Breandan Mac Suibhne, Associate Professor of History at Centenary University in Hackettstown, has been nominated for IrishCentral’s Creativity & Arts Award in the category for The Written Word for his title, The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland, which was named the Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year by The Irish Times in 2017.

This inaugural awards event will take place in New York City on February 9. It is designed to honor excellence and innovation across the Irish creative community in America.

Forty nominees have been selected in seven categories in addition to the Written Word category in Media & Innovation, Voice of Today, The Stage, The Screen, Visual Arts, Fashion & Design, and Irish American Centers and Festivals.

Published by Oxford University Press, The End of Outrage examines the massive changes wrought by the Famine in Mac Suibhne’s own part of Donegal, by focusing on how tensions arose within the Molly Maguires in the 1850s about their place in a transformed world.

“It is a great honor to have The End of Outrage listed in the same category as very fine books by authors who I very much admire,” says Mac Suibhne.

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