News: July 2025

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.