Awards

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

Italian Cultural Institute Prize

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 academic year 1991-1992 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 one semester at a university in Italy.  It is awarded to a full-time 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.