Hi Chris, would you take a look at this while waiting to hear from Sarah.
Hi Chris, would you take a look at this while waiting to hear from Sarah.
January 25, 2015
Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
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Upcoming Events

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Monday, March 16th 7:00 PM
Interview: The Irish Peace Process – Where to From Here? 
With Mary McAleese, Former President of Ireland;  Sean McGraw, C.S.C., Scott Appleby, and Christopher Fox, University of Notre Dame                            More
Miracles of Development: from Irish Pigs to Celtic Tigers
Friday, January 30th 3:30 PM
424 Flanner Hall
Sarah Townsend, University of Notre Dame
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The Greek Tragic Family on the Irish Stage
Friday, February 6th 3PM
424 Flanner Hall
Isabelle Torrance, University of Notre Dame          
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Shamrocks and Secrets: Ribbonism and Irish Nationalism, 1798-1803
Friday, February 13th 3:00PM 
424 Flanner Hall

Jessica Lumsden, University of  Notre Dame        
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The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Irish Women’s Writing
Monday, February 23rd 3:00PM 
424 Flanner Hall

Marie-Louise Coolahan, National University of Ireland, Galway        
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An Evening of Traditional Irish Music
Monday, February 23rd 
7:00 PM
Legends of Notre Dame

Liz Carroll, John Williams and Katie Grennan       
Meet Keough-NEH Fellow Florence Impens
Florence Impens, 2014-2015 Keough National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
A student of poetry and native of France, Florence Impens participated in the 2013 Irish Seminar on Contemporary Irish Poetry in Paris.  Impressed with this introduction to the Keough-Naughton Institute, Impens applied for and was delighted to receive one of two Keough-NEH fellowships awarded this year.  She is making use of this time to develop a book length study of classical reception in contemporary Irish poetry while enjoying proximity to Notre Dame’s Special Collections.
Awarded her Ph.D. in English from Trinity College, Dublin in 2013, the book builds on her dissertation, “‘The Answering Voice’ : Classical Intertextuality in the Work of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon, 1990-2010.”  Impens intends to create “an overview of the recent and contemporary classical presence in Anglophone Irish poetry in the second half of the twentieth century.”
Her work argues that the classics provided a common language between the North and Republic of Ireland during the peace process, becoming “the prime material with which poets could articulate the complexities of cultural identity and their relationship with the island where they were born.”  This timely classical revival “released in Anglophone Irish writers a need to emphasize the transnational dimension of their work, leading them at the turn of the new millennium to develop connections with foreign literatures.”
The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies is a teaching and research institute dedicated to the study and understanding of Irish culture in all of its manifestations.
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Institute News

Irish Seminar 2015

Under the direction of Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, the 2015 Irish Seminar travels to an unsung magnet of Irish immigration - Buenos Aires, Argentina.  With the theme Peripheral Modernities? Ireland, Argentina, Latin America, the seminar will explore Irish Studies in a non-Anglophone and a global context.
The seminar runs from June 27th to July 11th, 2015.
Patrick McCabe Papers Acquisition
Hesburgh Libraries recently acquired the papers of Patrick McCabe, renowned Irish novelist and playwright.  Twice listed for the Booker Prize, his novel The Butcher Boy “is a canonical Irish novel,”  according to Aedin Ni Bhroithe Clements, Irish studies librarian at Hesburgh Libraries who notes, “McCabe has been at the forefront of Irish literature for at least three decades.”  Born in Clones, County Monahan in 1955, McCabe is a writer of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. A former visiting fellow in the Keough-Naughton Institute, he also has participated in the Irish Seminar, an annual intensive graduate course run by the Institute.  
McCabe describes his papers as the “handwritten geneses of everything I have written over a period of 35 years and all the associated correspondence.” A large archive, the collection consists of over 50 boxes of letters, notes, drafts and manuscripts extending over his whole career and includes correspondence relating to the films based on McCabe’s fiction.  His works of fiction, drama and cinema are included.
1916 Documentary Project
The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies is engaged in an exciting project to tell the story of the Easter Rising.  The Institute is producing a landmark three part documentary series titled "1916- The Irish Rebellion." The series aims to  internationalize the 1916 Easter Rising. It will, for the first time, place these events in their proper historical, political and cultural context as the precursor to an independent Irish state and the disintegration of colonial empires.
With great support from the Irish government, the series will be broadcast to coincide with the centenary of the Easter Rising in spring 2016. It will be presented by WTTW (Chicago) and screened by American Public Television nationally in the US and by RTÉ and BBC (NI) in Ireland. 
Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, the Thomas J. and Kathleen M. O’Donnell Professor of Irish Studies and Concurrent Professor of Film, Television and Theatre and Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute wrote the script and award winning Irish documentary maker Pat Collins directs. Narrated by Oscar winning actor Liam Neeson, production values will be of the highest standard and commensurate with the intellectual depth and ambition of this series.  We have engaged Irish composer Patrick Cassidy to create an original musical composition, to be performed by the Irish National Symphony Orchestra that will set the tone for the series. 
"Stay Tuned" for more information on this project which advances Irish studies throughout the globe. 

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