a Trail by Sarah Webb and Lauren O’Neill (The O’Brien Press)

Dept 51@ Eason Teen / Young Adult Book of the Year 

• The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan (Bloomsbury)

Eason Book Club Novel of the Year

• Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber)

Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year

• The Importance of Being Aisling by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen (Gill Books)

Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year

• Skin Deep by Liz Nugent (Penguin Ireland)

Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year

• Notes to Self by Emilie Pine (Tramp Press)

Onside Non-Fiction Book of the Year

• People Like Me by Lynn Ruane (Gill Books)

Ireland AM Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year 

• The Cow Book by John Connell (Granta Books)

EUROSPAR Cookbook of the Year 

• Currabinny Cookbook by James Kavanagh and William Murray (Penguin Ireland)

Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year

• Game Changer by Cora Staunton with Mary White (PRH Transworld Ireland)

RTÉ Radio 1’s The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award

• Skin Deep by Liz Nugent (Penguin Ireland)

Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year 

• “Birthday” by Brian Kirk

Writing,ie Short Story of the Year 

• “How to Build a Space Rocket” by Roisin O’Donnell (From The Broken Spiral ed by RM Clarke)

The Love Leabhar Gaeilge Irish Language Book of the Year

• Tuatha De Denann by Diarmuid Johnson (Leabhar Breac)