- History of the Spain-Ireland awards from the Aula María Zambrano for Transatlantic Studies
The Spain-Ireland Prizes of the María Zambrano Department of Transatlantic Studies of the University of Malaga, part of the Center for Ibero-American and Transatlantic Studies (CEIT) of the FGUMA-UMA, have chosen the winner of their latest edition .
The prize was awarded to the work “The influence of the Great Armada (Invincible) on contemporary Spanish-Irish relations (20th-21st centuries)”written by researcher Natalia Mateo Ripoll and researcher Juan José Oña Fernández. The prize will be awarded in 2025.
The evaluation committee chaired by the director of CEIT, Juan Antonio García Galindo, highlighted that “the work presented by these authors focuses on Ireland’s relations with Spain through a historical event as important as the Invincible Armada, an event which has remained throughout time in the memory of the Spanish and the Irish”.
Likewise, the committee appreciated “access and consultation of numerous personal and documentary sources which enrich the research presented”.
History of the Spain-Ireland awards from the Aula María Zambrano for Transatlantic Studies
The Spain-Ireland International Research Prizes were launched in 2018 with the support of patron José Antonio Sierra, founder of the Spanish Cultural Institute in Dublin, with the aim of encouraging research and awakening interest in relations between the two countries in any academic and scientific discipline. Between 2018 and 2023, a total of five editions were developed in which different modalities were established, such as the George Campbell Prize, the Kate O’Brien Prize and the Robert Boyd Prize, all included in the Spain-Ireland Prizes.
In the 2018-2019 edition, the work “Irish writers in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s; Pearse Hutchinson and Aidan Higgins” by Verónica Membrive, lecturer and researcher at the Department of Philology at the University of Almería, was highlighted. In the next edition corresponding to 2019-2020, researchers Lorena Arce Romeral and Miriam Seghiri Domínguez from the University of Málaga were awarded for their work “Generation of writing and translation models (English-Spanish) for employment contracts purchase of housing: a study applied to Spain and Ireland” and an accessit was awarded to Martha Gutiérrez-Steim-Kamp for “Relations – Ireland and Spain 1965 to present.” An illustrated journey.
In 2020-2021, the winner was Pilar Iglesias Aparicio, doctor of philology, for “The Magdalen washhouses in Ireland and the centers of the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer in Spain: examples of sexual policy of repression and punishment of women “.
For the 2021-2022 edition, the prize was awarded to the works “Transatlantic women who rebel on the continent in “man’s time””by Víctor Calderón Fajardo, from the University of Malaga, et ”Land of promises. The Costello family and the Irish diaspora. Genealogy, globalization and Atlantic trade in 18th century Andalusia”, by Salvador David Pérez González, also from the University of Malaga, in the Kate O’Brien Prize and Robert Boyd Prize categories, respectively. A second prize was also awarded to “The legacy of Eavan Boland in Ireland and beyond: a literary and personal approach”by Pilar Villar Argáiz from the University of Grenade.
