Notre Dame to Dedicate Center in Ireland

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The University of Notre Dame will dedicate Thursday its new academic center in Ireland. The Notre Dame Center at Kylemore Abbey, which opened in May, will offer programs to as many as 44 students.

The dedication will include a Mass in the abbey’s Gothic Chapel, an academic convocation and a blessing of the center’s headquarters in Saint Joseph Hall at Kylemore. Notre Dame says Provost Thomas Burish will give honorary doctoral degrees to Sister Máire Hickey, abbess of the Benedictine Community at Kylemore, and Justice Peter Kelly, president of Ireland’s High Court.

The university says the center expands its network of five Global Gateways, which includes Dublin, Beijing, Jerusalem, London and Rome. Kylemore Abbey is located in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. It was first settled by Benedictine nuns in 1920 and formerly housed a boarding school until 2010.