Teaching Irish
Associations of teachers of Irish
Irish Federation of University Teachers
Cumann Múinteoirí Éireann was founded in 1868 and is the largest teachers' trade union in Ireland. It represents teachers at primary level in the Republic of Ireland and at primary and post-primary level in Northern Ireland.
The objectives of the INTO are:
To unite and organise the teachers of Ireland and to provide a means for the expression of their collective opinion on matters affecting the interests of education and of the teaching profession;
To safeguard and improve the conditions of employment of its members, and to promote their interests;
To regulate the relations between members and their fellow members, and between members and their employers;
To afford advice and assistance to individual members on professional matters;
To promote the interests of education and to support the concept of equal access to full education for all children, and to strive for the raising of educational standards;
To afford to the authorities responsible for the administration of education the collective advice and experience of the members;
To cultivate a spirit of fraternal co-operation with kindred organizations in this and other countries and to build on and develop existing links with trade union bodies;
To establish and administer a Fund or Funds for the purpose of providing assistance to members and their dependants in accordance with the rules;
To encourage the promotion and development of Comhar Linn INTO Credit Union and other services and facilities of benefit to members;
To provide, either directly or indirectly, benefits and facilities for members; to procure either solely or with others, a building society or to promote the development of a building society for the purpose of providing mortgage and investment facilities for members; and
To promote the principle of equality in all aspects of education and the teaching profession.
Keough Institute for Irish Studies
The Keough Institute for Irish Studies is an interdisciplinary project devoted to teaching and research in Irish culture in all its internal and external relations. Established in 1993 under the intellectual leadership of Professor Seamus Deane, the Keough Institute’s faculty now includes leaders in Literature, History, Medieval Studies and Film, Television and Theatre and it is regularly supplemented by visiting professors, some of whom come to Notre Dame as Naughton Fellows in a reciprocal arrangement with Irish universities. Our aim is to extend the range of the Institute to include or enrich other areas (musicology, sociology, law, politics and government among them) and to create at Notre Dame not only a centre of excellence in Irish Studies but a paradigm program of university education for the contemporary era.
Irish Studies at Boston College Irish Studies at Boston College offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Irish culture and society. Individual undergraduate and graduate courses address social, political, and economic history, literature, medieval arts, sociology, music, and the Irish language. The extensive Irish collections in the Burns and O'Neill Libraries offer a wealth of resources for students and faculty.
Boston College was founded in 1863 by two Ulstermen, Andrew Carney and John McElroy, S. J. Since then, the University has maintained a special intellectual and social connection with Ireland and Irish America.
The Irish Studies program offers an undergraduate minor in Irish Studies, an English Department MA in Irish Literature and Culture and an MA in History with a concentration in Irish History. The graduate programs in English and History also attract, train and successfully place outstanding PhD candidates who wish to integrate Irish Studies into their disciplines. The Irish Studies program offers comprehensive lecture, film and music series every year.
The Irish Studies faculty is a group of internationally recognized scholars whose influential publications and professional commitment have made them leaders in the field. The expertise of individual faculty members spans a wide range of Irish subjects, such as 18th, 19th, and 20th century Irish history and literature, Irish music and dance, and the American Irish. Faculty members are also intimately involved in other interdisciplinary fields of inquiry, such as women's studies, American studies, ethnic studies, and area studies.