Events
Past Events
Taste of Dingle
Taste of DingleJune 27 to July 5, 2025 | Dingle, Ireland
This trip to Dingle is open to alumni, staff, faculty and friends to celebrate the 20th anniversary of SHU in Dingle.
An Afternoon of Irish Culture: Language & Music
An Afternoon of Irish Culture: Language & MusicTráthnóna Chultúir na nGael: Gaeilge agus Ceol
April 26, 2025
Come to learn about and speak the language of Ireland, An Ghaeilge. Stay to meet master uilleann piper Jerry O’Sullivan and enjoy an afternoon concert. Co-sponsored by the Center for Irish Studies and the department of Languages & Literature.
Poetry Reading: Sara Berkeley, Reading and in Conversation
Poetry Reading: Sara Berkeley, Reading and in ConversationApril 23, 2025
Irish poet Sarah Berkeley will read from her poems, including the 2023 collection The Last Cold Day, which won the Yeats Society Prize, and addresses with powerful urgency the climate crisis and caretaking. Berkeley grew up in Dublin, Ireland, and was educated at Trinity College, Southbank University, London, and the University of California, Berkeley. She has published eight collections of poetry, a novel and a collection of short stories. Her work has been widely anthologized in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. She lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area and now makes her home with her husband in upstate New York, where she works as a hospice nurse.
Co-sponsored by Literary Spring, the Institute for Sustainability & Social Justice, health humanities, languages & literature and the Human Journey Colloquia Series
SHU Claddagh Dance Team and SHU Irish Dance Ensemble
SHU Claddagh Dance Team and SHU Irish Dance EnsembleApril 11, 2025
Join us for an exhilarating evening with the SHU Claddagh Dance Team and SHU Irish Dance Ensemble as they proudly present their annual Irish Dance Showcase. Prepare to be dazzled by a spectacular display of traditional Irish step dancing, where quick-footed precision meets spirited choreography. From lively jigs to mesmerizing reels, SHU’s talented dancers will captivate you with their energy and grace.
Conversation with Fulbright Scholar Conall Ó Fátharta on Ireland's institutional Abuse Scandals
Conversation with Fulbright Scholar Conall Ó Fátharta on Ireland's institutional Abuse ScandalsFriday, April 4, 2025
Conall Ó Fátharta is an award-winning former journalist who previously worked as a Senior News Reporter with the Irish Examiner. He will speak about his current Fulbright scholarship research, examining the Irish print media role in investigating and shaping historical Church and State abuse as national scandals.
Book Talk: The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image
Book Talk: The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish ImageMarch 27, 2025
Marion Casey, Ph.D., will speak about her new book, The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image. It only took a century or so to segue from phrases like “No Irish Need Apply” to “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” in American popular culture. In this talk, Marion Casey will speak on the topic of “Saint Patrick’s Day: Holiday Pedagogy & Profit in the United States, 1900-1940.” Casey is clinical professor of Irish Studies at Glucksman Ireland House NYU and affiliated faculty in the history department at New York University. She is co-editor of Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States (2006) and The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image (2024).
Co-sponsored by the department of history and the Human Journey Colloquia Series
World Music Series: Dervish Irish Traditional Music Concert
World Music Series: Dervish Irish Traditional Music ConcertMarch 14, 2025
A recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the BBC, Dervish has recorded and performed worldwide for over three decades. Described by the BBC as an “icon of Irish music,” the band has played at festivals from Rio de Janeiro to Glastonbury. Dervish have a line-up which includes some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians, fronted by one of the country’s best-known singers, Cathy Jordan.
Irish Studies Welcome
Irish Studies WelcomeFebruary 17, 2025
Are you interested in Irish Studies classes? Are you on your way to an Irish Studies minor and taking Irish traditional music or Irish literature, history, language or dance? Do you want to learn more about the Study in Dingle program? Join current and potential Irish studies minors and faculty for some pizza, advising and information at this informal gathering. You'll more about the minor, upcoming courses, future semesters and short terms in Ireland at our Dingle campus and more.
The Annual John Moriarty Lecture: "Climate, Coloniality & Sustainable Futures"
February 8, 2024
Malcolm Sen
Director of the Environmental Humanities Specialization, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Co-sponsored by Irish Studies, the Institute for Sustainability & Social Justice, The Center for Catholic Studies, Languages & Literature and The Human Journey Colloquia Series
Tradition and Complexity: A Week of Art, Music, Literature & Scholarship
Sacred Heart University Irish Studies in collaboration with SCMA
Ireland: Conflict in Eden
March 18, 2024
An exhibition of photograph of the Conflict in Belfast and the life in Southern Ireland by Richard Falco (SCMA) & Mariusz Smiejek and paintings by Nathan Lewis (Art & Design).
