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New Department of Irish Language and Literature

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Tá Roinn Ghaeilge bunaithe san Institiúid Mhic Eochaidh-Uí Neachtain um an Léann Éireannach /Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in Ollscoil Notre Dame i Meiriceá. Is í an chéad Roinn Ghaeilge sna Stáit í agus d'fhógraigh Ambasadóir na hÉireann i Meiriceá (Noel Fahey) ar oscailt go hoifigiúil í ar an 1 Deireadh Fómhair 2004.).

Is sa bhliain 1992 a bunaíodh Institiúid Mhic Eochaidh-Uí Neachtain um an Léann Éireannach /Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in Ollscoil Notre Dame agus is í anois príomh-ionad An Léinn Éireannaigh sna Stáit. An tOllamh Chris Fox, ollamh le Béarla i Notre Dame agus údar ar Swift, a bhunaigh í agus go gearr ina dhiaidh sin ceapadhSéamus Deane (Ball d'Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann) mar ollamh le Léann Éireannach san Institiúid. Ó thus bhí an Ghaeilge mar eilimint riachtanach sa Léann Éireannach agus is é An Dr Peter McQuillan (céimí de chuid U.C.D. agus Harvard) a bhí ina bun. Eisean amháin a bhí ag teagasc na Gaeilge le tréimhse fhada ach leis an bhfás ollmhór a chuaigh ar líon na mac léinn (tá breis agus céad mac léinn anois ag leanúint do chúrsaí Gaeilge i Notre Dame) ceapadh triúr eile le blianta beaga anuas. Trí bliana ó shin ceapadh Breandán Ó Buachalla (Ball d'Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann) ina ollamh le Gaeilge (The O'Donnell Chair of Irish Language and Literature) san Institiúid agus is faoina stiúirsean tá an roinn nua curtha ar bun. Le dhá bhliain anuas ceapadh beirt eile: An Dr Sarah McKibben agus An Dr Brian Ó Conchubhair.

An lá céanna a d'oscail an Roinn d'fhoilsigh dhá leabhar le foireann na Roinne: Native and Natural (An Dr Peter McQuillan) agus Maeve Brennan (An Dr Angela Bourke, Ball d'Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann) atá ina hollamh cuarda sa Roinn i mbliana).

New Department of Irish Language and Literature

2004 marks the establishment of a new Department of Irish Language and Literature in the Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame. Officially launched on October 1st 2004 by His Excellency Noel Fahey, Irish Ambassador to the United States of America, it is the first Department of Irish Language and Literature in the United States. The new department copper-fastens the Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies commitment to the Irish language and recognizes the centrality of Irish to the academic discipline of Irish Studies. Associate Professor Dr. Peter McQuillan (U.C.D. and Harvard) presided over the phenomenal growth of students taking Irish classes at the University of Notre Dame since 1992 and also assisted in building up the unrivalled Irish-language collection in the Hesburgh Library. Last year over 120 undergraduate and graduate students took Irish language classes. By comparison, during the same period, 95 took Russian and 135 took Japanese. Two years ago, Professor Breandán Ó Buachalla, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the leading Irish-language scholar in the world, became the first Thomas and Kathleen O'Donnell Chair of Irish in the Keough-Naughton Institute. Under his stewardship, the new Department of Irish Language and Literature/Roinn Theanga is Litríocht Ghaeilge was founded. More recently, Dr. Sarah McKibben (Cornell) and Dr. Brian Ó Conchubhair (N.U.I., Galway) were hired as Assistant Professors of Irish. In addition, Professor Angela Bourke, Department of Irish, U.C.D., also a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, joins the new department and the Keough-Naughton Institute as this year's Naughton Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Irish. The founding of the new department also coincides with the official launch of two faculty books, Peter McQuillan's Native and Natural: Aspects of the Concepts of 'Right' and 'Freedom' in Irish and Angela Bourke's Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker.

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies was recently highlighted in a short documentary produced by the BBC. Information about the program is available in English and in Irish at the BBC's website, where you can also watch the nearly ten-minute feature (requires the download of RealPlayer).

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