Brian Ó Conchubhair, Keough-Naughton for Irish Studies Institute Fellow and Professor of Irish Language and Literature was recognized by Comhar, a monthly literary journal in the Irish Language, for writing one of the 10 best books in Irish since 2000.
His work Fin de Siècle na Gaeilge: Darwin, An Athbheochan agus Smaointeoireacht na hEorpa (Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2009) also received the 2009 Oireachas non-fiction award and Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana Fhoras na Gaeilge/ACIS Prize for Books in the Irish Language.