Kevin Whelan was named the Smurfit Director of the Keough Notre Dame Centre in Ireland in 1998. A native of Wexford, Kevin has been a visiting professor at New York University, Boston College, and Concordia University (Montreal). He has lectured in over a dozen countries, and at the Sorbonne, Cambridge, Oxford, Torino, Berkeley, Yale and Louvain. He has published sixteen books and almost 100 articles on Ireland’s history, geography, and culture. Among these are The Tree of Liberty (1996), Fellowship of Freedom: the United Irishmen and the 1798 Rebellion (1998), and the Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape (1997).
Patricia McVeigh: Building Manager
Patricia comes from Belfast and graduated in 2001 with a BA
in English from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge and
in 2002 with an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen’s
University, Belfast. She worked as student life co-ordinator
at the Keough Centre for two years before recently becoming
House Manager at O’Connell House in 2004.
Caroline Moloney: Administrator
Dublin born, Caroline studied design and typography in Dublin
and London. She was previously consultant in project management
and exhibition design to the Office of Public Works, and the
National Museum of Ireland. Her role with the Keough-Notre Dame
Centre is in administration and she co-ordinates the annual
Irish Seminar.
Mary Kathleen (Katie) Murphy Programme Co-ordinator
Born in Denver, Colorado, Katie graduated ND in Political Science
(minoring in Irish Studies) in May 2004. She spent her junior
year as a participant in the Dublin programme, studying history
and politics at Trinity College. She was a Keough Institute
Summer Intern at the Department of Foreign Affairs, and returned
to Dublin in 2004 to work with the Department during the Irish
Presidency of the European Union. Katie is concurrently working
towards an M Phil in Peace Studies at the Irish School for Ecumenics
at Trinity College.
Adam Kronk: Campus Minister
Adam Kronk graduated from ND in 2002 with a BA in English. He
then taught high school as a volunteer in Detroit for one year.
He has worked for the ND Vocation Initiative since its inception
in 2000 and spent a significant amount of time traveling in
Brazil last year before taking his current position as International
Man of Ministry (or Director of Campus Ministry Outreach in
Europe).
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Keough Notre Dame Centre
O’Connell House
58 Merrion Square South
Dublin 2, Ireland
T: 353 1 611 0611
F: 353 1 611 0606
Kevin Whelan: Director
Email: Whelan.12@nd.edu
Work: 353 1 611 0555
Home: 353 1 454 2854
Patricia McVeigh: Building Manager
Email: pmcveigh@nd.edu
Work: 353 1 611 0553
Caroline Moloney: Administrator
Email: cmoloney@nd.edu
Work: 353 1 611-0554
Katie Murphy: Programme Coordinator
Email: mmurph23@nd.edu
Work: 353 1 611 0556
Adam Kronk: Campus Minister
Email: mkronk1@nd.edu
Work: 353 1 611 0552
ON THE NOTRE DAME CAMPUS
Claudia Kselman
152 Hurley
University of Notre Dame
Email: kselman.2@nd.edu
Work: 574 631 5882
Faculty in Residence
Luke Gibbons, Professor of English and concurrent Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, has lectured widely in Great Britain, Europe, North America, and Australia. His academic interests include film and literature, the visual arts, aesthetics, politics and cultural history, and contemporary debates on post colonialism. He is the author of Transformations in Irish Culture (1996), co-author of Cinema in Ireland (1988), and a contributing editor of the landmark Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, (1991). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the international James Joyce Foundation, and is consultant editor to the new Routledge review of post-colonial studies, Interventions.
Seamus Deane, Professor of English and Donald & Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a founding director of the Field Day Theatre, the general editor of the Penguin Joyce, and the author of several books, including A Short History of Irish Literature; Celtic Revivals; Essays in Modern Irish Literature; The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, and Strange Country: Modernity and the Nation. Deane also edited the monumental Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in three volumes, and published a novel, Reading in the Dark, which has been translated into more than 20 languages.
Adjunct Faculty
Daire Keogh is a lecturer in history in St.Patrick's College, Dublin City University. He has degrees from University College Dublin, the Gregorian university, Rome, and Trinity College, Dublin. He is author of The French Disease: the Catholic Church and Irish Radicalism 1790-1800, Edmund Rice 1762-1844, and 1798: an Illustrated History. He has edited a number of volumes dealing with popular politics, radicalism and religion in Ireland. These include A History of the Diocese in Dublin and most recently, Christianity in Ireland: Revisiting the Story.
Dermot Moran was born in Dublin and graduated from University College Dublin (BA) and Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD). He has taught at Yale University, Queen's University Belfast, Maynooth University, Connecticut College, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at UCD. He specializes in medieval philosophy and modern European philosophy and has published two monographs - The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena (Cambridge U.P. 1989) and Introduction to Phenomenology Reader (2002). Prof. Moran has recently been awarded a Senior Research Fellowship of the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. He is married to Loretta Caravousanos and they have three children.
Richard Kearney (PhD, University of Paris) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and University College Dublin. He is author of several books on modern European thought and contemporary Irish culture and politics. His publications include Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture, Post-Nationalist Ireland, Poetics of Modernity, The Wake of Imagination, States of Mind and Poetics of Imagining. He has recently completed a trilogy which includes On Stories, The God Who May Be and Strangers, Gods and Monsters. In addition to his teaching and writing in philosophy and Irish Studies, he also serves as Chairman of the UCD Board of Film Studies, and has been a member of the Irish Arts Council, the Higher Education Authority, and the Irish Film Center. He has also published two novels and a volume of poetry and served as an editor of a number of Irish journals.
Ó Buachalla, Breandán is the inaugural Thomas and Kathleen O’Donnell Chair in Irish Language and Literature at Notre Dame. Among his books are I mBéal Feirste Cois Cuain (1978), Aisling ghéar (1996) and An caoine agus an chaointeoireacht (1998).