In the Institute’s annual Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture, Eve Patten, Professor of English and Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre at Trinity College, Dublin, will speak on the theme of the poet and anxiety.
The award-winning novelist John Banville will be a short-term visitor at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies from 30 October through mid-November 2018.
His reading and public talk will feature a text and remarks related to themes of fiction writing.
Reception to follow.
In recognition of his scholarship and innovative teaching and mentoring initiatives with students, Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Professor of History and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, has been awarded the distinction of “Visiting Professor” at the University of Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics, and Archaeology.
For Notre Dame senior economics major and Irish Studies minor Rose Pupel, a choice she made her first year at Notre Dame, proved to be transformative. She enrolled in "The Irish in the World" with Professors Patrick Griffin and Ian Kuijt. . . and that class led to a fascinating and deeply personal research project, study abroad in Dublin, and a passion for even more Irish Studies courses.
