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Notre Dame Day 2021
April 18th and 19th
Notre Dame will be hosting its 8th annual Notre Dame Day!
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Irish Club Halloween Event
This Thursday October 29th we are having our annual Oíche Shamhna (the Irish festival of Halloween) celebration at 6pm until 7pm!!!!
Our very own Tara MacLeod of the Irish Department will be speaking about Irish traditions around Oíche Shamhna followed by our new FLTA, Brian Devlin.
CHICK FIL-A will be served after the event …
2020 Brother Simeon Award
The Department of Irish Language and Literature congratulates Delia Ryan on being the recipient for the
2020 Brother Simeon Award.
The Brother Simeon C.S.C. Prize for Distinction in Irish Language is an award is for excellence in Irish Language and Literature.
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Shane Wagy: The Internship Experience
Read what Shane Wagy wrote in Irish about his experience working as an intern with Fiontar in Dublin.
https://www.gaois.ie/blg/ga/trasna-na-dtonnta-o-ollscoil-notre-dame-go-hollscoil-chathair-bhaile-atha-cliath/…
Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant
IRLL Welcomes Caroline Gallagher, our Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant for 2019-2020
Caroline is from the Erris Gaeltacht in County Mayo.
She has spent the past two years promoting and teaching the Irish language with Gaelchultúr in Dublin. She has also instructed Irish language classes to undergraduate students at University College Dublin, where she obtained a first-class MA degree in Irish Writing and Communications. Her other studies include a B.A. in Irish and English from Dublin City University. She also got the opportunity to spend a year studying Communications and Finnish at the University of …
Peter McQuillan - 25 Years
Professor Peter McQuillan
The Department of Irish Language and Literature congratulates Professor Peter McQuillan on 25 years' service to Notre Dame. Peter holds a B.A. and M.A. from University College, Dublin. He went on to Harvard where he took his Ph.D. and he subsequently held the Sir John Rhys Studentship in Celtic Studies at Jesus College, Oxford University." …
2019 Four Courts Press Michael Adams Prize Winner
IRLL Congratulates Amy Mulligan
IRLL Assistant Professor Amy Mulligan is the winner of the 2019 Four Courts Press Michael Adams Prize.
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Summer 2019
We are currently not hosting any events for the summer. We look forward to new and exciting events for the upcoming year.
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2019 Brother Simeon Award Recipient
The Department of Irish Language and Literature congratulates Anne-Marie Kommers on
being the winner for the 2019 Brother Simeon Award.
The Brother Simeon C.S.C. Prize for Distinction in Irish Language is an award is for excellence in Irish Language and Literature.…
Faculty member Declan Kiberd elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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).
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Theology, studio art, and Irish studies come together in undergraduate’s creative research project on Ireland’s holy wells
Junior Anja Renkes will bring her three academic disciplines together in an international research experience this summer at the Dublin Global Gateway in the Irish Internship Program. She plans to create paintings of Ireland’s holy wells — small springs with devotional significance — that capture the area’s landscape as pure gift from God.
ND Day 2019
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Majors/Minors Night
A night where you can talk to professors in the Irish Studies and Irish Language and Literature departments about what classes are being offered in the fall! (and maybe even be convinced to pick up a major or minor!) When: Thursday, April 11 at 5pm.…
Professor Sarah McKibben Wins an NEH Fellowship for her Research on Bardic Poetry of the 16th and 17th Centuries
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 17th centuries, who composed compelling artistic expressions of praise and warning — as well as satire — in the face of an antagonistic, expanding Tudor-Stuart state.
Associate professor Sarah McKibben awarded NEH fellowship, continuing record funding for humanities research
Sarah McKibben, an associate professor of Irish language and literature, is one of three Notre Dame faculty members to be offered a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the 2018 award cycle. Rebecca Tinio McKenna and Vincent Phillip Muñoz also received NEH fellowships. With 65 total awards, scholars in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters have received more NEH fellowships any other private university in the United States since 1999.
Fr. Mícheál Mac Craith
Fr. Mícheál Mac Craith said Mass in Irish in the chapel of Jenkins-Nanovic Halls on Saturday 27th October. We are very grateful to Tara MacLeod for making all the necessary arrangements. Pictured with Fr. Mac Craith are Marea Hurson and Colleen Keegan, who did the readings, and Gemma Stanton, who played the music.…
Conference Recap: An Domhan a chruthaigh Alan Titley
A conference, "An Domhan a chruthaigh Alan Titley," was recently held in Notre Dame's Kylemore Abbey Global Center.
It focused on the writing of novelist and scholar Alan Titley, it was organized by Brian Ó Conchubhair in collaboration with the University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto.
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Study Abroad: Seeing the world through Ireland
Madelyn Lugli (’16) participated in the Dublin Study Abroad Semester Program and the Irish Internship Program while at Notre Dame.
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In the News: Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada presents Senator Joe Biden with a special edition of 1916 The Irish Rebellion
Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada presented Senator Joe Biden with a special edition of 1916 The Irish Rebellion at a reception for the launch of the Cambridge History of Ireland at the Irish ambassador’s residence in Washington, DC, on September 17th.
In a wide-ranging speech, Mr Biden spoke at length of his Irish heritage, which he traces to Co Mayo and Co Louth. He said the unique experience of the Irish in America had passed down a “value set” to Americans.…
Meet John Prendergast, Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant for 2018-2019
John is a law graduate who came top of his class in the BCL (Law and Irish) program in University College Cork in 2015. We are delighted to welcome John to Notre Dame and look forward to working closely with him.
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