Quinnipiac professor outlines Connecticut–Ireland higher-education links, student-exchange opportunities

At an October meeting of the Connecticut Ireland Trade Commission, Dr. Christine Christine Keneally, director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute and professor of history at Quinnipiac University, described existing and potential higher-education links between Connecticut institutions and colleges in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Keneally told commissioners that Ireland’s university landscape is much smaller and more centralized than the United States, with eight universities in the Republic of Ireland (including University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and University of Limerick) and a different funding model in which most institutions receive state support through the Higher Education Authority. She summarized key differences that affect student exchanges: most undergraduate degrees in Ireland are…