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

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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. Declan Kiberd and P.J. Mathews, Editors' Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Irish Cultural and Political Writings 1891-1922 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) was the Bronze Award Winner in the Adult Nonfiction, Reference category. Robert Schmuhl’s Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh: On and Off the Record (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) was a Finalist in the Foreword Patrick Griffn: Declan Kiberd: Brian Ó Conchubhair: INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Adult Nonfiction, Biography category. Experiencing Empire: Power, People, Ulysses ve Biz (Ulysses and Us), Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary and Revolution in Early America, translated by Zeynep Ciftci Kanburoglu Irish Poetry, Brian Ó Conchubhair and Patrick Griffin, Editor (Istanbul: ALFA arastirma, 2017) Jefferson Holdridge, Editors (University of Virginia Press, 2017) (Wake Forest University Press, 2017) Robert Schmuhl: Jim Smyth: Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh: Cold War Culture: Intellectuals, the Media and the Practice On and Off the Record of History (I.B. Tauris & Company, 2016) The Townshend Moment: The Making After Ireland: Writing the Nation Bríona Nic Dhiarmada: (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) Remembering the Troubles: Contesting the Recent Past of Empire and Revolution in the from Beckett to the Present The 1916 Irish Rebellion in Northern Ireland, Jim Smyth, Editor Eighteenth Century (Harvard University Press, 2017) (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) (Yale University Press, 2017) (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017)

