News: 2017

Patrick Griffin, the Madden-Hennebry Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, effective January 1, 2018.

Keough-Naughton Faculty Fellow Ian Kuijt, Professor of Anthropology, is leading a multifaceted and multidisciplinary effort off the west coast of Ireland called Hidden Histories: Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast (CLIC). &ld...

As the Institute and its scholars continue to examine and probe the “worlding of Irish Studies,” this year, the IRISH Seminar joined with the University’s annual Rome Seminar to hold “Ireland & Italy” at the Rom...

The Keough-Naughton Institute's award-winning 1916 The Irish Rebellion will be screened on Thursday, August 24, at 4:00 p.m. in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Cinusp Paulo Emílio as part of its 11-day Cultur...

Faculty Fellow Susan Cannon Harris is the author of a new book: Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions:Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left 1892-1964 (Edinburgh University Press 2017), part of the series Edinburgh Critical Stud...

At the American Library Association’s annual conference in Chicago, Foreword Reviews announced the winners of the 19th annual INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Two books published by the University of Notre Dame Press ...

Anthropology graduate student Nicholas Ames has won an elite National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). Nicholas, who is affiliated with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, researches hi...

Faculty Fellow Declan Kiberd received an honorary degree from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on March 16th for his outstanding contributions to Irish Studies. Academic events surrounding the conferral comprised the Keough-N...

  Three Keough-Naughton Faculty Fellows—Declan Kiberd, Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, and Robert Schmuhl—are authors of books named as finalists for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

The landmark documentary 1916 The Irish Rebellion has been awarded an "Honorable Jury Mention" at the Indian World Film Festival, held in Hyderabad, India, on March 19, 2017. 1916 joined entries from 12 other c...

      When the world-renowned poet Paul Muldoon gave a reading at Notre Dame on January 27, his meeting with the Polish academic Wit Pietrzak proved to be yet another instance of the role of the Keough-Naughton Institute i...

Meet Irish Studies Librarian and Curator Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements, who has been instrumental in building and maintaining Notre Dame's world-renowned Irish Studies collection.