The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 F 16, the Book of O'Gara, and it is on display this week from 10:00-16:30, Monday-Thursday. Come visit! Check @rialibrary.bsky.social to learn more about this MS and explore highlights from the Library’s collections.

All submissions to our journal should be made via our website. We kindly ask authors to use the official submission system to ensure smooth processing and review. Thank you! pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sc...

A regular reminder: books about the Ancient Celtic languages are availabe through the Maynooth University Bookshop (e.g., my book on Ogham at shop.universitybooks.ie/Books/Ogam-L...) or (soon again) in the shop of @nmireland.bsky.social.

🚨 The deadline for our Celtic Studies student prizes is *tomorrow*!! More information: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/ 1. Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best Scholarly Article in Celtic Studies (by a pre-doc) 2. Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Celtic Studies

🚨 Only a week left to submit for our Celtic Studies student prizes: best PhD thesis, and best Scholarly article (by a pre-doc). Deadline 31st March. Regulations & info: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/ #AcademicSky

Please note: we accept submissions in English, all Celtic languages, and major European languages too! ✍️ Spread the word! Only one week left to submit ⏰

🚨 Only a week left to submit for our Celtic Studies student prizes: best PhD thesis, and best Scholarly article (by a pre-doc). Deadline 31st March. Regulations & info: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/ #AcademicSky

The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 16, Leabhar Breac, and it is on display this week from 10:00-16:30, Monday-Thursday. Come visit! Check @rialibrary.bsky.social to learn more about this MS and explore highlights from the Library’s collections.

Bígí linn le haghaidh an tríú seimineár taighde de chuid Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge don seimeastar, 17:00 Déardaoin 26 Márta 2026 i Seomra 1.33 IONTAS. *Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671-c.1752): scoláire uirbeach nua-aoiseach* Liam Mac Mathúna (COBÁC) Fáilte roimh chách!

20 new manuscripts from the Main Manuscript Collection are now digitized, indexed and available on duchas.ie. More information: www.gaois.ie/assets/pdf/2...

Yr Athro Heather Williams (@heatherhmw.bsky.social) sy’n codi cwr y llen ar y cysylltiadau agos rhwng Cymru a Llydaw ar ddechrau’r ugeinfed ganrif 👇 golwg.360.cymru/gwerddon/219...

Just published / newydd wedi'i gyhoeddi / díreach foilsithe: Report of Commission for Welsh-speaking Communities on medium and lower density areas for Welsh. www.gov.wales/commission-w...

The 2026 @mcgill.ca Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies Colloquium will take place on 10 April 2026. The keynote address will be delivered by Rob Dunbar, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social & Chair of @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social. The event is going to be livestreamed: tinyurl.com/3x8c6ry5 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦

Léacht - Lecture! Gaëlle Clion Social network analysis of the Ulster Cycle: an introduction to the Nemain Project DIAS, 5 pm, Déardaoin 2 Aibréan / Thursday 2 April. Fáilte roimh chách! All welcome! @dias.ie www.dias.ie/celt/

Meet the Bart Simpson of 16th century Ireland 😈 An Ceithearnach Caoilriabhach was a rule-breaking trickster in Early Modern Irish culture, a disruptive figure who left chaos in his wake, writes Dr Brianán Ní Bhuachalla @ceilteachomn.bsky.social www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Spread the word about the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prizes of SCE! This is a great opportunity for early career researchers in Celtic Studies

Meet the winners of our 2025 and 2024 Celtic Studies prizes (left to right): Dr. Nina Cnockaert-Guillou & Dr. Christian Gregor Schweizer (PhD), with Prof. Dr. Karin Stüber, former President of SCE, and Dr. Erin McNulty & Matthias Donners (Scholarly article) (Pictured at our 2025 conference in Bonn).

Did you know that we offer 2 student prizes? This year's deadline is 31 March! 🔸 Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best Scholarly Article in Celtic Studies (by a pre-doc) 🔹 Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Celtic Studies More information: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/ #AcademicSky

‘An Lon Dubh’ an téama do Chomhdháil Choláiste na Tríonóide 2026. ‘The Blackbird’ is this year’s theme for Comhdháil Choláiste na Tríonóide. ar an 15/05/2026, clár, eolas, agus clárú (saor in aisce) anseo: www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...

Still time to register for tomorrow's book launch for An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. bsky.app/profile/josh...

Leabhair ar fáil saor in aisce! Mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge, seolfar sé leabhar éagsúla amach saor in aisce. Trí chrannchur a roghnófar na buaiteoirí. Cuir d'ainm isteach anseo: www.dias.ie/2026/03/11/s... #seachtainnagaeilge @dias.ie

An upcoming event: "Stokesday - Problems of Celtic Lexicography (I)" at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University. 6 June No fee, all welcome.

Scoláireacht bliana le fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh 1 Year scholarship available in SCS @dias.ie Sonraí / Details: www.dias.ie/2026/03/06/v...

