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Graduate Program

Graduate students attached to the Keough-Naughton Institute generally complete Ph.D.s in History, English or Literature. Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Library can sustain advanced research in all areas of Irish society and culture. Its holdings include outstanding Berkeley, Swift, Goldsmith and Burke Collections, the Loeber Collection of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Irish Fiction, the Captain Francis O’Neill Irish Music Collection and an extensive range of primary and secondary material relating to the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, 1845-52 and Irish-America. The library also has extensive holdings in the literature (in Irish and English), economy, religion, and politics of contemporary Ireland.

All graduate students attached to the Keough-Naughton Institute are encouraged to study the Irish language, which is offered regularly, and there are funded opportunities to study the language in Ireland through a joint program with National University of Ireland, Galway. Students interested in pursuing graduate degree with a focus on Irish language literature can do so through the Ph.D. in Literature Program.

Each summer, the Keough-Naughton Institute hosts The IRISH Seminar, a prestigious month-long seminar in which graduate students from Notre Dame and other universities engage with key figures in Irish cultural, intellectual and political debates; the directors of The IRISH Seminar are Seamus Deane, Luke Gibbons, and Kevin Whelan. In Ireland, graduate students have full access to the resources of the Keough-Notre Dame Center, which is in close proximity to the country’s main archives and research libraries, including the National Archives, National Library of Ireland, Irish Folklore Commission and Trinity College, Dublin.

Current Graduate Students

For admissions information or application materials contact the Notre Dame Graduate School

For More Information Please Contact: Jim Smyth, Director of Graduate Studies

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