News: June 2021

Patrick Griffin, the Madden-Hennebry Professor of History and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute, is one of 25 distinguished scholars, librarians, curators, writers, and artists elected this spring to the American Antiquarian Society.

As the world reopens, Gary Murphy, Professor of Politics at Dublin City University and a former visiting faculty fellow at the Institute, writes about his new book on Charles Haughey and what, during the pandemic, he has missed.

Always a formative experience for students and faculty marked by intense intellectual exchange, the 2021 graduate IRISH Seminar, which occurred this year virtually, wraps up this week.

Andrew Gannon, an Economics major with Irish Studies and History minors, was awarded the 2021 Donald and Marilyn Keough Award for Excellence in Irish Studies at Commencement 2021.

Nicholas Ames, who researches historic migration and the influence immigrant communities have on the development of contemporary urban America, received his PhD in Anthropology at Commencement 2021.