The team website says the following about the role of the leprechaun: The Notre Dame logo features a side view of the figure with his dukes up, ready to battle anyone that comes his way.

The Shirt Project, a 36-year-long campus tradition and fundraiser, put on for and by Notre Dame students, unveiled The Shirt 2025 Fri. afternoon on the library lawn at the University of Notre Dame.

As a young Duke art history professor in 1979, Caroline Bruzelius convinced officials at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to let her climb scaffolding during a renovation to get a close look at the ...

In 2019, the university introduced the first-ever female leprechaun, who was also the third Black student at Notre Dame to be the official mascot in its "most diverse roster" in history.