A Year in Review
A chara,
2024-2025 marked a year of growth, creativity, and deepened engagement for Notre Dame Dublin. Guided by the University’s mission, we strengthened undergraduate and graduate programmes, expanded research collaborations, and deepened partnerships in Ireland and across the global Notre Dame community.
This year, we welcomed a record number of students and scholars to Dublin, produced a landmark documentary, launched new research projects, and celebrated the achievements of our Dublin Domers. Together, these efforts reflect our continued commitment to fostering an intellectually vibrant community connecting the United States, Ireland, Europe, and the wider world.
As we look ahead to 2026, we do so with optimism and purpose, building on this momentum to further advance teaching, research, and collaboration in service of the common good.
Le gach dea-ghuí,
Eimear Clowry Delaney
Michael J. Smurfit Director
Notre Dame Dublin
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Highlights
Daniel O'Connell: The Emancipator Documentary
As stewards of O'Connell House on Merrion Square, Notre Dame Dublin sought to mark the 250th birthday of one of Ireland's most important political figures in a major way. Daniel O'Connell: The Emancipator is a landmark new documentary on the life and legacy of The Liberator, a man almost single-handedly responsible for Catholic Emancipation in Ireland—inspiring mass democratic movements around the world in the nineteenth century.
Directed by Ruán Magan and narrated by Domhnall Gleeson, Daniel O’Connell: The Emancipator is a Create One production in association with the University of Notre Dame, University College Cork, and RTÉ.
The documentary is supported by the Government of Ireland's Department of Culture, Communications and Sport and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. It will be included in school curricula across the island of Ireland, as laid out in Ireland’s “2025 Programme for Government,” to highlight “how Irish identity was, and remains a European identity, while showcasing O’Connell’s contribution to intellectual and political thought on a global scale.”
The documentary will air on RTÉ 1 on December 29, 2025, at 6:30 pm GMT.
Daniel O'Connell: 2025-2029
The documentary Gala Premiere on November 25, 2025, is only the beginning. Over the next three years, Notre Dame Dublin will tour the documentary with academic discussions and public engagement events in Washington, DC, New York, Chicago, Notre Dame, the UK, and further afield, to continue the conversation around O'Connell, building from the 250th anniversary of his birth to 2029, the bicentenary of Catholic Emancipation in Ireland.
The O'Connell Lecture was launched on Culture Night, September 2025, with an audience of over 90 guests in O'Connell House, for Kevin Whelan's "Daniel O'Connell: The Global Irishman," making the argument that O'Connell was Ireland's first truly international figure and one of the most famous individuals of his time.
We will invite faculty annually to deliver the O'Connell Lecture, focusing on topics inspired by his achievements in human and civil rights, liberty, equality, and democracy, and how they continue to shape and impact our world today.
Celebrating Irish Writing
Through partnerships with The Gallery Press and Poetry Ireland, Notre Dame Dublin has welcomed over 25 of Ireland's most renowned poets, writers, and artists across the year, including Ciaran Barry, Marina Carr, Kevin Graham, Vona Groarke, Aifric Mac Aodha, John McAuliffe, Frank McGuinness, Paula Meehan, Mary O’Malley, Colm Toibín, Molly Twomey, Grace Wilentz, and many more.
Derek Mahon
On November 4, 2025, more than 280 people gathered at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin for A Celebration of Derek Mahon, marking the fifth anniversary of the poet’s death in an event curated by Peter Fallon of The Gallery Press in association with the University of Notre Dame Dublin and RTÉ Radio 1.
The evening featured readings and reflections by leading poets, writers, and performers—including Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, John Banville, Stephen Rea, and Mahon’s daughter Katy Mahon—alongside rare archival recordings of Derek Mahon. Interwoven with excerpts from Fallon’s forthcoming memoir The Kitchen Sink, the event offered an intimate portrait of Mahon’s life, work, and enduring legacy in a golden age of Irish poetry.
A recording of this event will air on RTÉ Radio 1 on December 26, 2025, at 6 pm GMT.
