Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

02/15/2023

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies is now accepting applications to attend our annual Irish Seminar, which will be held over two weeks this summer in New York City. The theme for 2023 will be Ireland and America.

Graduate students from all institutions who are interested in Irish Studies broadly or the topic more specifically are encouraged to apply. Some funding is available on a limited basis. Please send in applications by 1 April.

Learn more and apply at the Irish Seminar webpage below!

IRISH Seminar Notre Dame

11/11/2022

We are excited to announce our new two-year W. B. Yeats Postdoctoral Fellowship! Come work with us at the Keough-Naughton Institute!

Application deadline is December 1st. Apply here!

09/14/2022

Join us this Friday, September 16th at 3:30pm EST in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium as we welcome Ireland's newest Ambassador to the United States, Geraldine Byrne Nason.

Join us for a talk by Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason, the newly arrived Ambassador of Ireland to the United States. Ambassador Byrne Nason w...

11/29/2021

At 5pm IST/ BST today, watch The Annual Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture with Roy Foster and Barry McCrea live online here:

Watch University of Oxford Live's The Annual Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture: Roy Foster, author of "On > Seamus Heaney," in conversation with Barry McCrea on Livestream.com.

11/22/2021

**The Annual Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture**

Roy Foster, author of "On Seamus Heaney," in conversation with Barry McCrea

Mon Nov 29, 2021, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

University of Oxford, Room 7, Examination Schools, 75 - 81 High Street, Oxford.

This event will be livestreamed. Register via Eventbrite here
https://www.eventbrite.com/.../annual-seamus-heaney...

More info:
https://irishstudies.nd.edu/.../seamus-heaney-memorial.../
Hosted by Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in association with Hertford College
Oxford Seminar in Irish History

06/11/2021

"this fictional Nora is entirely convincing in her raw sensuality, her stubborn determination, her powerful sense of grievance and her inability to stop loving a deeply erratic, wildly manipulative yet enormously talented man." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/books/review/better-luck-next-time-julia-claiborne-johnson.html

Join us this Bloomsday for a conversation on life writing between Prof. Barry McCrea and Nuala O'Connor, author of NORA: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce (New Island Books). This event will be hosted by the Madden-Rooney IRISH Seminar in association with the Notre Dame Kylemore Abbey Global Centre. Register here: https://irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2021/06/16/bloomsday/

06/08/2021

A stimulating start to this year's seminar with contributions from Carole Holohan, Anne Dolan, Enda Delaney and Ian McBride on "The State of Irish History" followed by a captivating poetry reading by Doireann Ní Ghríofa.

Next up: Irish Studies from austerity to pandemic
Editors of the Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies (2021) in conversation with selected contributors.

06/08/2021

🚨Don't forget to register for today's free public webinar with Doireann Ní Ghríofa, poet and author of A Ghost in the Throat (Tramp Press).

⏰ Tuesday 8 June 2pm EDT/ 7pm GMT+1

Register here: https://notredame.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NFU70AqeToivI5Ktv0hpWQ

06/03/2021

⏰Tuesday 8 June 2pm EDT/ 7pm GMT+1

📖 Doireann Ní Ghríofa
author of A Ghost in the Throat (Tramp Press), will read from her work and join Prof. Brian Ó Conchubhair in conversation about Ní Ghríofa's writing and 18th century Irish language poetry.

🚨Register here:
https://irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2021/06/08/doireann-ni-ghriofa/

This is a free public event as part of the Madden-Rooney Irish Seminar

06/02/2021

Professor Seamus Deane: In Memoriam

Seamus Deane (9 February 1940-12 May 2021), Professor of English and the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies Emeritus, was one of Ireland’s foremost writers and critics, best-known for his award-winning autobiographical novel Reading in the Dark and the landmark Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing.

In these pages, we collect reflections on the life and legacy of Seamus Deane by our faculty fellows and others in the world of Irish studies who knew Professor Deane or were influenced by his scholarship and writing.

https://irishstudies.nd.edu/core-identity/history-and-mission/professor-seamus-deane/

05/12/2021

Join us tomorrow for The Annual Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture

Dr Rosie Lavan, Trinity College Dublin, will deliver a talk entitled "'Tuning the Medium’: Seamus Heaney and the First-Person Plural"

Thu May 13, 2021, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Register here!

The Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture is a signature event in the Keough-Naughton Institute's year. Seamus Heaney spoke twice at Notre Dame, and this annua...

05/05/2021

What did it mean to be Irish and revolutionary during the “Age of Revolution"?

Dr. Muiris MacGiollabhuí, PhD University of California at Santa Cruz and the Institute's Moore-Livingston Fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year, posits this question when exploring the racial ideology of the United Irishmen first during the 1790s and then in exile.

Join the conversation on Thursday, 6 May at 11 am EDT/4 pm in Ireland

REGISTER: https://irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2021/05/06/muiris-macgiollabhui-how-radical-were-the-united-irishmen/