SEPTEMBER Friday, September 2 4:00 p.m. Salon B/William and Mary Ann Smith Ballroom, The Morris Inn

Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture: “Modernism in the Streets: Joyce, Pearse and Stephens in 1916”

Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame

Reception to follow

Friday, September 94:00 p.m. Hesburgh Center Auditorium, Hesburgh Center for International Studies

Annual Hibernian Lecture: “Shoulder & Shovelwork: Dead Poets and Eschatologies”

Thomas Lynch, author and poet

Co-sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism

Wednesday, September 144:00 p.m. 424 Flanner Hall

“The ‘Recovery Election’ That Never Was: Politics and Government in Ireland, and the Legacy of the Crash”

Alex White, Senior Counsel Mr. White is a former TD (Member of Parliament) for Dublin South and a leading member of the Labour Party

Friday, September 164:00 p.m. 424 Flanner Hall

“Yeats’s ‘Pirate Oath’: Buccaneering and Mutineering on the Good Ship ‘Abbey Theatre’”

John Kelly, St. John’s College, University of OxfordDonald R. Keough Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

Friday, September 2310:30 a.m. Medieval Institute [Restricted to graduate students]

“Exploring the Literary Landscape of Medieval Ireland: Breaking New Ground after the Dissertation”

Marie-Louise Theuerkauf, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

4:00 p.m 424 Flanner Hall

“'A Typical Clara Bow Geste': Gender, Politics, and Censorship in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937”Keelin Burke, University of Notre Dame

OCTOBERThursday, October 134:30 p.m. The Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore

A Reading by Tony Macaulay, Northern Ireland author and peacebuilder

Readings from his recent books: Paperboy, Breadboy, and All Growed Up

Sponsored by the Brian J. Logue Fund for Northern Ireland

Friday, October 144:00 p.m. 424 Flanner Hall

“Idle Trade: Yeats, Work and Exchange Value”

Ronan McDonald, University of New South Wales, Australia

Friday, October 284:00 p.m. 424 Flanner Hall

“An Unkindness of Biographers: Charles J. Haughey and Modern Ireland”

Gary Murphy, Dublin City UniversityNaughton Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow,Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

NOVEMBERFriday, November 44:00 p.m. The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Philbin Studio Theatre

“Revenge or Reconciliation? - Creating a Film Adaptation of The Tempest in Northern Ireland”

Tom Magill, Director, Educational Shakespeare Company, Belfast

Wednesday, November 97:30 p.m. The Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore

A Reading by Thomas McGonigle, author

A reading from St. Patrick’s Day: another day in Dublin (University of Notre Dame Press), which received the 2016 Notre Dame Review Prize

Sponsored by Notre Dame’s Creative Writing Program

Friday, November 114:00 p.m. Eck Visitors Center Auditorium

“The Emergence from Land Undersea: A Postcolonial Strategy” – a presentation on the mermaid poems

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Patrick B. O’Donnell Distinguished Visiting Professor,Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

Reception to follow

Friday, November 188:00 p.m. The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Los San Patricios: The Story of the St. Patrick's Battalion

Hagerty Irish Performer Series/Co-sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies

Sunday, November 272:00 p.m. The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Leighton Concert Hall

Eileen Ivers, Fiddler

Hagerty Irish Performer Series

DECEMBERFriday, December 27:00 p.m. The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Browning Theatre

Colm Tóibín

Author Colm Tóibín will speak about the story behind Brooklyn, his 2009 novel that was adapted into a film in 2015.

Free but ticketed event

Sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism

SPEAKERS AND PUBLIC TALKS SERIES

FALL 2016

Kylemore Abbey, Connemara, County Galway

The Notre Dame Center at Kylemore Abbey was dedicated on August 25, 2016

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. For information on the Institute’s programs, contact:

Mary Hendriksen, Assistant Director

Phone: 574.631.6250 Email: mhendrik@nd.edu

irishstudies.nd.edu