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The New Clingen Family Center for the Study of Modern Ireland

January 10, 2020

Notre Dame will expand its study of Ireland and its place in the world with the creation of a center to study modern Ireland, made possible by a leadership gift from Brian and Deidre Clingen.
The Snite Museum's exhibition of Irish art, "Looking at the Stars," captivates the University community

October 02, 2019

An extraordinary exhibition at the Snite Museum of Art': "'Looking at the Stars': Irish Art at the University of Notre Dame" has captivated the University community since its opening in August. The Keough-Naughto...
Marina Carr at Notre Dame

September 23, 2019

In early September, the Keough-Naughton Institute welcomed the acclaimed Irish playwright Marina Carr to Notre Dame for a ten-day residency. She read from three of her works at the Snite Museum of Art, participated in a roundtable with Notr...
New application cycle for the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies: Applications due Sept. 20, 2019

August 14, 2019

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and Notre Dame International are pleased to announce the continuation of the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies. The award provides grant funding to assist scholars who tr...
Faculty Fellow Amy Mulligan Wins the 2019 Four Courts Press/American Society for Irish Medieval Studies Michael Adams Prize for Best Article

June 07, 2019

Faculty Fellow Amy Mulligan is the winner of the 2019 Four Courts Press/American Society for Irish Medieval Studies Michael Adams Prize for the best article or essay in Irish medieval studies.
Theology, Studio Art, and Irish Studies Come Together in Undergraduate Anja Renkes' Creative Research Project on Ireland’s Holy Wells

May 10, 2019

Notre Dame junior and Irish Studies minor Anja Renkes has three passionate academic interests: theology, landscape art, and Irish culture. Through the Irish Internship Program, she will merge the three together in an interna...
Faculty Fellow Susan Cannon Harris Named Winner of the Gender Studies Teaching Award

May 02, 2019

In honor of her innovative teaching as well as contributions to the intellectual growth of Notre Dame students and the development of the Gender Studies program, Faculty Fellow Susan Cannon Harris has been selected as the 2019 recipient of...
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 ...

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