Right all Along: A Conversation about Sinéad O’Connor
Right all Along: A Conversation about Sinéad O’ConnorMarch 18, 2024
Speakers:
- Claire Bracken, Union College, on Irish History and Memory
- Seth Mulliken, Northeastern University, on Race, Sound, and Intersectionality
- Luciana McClure, Sacred Heart University, on Art, Activism, and Care
- Hilary Sweeney, Sacred Heart University, on O’Connor and the Irish Language
Sponsored by Sacred Heart University Irish Studies, Art & Design, The Human Journey Colloquia Series, School of Communications, Media & the Arts, The Hersher Institute for Ethics, Languages & Literature and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Poetry Repossessed
Poetry RepossessedMarch 19, 2024
For over fifteen centuries poetry has been written in the Irish language. This bilingual presentation, by Hilary Sweeney together with her Irish Language students, is composed of a selection of poetry in the original Irish, with translations to English, paying particular attention to the 21st century. All welcome. Bígí Linn!
Sponsored by Sacred Heart University Irish Studies, Art & Design, The Human Journey Colloquia Series, School of Communications, Media & the Arts and Languages & Literature.
The Influence of Place on Artistic Imagination: A Reading & Conversation
The Influence of Place on Artistic Imagination: A Reading & ConversationMarch 20, 2024
Speakers:
- Marie Hulme (Languages & Literature)
- Nathan Lewis (Art & Design)
- Richard Falco (Media Studies)
Sponsored by Sacred Heart University Irish Studies, Art & Design, The Human Journey Colloquia Series, School of Communications, Media & the Arts and Languages & Literature
Celebrating Goddess - Saint Brigid in Words & Music
March 21, 2024
June-Ann Greeley
Languages & Literature
Chelsey Zimmerman
Music
A presentation by June-Ann Greeley on the Irish Saint Brigid, based on the pre-Christian and medieval legend and lore of Brigid as pre-Christian Celtic goddess and then popular Catholic saint. Long before St. Francis of Assisi, Brigid realized the beauty in and wisdom of the land and all its creatures, and so her tradition offers a contemporary audience powerful guidance for an eco-spirituality and an advocacy for animal rights. Traditional Irish musician and SHU instructor Chelsey Zimmerman, joined by other musicians and students, will provide musical interludes.
Sponsored by Sacred Heart University Irish Studies, Art & Design, The Human Journey Colloquia Series, School of Communications, Media & the Arts and Languages & Literature
Caoilinn Hughes: The Alternatives
April 12, 2024
Caoilinn Hughes is the author The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Centre Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and is currently a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library.
Claire Kilroy, reading and in conversation about her acclaimed fifth novel, Soldier, Sailor
Claire Kilroy, reading and in conversation about her acclaimed fifth novel, Soldier, SailorSeptember 23, 2024
Books available for purchase and signing.
Claire Kilroy is the author of five novels including Soldier Sailor, All Summer, Tenderwire and The Devil I Know. She was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2004 and has been shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Irish Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. She studied at Trinity College and lives in Dublin.
Irish Studies Welcome Event
Irish Studies Welcome EventSeptember 25, 2024
Pizza, advising and information for the Irish Studies minor and Study in Dingle. With Dingle Program Co-Director Ciara Barrett. Are you interested in Irish Studies classes? Taking Irish Traditional Music, Irish Literature, History, Language or Dance? Join current and potential Irish Studies minors and faculty for an informal gathering to learn more about the minor, which courses are coming up, semesters and short terms in Ireland at our Dingle campus and more.
Paul Muldoon, reading and in conversation
Paul Muldoon, reading and in conversationOctober 16, 2024
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fifteen collections of poetry including Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, published by FSG and Faber and Faber in 2024. Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The Annual John Moriarty Lecture: "Invoking Ireland": John Moriarty, Tim Robinson and Linguistic Ecologies
November 4, 2024
Jonathan O’Neill, Ph.D.
Jonathan O’Neill is Assistant Professor of Irish Language & Culture at Villanova University’s Global Interdisciplinary Studies Department and Center for Irish Studies. Previously, he was Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas. He has degrees in Applied Languages, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies and Technical Writing from the University of Limerick and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University.
Event is sponsored by Sacred Heart University's Center for Irish Studies, Languages & Literature, the Institute for Sustainability & Social Justice and the Human Journey Colloquia Series.
Cherish the Ladies, performing traditional Irish music
December 5, 2024