In his first visit to Notre Dame, prominent Irish writer and filmmaker Kevin McCann will screen and discuss three films: The Boys of St. Columb's, Volkswagen Joe, and his current venture, The Rising.
Rob Dunbar, Chair of Celtic Languages, Literature, History and Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh, holds a PhD from Edinburgh in Celtic and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. His focus is the maintenance and revitalization of minority languages and the protection of their speakers.
On St. Patrick’s Day weekend 2019, Faculty Fellow Christopher Fox, Professor of English and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies from 2001 through 2017, will receive the Ambassador Award from the St. Patrick’s Committee of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The Ambassador Award is presented each year to a person or organization that has worked to promote the relationship between the people of the Republic of Ireland and the people of the United States.
On Thursday, February 28th and Friday March 1, 2019, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies hosted a conference with a focus on “Brexit and the Future of British-Irish Relations” in collaboration with the Moore Institute at NUI Galway and the Mitchell Institute at Queen’s University Belfast.
