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Declan Kiberd’s After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present

February 06, 2018

Faculty Fellow Declan Kiberd has published his latest book After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present (Harvard University Press, 2018). In it, he explores works of nearly 30 modern poets and writers—John Banvil...
Keough Family's Gift Expands the Snite Museum’s Irish Art Collection

January 24, 2018

The Snite Museum of Art announced today a gift from the Donald and Marilyn Keough family of 19 modern and contemporary paintings by Irish artists. Combined with earlier acquisitions of 18th-century prints by James Barry and Thomas Frye...
Northern Ireland: A Collection on Peace - A Recent Acquisition in the Hesburgh Libraries' Irish Studies Collection

January 15, 2018

One of the recent additions to the Irish Studies Collection of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries is The Wells Collection's Northern Ireland — A Collection on Peace and Reconciliation.
Launch of Patrick Griffin's new book - "The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century"

January 10, 2018

On Tuesday evening, January 9, Dublin’s O’Connell House was the site of the launch of a new book by Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Professor of History and newly appointed Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies...
Historian Patrick Griffin appointed director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

October 26, 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.
Faculty Fellow Ian Kuijt and his Team are Illuminating "Hidden Histories" and "Soft Footprints" on the Connemara Coast

October 26, 2017

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...
Wrap-Up of "Ireland & Italy": The IRISH Seminar Joins with the Rome Seminar in Summer 2017

September 16, 2017

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...
1916 The Irish Rebellion in São Paulo, Brazil

August 24, 2017

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 Publishes "Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions"

August 07, 2017

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...
Two Faculty Fellows' Books Awarded Top Prizes in the INDIE Book Award Competition

August 04, 2017

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 Wins an Elite NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

May 30, 2017

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...
The Inaugural Keough Global Seminar: In conjunction with the conferral of an honorary degree upon Declan Kiberd by Babeş-Bolyai University

March 31, 2017

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...
Books by Three Keough-Naughton Faculty Fellows are Finalists for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

March 29, 2017

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.
1916 The Irish Rebellion Wins "Honorable Jury Mention" at the 2017 Indian World Film Festival

March 24, 2017

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...
Renowned Poet Paul Muldoon at Notre Dame—and his intersection with a young Polish academic, Wit Pietrzak

February 23, 2017

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...
Profile: Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements, Irish Studies Librarian and Curator

January 25, 2017

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.
1916 The Irish Rebellion Wins Two More Awards

November 18, 2016

As the centenary year of the Easter Rising of 1916 draws to a close, the landmark documentary, 1916 The Irish Rebellion, that explains and illuminates the dramatic story of events in Dublin that week continues to win awards.
IRISH Seminar 2016: Classical Influences

November 09, 2016

With the theme "Classical Influences," the 2016 IRISH Seminar took participants to Dublin and Kylemore Abbey as they examined Irish culture from a number of different historical, sociological, and literary perspectives &md...
Marilyn Keough (1926-2016)

October 09, 2016

From Christopher Fox, Professor of English and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies: "It is with great regret that I announce the passing of Ireland Council member Mickie Keough, without whose help the Keough-Naug...
1916 The Irish Rebellion awarded "Best Documentary Series"

October 07, 2016

1916 The Irish Rebellion was awarded "Best Documentary Series" at the 2016 Irish Film and Television Award ceremony, held on Friday, October 7, in Dublin.
The Reframing 1916 Fall Tour Launches in Buenos Aires

September 07, 2016

The Fall Reframing 1916 tour launches this week in Buenos Aires, as part of an Irish Studies Symposium, "The Irish in America," hosted by the Escuela de Lenguas Modernas at the Universidad del Salvador. Narrated by Liam Neeson, ...
Breac launches its children's literature issue

August 29, 2016

The digital journal Breac, based at the University of Notre Dame, has launched its children's literature issue. Edited by Anne Markey (The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature) and Aedín Clements (University of N...
Amy Mulligan Wins a Second Major Grant—a Fulbright—on Top of her NEH Grant for her “A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain, and the Poetics of Irish Space from 700-1300.”

May 09, 2016

Keough-Naughton Institute Faculty Fellow Amy Mulligan has won a second prestigious grant—this one, a Fulbright—for her innovative, wide-ranging study on the poetics of Irish place across multiple periods and from different national p...
Cyril O’Regan, the Huisking Professor of Theology at Notre Dame, Named a New Faculty Fellow

May 05, 2016

Cyril O’Regan, the Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed a faculty fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.
Two Faculty Fellows' books on the Easter Rising Praised in the New York Times' Book Review

April 19, 2016

In a piece "Ireland vs. Empire" in the New York Times' Book Review section of Sunday, April 17, 2016, author John Williams praises Robert Schmuhl's America's Exiled Children: America and the Easter Rising and Br&iac...
Barry McCrea Wins "Best Book" Prize for his Languages of the Night

March 22, 2016

Faculty Fellow Barry McCrea, the Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English, Irish Language and Literature, and Romance Languages and Literatures, has been awarded the René Wellek Prize by the American Com...
Faculty Fellow Robert Schmuhl’s New Book: Ireland’s Exiled Children: America and the Easter Rising

February 26, 2016

In this centenary year of the Easter Rising, a new book by Keough-Naughton Institute Faculty Fellow Robert Schmuhl, the Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism, sheds new light on the American connections to ...
Irish Times holds a wide-ranging interview with Declan Kiberd

February 11, 2016

In a wide-ranging interview in The Irish Times, Declan Kiberd, the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, Professor of English and Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame, discusses "the Gaelic R...
Interview on Irish Radio with Liam Neeson and O'Donnell Professor Briona Nic Dhiarmada

February 09, 2016

Listen to this segment of the Marian Finucane Show of Saturday, February 7, 2016, in which Liam Neeson, narrator of 1916 The Irish Rebellion, calls the documentary "one for the ages."
Faculty Fellow Amy Mulligan Wins Prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Award

December 16, 2015

Professor Mulligan's analysis will consider the theories and poetics of Irish place that were developed over six medieval centuries in response to a variety of political, cultural, religious and economic changes.