Writer in Residence
2025 marked the end of poet Grace Wilentz's tenure as Notre Dame Dublin Writer in Residence. In this role, Grace enthusiastically engaged with our students on semester, summer, and short-term immersion programs, as well as several visiting delegations from the University of Notre Dame. She designed creative and nature-based workshops for staff and students alike, delivered an annual lecture and public engagement events, celebrated Poetry Day Ireland with broadsides and International Women's Day with readings, and much more.
In a special event celebrating Gallery at 55, Grace Wilentz sat down with Peter Fallon—publisher, editor, and founder of The Gallery Press, Ireland’s pre-eminent publisher of Irish poetry and drama in the 21st century—to celebrate 55 years of Gallery. Peter founded the press at age 18 and decided to publish poems by his professors at Trinity College Dublin—one of whom he still publishes today, the acclaimed Irish language poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. The Gallery Press has now published over 500 books by Irish poets and playwrights like Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Grace Wilentz, to name a few.
Over the course of her tenure, Grace published her second collection, Harmony (Unfinished), with Gallery in October 2024. "This opportunity afforded me time to complete work on a writing project at a vital stage in its development, while engaging with the vibrant Notre Dame community," Wilentz said. "The Writer in Residence role comes with a bursary, and I cannot overemphasise how vital this was in supporting me to cross the finish line."
Learning Through the Soles of Our Feet
Notre Dame Dublin students' pilgrimage to Rome, receive Pope Francis's final blessing
In the 2025 Jubilee Year, as Pilgrims of Hope, our Notre Dame Dublin study abroad students knew their Easter pilgrimage to Rome would be special. What they could not have known was that they would be present for Pope Francis's last public blessing.
In light of Pope Francis’s passing, our Notre Dame students who were present to receive that final blessing have expressed a transformational sense of gratitude. "Sharing [this] with the Dublin students and staff brought us closer in a more profound way than could be experienced with trips devoid of spiritual ethos," said Campus Ministry Fellow Molly O'Leary. "It showed us the power of a community gathering in one place, and gave us a clearer understanding of who we are as Catholics."
IBM, Notre Dame Dublin sign new Joint Study Agreement
Notre Dame Dublin has reinvigorated its partnership with IBM Ireland through a new Joint Study Agreement, which launched the IBM Notre Dame Graduate Fellows Program as a 10-week research internship for PhD students in STEM disciplines, administered through the Notre Dame Dublin Irish Internship Program. Selected doctoral candidates in Computer Science and Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics (ACMS), Math, or Physics conduct research at IBM's only European research lab, consistently delivering major innovations in the areas of AI, security, hybrid cloud, and quantum computing, surrounded by a team of more than 80 researchers, scientists, technologists, engineers, designers, and thinkers inventing what’s next in computing.
Record number of Irish students head to Notre Dame
Over 50 Irish students went to the University of Notre Dame in 2025 to take part in a variety of programs, including four-year undergraduates, study abroad exchange semesters, and summer Naughton Fellowships on the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). A record-breaking eleven Irish postgraduates started the ESTEEM M.S. in Entrepreneurship, Technology, & Innovation, with another twelve in the Remick M.A. in Educational Leadership. Notre Dame Dublin, the Newman Centre for Faith & Reason, and the ND Alumni Club of Ireland co-hosted a send-off event for all students from the island of Ireland heading to Notre Dame.
Research
Precision Biomedical Technologies
The Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health at the University of Notre Dame, the Dublin City University Life Sciences Institute, and Notre Dame Global, together with Notre Dame Dublin, launched the Notre Dame-DCU Seed Grant in Precision Biomedical Technologies program to enable researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Dublin City University to establish collaborations in precision biomedical technologies.
2025 Awardees
A shared vision to combat eye disease: Scientists at UCD, Notre Dame collaborate on retinal regeneration research
Tess McCann, a postdoctoral research scientist in the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science at University College Dublin, spent three weeks in spring 2025 training in a novel adult zebrafish research technique developed by Professor David Hyde and his team at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Zebrafish Research. McCann’s visit was supported by a Notre Dame Global Network Research Development Grant, which seeds research collaborations with partner universities in the Notre Dame Global network.
