In December 2018, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies co-organized two conferences in Santiago, Chile. The aim was to explore themes related to colonialism, independence, nationhood, and democracy in Chile and the Americas as a whole, as well as Ireland’s historical, cultural, and contemporary links with Chile and Latin America.
The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies joins the University community in mourning the death of Joseph Buttigieg, Kenan Professor Emeritus of English and a long-time faculty fellow of the Institute.
The acclaimed novelist John Banville (his novel The Sea won the Man Booker Prize in 2005) visited the Keough-Naughton Institute for two weeks in November 2018. This month's edition of Notre Dame Magazine includes a reflection by Associate Editor Jason Kelly '95 on his visit.
Keough-Naughton Institute Faculty Fellows Sarah McKibben and Peter McQuillan are contributors to Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives…
Keough-Naughton Institute Faculty Fellow Sarah McKibben is one of three Notre Dame faculty members to win a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2018 award cycle. Her research focuses on Irish poets of the 16th and 17th centuries, who composed compelling artistic expressions of praise and warning — as well as satire — in the face of an antagonistic, expanding Tudor-Stuart state.
As a Visiting Fellow at the Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin, Professor Barry McCrea spent Fall semester 2018 researching the relationship between economic life and narrative form in European fiction.
The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies joins in tributes around the world to the late Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Limerick and founder/Director at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. His funeral was held today in County Clare.
Ailbhe Darcy’s new volume of poetry, Insistence, has been shortlisted for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize in Poetry.
Darcy, who received both her MFA in Creative Writing from Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in English, with an Irish Studies graduate minor, now lives in Wales. A poet, a critic, and a professor, she teaches contemporary Irish poetry and literature at Cardiff University.
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 “Honorary 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.