Susan Cannon Harris: Handbook of the Irish Revival: Diarmuid Ó Giolláin: John Sherry, Jr.: Kevin Whelan: Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: An Anthology of Irish Cultural and Irish Ethnologies, Contemporary Consumer Culture Theory, Paris – Capital of Irish Culture: France, Ireland, Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the Political Writings 1891-1922, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Editor John Sherry, Jr. and Eileen Fischer, Editors and the Republic, 1798-1916, Pierre Joannon and International Left 1892-1964 Declan Kiberd and P.J. Mathews, Editors (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017) (Routledge, 2017) Kevin Whelan, Editors (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) (Four Courts Press, 2017) The Faculty Fellows of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies reflect the interdisciplinarity that is at our core. Through Nicholas Ames Faculty Fellows our 27 fellows from 10 departments across the College of Arts and Letters and the Mendoza College of Business, as well as the Graduate Students Hesburgh Libraries, the Keough-Naughton Institute fully engages with Irish literature, language, history, politics, and culture. Anthropology graduate student Nicholas Ames won an elite National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Thirty graduate students in a wide range of departments (NSF-GRFP). Nicholas researches historic migration and the are affiliated with the Keough-Naughton Institute. They infuence immigrant communities have on the development of Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements come to Notre Dame to study with our world-class faculty contemporary urban America. His particular focus is migration Irish Studies Librarian and Curator, Hesburgh Libraries and to use resources in the Hesburgh Libraries’ outstanding from Ireland's west coast. Irish Studies collection. The Institute provides broad Nicholas received his undergraduate degree from the “Scholars come to Notre Dame in the dead of winter from from University College Dublin, where she also studied support for graduate students’ participation in the IRISH University of California, Berkeley and entered the University Dublin, Oxford, Sydney, Boston, and a myriad of points in librarianship. She has worked in Dublin’s public libraries Seminar, conferences, research, travel to collections, Irish as a Notebaert Fellow, the Graduate School's most prestigious between to explore one of the world’s most comprehensive and at the RTÉ Library, as well as in U.S. public libraries. language study, and specialized work in summer schools, fellowship. His advisors within the Department of Anthropology archives of Irish resources,” says Christopher Fox, Professor Since arriving at Notre Dame in 2005, Aedín has worked including the Yeats Seminar in Sligo. Through the Institute’s at Notre Dame are Faculty Fellow Ian Kuijt and Professors of English and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute diligently to expand the University’s Irish Studies resources ongoing ProSeminar, graduate students also take part in Meredith Chesson and Maurizio Albahari. for Irish Studies. “This is a reality that speaks both to the in breadth, depth, and scope. In just one example, in 2009, the on-campus Speakers and Public Talks Series. richness of our Irish Studies collection and the expertise of Notre Dame surpassed Harvard University’s 20th-century the librarian who cultivates it: Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements.” Irish language collection. “I have a passion for research that directly impacts contemporary social understanding. As we study A native Irish speaker, Aedín holds an M.A. in English For her exemplary work, Aedín was awarded the Hesburgh literature from Western Michigan University, where she the past and engage with present-day communities, Libraries’ Rev. Paul J. Foik, C.S.C. Award in 2013. we can use our knowledge of history to create focused on Irish writers, and a B.A. in Irish and Folklore { a better future.” { — Nicholas Ames Lectures and Events Exemplary Teaching Undergraduate “Being an Irish studies minor has opened my eyes to the rich, complex history of Ireland and given me Faculty Fellow Tara MacLeod Students a deeper appreciation for the impact that even a Declan Kiberd Gary Murphy Katie Grennan and John Williams Nicole Winsor was honored with a Rev. Edmund relatively small country can have on a global scale.” University of Notre Dame Naughton Distinguished Visiting Musicians, Traditional Irish Music University of Notre Dame { { Faculty Fellow P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for — Tiffani McCormick Thomas Lynch Bríona Nic Dhiarmada Eugene Costello Tiffani McCormick Excellence in Undergraduate Author and poet Tom Magill University of Notre Dame 2016-2017 Keough-Naughton Tiffani McCormick ’17 received The Donald & Marilyn Keough Award for Excellence in Irish Studies. Director, Educational Shakespeare Institute National Endowment for Teaching, 2016-2017 Alex White Mary Corcoran Company, Belfast the Humanities Fellow An Accountancy major and the recipient of minors in both Irish Studies and Innovation and Senior Counsel, Former TD for Maynooth University Entrepreneurship, Tiffani excelled in her Irish Studies courses, including “Ireland Inside Track” and “Irish Thomas McGonigle Dublin South Susan Cannon Harris Mary Beaudry, Secret Societies in the Transatlantic World" (Spring 2014). She studied abroad at University College Author Boston University John Kelly University of Notre Dame Dublin in Fall 2015 and wrote her capstone essay on women of the 1916 Rising. She is currently an Orr Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Donald R. Keough Distinguished Iarla Ó Lionáird, Stephen Rippon Fellow in Indianapolis and working for LDI, Ltd. Visiting Faculty Fellow Patrick B. O’Donnell Distinguished Musician and Ethnomusicologist University of Exeter Tiffani at the Undergraduate Awards ceremony with Prof. Sarah McKibben, Chair of Irish Language and Literature, 2016-2017. Visitor Classes Marie-Louise Theuerkauf Kieran O’Conor Los San Patricios Claire Connolly Claire Kuehn Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies University College Cork National University of Ireland, Galway Irish Studies offered nearly The Story of the St. Patrick’s Claire Kuehn '19, a neuroscience major headed to medical school—but first—to Dublin for a Keelin Burke 30 cross-listed classes Battalion Patrick Geoghegan semester abroad, was captivated by Irish writers in Professor Fox's Introduction to Irish Writers University of Notre Dame Visiting Naughton Fellow to undergraduates in the Eileen Ivers course and is now enrolled in Beginning Irish. "I'm exulting in the opportunities offered to Tony Macaulay Fiddler Jim Smyth academic year—in anthropology, Author and peacebuilder expand my education beyond science." University of Notre Dame the Irish language, literature, Colm Tóibín Rónán McDonald Author Ann-Marie Long history, film, folklore, political University of New South Wales, Paul Muldoon University of Notre Dame science, and theatre. Australia Poet, Princeton University and The New Yorker Institute Director Patrick Griffin Sarah McKibben Diarmuid Ó Giolláin Chair, Madden-Hennebry Professor of History Associate Professor and Chair (2016-2017), Professor of Irish Language and Literature and Christopher Fox Irish Language and Literature Chair (beginning Fall 2017) Concurrent Professor Susan Cannon Harris Professor of English of Anthropology Associate Professor of English Peter McQuillan Senior Administrative Coordinator Associate Professor of Irish Language Cyril O’Regan Declan Kiberd and Literature Huisking Professor of Theology Beth Bland Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, Professor of English and Irish Language Amy Mulligan Rory Rapple Assistant Director Keough- and Literature Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature Associate Professor of History Mary Hendriksen Ian Kuijt Ian Newman Robert Schmuhl Professor of Anthropology Assistant Professor of English Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Professor Faculty Fellows of American Studies and Journalism Tara MacLeod Bríona Nic Dhiarmada Joseph Buttigieg Associate Teaching Professor of Irish Language Thomas J. and Kathleen M. O'Donnell Professor John F. Sherry, Jr. William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Director, and Literature of Irish Studies and Concurrent Professor of Film, Raymond W. & Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Naughton Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program Television, and Theatre Marketing, Concurrent Professor of Anthropology Sara Maurer Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements Associate Professor of English and Director of Mary O'Callaghan Jim Smyth Librarian Graduate Studies, Department of English Assistant Teaching Professor of Irish Language Professor of History and Literature Edward "Mark" Cummings Barry McCrea Kevin Whelan Professor and Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Psychology Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies Brian Ó Conchubhair Michael Smurfit Director of the Keough Naughton and Professor of English, Irish Language and Associate Professor of Irish Language and Notre Dame Centre in Dublin People Seamus Deane Literature, and Romance Languages and Literatures Literature and Director, Center for the Study of Professor of English and Donald and Marilyn Keough Languages and Culture Professor of Irish Studies Emeritus Rev. Sean McGraw, C.S.C. Assistant Professor of Political Science Learn More

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