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Year in Review Year in 2016- Review 2017 YEARS 25 1992-2017 From the Director As I reflect on the first twenty-five years of the Keough-Naughton As we look to the Institute’s future, we know that Notre Dame’s Institute for Irish Studies, I cannot help but be struck by how far move into the west of Ireland to Kylemore Abbey can only serve to we have come in that short time. What began with the intellectual strengthen our desire to bring Notre Dame to Ireland and Ireland to leadership of Seamus Deane and the generous support of the Keough Notre Dame. With the landmark documentary 1916 The Irish Rebellion, and Naughton families has become even stronger through our great the annual IRISH Seminar, and now the Keough Global Seminar, the friends on the Ireland Council and the efforts of Notre Dame’s faculty, Institute is working to bring Ireland to the world. staff, students, and administration. Despite our successes, it is good to remember the advice of our late Now part of Notre Dame’s newest college, the Donald R. Keough and beloved Ireland Council co-chair Don Keough that we should see School of Global Affairs, our Institute is recognized as the preeminent our project as a journey and not a destination. We need to maintain our center for Irish Studies worldwide. Although we can point with pride momentum and, in Don’s words, “stay nervous.” For getting us to this to new buildings on campus, in Dublin, and now Kylemore Abbey, point, I thank the entire Notre Dame community for its extraordinary to thousands of students taught, award-winning books or the faith, spirit, and support. establishment of the first department of Irish outside of Ireland and other major achievements, ultimately, it all comes down to the people Christopher Fox who have made this success possible. In a special way, I want to Professor of English acknowledge Mickie Keough (1926-2016), whose legacy will live on in Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies The Notre Dame Center at Kylemore Abbey, the thousands of young people who will benefit for years to come from Connemara, was dedicated on August 25, 2016 her support. Nearly every week in the academic year, the Institute’s Speakers and Public Talks Series brings scholars, Bringing artists, and public figures to campus. Ireland to Notre Dame Visiting Scholars The Seamus Heaney and Fall 2016 Spring 2017 John Kelly Wit Pietrzak 2016-2017 Murphy Distinguished Donald Keough Short Term Visiting Scholar Irish Exchange Fellow Breandán Ó Buachalla Visiting Professor (St. John’s (University of Łódź, Poland) College, University of Oxford) Simone O’Malley-Sutton Memorial Lectures University College Cork Declan Kiberd Bríona Nic Dhiarmada Patrick Geoghegan Gary Murphy Visiting Naughton Fellow In the Institute’s annual calendar, two lectures take center stage. Naughton Fellow and Distinguished (Trinity College Dublin) On February 17, 2017, Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Thomas J. & Kathleen Visiting Professor (Professor of On September 2, 2016, Declan Kiberd, Donald and Politics in the School of Law and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies and Professor M. O’Donnell Professor of Irish Studies and Concurrent Professor of 2016-2017 Fulbright Language Government, Dublin City University) 2016-2017 National Endowment for of English and Irish Language and Literature, presented Film, Television, and Theatre, spoke on the theme “’Our likes will not be Teaching Assistant the annual Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture. His title: seen again’: Aspects of Irish-Language Autobiography.” This was the the Humanities Fellow fourth annual lecture in honor of the late Breandán Ó Buachalla, the “Modernism in the Streets: Joyce, Pearse, and Stephens Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Eugene Costello Siobhán Ní Mhuimhneacháin inaugural Thomas J. & Kathleen M. O’Donnell Professor of Irish Studies. in 1916.” Patrick B. O’Donnell National University of Ireland, Galway University of Limerick and Distinguished Visitor University College Cork (Poet) Internships Ireland: The Inside Track More than 35 Notre Dame undergraduates In Spring and Summer 2017, nearly 60 Notre Dame undergraduates interned in Ireland in Summer 2017. immersed themselves in Irish politics, economics, history, and Their placements ranged from IBM to the literature through the popular course Ireland: The Inside Track. National Gallery of Ireland to Raidió Teilifís Lectures on campus in the spring were followed in August by eight Éireann, as well as numerous independent days in Ireland, with activities in Dublin, Belfast, Kylemore, and the Bringing research projects across science, business, Aran Islands. The highlight for many students: a day of service with Notre Dame and arts and letters. three charities—one, a children’s refuge shelter. to Ireland 1916 The Irish Rebellion Wins Multiple Awards In March 2016, the Keough-Naughton Institute released its landmark documentary film, 1916 The Irish Rebellion (narrated by Liam Neeson), which presents Dublin’s