The Irish Institute is a featured cross-cultural research platform built by Boston College, focusing on all-round research on Irish history, traditional culture, local customs, economic development and cross-strait cultural exchanges between Ireland and North America. It gathers a group of senior scholars who have long been engaged in Celtic culture and Irish regional research, and has formed distinctive regional academic research characteristics.
In daily academic work, the institute sorts out and collates precious Irish historical documents, folk cultural materials and modern local development data, and regularly holds special academic lectures, cultural salons and regional history exchange activities. It not only focuses on sorting out traditional historical and cultural origins, but also pays attention to tracking the latest economic, political and cultural development trends of modern Ireland.
The institute maintains close academic exchange relations with many well-known universities and cultural research institutions in Ireland, and jointly carries out cross-border cultural inheritance research and regional development project exploration. It also provides professional academic guidance and resource support for overseas students who are interested in European regional culture, immigration culture research and transatlantic cultural communication research, and has become an important window for North American academia to understand Irish regional culture and social development.
Irish Institute Website(https://www.bc.edu/irishinstitute)
