Stories

Margaret Burns 21’, originally from San Antonio, Texas, is an art history major and is part of the Glynn Family Honors Program. She’s currently involved with the Snite Museum of Art, ND Votes, and a staff member at Pasquerilla East Hall on campus. In the fall of 2019, Burns studied...

You want to take it all in, but it’s impossible. Should you focus on the emerald mountain backdrop topped with clouds floating like puffy jelly beans? Or the foreground of willowy reeds swaying on a placid lake? Inevitably your eyes are drawn instead to the castle, a fairy-tale version so...

An Irish scone bake-off went viral. A TikTok challenge inspired kicking toilet paper like a soccer ball. An assignment to develop a literary walking tour of London became a walking tour for people in quarantine. Eleanor the Chihuahua became an Instagram celebrity.…

At age ten, Irene Valdes Salazar’s aunt brought her a souvenir from a recent trip to Dublin, Ireland. “Look, there’s a street named after our family!” she remembers saying. She remembers putting the O’Connell Street fridge magnet up, finding it amusing, but not thinking too deeply about it at the...

In June 2014, a plane landed hard at the Kabul International Airport. It was after dark and the flight crew needed medical attention. The plane suffered damage, so the crew needed to stay overnight in Kabul until another aircraft could be flown in. Jaime Signoracci, who was only in her...

Brigham and Habiba at their last tutoring session Emily Brigham, a junior from Rhode Island, majors in psychology and minors in education, schooling and society, and data science. She spent the 2019 fall semester studying at UCD in Dublin, where she volunteered with Youth and Educational Services for Refugees and...

Staff at the Dublin Global Gateway dress up every year for the traditional Irish Halloween celebrations. It is a little known fact beyond the craggy shoreline of the Emerald Isle that the North American holiday Halloween originates from an ancient Celtic pagan celebration—Samhain (an Irish word pronounced “sow-win”). Samhain, celebrated October...

The entrance to the Newman University Church and the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason in Dublin. Steve Warner, a renowned expert in liturgical music, and Rev. William Dailey, C.S.C., are attempting to revive an urban Irish parish that faces the same challenges as modern Catholicism across the world....

CBL orientation day, Spring 2015, where participants meet their mentors and learn a little about the site where they will volunteer for the semester. 2019 marks ten years of collaboration between the Notre Dame Dublin Global Gateway…

Samantha Caesar 14’, originally from Baldwin, New York, is an immigration attorney currently living in Washington, D.C. As an associate in Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP’s Government Strategies group, she helps immigrants navigate the U.S. immigration system and find solutions to challenging problems. She writes about how a Notre...

Junior Anja Renkes will bring her three academic disciplines together in an international research experience this summer at the Dublin Global Gateway in the Irish Internship Program. She plans to create paintings of Ireland’s holy wells — small springs with devotional significance — that capture the area’s landscape as pure...

Jenna Koenig’s first love was solving mysteries. She felt compelled to piece together leads and unravel complex puzzles. There was excitement behind the chase, as it ultimately led to discovery. This fascination was followed by her love of science and biology. It was only natural that Koenig was drawn to...

Grace Garvey’s academic curiosity isn’t confined to one subject area. Her interest in human migration manifests in all sorts of different disciplines. She’s an anthropology major who is working closely with an American studies professor on her senior thesis. For her capstone project in the Hesburgh Program in Public Service,...

The University urges faculty and staff traveling abroad for work to register the travel at ndi-tr.nd.edu. Registration is mandatory for undergraduate students traveling internationally on University-sponsored travel, and is strongly encouraged for graduate students, faculty and staff.…

Since its inception, the University of Notre Dame has been a global school.  It was founded by a French priest and brothers in 1842 with money raised in Europe, and as soon as 1850 was enrolling international students.  In the decades that followed, more than 100 students would come to...

Khaoula Morchid is a Notre Dame alum (17’) and a former Naughton Fellow (18’) who completed her masters in Transport, Engineering, Policy and Planning at Trinty College Dublin. She is now working for AECOM in Dublin. Celebrating 20 years in Ireland this year, the Dublin Global Gateway invited Morchid to...

Sean at the Slieve League cliffs in Donegal, along Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way Notre Dame graduate Sean Kennan has spent the last year in Ireland’s capital pursuing a master's degree. We caught up with him to hear about his experience in Ireland and about his plans for the future.…

Madelyn Lugli (Class of '16) Madelyn Lugli (’16) participated in the Dublin Study Abroad Semester Program and the Irish Internship Program while at Notre Dame. Madelyn started her history Ph.D. coursework at Northwestern University this fall. She writes about her experience abroad and how it gave her a more global...

Rose Pupel is a rising senior at Notre Dame, majoring in economics and minoring in Irish studies. Originally from Mahwah, New Jersey, Rose spent a semester studying in Dublin tracing her Irish roots to the birthplace of her great-grandmother. She writes about how a study abroad experience allowed her to...

Maureen Williams, a Notre Dame grad and current PhD student, is doing cutting-edge research sparked by her time studying abroad in Dublin

Steiner plays a solo acoustic set in Chicago Julia Steiner writes songs and plays them in a rock band called Ratboys. Now based in Chicago, she grew up in Louisville, Kentucky before attending the University of Notre Dame, where she graduated with a BA in English. During her third year...