Yes, the Universite de Notre Dame du Lac - near South Bend, Indiana - Home of the Irish. They seem to have come by the name early in the history of their intercollegiate athetic competitions because of the large number of Irish Catholic students. It was meant to be derogatory but the name was adopted and worn with pride.
Before I was invited to apply for graduate school there, I had no idea where the school was located. One of my father's college coaches had played there, so he was a big fan and I was familiar with the name, but I had vague thoughts that it was located somewhere on the east coast. I was there when Lou Holtz lead the football team to the national championship, and when they filmed the movie "Rudy".
Of course, that is the only claim I have to anything remotely Irish. Sorry for taking this off-topic thread off it's own topic.
Frank (who usually considers himself a Missouri Miner rather than Irish anyway)
