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Awards

The following prizes are awarded annually to undergraduate students in Italian.

Each year the Italian Cultural Institute prize is awarded to the student who achieves the highest marks in the second year examination. 

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary

The Bursary has been made possible by a generous donation from the family of the late Rory Kavanagh (1971-1996), a 1993 B.A. graduate of National University of Ireland, Galway, who spent the 1991-1992 academic year in Italy, at the University of Bologna under the ERASMUS Student Mobility Programme. The Bursary, is awarded annually to allow a student of Italian spend the year at a university in Italy. It is awarded to a fulltime undergraduate student of Italian who passes the second year examinations in Arts or Commerce. 

The Salvatore Sferra Memorial Prize

Dott. Antonio Castelli, formerly a member of the Department of Romance Languages (1963-1966), originally endowed this prize in memory of his uncle, Salvatore Sferra (Naples).  The purpose of the prize is to encourage competence in Italian and is awarded each year to that student who, in the judgment of the staff of the Italian Studies, is deemed to have made the most significant progress between second year and final year and who also makes a notable contribution to the Italian Society.

Awards for 2017

  
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary: Éilis Gillespie
The Salvatore Sferra Prize:  
Italian Cultural Institute Prize:   Aisling Forde
   

Awards for 2016

  
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary: Tadhg Gleeson
The Salvatore Sferra Prize: Livia Barnova
Italian Cultural Institute Prize: Bríd Eileanór Ní Chonaill
   

Awards for 2015

  
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary: Sarah Fanning
The Salvatore Sferra Prize: Sorcha O'Boyle
Italian Cultural Insitute Prize: Nora Baker
   

Awards for 2014

  
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary: Lily Lundon 
The Salvatore Sferra Prize: Chloe Doyle
Italian Cultural Institute Prize: Romana Semler

Awards for 2013

  
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary: Aishling Prendergast
The Salvatore Sferra Prize: Siomha McGarry
Italian Cultural Institute Prize: Caitlin Fahy

Awards for 2012

  
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary: Cionna Evans
The Salvatore Sferra Prize: Rebecca Finnegan
Italian Cultural Institute Prize: Joanna Marciniak

Awards for 2011

  
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary: Marion Carey
The Salvatore Sferra Prize: Louise Kennedy
Italian Cultural Institute Prize: Sarah Shwaiki