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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...
Profile: César Soto

October 25, 2016

César Soto wants to know how the spark of political revolution can transform religious concepts of community and inclusion. A graduate student…
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.
2015 Keough and Pfeiffer interns Learn on the Ground in Ireland

October 22, 2015

Every summer, Notre Dame students are given invaluable opportunities through summer internships in Ireland. In Summer 2015, ten students interned in Ireland via funding through the Keough-Naughton Institute -- in placements ranging from arts...
New books by Faculty Fellows of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

September 22, 2015

To wide acclaim, four Faculty Fellows of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies have published books in recent months.

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