Just a couple days until our LEIGHEAS project symposium on ‘Medical Learning in the Medieval Gaelic World’, this Thursday 12th March @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! Please get in touch if you’d like to attend – spaces are filling up fast & we want to make sure we have enough chairs & food for everyone 😊

Folúntas/Vacancy: 1-year O'Donovan Scholarship, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social Applicants will normally hold a doctoral degree prior to taking up the scholarship. Deadline 30 April 2026. www.dias.ie/2026/03/06/v...

#CallforPapers: 41st Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag 📍 Queen’s University Belfast, 11-12 June 2026 👏 Cuirfear fáilte ar leith roimh pháipéir agus phainéil i nGaeilge ✨ Postgraduate bursaries available 🔗 www.ecis.ie/annual-confe...

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow. This 12th century manuscript is best known for containing the oldest extant version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, or the Cattle Raid of Cooley, a renowned Irish epic.

🚨 SCE Student prizes announcement! We warmly invite submissions for the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prizes of the Societas Celtologica Europaea in two categories: - Best Scholarly Article in Celtic Studies - Best PhD Thesis in Celtic Studies More info below or at: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/ (1/3)

Diolch i Malo Adeux am ei seminar ar ‘Ystoria Daret: sources, circulation, reception’. Thank you to Malo for his seminar last week. A recording is available on YouTube👇 youtu.be/7Ow88Xw2guM

You're going to see this from me a lot for a while. Please share, and contribute if you are a medievalist working in this area! It's going to be great. #medievalsky #genderstudies wp-research.aber.ac.uk/medievalgend...

Léacht ar an mborradh a tháinig faoin litríocht Breatnaise i dtréimhse Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240). A lecture on the flourishing of Welsh literature in the age of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240). Cambridge, 19 Máirt/March 2026. #DIASdiscovers www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archive...

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus! Happy St David's Day!

Déardaoin na seachtaine seo beidh mé ag caint ar an gcnámh seo agus cnámha eile (!) den chineál céanna 👇

In honor of St. David's Day, the story of St. Patrick being kicked out of Wales by an angel in order to make way for the Welsh saint: #DyddGŵylDewi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (1/9)

Please join us for the conversation and celebration! Learn more about the volume here: brill.com/display/titl... Thanks to CSANA; to Catherine, John @jdmccafferty.bsky.social, and Máire; to Brill @dgb-mem.bsky.social; BC Irish Studies @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social and all the contributors!

The Celtic Studies Association of North America is happy to announce a virtual book launch for An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by Brendan Kane (U Connecticut) and Patrick Wadden (Dublin City University) on Thur, March 12 at 1:00 PM (EST) / 5:00 (Ireland).

Free lunchtime lecture! I’ll be giving a talk at the Dublinia Museum next week on ‘𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜: 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’ Thursday 5th March, 1pm Still a few tickets left on Eventbrite – all welcome! www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublinia-s...

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 D 17, the Ó Cléirigh Genealogies. The scribe of this mid-17th C genealogical manuscript was Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, one of the compilers of the Annals of the Four Masters.

Registration is now open for Sacred Networks: New Perspectives on Hagiography and Saints’ Cults in the Celtic and Norse Worlds, 1-2 May at University College Dublin, organised with @networknorse.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sacred-net...

🤔 Did you know we organise 2 student prizes every year? This year's deadline is tba soon. Kee an eye out! ➡️ the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies ➡️ the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best scholarly article by a pre-doc in Celtic Studies 🔗 celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/

Out now! Follow the link below to subscribe to and read the new issue of Studia Celtica ⤵️ www.ingentaconnect.com/content/uwp/... Read on for a taste of the latest issue 📚

We are pleased to invite researchers to submit their original work for consideration in our upcoming 2026 issue of Studia Celtica Posnaniensia. We welcome high-quality submissions that cover all aspects of Celtic linguistics, literature, culture, and history. Submission deadline: 30 May 2026.

Volume 10, Article 5: “Welsh and Diversity: Welsh Drag Queens and Their Perspective on the All-Welsh Rule” by Oliwier Gralak, Katarzyna Szczuczko & Kacper Szłapiński. #Eisteddfod #RheolGymraeg #Welsh #dragqueens pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sc...

For the week that’s in it: the LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for February 2026 is Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland MS Adv. 72.1.13, containing an Irish translation of Bernard of Gordon’s chapter on lovesickness: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Bígí linn! Léacht Am Lóin le @pomuirch.bsky.social! Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟖 The Eighth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Rathcroghan Visitor Centre 23-25 June 2026. Rathcroghan Visitor Centre is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the eighth edition of the International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales.

Our very own Natasha Sumner's book will be published next week by Princeton University Press! Heroes of the Gael traces the evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song over 1,400 years. You can pre-order now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Ireland’s fascination with ancient Greece, from our origin legends to Joyce’s Ulysses

𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘆𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙣𝙖́𝙣 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣 John Carey More Info: bit.ly/3OyLT6A #Eschatology #Translation #Irish #Apocrypha #Bible #Christianity

Bígí linn | Join us for the first Early Irish & Celtic Studies research seminar of the semester. Thursday 12 February at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS. *Positioning Meath and Clonard in the Central Middle Ages* Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social) Fáilte roimh chách!