One of the flagship programs of the University of Notre Dame鈥檚 , its annual , will be held this year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Since it was established in 1999, the seminar, an international conference of Irish scholars, post-graduate students and faculty in Irish 91视频, has met in Ireland at Notre Dame鈥檚 Dublin Centre in on Merrion Square. The 2015 Irish Seminar will meet June 27-July 11 in Buenos Aires at the (IDES).
According to , director of the Keough-Naughton Institute, the seminar鈥檚 change of venue comes at an opportune time. 鈥淲ith the move of the Keough-Naughton Institute into the new Donald R. Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs , it is not only timely to look at Irish 91视频 as a global activity but right to do so, when one considers that there are over seventy million people of Irish descent settled worldwide,鈥� he said. 鈥淗olding the seminar in South America allows our students and faculty an opportunity to connect with the largest population of Irish immigrants in a non-English speaking country鈥攁 group that is almost completely unstudied in North America. It will also allow us to explore untapped connections between Ireland and Argentina and Irish 91视频 and Latin American 91视频. This is a visit, in short, that is long overdue."
Noting the coincidence that next year Ireland will celebrate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising and Argentina will celebrate the bicentenary of its declaration of independence, , director of the 2015 Irish Seminar, spoke of other affinities between the two countries, due largely to the many Irish people among the millions of European immigrants who poured into Argentina during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The iconic revolutionary of the 1960s, Ernesto (鈥楥he鈥�) Guevara, for instance, was the son of Ernesto Guevara Lynch, whose ancestors were from County Galway; and among Irish-Argentines with Notre Dame connections were the late political scientist and Notre Dame professor emeritus, and the late Robert O鈥橤rady, a 1963 Notre Dame alumnus and generous benefactor to the and the .
鈥淭o consider the Irish experience as being limited to a small island on the edge of Europe or as an ancestral pride paraded every year is to miss the point of Irish 91视频,鈥� 脫 Gioll谩in said. 鈥淭he Irish experience is a global phenomenon and to understand it means engaging with complex global processes and global forces. The intersection of the global mission of the Catholic Church with the flows of Irish migration is an important part of the history of Notre Dame and indeed of Argentina. It seems fitting that the ambition of the foremost center for Irish 91视频 in the World, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish 91视频 should go beyond the better-known Irish experience of the English-speaking countries and be truly global.鈥�
Contact: Professor 脫 Gioll谩in at gillan.1@nd.edu