McCann's work focuses on understanding how zebrafish regenerate retinal neurons, an ability that could inform future treatments for human eye diseases such as macular degeneration and glaucoma. By combining Hyde Lab expertise in retinal molecular processes with UCD’s Kennedy Lab expertise in proteomics and pharmacological applications, the partnership advances comprehensive research toward treatments to stimulate retinal regeneration in humans with eye diseases.
ARINS Project
In March 2025, the ARINS Project and the Keough-Naughton Institute's Dublin team took up residency in the newly established Research Library in O'Connell House. Two Notre Dame students on the Notre Dame Dublin Irish Internship Program, Jane Palmer (ND '26) and Emelia O'Neill (ND '26), joined the ARINS team on placements over the summer. Read Emelia O'Neill's story about the first ARINS public engagement event hosted at Notre Dame Dublin: "Shared Media and a Divided Island"
ARINS is a nonpartisan, evidence-based research initiative that enables academics, practitioners, and policymakers to explore questions and policy options for Ireland—north and south. ARINS seeks to engage recognised experts across the spectrum of disciplines, perspectives, and points of view and invites contributions in the form of academic papers, blog posts, and proposals for partnerships.
Consortium for Adaptive Futures
The Consortium for Adaptive Futures was launched in February 2025 at Notre Dame Dublin during a two-day workshop dedicated to building a community of practice for faculty leading project-based, community-based, or challenge-based experiential learning projects in the climate and sustainability space. The group's research focuses on experiential learning pedagogy, student outcomes, and community impacts, with their first co-authored paper forthcoming.
Participating institutions include Clemson University, Dublin City University, University of Edinburgh, University of Galway, University of Louisville, University of Notre Dame, and Youngstown State University.
Form, Image, Action Network
The Form, Image, Action Network—led by Megan Welton (ND PhD '17), professor of History at UCD, in association with incoming director CJ Jones of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute—gathered at Notre Dame Dublin for their first workshop, “Reframing Women and Binaries in Medieval Worlds.” Over a two-day workshop, which included an archival exploration of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, the scholarly network united academics and creatives, breaking down historic disciplinary and geographical silos and removing barriers to knowledge exchange within a diversity of medieval studies fields.
Participating institutions include the Chester Beatty Library, Queen Mary University of London, St. Andrew's University, University College Dublin, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago, University of Edinburgh, University of Notre Dame, and University of Rochester.
Naughton Fellowships
Faculty Research Accelerator
The Naughton Fellowships continued the fifth year of Faculty Research Accelerator Grants, with funding for collaborations between faculty from the University of Notre Dame and faculty from University College Cork, University of Galway, and Trinity College Dublin.
Notre Dame Dublin welcomed Patrick Brewick, assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, over the 2025 summer for an extended research trip on the Notre Dame and Trinity College Dublin project "Predicting and Reducing the Excessive Motion in Tall, Slender Structures." Brewick's collaborators are Brian Broderick, a professor in Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering and associate dean of research; Breiffni Fitzgerald, an assistant professor in Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering; and John Hickey, assistant professor in Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering.
Thomas O'Sullivan, an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Notre Dame, will join us in August 2026 for a research visit with collaborator Friedrich Wetterling, an assistant professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, on their ongoing project titled "Smart and wireless optical sensors for intra-vascular monitoring of blood volume in congestive heart failure."
We look forward to welcoming the following 2026 grant awardees to Dublin in the coming years:
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“Unveiling the mechanical determinants of plasma cell dyscrasias”
Meenal Datta, assistant professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, will collaborate with colleagues from Trinity College Dublin and Maynooth University on this project, aiming to develop a new microtissue model for studying the effects of mechanical stimuli on bone marrow, which may determine an individual’s likelihood of developing a plasma disorder, such as multiple myeloma, as they age. Datta’s collaborators are Despina Bazou, assistant professor in the Department of Biology and the Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health Research at Maynooth University, and David Hoey, professor of biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin.
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“Context-aware Secure Code Generation using Large Language Models"
Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos, assistant professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will work with Liliana Pasquale, associate professor in University College Dublin’s School of Computer Science, on this project. The researchers will collaborate to enhance the security of code generated by AI assistants by developing a framework that incorporates security-relevant contextual information in the code generation process, to alleviate the burden on developers in identifying and fixing security issues.
