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Declan Kiberd is the Emeritus Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English and Irish Language and Literature.

Declan Kiberd Lecturing at Graduate Irish Seminar, 2018 Keough Naughton Irish Seminar

Professor Kiberd is a native of Dublin who counted the novelist John McGahern among his earliest schoolteachers. Kiberd studied at Trinity College in Dublin before earning a doctoral degree at Oxford under the direction of Richard Ellmann, the biographer of James Joyce, William Butler Yeats and Oscar Wilde. Kiberd has taught at the University of Kent, Trinity College, and University College Dublin.

A faculty fellow in the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies who came to Notre Dame in 2011, Professor Kiberd is an Irish language speaker and a scholar of Celtic culture and Irish literature and history. He has lectured in some 30 countries worldwide and contributes essays and reviews to the Irish Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and The New York Times. In 2019, Professor Kiberd was distinguished by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AALS) when he was elected to their membership honoring his contribution to research.

Professor Kiberd’s most recent book, After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present was published by Harvard University Press in 2018 and is the third volume of a trilogy that began with Inventing Ireland and continued with Irish Classics, a book that dealt with authors who wrote in both Irish and English language. Kiberd is currently finishing a book called Beckett Unknown: Mysticism without God and a short book about cricket, England and eternity.  

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Declan Kiberd