On January 16th, Professor Michael Clarke will present on 'The History of the Irish Book: The Handwritten Book in Ireland' at an Éigse Cholm Cille event on Columban Landscapes and Irish Manuscripts #celticstudies #medievalsky @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

Volume 10 of Studia Celtica Posnaniensia is now available at pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/scp. We extend our sincere appreciation to all authors and reviewers for their valuable contributions. We hope you enjoy reading this issue!

Kobel, Chantal (2025) The Book of Ballycummin: codicology and the significance of filler-texts. In: The Book of Ballycummin. Codices Hibernenses Eximii IV. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, pp. 1-27. (Submitted) mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Tonight, 15th Dec!

[https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/138110/lomake.html] The organising committee of the symposium are Katja Ritari, Alexandra Bergholm, Ciaran McDonough Antti Lampinen and Riitta Latvio. Enquiries to the organisers can be directed katja.ritari at helsinki.fi

The conference fee for attendees will be 50€ / 20€ for students. We also request that the attendees become members of SFKS and pay the membership fee 15€ /10€ for students.

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.

Aiste 8 just published with articles by Duncan Sneddon, Mary Low & Michel Byrne, @macailpein.bsky.social and one by myself. clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

Deadline for contributions to the next issue of Aiste, Celtic and Gaelic's peer-reviewed, open access journal, is 28 February 2026 clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

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

🎆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...

We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉 Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage: 👉 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/V... #MedievalIreland #IrishArchaeology

Diolch to everyone who attended the ‘Lliaws Rhith’ launch on Saturday in Aberystwyth! The book was presented to Professor Marged Haycock for her significant contribution to the study of Welsh and Celtic literature. Diolch also to Siop Inc for selling copies, the book is available now in bookshops!

📢Darlith Goffa J. E. Caerwyn a Gwen Williams 🗓 9 Rhagfyr 🕔5.00yh 🗣 Jerry Hunter Adran y Gymraeg, Prifysgol Bangor ‘“Digenhedlu yn rhy bell”: y Dyneiddwyr, y Beirdd a Hunaniaeth Genedlaethol Gymreig yn Oes y Tuduriaid’ 📍Yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru ac ar lein 🔗 www.uwtsd.ac.uk/cy/news/darl...

✨ #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

Universities Committee in Scottish Literature launches the new Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize. The prize will be awarded biennially starting in 2026; nominations close 31 March 2026. Full details, and a nominations template, can be found here: ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

Reminder: The deadline for our CFP is coming up on the 12th of December! Papers on any aspect of Celtic Studies in English or any Celtic language are welcome from current students and recent graduates. More information and the submission forms can be found here: linktr.ee/celticstuden...

Good news.

The Scottish Languages Act 2025 comes into effect today - but its significance will only become clear over time. It's a complex, incrementalist measure and much depends on how it's implemented. My analysis here bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...

A’ cur Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig nur cuimhne- 19 Dùbhlachd an ceann-latha airson geàrr-chunntasan.

The brilliant Prof. Alex Woolf @standrewshist.bsky.social is back on the podcast to tell us what the Scandinavian diaspora got up to in the Middle Ages & why 'The Vikings' is a problematic concept. @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3ljZ...

Bígí linn | Join us for the 2025 Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture, the final Early Irish research seminar this year, Thursday 4 December at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS. *Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament* Dr Sparky Booker (Trinity College Dublin) Fáilte roimh chách!

#Cornish has won Part III of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages after many years of campaigning by our community, including Kowethas an Yeth and the other language organisations, Cornwall Council, activists, and YOU: teachers, learners, speakers and supporters together. 💛

🚨 Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Research Seminar, Wednesday 3rd December, 1pm (in English), in person & online. Edwin Pickstone, Glasgow School of Art: 'Typographica Scoto-Gadelica: Scottish Gaelic Typographic Visual Identity through Print and Book Culture.' www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/edwin-pickst...

Foliseachán nua - New publication 2 The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text Edited by Fergus Kelly shop.dias.ie/product/the-... @dias.ie #DIASdiscovers

1/4📜✨New on ISOS: from the Russell Library, Maynooth three 19th-c. Manuscripts for Fr. Muiris Cinniféic, scribes Éamonn Ó Mathghamhna & Pól Ó Longáin. Saints’ lives, genealogies, law, devotional, etc links to Book of Lismore & the Leabhar Muimhneach. 🙏Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social @dias.ie

Foilseachán nua - New publication 1 Bodach an Chóta Lachtna Eagrán nua de scéal Fiannaíochta Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (Coláiste na Tríonóide BÁC) a chuir in eagar. shop.dias.ie/product/boda... @dias.ie

The latest volume of the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie is now available www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

🚨 Now available: Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 72 (2025)! 📚 Articles by G. Broderick, N. Cnockaert-Guillou, D. Edel, A. Falileyev, C. García-Castillero, A. Richardt Jørgensen, C. Lewin, A. Ó Hiarlaithe, G. Ó Riain + several book reviews! 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

Thèid an 20mh Òraid Bhliadhnail mar Chuimhneachan air Aonghas MacMhathain a lìbhrigeadh 2/12/25 leis an Oll Uilleam Lamb air 'Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' www.eventbrite.com/e/gaelic-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-tickets-1969148250425?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1

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.

Just published in Studia Celtica Fennica is Fangzhe Qiu's (@ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social) review of K. Carella's 'The Ideological Foundations of Early Irish Law and Their Reception in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600 — c. 900'. Available, open access, here: journal.fi/scf/article/...

🚨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...

In breaking news, the Society has launched the proceedings of our 25th Annual Seminar, organised with @ucc.ie, which looked at “Sgéalta Uí Chathasaigh, Mayo Stories Told by Thomas Casey” collected, edited and translated by Douglas Hyde (Vol. 36 Main Series 1939).

A reminder that this year's Canna Lecture will take place on tomorrow evening (Friday) in Edinburgh! Bidh an Dr Màrtainn MacGriogair a-mach air bàrdachd agus eachdraidh nan Gàidheal anns an 19mh linn. llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...

We’re pleased to announce a new article in SCP: "Irish-language sean-nós song as a resource in sociolinguistic research" by James Foran. Explore the full article here: 👉 pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sc...

Lecture alert @celticuu.bsky.social! 🗓️ Seán Ó Hoireabhard (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social): Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source? 📍 Utrecht (Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies), Thursday 11 December 🔗 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

The CFP for our 2026 conference is officially OPEN! We are holding our 13th annual conference from 11–13 June, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will be hybrid. Presenters are welcome to present and attend online, or in-person at Trinity College Dublin.

An Léann Ceilteach san Ísiltír slán … mar chuid de Roinn an Bhéarla

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!

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.

Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Chéad lá an Tionóil, 2025. First day of Tionól. www.dias.ie/2025/10/22/t... #DIASdiscovers @dias.ie

Léacht reachtúil na Scoile do 2025 SCS Statutory Lecture for 2025 Gregory Toner, QUB The historian at work in Lebor Gabála Friday 14 November UCD, Theatre R, Newman Building Mar chuid de Thionól 2025 / Part of Tionól 2025 www.dias.ie/2025/10/22/t... #DIASdiscovers @dias.ie

🚨 FOLÚNTAS: Post mar Fhoclóirí Cúnta le Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann). 🗓️ Spriocdháta: 19 Samhain 2025 🔗 Tuilleadh eolais: www.ria.ie/about/career...

The deadline to submit an abstract has been extended by one week!

The next Henry Sweet Society (@henrysweetsoc.bsky.social) Colloquium will be held on 2-4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social). Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c... #Histlx