How will Brexit affect the 1998 Belfast "Good Friday" Agreement and its continued implementation? What are the specific challenges created by the referendum decision in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union? And how might these challenges be addressed? These questions were at the foundation of a special conference organized by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame in cooperation with The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and the Institute for Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast.

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The Keough School of Global Affairs and the Embassy of Ireland will host the forum “Strategies for Lasting Peace Accords” at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 12 at the Keough School’s new Washington, D.C., office. Marking the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement among the Irish and British governments and political parties of Northern Ireland, the event will discuss lessons from that peace process as well as the Colombian peace accord.

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On June 1, Faculty Fellow Declan Kiberd, the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, Professor of English and Irish Language and Literature, discussed the topic "how Ireland creates writers and writers created Ireland" on CBC Radio with host of "Sunday Edition" Michael Enright.

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Tom Murphy, the acclaimed Irish playwright, died this month at the age of 83. This tribute by Faculty Fellow Declan Kiberd was published originally in The Times of London, 20 May, 2018

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Publication of the Cambridge History of Ireland four-volume set is celebrated in Dublin, with President Michael D. Higgins giving a special address and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies a co-sponsor.

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A "Spotlight" exhibit at the Hesburgh Library sheds light on its Irish-American periodical collection — one that reveals much about networks of Irish in America, the emerging culture of Irish-Americans, and the ways in which Irish-Americans connected with Ireland.

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The week of April 16th is huge at the Keough-Naughton Institute for global Irish Studies themes--from Northern Ireland, to Argentina, to Brexit, and then a look back at medieval "globalized poetics."

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Florence Impens, now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester, has published Classical Presences in Irish Poetry After 1960: The Answering Voice (Palgrave 2018). The volume is the product of her work as a National Endowment for the Humanities-Keough Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

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Keough-Naughton Faculty Fellow Sarah McKibben has won a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for her book project titled “Tradition Transformed: Bardic Poetry and Patronage in Early Modern Ireland, c. 1560-1660.”

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In Fall 2017, Professor Aileen Dillane of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick was the Herbert Allen & Donald R. Keough Visiting Faculty Fellow and the Moore & Livingston Faculty Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. A dynamic teacher and performer, she did much during her semester on campus to illustrate how different genres of "Irish" music have been experienced, re-imagined and extended over the years and how music is central to discussions and representations of Irish and Irish-American identity.

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