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Faculty Fellow Declan Kiberd Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 22, 2019

Faculty Fellow Declan Kiberd, the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English and Irish Language and Literature, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AALS).
The 2019 IRISH Seminar: "Ireland and Britain," University of Oxford

April 01, 2019

The theme of the Keough-Naughton Institute's Summer 2019 IRISH Seminar is "Ireland and Britain." It will take place from June 9-21 at the University of Oxford.
Christopher Fox Named Ambassador Award Recipient for 2019 Holyoke St. Patrick's Parade

March 10, 2019

On St. Patrick’s Day weekend 2019, Faculty Fellow Christopher Fox, Professor of English and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies from 2001 through 2017, will receive the Ambassador Award from the St. Patrick’s ...
"Brexit and the Future of British-Irish Relations"

March 07, 2019

On Thursday, February 28th and Friday March 1, 2019, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies hosted a conference with a focus on “Brexit and the Future of British-Irish Relations” in collaboration with the Moore Institute at ...
The Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies welcomes first recipient to campus

March 06, 2019

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and Notre Dame International are excited to welcome the first grant recipient to campus for the Keough-Naughton Library Grant Award in Irish Studies. Keelan Harkin, who recently completed his ...
Michèle Mendelssohn, the University of Oxford, to lecture on her book "Making Oscar Wilde" on April 8

February 25, 2019

On Monday, April 8, at 3:30 p.m., Michèle Mendelssohn, Associate Professor in English Literature of the University of Oxford and Deputy Director of Oxford's Rothermere American Institute, will lecture on her highly praised b...
The Keough-Naughton Institute Travels to Latin America to Interrogate Themes of Independence and Nationhood

January 28, 2019

In December 2018, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies co-organized two conferences in Santiago, Chile. The aim was to explore themes related to colonialism, independence, nationhood, and democracy in Chile and the Americas as a whole...
In Memoriam: Joseph Buttigieg, Kenan Professor Emeritus of English and Faculty Fellow, The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

January 28, 2019

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies joins the University community in mourning the death of Joseph Buttigieg, Kenan Professor Emeritus of English and a long-time faculty fellow of the Institute.
"Art and Craft with John Banville" in Notre Dame Magazine

January 23, 2019

The acclaimed novelist John Banville (his novel The Sea won the Man Booker Prize in 2005) visited the Keough-Naughton Institute for two weeks in November 2018. This month's edition of Notre Dame Magazine includes a reflection by As...
Faculty Fellows Sarah McKibben and Peter McQuillan are Contributors to "Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives"

January 18, 2019

Keough-Naughton Institute Faculty Fellows Sarah McKibben and Peter McQuillan are contributors to Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives…
Professor Sarah McKibben Wins an NEH Fellowship for her Research on Bardic Poetry of the 16th and 17th Centuries

December 14, 2018

Keough-Naughton Institute Faculty Fellow Sarah McKibben is one of three Notre Dame faculty members to win a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2018 award cycle. Her research focuses on Irish poets of the 16th and...
Professor Barry McCrea is a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College's Long Room Hub, Fall 2018

December 14, 2018

As a Visiting Fellow at the Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin, Professor Barry McCrea spent Fall semester 2018 researching the relationship between economic life and narrative form in European fiction.
Tributes for Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Limerick and Founder/Director at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

November 12, 2018

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies joins in tributes around the world to the late Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Limerick and founder/Director at the ...
New Volume of Poetry by Ailbhe Darcy Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize

October 31, 2018

Ailbhe Darcy’s new volume of poetry, Insistence, has been shortlisted for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize in Poetry. Darcy, who received both her MFA in Creative Writing from Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in English, with an Iris...
Director Patrick Griffin Awarded the Distinction of “Honorary Professor” at the University of Edinburgh

October 22, 2018

In recognition of his scholarship and innovative teaching and mentoring initiatives with students, Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Professor of History and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, has been awarded the distin...
Meet an Irish Studies Minor: Rose Pupel

September 20, 2018

For Notre Dame senior economics major and Irish Studies minor Rose Pupel, a choice she made her first year at Notre Dame, proved to be transformative. She enrolled in "The Irish in the World" with Professors Patrick Grif...
The Summer 2018 IRISH Seminar Provides “Full Immersion” into the Ireland of 1600 to 1800

August 28, 2018

The theme of the 2018 IRISH Seminar, a signature Keough-Naughton Institute event, was "Ireland 1600-1800: Kingdom, Colony, Union, Empire." Directed by Christopher Fox, Professor of English and Director of the Institute from 2001 throug...
Announcing the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies

August 25, 2018

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and Notre Dame International announce the new Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies—an award that provides grant funding for scholars to use the collections of ...
The Belfast "Good Friday" Agreement and the Challenges of Brexit

June 12, 2018

How will Brexit affect the 1998 Belfast "Good Friday" Agreement and its continued implementation? What are the specific challenges created by the referendum decision in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union? And how might thes...
Keough School and Embassy of Ireland Host Forum on Peacebuilding

June 12, 2018

The Keough School of Global Affairs and the Embassy of Ireland will host the forum “Strategies for Lasting Peace Accords” at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 12 at the Keough School’s new Washington, D.C., office. Marki...

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