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

In collaboration with our partnership with the UCD Centre for Canadian Studies, Canadian Ambassador Nancy Smyth and David Stanton TD, Chair of the Ireland Canada Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group, ICUF was involved in the organisation of…

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the death of Professor John Kelly, former Registrar of UCD, founding Executive Director of ICUF, and Trustee of the Foundation until his passing.

Minister Jack Chambers presented ICUF Canadian Irish Language Scholarship awards to students arriving in Carraroe (June 2022)

The Government of Canada designated 30th September as National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, to honour the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. On that day, under…

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…

Following on the Inaugural Lectures by Dr. Mary McAleese (President of Ireland, 1997-2011) and the Honourable Jean Charest (Premier of Quebec, 2003-2012), we are are pleased to announce that the D’Arcy McGee Beacon Fellowship Program is now open for applications! Supporting the development of connections through online means…

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…

With funding from the Irish Government’s Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, ICUF has been supporting the development of the Irish language in Canada for over a decade. This has been done through the…

Read about Dr Anthony O’Malley’s visit to Ireland in March 2020 on his Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship

Read Dr Rebecca Graff-McRae’s report on her visit in February 2020 from the University of Alberta to QUB and UCC

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

Find out more about Professor Constantine Passaris’s research on his visit from University of New Brunswick to Maynooth University on his Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship in June 2019

Read about Stuart Lang’s visit to the University of Toronto in June 2019 as a Flaherty Research Scholar

Read about Dr Mark Towler’s 3 month visit in 2019 from Ryerson Univesity as a Flaherty Visiting Professor

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…

It was our great honour last week to welcome Grand Chief Joseph Norton of the Mohawk territory Kahnawake to Dublin. ICUF is exploring ways in which we can build partnership with the Indigenous Peoples of Canada,…