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“Transcriptional Control of Microglial Myelin Clearance During Demyelination and Repair"
Cody Smith, the Elizabeth and Michael Gallagher Associate Professor of Biology at Notre Dame, will collaborate with Michael-John Dolan, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin, to investigate the genetic factors that regulate the function of microglia, the brain's resident immune cells. They will specifically investigate the clearance of myelin debris, a process that is critical for myelin regeneration and the halting of demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
Students
UNDERGRADUATES
Dublin students explore the European pilgrimage tradition in Ireland, UK, Italy
Molly O'Leary, Notre Dame Dublin's Campus Ministry Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year, led pilgrimages for Dublin study abroad students across Europe, from Ireland's holiest sites—Glendalough, Croagh Patrick, Kylemore and Máméan—through the Augustinian Camino in England, and, most especially, to Rome for Easter, for what they did not know at the time would be Pope Francis's final blessing. Pilgrimages in Dublin are an essential part of the study abroad experience, a powerful way to encounter both place, spirit, and self. Read more about our students' pilgrimage journeys here.
Community-engaged learning program continues to grow
Through the Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) program, many students have taken on responsibilities alongside their study abroad coursework through intentional, place-based learning opportunities to better understand Ireland and its capital city. Beyond an opportunity for community service, these experiences also prompt students to recontextualize their understanding of Dublin and Ireland more broadly. With no language barrier, students can sometimes be lulled into a more comfortable study abroad experience in Ireland. Volunteering and community engagement are ways to combat this, bringing the differences between Ireland and the US into sharper focus and encouraging students to encounter cultural complexity and challenge assumptions. Read more about our spring 2025 students' CEL placements, from homework help for migrants at Youth Education Services Migrant and Refugee Access Programme in Dublin to therapeutic recreation for children affected by serious illness at Barretstown Camp.
Dublin Domers are named Valedictorian and Salutatorian, Class of 2025
We have always said our students are the best... and now we have proof! Clare Cullinan, Valedictorian, studied abroad at Trinity College Dublin in the spring of 2024, and Bennett Schmitt, Salutatorian, studied abroad at University College Dublin in the fall of 2023. Both Clare and Bennett were involved with Notre Dame Dublin during their study abroad, taking advantage of opportunities as the campus ministry intern and sustainability fellow, respectively. Clare is now on a year of service as an Amate House Fellow in Chicago, serving as the Campus Minister at Our Lady of Tepeyac High School. Bennett has rejoined us in Ireland as a Naughton Fellow, undertaking a Master's in Climate Adaptation Engineering at Trinity College Dublin (and still helping around the house).
Notre Dame Dublin supports four Nanovic Sustainability Research Fellows
The Nanovic Sustainability Research Fellowship supports undergraduate students conducting independent sustainability research during their semester abroad with close academic supervision and mentorship provided by Notre Dame Dublin. While in Ireland, Notre Dame Dublin guided students’ research development, connected them with faculty at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Dublin City University, and facilitated engagement with local community organizations and government stakeholders. This sustained, place-based mentoring enabled students to situate Irish sustainability practices within broader European and U.S. contexts.
In the fall semester following their time abroad, fellows presented their research on campus during a public session chaired by Eamon Ryan, Ireland’s former Minister for the Environment, Climate, and Communications. Christine Hruby presented “Clear Water, Clear Future: Evaluating Water Quality Across Ireland,” Jack MapelLentz shared “Water Quality in Cavan & Monaghan: A Monitoring Program Implemented by Citizen Science,” Rika Felten presented “Ireland’s Offshore Wind Journey and What the U.S. Can Learn,” and Sara Wheeler shared “Dereliction and Decline: The Economic and Social Costs of Ireland’s Dereliction Crisis.”
POSTGRADUATES
Naughton Fellowships
Masters in Dublin
Our Class of 2025 Naughton Fellows are on to great things back in the US and in Ireland.