Easter Rising as a pivotal event in world history. Faculty Fellow Bríona Nic Dhiarmada is the originator, writer, Bringing producer, and executive producer of the film; Institute Director Christopher Fox is executive producer for Notre Dame. In both a three-part series and a feature-length format, the documentary has been shown in over 60 countries on five continents—including national broadcasts on RTÉ (Ireland), BBC (Great Britain), among many others. On American public television, the documentary achieved coverage on 453 Ireland to stations in 47 states that covered 92% of television households. In Fall 2016 and Spring 2017, the documentary collected four major awards: Winner of the Irish Film and Television Academy award for Best Documentary Series in 2016, October 7, Dublin. Winner of the Silver Saber Award at the International Historical and Military Film Festival, October 28, Warsaw, Poland. the World Winner of American Public Television's Programming Excellence Award, November 3. Produced by Distributed by Presenting Station Squares counter Clockwise: Square 1: C 85 M 40 Y 0 K 0 Square 2: C 80 M 10 Y 0 K 0 C 100 M 50 Y 0 K 0 Square 3: C 34 M 0 Y 9 K 0 Square 4: Narrated by C 100 M 50 Y 0 K 0 Square 5: C 100 M 50 Y 0 K 0 Honorable Jury Mention at the Indian World Film Festival, March 19, Hyderabad, India. Square 5: C 100 M 50 Y 9 K 0 Square 6: C 0 M 0 Y 0 K 75 Square 7: C 100 M 50 Y 0 K 0 at the University of Notre Dame Square 8: Liam Neeson C 100 M 0 Y 0 K 0 APT: C 62 M 53 Y 53 K 25 American Public Television: C 62 M 53 Y 53 K 25 1916 Continues its Inaugural Keough Global Journey Around the World Seminar in Romania As the centenary year of Dublin’s 1916 Rising was studied and commemorated around the world, 1916 The Irish Rebellion played a key part and had a It was Faculty Fellow Declan Kiberd, the Donald and Marilyn Keough remarkable reach. For example, on just one day in October 2016, the Professor of Irish Studies, Professor of English and Irish Language and documentary was screened in four cities on four different continents: Literature, who coined the phrase “the worlding of Irish Studies.” Asunción, Paraguay; Montreal; Prague; and Tokyo. LONDON DURBAN HARTFORD Appropriately enough, when Professor Kiberd was awarded an honorary In an initiative called Reframing 1916, the Institute partnered with the Irish degree in March from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania government, cultural centers, embassies, and leading universities worldwide for his outstanding contributions to Irish Studies, the Institute marked to host a series of international academic events that brought Notre Dame the occasion by launching the inaugural Keough Global Seminar. faculty to museums, cultural centers, embassies and universities to engage MONACO with faculty, students, and the public in reassessing 1916. Events included PAULO SÃO In addition to the ceremonies at which the honorary degree was conferred, there were addresses by Romanian Irish Studies colleagues day-long conferences, panels, and screenings of the documentary planned BUDAPEST MONTREAL with the input and active involvement of local historians and faculty from each and meetings with enthusiastic graduate and undergraduate students. host institution. Just a few of the more than 40 Reframing 1916 locations: Professor Kiberd received a warm welcome for his lecture on the Irish Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cambridge, Cape Town, Dublin, New Delhi, Oxford, Revival. Faculty Fellow Mary O’Callaghan spoke on the role of the Irish Rome, São Paulo, and Sidney; and in the U.S.: Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Boston, language in the national education system, past and present; and New York City, and Kansas City. Faculty Fellow Diarmuid Ó Giolláin lectured on the history and sources of Irish folklore. KANSAS CITY KANSAS ROME IRISH Seminar – Rome Since 1999, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies has sponsored a summer graduate seminar that brings together Irish scholars, graduate students, and faculty in Irish Studies. An intense intellectual exchange and experience, the seminar has been a formative experience for Celebrating scores of Notre Dame graduate students and their peers from universities around the world. For summer 2017, two annual graduate-level Notre Dame seminars—the IRISH Seminar and the Rome Seminar—came together to hold a joint seminar on "Ireland and Italy" at the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway (June 16-30). The seminar's executive director was Faculty Fellow Barry McCrea, Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies and our Faculty and Professor of English, Irish Language and Literature, and Romance Languages and Literatures. Students Bríona Nic Dhiarmada's The 1916 Irish Rebellion (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) was the Silver Award Winner for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Faculty Publishing and Awards Awards Book of the Year Award in the Adult Nonfiction, History category.
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