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Irish Ethnomusicologist and Musician Aileen Dillane’s Semester-long Visit Educates, Enlightens and Enlivens the Notre Dame Campus

February 17, 2018

In Fall 2017, Professor Aileen Dillane of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick was the Herbert Allen & Donald R. Keough Visiting Faculty Fellow and the Moore & Livingston Faculty...
Declan Kiberd’s After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present

February 06, 2018

Faculty Fellow Declan Kiberd has published his latest book After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present (Harvard University Press, 2018). In it, he explores works of nearly 30 modern poets and writers—John Banvil...
Keough Family's Gift Expands the Snite Museum’s Irish Art Collection

January 24, 2018

The Snite Museum of Art announced today a gift from the Donald and Marilyn Keough family of 19 modern and contemporary paintings by Irish artists. Combined with earlier acquisitions of 18th-century prints by James Barry and Thomas Frye...
Northern Ireland: A Collection on Peace - A Recent Acquisition in the Hesburgh Libraries' Irish Studies Collection

January 15, 2018

One of the recent additions to the Irish Studies Collection of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries is The Wells Collection's Northern Ireland — A Collection on Peace and Reconciliation.
Launch of Patrick Griffin's new book - "The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century"

January 10, 2018

On Tuesday evening, January 9, Dublin’s O’Connell House was the site of the launch of a new book by Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Professor of History and newly appointed Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies...
Historian Patrick Griffin appointed director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

October 26, 2017

Patrick Griffin, the Madden-Hennebry Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, effective January 1, 2018.
Faculty Fellow Ian Kuijt and his Team are Illuminating "Hidden Histories" and "Soft Footprints" on the Connemara Coast

October 26, 2017

Keough-Naughton Faculty Fellow Ian Kuijt, Professor of Anthropology, is leading a multifaceted and multidisciplinary effort off the west coast of Ireland called Hidden Histories: Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast (CLIC). &ld...
Wrap-Up of "Ireland & Italy": The IRISH Seminar Joins with the Rome Seminar in Summer 2017

September 16, 2017

As the Institute and its scholars continue to examine and probe the “worlding of Irish Studies,” this year, the IRISH Seminar joined with the University’s annual Rome Seminar to hold “Ireland & Italy” at the Rom...
1916 The Irish Rebellion in São Paulo, Brazil

August 24, 2017

The Keough-Naughton Institute's award-winning 1916 The Irish Rebellion will be screened on Thursday, August 24, at 4:00 p.m. in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Cinusp Paulo Emílio as part of its 11-day Cultur...
Faculty Fellow Susan Cannon Harris Publishes "Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions"

August 07, 2017

Faculty Fellow Susan Cannon Harris is the author of a new book: Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions:Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left 1892-1964 (Edinburgh University Press 2017), part of the series Edinburgh Critical Stud...
Two Faculty Fellows' Books Awarded Top Prizes in the INDIE Book Award Competition

August 04, 2017

At the American Library Association’s annual conference in Chicago, Foreword Reviews announced the winners of the 19th annual INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Two books published by the University of Notre Dame Press ...
Anthropology Graduate Student Nicholas Ames Wins an Elite NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

May 30, 2017

Anthropology graduate student Nicholas Ames has won an elite National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). Nicholas, who is affiliated with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, researches hi...
The Inaugural Keough Global Seminar: In conjunction with the conferral of an honorary degree upon Declan Kiberd by Babeş-Bolyai University

March 31, 2017

Faculty Fellow Declan Kiberd received an honorary degree from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on March 16th for his outstanding contributions to Irish Studies. Academic events surrounding the conferral comprised the Keough-N...
Books by Three Keough-Naughton Faculty Fellows are Finalists for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

March 29, 2017

Three Keough-Naughton Faculty Fellows—Declan Kiberd, Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, and Robert Schmuhl—are authors of books named as finalists for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
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…

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