Kathryn Delaney Clark (ND '24, Mechanical Engineering) completed an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at University College Cork. Since graduating, Delaney moved to Alaska and will start as a materials R&D engineer in 2026. Anna Falk (ND '24, Neuroscience) completed an M.Sc. in Behavioural Neuroscience at University College Dublin and is now a PhD student in Biomedical Sciences at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Ciara Fay (ND '24, Biochemistry) completed an MS in Global Health at Trinity College Dublin and is now working at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland as a Clinical Trial Data Manager in the RCSI Lung Cancer Screening Pilot Study. Tara Neufell (ND '24, Environmental Sciences) completed an M.Sc. in Biodiversity and Conservation at Trinity College Dublin and is now in the Conservation Education Department at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
We welcomed four new Naughton Fellow Master's students to Dublin in September 2025.
Matthew Egan (ND '25, Mechanical Engineering) is undertaking an M.Sc. in Climate Adaptation Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Pailyn Groene (ND '25, Mechanical Engineering) is undertaking an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Caroline Long (ND '25, Civil Engineering) is undertaking an M.Sc. in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Bennett Schmitt (ND '25, Environmental Sciences, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics) is undertaking an M.Sc. in Climate Adaptation Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Schmitt is also the Class of 2025 Notre Dame salutatorian, the first Naughton Fellow to hold this honor.
ESTEEM Graduate Programme
We would like to congratulate the Class of 2025 Naughton Fellows in Notre Dame's ESTEEM Graduate Program, an interdisciplinary master's degree in Science, Technology, and Engineering Entrepreneurship.
Laura Brady (Trinity College Dublin '24, Mechanical Engineering and Management) completed her ESTEEM capstone with Enlighten Mobility, a company founded at Notre Dame, creating rehabilitation technology for people with mobility impairments. Brady is now back in Dublin working at ElevenLabs, a leading startup in audio AI, on their GTM Team.
David Carr (Dublin City University '24, Actuarial Mathematics) completed his ESTEEM capstone as a consultant with AEBetancourt, a Michigan-based HR solutions company. Carr developed a go-to-market strategy titled "Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Talent Strategy, Talent Acquisition, and Human Resources." He is now the Director of Strategic Insights and Innovation at AEBetancourt.
Kate O'Farrelly (University College Dublin '24, Economics and Econometrics) completed her ESTEEM capstone project exploring opportunities for a low-cost, over-the-counter motility capsule for over 40% of the population suffering from Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder (FGID) with Atmo Biosciences, a clinical-stage gut health company. She is now an Investment Banking Analyst at Centerview Partners in New York.
Lorcan O'Rourke (University College Dublin '24, Electronic and Computer Engineering), a two-time Naughton Fellowships recipient at both the REU and Master's level, completed his ESTEEM capstone project with Couchbase, a developer-centric data platform for generative AI applications. He is now a GTM Engineer at Clay, a New York-based technology company that builds an AI-powered go-to-market platform for growth teams.
Eoin Leonard (Technological University Dublin '24, Building Services Engineering) completed his ESTEEM capstone with Johnson Controls on a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for a pioneering global product in sustainable cooling and heating, using mechanical vapor recompression technology. He is now a Senior Business Analyst at Glen Dimplex, a world leader in electric heating, precision cooling, and consumer appliances, based in Ireland.
Irish ESTEEM student David Carr launches math app, lands Ireland's 30 under 30
David Carr is a 2024 Dublin City University graduate of Mathematics and Naughton Fellow recipient for Notre Dame's ESTEEM Graduate program, an interdisciplinary master's in Science, Technology, and Engineering Entrepreneurship. During his time at Notre Dame, he developed Pi-Squared, an educational, gamified math app designed for students aged 15-18, preparing users for standardized math exams, while also appealing to those who enjoy math puzzles. The "Wordle for Math" app and other ventures have landed David Carr in Ireland's 30 Under 30, celebrating Ireland's young entrepreneurs of 2025.
