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Amy Mulligan Wins a Second Major Grant—a Fulbright—on Top of her NEH Grant for her “A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain, and the Poetics of Irish Space from 700-1300.”

May 09, 2016

Keough-Naughton Institute Faculty Fellow Amy Mulligan has won a second prestigious grant—this one, a Fulbright—for her innovative, wide-ranging study on the poetics of Irish place across multiple periods and from different national p...
Cyril O’Regan, the Huisking Professor of Theology at Notre Dame, Named a New Faculty Fellow

May 05, 2016

Cyril O’Regan, the Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed a faculty fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.
Two Faculty Fellows' books on the Easter Rising Praised in the New York Times' Book Review

April 19, 2016

In a piece "Ireland vs. Empire" in the New York Times' Book Review section of Sunday, April 17, 2016, author John Williams praises Robert Schmuhl's America's Exiled Children: America and the Easter Rising and Br&iac...
Barry McCrea Wins "Best Book" Prize for his Languages of the Night

March 22, 2016

Faculty Fellow Barry McCrea, the Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English, Irish Language and Literature, and Romance Languages and Literatures, has been awarded the René Wellek Prize by the American Com...
Faculty Fellow Robert Schmuhl’s New Book: Ireland’s Exiled Children: America and the Easter Rising

February 26, 2016

In this centenary year of the Easter Rising, a new book by Keough-Naughton Institute Faculty Fellow Robert Schmuhl, the Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism, sheds new light on the American connections to ...
Irish Times holds a wide-ranging interview with Declan Kiberd

February 11, 2016

In a wide-ranging interview in The Irish Times, Declan Kiberd, the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, Professor of English and Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame, discusses "the Gaelic R...
Interview on Irish Radio with Liam Neeson and O'Donnell Professor Briona Nic Dhiarmada

February 09, 2016

Listen to this segment of the Marian Finucane Show of Saturday, February 7, 2016, in which Liam Neeson, narrator of 1916 The Irish Rebellion, calls the documentary "one for the ages."
Faculty Fellow Amy Mulligan Wins Prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Award

December 16, 2015

Professor Mulligan's analysis will consider the theories and poetics of Irish place that were developed over six medieval centuries in response to a variety of political, cultural, religious and economic changes.
2015 Keough and Pfeiffer interns Learn on the Ground in Ireland

October 22, 2015

Every summer, Notre Dame students are given invaluable opportunities through summer internships in Ireland. In Summer 2015, ten students interned in Ireland via funding through the Keough-Naughton Institute -- in placements ranging from arts...
New books by Faculty Fellows of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

September 22, 2015

To wide acclaim, four Faculty Fellows of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies have published books in recent months.
Student Spotlight: Ailbhe Darcy, Ph.D. 2015

August 25, 2015

Ailbhe Darcy, of the Department of English and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, received her doctorate in May 2015 with an accompanying minor in Irish Studies. At Commencement, she was the winner of the Graduate Sc...
Report from the IRISH SEMINAR 2015: “I will never look at Irish Studies—or the world—the same way again.”

August 19, 2015

The Keough-Naughton's annual IRISH seminar met this summer in Buenos Aires, with the theme: Peripheral Modernities? Ireland, Argentina, Latin America. Christopher Fox, director of the Keough-Naughton Institute and a p...
Notre Dame Produces Liam Neeson-Narrated Documentary to Remember Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising

June 02, 2015

The University of Notre Dame will play a major role in the international celebration of the centenary of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, which was announced Tuesday, March 31 in Dublin by Taoiseach Enda Kenny. A documentary television series...
Video: Arts and Letters Students Intern at Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Dublin

May 27, 2015

During the summer of 2014, Patrick Butler and Patrick Valencia interned at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Dublin, Ireland. Both internships were sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the Universit...
Notre Dame announces new partnership at Kylemore Abbey in Ireland

May 08, 2015

The University of Notre Dame and the Benedictine Community at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, have formed a partnership to create a center to advance their shared spiritual, cultural and educational missions. The programs o...
2015 Naughton Fellowship Awardees Announced

May 08, 2015

Twenty-one winners of the Naughton Fellowships were announced today by the Graduate School. The research fellowships were awarded to undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. students from Notre Dame and from Ireland. This year’s winners from...
Video: Arts and Letters Students Intern on 1916 Documentary in Ireland

April 21, 2015

“I’m thrilled to be a part of this project and to be in Dublin. It’s an amazing opportunity,” said Katie Brennan, a sociology major in the College of Arts and Letters. During the summer of 2014, Brennan and three other Un...
Notre Dame produces documentary on 1916 Easter Rising

April 16, 2015

The Irish centenary celebration, commemorating 100 years of Irish independence in 2016, will feature Notre Dame’s documentary “1916: The Irish Rebellion” as a major pillar of the festivities, Thomas J. & Kathleen M. O&#...
Irish cultural minister thanks Notre Dame for promoting Irish culture

April 02, 2015

The University of Notre Dame was praised “for promoting and preserving Irish culture around the world” by the Irish government’s minister for culture in her remarks at a dinner hosted by Notre Dame Wednesday night (April 1) in ...
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh to give 2015 Breandán Ó Buachalla Memorial Lecture

March 26, 2015

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies announces the Breandán Ó Buachalla Memorial Lecture: "Man and Bull in Táin Bó Cúailnge" at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 in the Hesburgh Library, S...

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