SFKS is glad to host the next Societas Celtologica Nordica symposium in Helsinki on 21-22.5.2026. We invite papers on all aspects of Celtic Studies, including linguistics, philology, literature, history, study of religion and theology, art history, and archaeology.

🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Folúntais: Scoláireachtaí Uí Dhonnabháin @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie. Spriocdháta 5 Eanáir 2026 2 O’Donovan Scholarship vacancies at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Deadline 5 January 2026: www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...

Tá ComharTaighde 11, an t-eagrán is mó go dtí seo, anois beo, a chlann. Ailt agus léirmheasanna scolártha ar chuile réimse de Léann leathan na Nua-Ghaeilge #Litríocht #Teanga #Lámhscríbhinní #Oideachas #Gàidhlig #DántaGrádha #Foilsitheoireacht #Filíocht #Stair: comhartaighde.ie

Major EU project to investigate the rise of commercial cattle farming Dr Eugene Costello has been awarded a highly competitive €2m @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant to uncover the pre-industrial roots of commercial cattle farming. Read: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

Pantomimes take centre stage in theatres across country Dr Aoife Granville, UCC Folklore and Ethnology, explores the roots and enduring appeal of these over-the-top traditions. @news.rte.ie

Dictionary of of ancient Celtic from insular sources: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Many congratulations, Simon and Sasha, and whoever else will be involved in this project!

Ag súil go mór leis an ócáid seo! The biggest Acallam na Senórach conference ever 🤩

Grma, a Dhubháin. Ní bhfuaireas mo chóip den leabhar go fóill ach táim ag tnúth go mór le d'alt féin a léamh!

Tá áthas orainn a fhógairt go mbeimid ag filleadh ar Óstán an Old Ground in Inis do Scoil Gheimhridh Merriman 2026, An Gúm @ Céad: Fís, Friotal agus Foilsitheoireacht na Gaeilge". An 23-26 Eanáir 2026 is ea dátaí na Scoile agus tá eolas faoi na socruithe ar an suíomh. www.merriman.ie/ga/

✨ #16 of 85 Things About DIAS - Welsh Studies One of its earliest academic visitors to the School of Celtic Studies was Ifor Williams, the pioneer of medieval Welsh studies. Generations of students have relied on y llyfrau cochion, the little red books of the DIAS Medieval and Modern Welsh series

A fun @rialibrary.bsky.social manuscript of the week! The Book of Fermoy (MS 23 E 29) is a 15th-century compendium of genealogies, poetry and historical texts associated with the Roche lordship in Co. Cork 📜🎉

🚨Save the date!🚨 Tionólfar comhdháil ar Acallam na Senórach ar an 21-22 Lúnasa 2026, i gColáiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. Clár ar ball. Beidh tuilleadh eolais le fáil ar www.ucc.ie/en/disappear... i gceann na haimsire.

Diolch i bawb a fynychodd lansiad 'Lliaws Rhith' b'nawn Sadwrn ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth! Bu cyfle i gyflwyno'r gyfrol i'r Athro Marged Haycock, a dathlu ei chyfraniad arbennig i faes llenyddiaeth Gymraeg a Cheltaidd. Diolch hefyd i Siop Inc am werthu, mae'r gyfrol ar gael nawr mewn siopau llyfrau!

This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.

www.rte.ie/news/nuacht/... Leabhar nua dhátheangach, scéalta ón mBriotáinis aistrithe ag an gCadhnach agus scéal leis aistrithe sa treo eile.

🚨Eleanor Knott Memorial Lecture next Thursday! 🦅 Dr Emma Nic Chárthaigh (University College Cork) will speak on "Intertextual weavings in the Colloquy between Fintan mac Bóchrai and the Hawk of Achill". 🗓️ 27th November, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 6pm 🔗 www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...

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Bígí linn | Join us for the next Early Irish & Celtic Studies research seminar. Thursday 27 November at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS. *Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments* Dr Riona Doolan (Maynooth University) Fáilte roimh chách!

Childhood and the Irish will be launched by RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan in the Royal Irish Academy on Monday 1 December at 5:30pm. Book your place at Eventbrite below. Hope to meet many of you there! www.eventbrite.ie/e/childhood-...

Leabhair nua! Seoladh na foilsiúcháin is deireannaí de chuid na Scoile aréir. New books! The latest publications from SCS were launched last night. Fergus Kelly, The Triads of Ireland Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Bodach an Chóta Lachtna. #DIASdiscovers Available soon on www.dias.ie.

Guím gach rath ar Mhícheál D. Ó hUigínn sna blianta amach romhainn - duine de na huachtaráin is fearr a bhí againn! ☘️

Bígí ag faire amach don leabhar so, a chairde. Dhéanfadh sé bronntanas Nollag maith. Tá caibidil agam féin ann: 'Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne and the childhood of Diarmaid ó Duibhne'.

Comhghairdeachas le Beatrix Färber ar bronnadh céim dhochtúireachta sa Nua-Ghaeilge uirthi le déanaí. Teideal an tráchtais a scríobh an Dr Färber ná 'An annotated edition of two Irish translations of Bernard de Gordon, De decem ingeniis'.

