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October 28, 2016
Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Institiúid Mhic Eochaidh-Uí Neachtain um anLéann Éireannach Ollscoil Notre Dame
Marilyn ("Mickie") Keough and her daughter, Shayla Keough Rumely, at the  Notre Dame premiere of 1916 The Irish Rebellion/March 3, 2016
Photo credit:  Barbara Johnston
Tribute to Marilyn ("Mickie") Keough,
1926-2016

"The same day I learned of Mickie Keough's passing, I received a letter from her—dated two days earlier—thanking us for a copy of the DVD we had sent of the Keough-Naughton Institute's 1916 documentary.  Like her husband, Don, it is hard to imagine someone with such a passion for life to be no longer with us.  But Mickie's legacy will live on in the thousands of young people who will benefit for years to come from her support and from her abiding faith in their future."
Christopher Fox, Professor of English and Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Photo credit: Gaye Cunningham
1916 The Irish Rebellion Awarded "Best Documentary Series" at the Irish Film and Television Gala
Members of the Irish Film and Television Academy awarded 1916 The Irish Rebellion the year's "Best Documentary Series" at its gala awards ceremony on October 7 in Dublin.
Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, the series' originator, writer, producer and, with Christopher Fox, Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, executive producer for Notre Dame, accepted the award on behalf of the film's creative team and the Keough-Naughton Institute . 
1916 The Irish Rebellion Continues its Extraordinary Travels Around the Globe
1916 The Irish Rebellion continues to have a remarkable reach.
On one day this fall, October 21st, the documentary was screened in four cities on four different continents:  Asunción, Paraguay (accompanied by Bríona Nic Dhiarmada), Montreal, Prague (accompanied by Christopher Fox), and Tokyo (sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of Japan).
The three-part documentary was launched last spring with broadcasts in Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, as well as in other countries and on Aer Lingus.
An additional 80 screenings of the feature-length version (86 minutes) were held last spring at embassies, film festivals, theatres, and other venues in locations as diverse as Ankara, Belgrade, Hong Kong, Madrid, Moscow, Riyadh, Rome, and Sydney. 
In yet another initiative, Reframing 1916, select Notre Dame faculty have travelled to museums, institutions, and universities with an Irish Studies presence to engage with their faculty, students, and the public in a scholarly response and reassessment of the seminal events of 1916. Reframing 1916 was funded by generous donors to the Institute.
Last spring, there were Reframing events in 15 different cities—including Auckland, New Zealand; Cape Town, South Africa; Cleveland, Ohio; New Delhi, India; and Tallinn, Estonia.
The Reframing tour has continued this fall with screenings and panels in Montreal, New York City, Boston, western Massachusetts, Connecticut, Paris, Notre Dame's Rome and London Global Gateways, Monaco, Dublin, Budapest, Prague, Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester.  The final two Reframing events will be held in the United States this November: Berkeley (November 17) and, in partnership with the World War I Museum, the local Notre Dame Club, and several local organizations, Kansas City (November 20).