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Three Questions with . . . Lisa Caulfield

August 04, 2021

Lisa Caulfield, Director of Notre Dame's Kylemore Abbey Global Centre, tells us how she and her team pivoted during the pandemic [Hint: one way was finding a global audience in virtual book clubs] and how they are re-opening.
Irish Studies Graduate Minor Claudia Carroll is a Graduate Fellow at Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study examining the concept of "resilience"

August 04, 2021

English PhD student and Irish studies minor Claudia Carroll is a graduate fellow at Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study. The theme for the 2021-2022 year: Resilience.
Historian and Keough-Naughton Institute Director Patrick Griffin Elected to the American Antiquarian Society

June 24, 2021

Patrick Griffin, the Madden-Hennebry Professor of History and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute, is one of 25 distinguished scholars, librarians, curators, writers, and artists elected this spring to the American Antiquarian Society.
Three Questions with . . . Gary Murphy

June 17, 2021

As the world reopens, Gary Murphy, Professor of Politics at Dublin City University and a former visiting faculty fellow at the Institute, writes about his new book on Charles Haughey and what, during the pandemic, he has missed.
The 2021 IRISH Seminar Wraps up this Week

June 17, 2021

Always a formative experience for students and faculty marked by intense intellectual exchange, the 2021 graduate IRISH Seminar, which occurred this year virtually, wraps up this week.
Commencement 2021: Andrew Gannon, Winner of the Donald and Marilyn Keough Award for Excellence in Irish Studies

June 14, 2021

Andrew Gannon, an Economics major with Irish Studies and History minors, was awarded the 2021 Donald and Marilyn Keough Award for Excellence in Irish Studies at Commencement 2021.
Commencement 2021: Nicholas Ames, PhD in Anthropology

June 04, 2021

Nicholas Ames, who researches historic migration and the influence immigrant communities have on the development of contemporary urban America, received his PhD in Anthropology at Commencement 2021.
Three Questions with . . . Enrico Terrinoni

March 31, 2021

Enrico Terrinoni, Università per Stranieri di Perugia, continues work on James Joyce while exploring a new project that applies insights of quantum physics to theories of literary interpretation.
Cathleen Houlihan '19: Irish Studies Minor and Visa Officer, Ireland's Consulate in Chicago

March 17, 2021

Cathleen (“Caiti”) Houlihan ND ’19 is the visa officer for the Consulate General of Ireland, Chicago—and one with a recognizably Irish name.
Resurrecting Irish Monks

March 14, 2021

In a research program led by Faculty Fellow Ian Kuijt and that includes current postdoctoral scholar Naughton Fellow Ryan Lash '10, archaeologists trace the history of island Catholicism.
Three Questions with . . . Jennifer Todd

March 02, 2021

Professor Jennifer Todd, Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin, focuses her research and writing on the interrelation of socio-economic and political processes and processes of cultural change.
Director Patrick Griffin named the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford

February 11, 2021

The prestigious fellowship will allow Professor Griffin the opportunity to spend a year at Oxford's Queen's College and Rothermere American Institute lecturing and researching his next book.
“Teaching as a Way of Thinking”: Graduate Irish Minors Design and Teach Innovative Undergraduate English Courses

February 09, 2021

After a rigorous mentoring process, English PhD students earning an Irish Studies minor teach innovative undergraduate courses with " passion and insight"—and teaching becomes a transformative experience.
Three Questions with . . . Ailbhe Darcy

January 20, 2021

Ailbhe Darcy is a poet, a critic, and Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. Read about her new book and what, during the pandemic, she is missing. In short: "I miss it all. I love the world dearly and I dearly want it back."
Faculty Fellow Bob Schmuhl calls American politics “like it invariably is” for the Irish

January 18, 2021

Since 2004, Faculty Fellow Robert Schmuhl has been essential reading and listening in Ireland for analysis and commentary on American presidential politics. His goal? "To tell why it is as it is and what it means.”
Launch of Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South (ARINS)

January 05, 2021

Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South (ARINS) provides authoritative, independent, and non-partisan research and analysis about constitutional, institutional, and policy options for the island of Ireland.
Bríona Nic Dhiarmada on the enduring words of W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"

November 30, 2020

Listen to a podcast in which Bríona Nic Dhiarmada speaks to the enduring legacy of W.B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," published at a time of political polarization and a pandemic.
A new book by Brian Ó Conchubhair celebrates Galway City and its naming as the 2020 European Capital of Culture

November 30, 2020

A new anthology of prose and poetry, "Gaillimh: Díolaim Cathrach," provides an overview of the ways poets and writers interpreted, imagined, and understood Galway City, the capital of Irish-speaking Ireland.
Three Questions with . . . Daniel Carey

November 30, 2020

Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, NUI Galway, answers "Three Questions." Find out what he is reading, researching, and—during the pandemic—missing.
Three Questions with . . . Sonja Tiernan

November 02, 2020

Sonja Tiernan is the Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies and co-director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She inaugurates a new series for our website: Three Questions.

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