News: 2025

The University of Notre Dame Dublin welcomed over 280 guests for the Gala Premiere of Daniel O’Connell: The Emancipator, a landmark documentary on the life and legacy…

Over 280 people gathered at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin on Nov. 4, 2025, to mark the fifth anniversary of renowned poet Derek Mahon’s death.

The initiative, funded by the Keough School of Global Affairs’ Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the College of Arts & Letters, will bring a prominent writer-in-residence and critic-in-residence to Notre Dame each year.

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative hosted Ryan to give an address on hope and the environment as part of the 2025 Notre Dame Forum.

Notre Dame student Scarlett Powell gains hands-on veterinary experience in Ireland, learning from elite racehorse experts at Carriganóg Racing.

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies hosted the conference on Sept. 29-30 with more than 40 scholars and practitioners from around the world.

The Keough-Naughton Institute and its Clingen Center for the Study of Modern Ireland hosted Keegan as part of the Women in Leadership series.

Fifty scholars from around the world gathered from June 26-28 at the Irish College in the ancient university town of Leuven, Belgium, to take stock of the state of Irish Studies and plan for the field’s future.

Long favored as one of Ireland’s modern artists, Walter Osborne (1859–1903) is the focus of a new exhibition this fall at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.

Paul Kyumin Lee, a Ph.D. student in peace studies and sociology, shares what he experienced in Belfast this summer through an exchange program between Queen’s University Belfast and the Keough-Naughton Institute.

More than 40 scholars, writers, and cultural and political leaders will gather from July 17-19 in a small town in the west of Ireland for the 45th MacGill Summer School.

The late Pope Francis, in one of his last acts, conferred the honor of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great upon Carmel and Martin Naughton, trustee emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.

Sydney, located in Gadigal Country, served as the venue for a Symposium on Indigeneity, Mobility, and the Age of Revolutions from June 3-6.

From early clerics to modern writers and intellectuals, the Irish in Rome have contributed to an extensive network of scholarly, artistic, and religious endeavors over the past four centuries.

More than 80 people gathered at the Ulster Museum and Queen’s University Belfast on May 22-23 for the conference “New Histories of Irish Art and Modernism.”

Church of Ireland Archbishop John McDowell and Catholic Archbishop Eamon Martin met at Benburb Priory for a public conversation facilitated by Professor Deirdre Heenan of Ulster University.

In 1996, Manchán Magan was living in a cowshed in the Himalayas, an “idealistic dreamer” in exile from modernity. As he tells it, his brother, filmmaker Ruán Magan, tracked him down, shook him awake and started filming wh...