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Former Irish Green Party leader Eamon Ryan speaks on cultivating hope to fight climate change

November 11, 2025

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.
Ireland field experience connects aspiring veterinarian to the heart of Irish horse racing

November 05, 2025

Notre Dame student Scarlett Powell gains hands-on veterinary experience in Ireland, learning from elite racehorse experts at Carriganóg Racing.
Keough School institutes partner to launch new academic journal at first-ever conference on disappearance studies

October 29, 2025

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.
Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland Siobhan Keegan talks about life and the law at Notre Dame

October 09, 2025

The Keough-Naughton Institute and its Clingen Center for the Study of Modern Ireland hosted Keegan as part of the Women in Leadership series.
Scholars from around the world consider the ‘Future of Irish Studies’ at conference in Belgium

July 28, 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.
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art hosts first U.S. exhibition of Irish artist Walter Osborne (1859–1903)

July 17, 2025

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.
Encounters at the Junction: reflections on (re)connecting and (re)searching as a visiting student at the Mitchell Institute

July 16, 2025

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.
45th MacGill Summer School to bring Ireland’s thought leaders together for conversations about our ‘fractured world’

July 09, 2025

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.
Vatican honors Martin and Carmel Naughton with papal award

July 05, 2025

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.
Symposium in Australia explores indigeneity and the Age of Revolutions

June 27, 2025

Sydney, located in Gadigal Country, served as the venue for a Symposium on Indigeneity, Mobility, and the Age of Revolutions from June 3-6.
Irish in Rome Conference celebrates global impact of Irish diaspora

June 16, 2025

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.
Belfast conference honors legacy of Irish art historian S.B. Kennedy

June 09, 2025

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.”
Stubborn belonging? Religion and identity in Ireland

March 05, 2025

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.
‘You need to walk the land to feel the stories,’ author and filmmaker Manchán Magan says at ARINS ‘My Identity’ event

February 11, 2025

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...
As Northern Ireland grapples with legacy of the Troubles, Notre Dame experts influence policy to prioritize victims’ rights

November 26, 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...
Irish Island Memories: The Inishbofin Library Local Studies Collection

November 25, 2024

Inishbofin community members investigating…
KNI Undergraduate Researcher Spotlight: Peyton Marrone '25

October 23, 2024

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...
The Keough-Naughton Institute Welcomes Leo Varadkar and Joseph Kennedy III to Notre Dame

October 10, 2024

Leo Varadkar, Joseph Kennedy III, and the Keough-Naughton Institute team. Photo by Peter Ringenberg.…
Notre Dame theologian and Keough-Naughton faculty fellow to receive 2024 Ratzinger Prize from Vatican

September 19, 2024

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...
Former Irish prime minister to speak at Notre Dame

September 09, 2024

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…

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