Recalling Rome, Recalling Jerusalem

Please join us today at 4:00PM in 129 DeBartolo Hall for “Recalling Rome, Recalling Jerusalem: The Sacred Topographies of Major Ecclesiastical Sites in Early Medieval Ireland“, a lecture by Tomás Ó Carragáin, Lecturer in Archaeology at University College Cork.

Tomás Ó Carragáin is a graduate of University College Cork and the University of York and became a lecturer in the Archaeology Department, UCC, in 2002. His publications include Inishmurray: Monks and Pilgrims in an Atlantic Landscape (Collins Press 2008) and Churches in Early Medieval Ireland. Architecture, Ritual and Memory (Yale University Press 2010), the first in-depth study of Irish architecture from the arrival of Christianity to the early stages of the Romanesque. He is currently working on the Making Christian Landscapes project which is funded by the Heritage Council and considers the impact of Christianity on early medieval landscapes in Ireland and neighbouring countries. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), he won the 2009 Society for Medieval Archaeology Martyn Jope Award, the 2011 Michael Adams Prize in Irish Medieval Studies and the 2011 UCC College of Arts Research Achievement Award.

Declan Kiberd Lecture

Please join us this Friday for the “The Worlding of Irish Literature,” the inaugural lecture by Donald and Marilyn Keough Chair of Irish Literature, Declan Kiberd at 3:00PM in Hesburgh Library Auditorium.

All are welcome.

Cathal Goan Lecture Today

You are invited to an Irish Studies lecture tomorrow. Cathal Goan will deliver a lecture entitled “The Reason for the Song” at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, November 8th in 424 Flanner Hall.

Cathal Goan was born in Belfast and received his University education in University College Dublin where he qualified in Celtic Studies in 1975. He spent two years post graduate in the Department of Irish Folklore UCD before beginning work as a research officer with The Placenames’ Commission of the Irish Ordnance Survey. He subsequently joined RTÉ, Ireland’s national public service broadcaster, as an archivist before becoming first a radio and then a television producer in Current Affairs. In 1990 he became Editor of all RTÉ’s television output in the Irish language and in 1994 he was chosen as the first Chief Executive of the new Irish language television service which was about to be established in Galway. Teilifís na Gaeilge – TG4 – began broadcasting in October 1996 and has gained widespread recognition for the inventiveness and variety of its commissioned programming. In 2000 he returned to Dublin as Director of Television Programming at RTÉ. In 2003 he was appointed Director General (CEO) of RTÉ, a position that he held until January 2011. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Ulster in 2006 in recognition of his services to the Irish language and to broadcasting in Ireland. He was appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Irish Language, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics in UCD in 2011. He has a life long interest in Irish music with particular reference to the Irish language song tradition.

Irish Studies Lectures This Week

Thomas Bartlett, Chair in Irish History at the University of Aberdeen will deliver the lecture “How to Write a History of Ireland, AD 431 to 2010, in 45 minutes at 3:00 PM in 424 Flanner Hall on Monday, October 31st.

On Thursday at 3:00PM in 424 Flanner Hall, noted Irish poet Peter Fallon will give a poetry reading.

Also, please remember the Hibernian Lecture today 4:30 – 5:30 pm at the Hesburgh Center Auditorium, “‘All Changed, Changed Utterly’: Easter 1916 and America” byRobert Schmuhl, The Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame.

John Gormley Talk Today

Today, former Leader of the Green Party, Lord Mayor of Dublin and Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, John Gormley will discuss the question “Will Climate Change Lead to Regional or Global Conflict” at 4:00PM in 424 Flanner Hall. This will be Mr. Gormley’s last Keough-Naughton Visiting Fellow Lecture at Notre Dame, sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Henkels Lectures. All are welcome.

Tomorrow you are welcome to join us for an Institute Symposium on the Medieval Text Acallam Na Senórach featuring Peter McQuillan (University of Notre Dame), Joseph Nagy (University of California, Los Angeles), and Mícháel Ó Suillebháin (University of Limerick) at 4:00 PM in the Browning Cinema in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Irish Studies Events This Week

You are invited to join the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at three Irish Studies events this week. On Wednesday, October 12 at 4:00 PM John Gormley will deliver his final lecture as a Keough-Naughton Visiting Fellow “Will Climate Change Lead to Regional or Global Conflict?” in 424 Flanner Hall.

On Thursday, join us for an Institute Symposium on the Medieval Text Acallam Na Senórach featuring Peter McQuillan (University of Notre Dame), Joseph Nagy (University of California, Los Angeles), and Mícháel Ó Suillebháin (University of Limerick) at 4:00 PM in the Browning Cinema at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Later that night, the The National Chamber Choir of Ireland will present a program featuring the North American premiere of Tarik O’Regan’s “Acallam na Senórach” commissioned by the University of Notre Dame. The NCCI is confidently forward looking while respecting tradition and known for memorable performances of exceptional musicality spanning the great baroque to contemporary composers.

Today: John Gormley on “Can the European Union Survive the Economic Crisis”

Today at 4:00PM in 424 Flanner Hall, former Leader of the Green Party, Lord Mayor of Dublin and Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, John Gormley will discuss the question “Can the European Union Survive the Economic Crisis”.

Molly Says No! (NEW TIME & VENUE)

The Performance of Molly Says No! on Thursday, October 6th has been moved to 3:00PM in historic Washington Hall.

Irish Studies Events This Week

Please join us for two Irish Studies events this week.

On Wednesday, former Leader of the Green Party, Lord Mayor of Dublin and Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, John Gormley will discuss the question “Can the European Union Survive the Economic Crisis” at 4:00PM in 424 Flanner Hall.

On Thursday, renown soprano Judith Mok will perform “Molly Says NO!” a musical reclamation/complication of the character of Molly Bloom with piano accompaniment, as part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s Year of Irish Arts in America.

Denis O’Hearn Lecture Tomorrow

You are invited to join the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in welcoming visiting Fellow and University of Binghamton Sociology Professor Denis O’Hearn as he delivers a lecture “On Social Movements and Imprisonment: Some Comparisons of Ireland and Turkey” tomorrow, September 30 at 3:00 PM in 424 Flanner Hall.