Our annual seminar jointly organised with @ucc.ie is happening this Saturday in the Venice of the North. Full details at irishtextssociety.org/events. This year we’re looking at The Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore.

The Scriptorium was buzzing this year, delivering two new editions in our main series, Vol 69 On the Faults of Poetry: An Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts V, and Vol 70 Táin Bó Fliodhaise - The Cattle Raid of Fliodhais. A greater contrast in subject, content and style you could not imagine.

The project team includes Prof. Kevin Murray (PI), Dr Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social, Dr Cian Ó Cionnfhaolaidh, Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou @ninacnock.bsky.social, Yingying Gu, Dr Vijayakumar Nanjappan and Dr Enkhbold Nyamsuren. This research is funded by @researchireland.ie. 2/2

1 Nov 1607: Antony Hickey of #Clare future Scotist philosopher becomes one of five first #Irish novices at St. Anthony's #Franciscan College Leuven #otd (JMcC)

Amárach! Fáilte roimh chách!

Post mar Léachtóir le Gaeilge le líonadh ar Champas San Aingeal de chuid Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta an Atlantaigh. www.atu.ie/connect/jobs...

1/3 - Just in time for #Samhain night: a parallel text of two editions of the otherworldly Ulster Cycle tale of Echtra Nerai ‘Nera’s adventure’, along with Kuno Meyer’s (admittedly antiquated) translation into English : codecs.vanhamel.nl/Source:TEI/E...

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 O 48(b), Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. The contents of this Irish-language manuscript are mainly religious tracts, lives of the saints, passions and homilies and some legendary episodes from the Ulster cycle and the tale of Fortinbras (Stair Fierabhrais).

Sraith léachtaí am lóin - lunchtime lecture series St Laurence O'Toole and the Medieval Gaelic World Ardeaglais Chríost, BÁC / Christchurch cathedral, Dublin 4, 11, 18, 25 Samhain / November. #DIASdiscovers @dias.ie christchurchcathedral.ie/lunchtime-le...

Fair plé do Charlie Byrne's as an fhuinneog a mhaisiú d'ócáid Bhiddy Jenkinson sa Taibhdhearc inniu. 📚

Clár Tionól na bliana seo! Programme for Tionól 2025! 14-15 Samhain/November. #DIASdiscovers @dias.ie www.dias.ie/celt/

Tá an lá mór ag drannadh linn... 'Mún Dreoilín i bhFarraigí Ama: Céiliúradh ar Shaothar Bhiddy Jenkinson' 23ú Deireadh Fómhair (Déardaoin beag seo) sa Taibhdhearc. Scoth na gcainteoirí ag plé shaothar Bhiddy Jenkinson, mórfhile ár linne. Fáilte roimh chách!

Comhdháil Lae in Ómós don Ollamh Seán Ó Coileáin 31 Deireadh Fómhair 2025 Seomra Seimineár Choláiste na nEalaíon, an Léinn Cheiltigh agus na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta, Áras Uí Rathaille, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh @ucc.ie

Ealaí ar Abhainn na Laoi inniu

Chaitheas an mhaidean inné ag féachaint ar lámhscríbhinní in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann. #AoibhinnBeathaAnScoláire #AdFontes

Next Thursday, 16 October, 2-5 p.m. ORB G.27 The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present: The Quire and the Medieval manuscript a seminar on how manuscripts are made Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome

Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy! #MedievalSky #SpéirGhorm www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...

Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026 www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

Thank you to everyone who participated in the excellent @ria.ie conference on the Book of Lecan. It was a fantastic couple of days. The talks were recorded and will appear on SoundCloud soon! @scs-dias.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social 📚

📜✨ 1/2 New on ISOS: Private collection, Lincoln MS 1. Beatha Dhéagláin; Páis ár dTiarna; Ábhar Spioradálta 19th-c devotional manuscript (58pp) by Siomon Ó Faoláin, written for Mártan Ó Driscóil. Includes the Life of St Declan of Ardmore, the Passion of Our Lord, & spiritual texts. @dias.ie

#OTD 125 years ago, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (1900–1940) was born 🤩 Expert on Celtic studies, particularly on Irish language and mythology. One of the few female scholars, she attended the First International Congress of Linguists in 1928. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu. Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn. Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow. Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.

Thanks to everyone who joined our Centenary Symposium! It was a joy to celebrate 100 years of publishing. We're continuing the celebration with 25% off all print books until 2 Oct—use code CUP100YEARS at checkout. (1/2)

Prátaí ar maidin, prátaí um nóin...

Breaking news: The new, revised, updated Ogham in 3D website is now live: ogham.celt.dias.ie Choose "inscriptions" in the menu.

Comhghairdeachas leis an Ollamh Ó hUiginn! Tá aiste agam féin sa bhféilscríbhinn seo - 'Seachadadh Laoi Choinn mhic an Deirg in Éirinn' agus táim ag tnúth go mór leis an gcuid eile den leabhar a léamh.