Executive MBA returns to Dublin
After the inaugural Ireland immersion for the Mendoza College of Business Executive MBA in August 2024, Notre Dame Dublin welcomed the EMBA cohort back to Ireland's capital in October 2025, this time with a revamped program ripe with engagement with NDD local partners. Executives completed a marketing course across the week while working on projects focused on US market entry or expansion strategy for Irish brands like Kerrygold, Foxford, and Stable, to name a few. The week kicked off at the IDA Ireland where students learned about the Irish economic landscape, later engaging with executives from Stryker's Cork hub, the company's biggest innovation and manufacturing center outside of the US, and AIG Ireland, to startups like Ceartas with Barry Jungels (ND '93) and Aerska with David Hardwicke (ND ESTEEM '17) at Ireland's national accelerator and innovation hub Dogpatch Labs.
Engagement
Amitav Ghosh delivers lecture on climate change
Have you ever considered the role of a single nutmeg in the contemporary climate crisis?
Amitav Ghosh does so in his newest work of non-fiction The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021), where he traces the dynamics of climate change today back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean.
Ghosh delivered a powerful lecture on the “parables” of his new book, reorienting how we think about climate change—and how we tell the story of climate change and its impacts—in Dublin, Ireland, on December 1, 2024, at a Notre Dame Forum "What Do We Owe Each Other?" event, co-sponsored by Notre Dame Dublin and Field Day.
St. Patrick documentary premiered by Notre Dame Dublin, Newman Centre for Faith and Reason, RTÉ
In March 2025, the University of Notre Dame Dublin and the Notre Dame Newman Centre for Faith and Reason hosted the world premiere of Patrick: A Slave to Ireland, a new documentary by filmmaker Ruán Magan, produced by RTÉ, BBC, and Arte with support from Tourism Ireland. Challenging conventional narratives, the film places British-born Saint Patrick in a broader European context, portraying him as part of a radical Christian movement and vividly recreating the pre-Christian culture of Ireland and the far-reaching influence of the church he founded on European learning. The sold-out premiere at Newman University Church opened with remarks from British Ambassador to Ireland Paul Johnston, who reflected on Patrick’s identity as a wealthy Romano-Briton who chose to return to the land where he had once been enslaved.
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art launches exhibition catalogue Homecoming: Walter Osborne's Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900
The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art presents the first monographic exhibition in forty years of the work of Walter Osborne, one of Ireland’s most-heralded artists. Through his depictions of Dublin’s streets, parks, public spaces, domestic interiors and gardens, countryside, and most importantly its people, a vision of a vibrant, if divided, Ireland emerges.
The catalogue for the exhibition was launched at Notre Dame Dublin in September 2025. It includes essays by Brendan Rooney, Head Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; Kathryn Milligan, Assistant Librarian, Edward Murphy Library, National College of Arts & Design, Dublin; Logan Sisley, Head of Collection at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Judith Stapleton, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame; and the Raclin Murphy Museum Curator who organized the exhibition, Cheryl K. Snay, Curator of European and American Art before 1900. Research assistance was provided by Aoife-Marie Buckley, The Donald and Marilyn Keough Curatorial Fellow at the Raclin Murphy Museum.
Global Partners in Care conference hosted at Notre Dame Dublin
The Global Partners in Care (GPIC), a Mishawaka-based nonprofit dedicated to enhancing access to hospice and palliative care in over 20 countries around the world, convened their network of international partners at Notre Dame Dublin for its annual conference. GPIC is directed by Lacey Ahern, adjunct assistant professor in Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health. In Dublin, the group worked to design a tangible framework for addressing barriers to palliative care access, including increasing awareness, workforce development, identifying policy and research gaps, and preparing future leaders.
Notre Dame Dublin welcomes Indiana Governor Holcomb, US Ambassador Claire Cronin, in student and public engagement events across the year
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb visited Notre Dame Dublin in October 2024 during an overseas trade mission in Ireland, where he announced a new nonstop flight from Indianapolis to Dublin on Aer Lingus. The Governor joined Professor Kevin Whelan in conversation at O’Connell House, discussing key trade relationships between Indiana and Ireland, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry.
In January 2025, Ambassador Claire Cronin, United States Ambassador to Ireland, was joined by the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) for a fireside chat at Notre Dame Dublin’s O’Connell House discussing the strong relationship and bright future between Ireland and the United States in the final days of her post. Ambassador Cronin is now Scholar in Residence for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.