13 June 2025, An Cheathrú Rua, Connemara Gaeltacht: Dara Calleary TD, Minister for Social Protection and Minister for Rural and Community Development, and His Excellency Dennis King, Ambassador of Canada to Ireland, presented awards as…

Professor Paul Halferty, co-Director of the UCD Centre for Canadian Studies, and Professor Lizbeth Goodman, Dobbin Fellow and Director of SMARTlab, will introduce the amazing Dr Lisa Boivin, sharing her work and praxis in advance…

Dr. Lindsay Thistle, who recently visited UCD as a Craig Dobbin Legacy Scholar, will be giving a presentation on the research she conducted while in Ireland, entitled: “But There’s Always a War Somewhere:” National Contexts in Early Canadian and Irish Plays About WWII.

The ICUF annual lunch will take place in the Stephen’s Green Club, Dublin 2 at 1pm on Friday, 14th March.  All are welcome to attend! Tickets are available online below…

Michael Phillips served on the board of ICUF for many years, stepping down in 2020. He passed away in July 2024, and is dearly missed by his family and friends. At his funeral in Dublin…

Join us for a special lecture recital of improvised experimental music at UCD on Monday, 2 December 2024, to hear Craig Dobbin Legacy Scholar Clemens Merkel perform with his Montréal based quartet, the Quatuor Bozzini,alongside Dr. Seán Clancy, Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the UCD School of Music.

Arising from his 2019 Flaherty Research Scholarship, Dr Matthew Pauley has recently published an article entitled “A Social Practice Perspective of Ireland’s Lobster Cultural Food Heritage”. At the time of his scholarship, Dr Pauley was at…

It was our great pleasure, today, Thursday, 17th October 2024, to announce the Craig Dobbin Legacy Scholarship awardees at a reception held in the UCD University Club. The Craig Dobbin Legacy Programme (CDLP) is an…

Wishing our teagascóirí the best of luck for the year ahead as they settle into their partner universities in Canada.

We are delighted to welcome Jackie King onto our Board of Trustees.

ICUF is pleased to take this opportunity to extend our congratulations to Prof. Robert Osburn of University College Dublin, on being awarded the prestigious Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate Award last December. The €1 million…

ICUF would like to congratulate Aileen Doran (2017 Flaherty) on receiving the Early Career Researcher Distinguished Lecturer Award. This award from the Mineral Deposits Studies Group grants Doran the funding to deliver a number talks…

We are delighted to welcome Catherine Smith McKiernan onto our Board of Trustees.

ICUF would like to offer heartfelt congratulations to UCD Professor of Chemical Engineering, Niall English (Dobbin, 2007). Niall was one of 28 new members elected to The Royal Irish Academy, in recognition of their exceptional…

ICUF warmly congratulates Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC (2002 Dobbin Scholar) on receiving the prestigious Presidential Distinguished Service Award earlier this year for her exemplary contributions to charitable works and advocacy. Ms. Gallagher KC has acted in…

It was our great pleasure to launch the Craig Dobbin Legacy Programme, an initiative of the Ireland Canada University Foundation (ICUF), the UCD Centre for Canadian Studies, and UCD’s College of Arts and Humanities.

We were delighted to welcome so many of our friends, colleagues and alumni to the University Club in UCD for the First Annual ICUF Lunch on Wednesday, 13th March 2024.

In this Ireland Canada Connection podcast, ICUF Board of Trustees member, Chris Collenette, talks about his time in the role of ICBA Chairperson, fostering the Ireland Canada relationship and helping to grow the organisation’s membership and influence.

ICUF Canadian Irish Language Scholarship awards presented to students from Canada arriving to attend 3-week course in Carraroe (June 2023)

Pa Sheehan, former ICUF teagascóir Gaeilge, has joined the ICUF Board

In collaboration with the UCD Centre for Canadian Studies, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Canadian Ambassador Nancy Smyth and David Stanton TD, Chair of the Ireland Canada Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group, ICUF was involved in the organisation of Landspeak: Visit…

We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Flaherty Research Scholar 2015) on receiving the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts.   Video: Portrait of Cheryl L’Hirondelle – Canada Council for…

It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the passing of our friend Joseph Tokwiro Norton, Grand Chief of the Mohawk Nation of Kahnawà:ke. As Grand Chief for over thirty years, Joe was a…

Read Dr Matthew Pauley’s report on his visit to DCU in late 2019

Read about Rút Ní Theimhneáin’s experience as an Irish Language instructor in the University of Ottawa

Learn more about Dr Robert Osburn’s visit from UCD to McMaster University, Ontario, as a Flaherty Visiting Professor.

Find out more about Dr Donnelly Archibald’s visit from St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, to UCD and Donegal in Summer 2019 on a Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship

Read about Christina O’Toole’s visit to the University of New Brunswick on her Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship during Summer 2019

Read about Dr Felicity Kelliher’s visit to Memorial University Newfoundland in June 2019 on a Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship

August 15th – 17th saw a wonderful lineup of speakers and guests come to Carlingford, to take part in the 2018 D’Arcy McGee International Forum. ICUF would like to thank all of the people who…