News: 2024

Northern Ireland has long struggled to reckon with the trauma of the Troubles, a 30-year conflict that killed approximately 3,700 people — many of them civilians — through sectarian violence. Experts in the University of Notre Dame&rsq...

Inishbofin community members investigating…

Peyton Marrone is a senior undergraduate at Notre Dame majoring in Political Science with a double minor in Computing & Digital Technologies and Philosophy. She received a 2024 Visiting Summer Scholar Award from the Keough-Naughton Institute a...

Leo Varadkar, Joseph Kennedy III, and the Keough-Naughton Institute team.  Photo by Peter Ringenberg.…

Cyril O’Regan, the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to receive the 2024 Ratzinger Prize in Theology, widely regarded as the most prestigious award in the field. Pietro Parolin, th...

Leo Varadkar, former prime minister of Ireland and current member of parliament in Dáil Eireann, will join the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, for a public discussion…

Mary McAleese served as the eighth president of Ireland from 1997 to 2011 and serves as the current President of the Advisory Board for the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion. …

At the Westville Correctional Facility in northwest Indiana, seven men in similar prison-blue pants and sweatshirts sit in a bare-bones classroom in April to discuss Irish literature with Notre Dame professor Brian Ó Conchubhair.…

Summer school participants gather in the Naughton Commons at Kylemore.…

On Thursday, 11 July, ‘Northerners Not Welcome?’, a panel meant to explore the lived experiences of Northerners (i.e. people born in Northern Ireland) living and working south of the border was hosted by the ARINS Project, a partnershi...

Clodagh McEvoy-Johnston '25 reflects on her time attending the 2024 Future of Irish Studies Conference.

Newly elected Taoiseach Simon Harris, TD, has been added as the keynote speaker for this year’s MacGill Summer School (18-20 July). The MacGill Summer School, in association with University of Notre Dame, is Ireland’s...

Colin Barr has been appointed the next Thomas Moore and Judy Livingston Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, effective January 1, 2025. A distinguished historian of modern Ireland, Professor…