Programme for the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar, Winter Term 2025

🚨 The next Bonn+Marburg online Celtic Seminar is next week, 9th Feb, 18:00 CET.
💬 Nina Cnockaert-Guillou: "Scribes, manuscripts and words: coming to terms with different versions of Acallam na Senórach" @disappearingtext.bsky.social
To get the link, please contact celtic@uni-bonn.de 🔗

Binn gotha na dtéad | The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry

The lecture, organised with the support of @nli.ie, will be delivered online. Register here
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Binn gotha na dtéad | The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry

Our speaker, Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, School of Irish, @tcddublin, will show the importance of the harper at the Gaelic court, the symbolic significance of the harp, and the reception of harping performances.

A reminder that our annual Ó Buachalla Lecture is coming up next Wednesday, 3rd December at 6.30 pm and will examine literary descriptions of harpers, harps and harp music in bardic poems between the 13th and 17th centuries. irishtextssociety.org/obuachalla-l...

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And remember Members of the Society get a 30% reduction on all our publications and on @ria.ie publications. To subscribe online check out shop.ria.ie/products/iri...

Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series In the case of all publications in the Subsidiary Series, the intention is to introduce the relevant text to a non-specialist readership in a way calculated to make the content more accessible and als...

The proceedings (Subsidiary Series 36) look at Ó Cathasaigh's life as a Traveler, tin-smith, and bailiff. The stories are analysed in a national and international context. You can order the book through your local stockist of Irish books or online from @ria.ie shop.ria.ie/products/iri...

Irish Texts Society Founded in 1785, the Royal Irish Academy publishes books and journals aimed at communicating scholarly material to a wider public, landmark series and scholarly books. Our books and journals are acade...

Notwithstanding this, the volume remains in print in hardback for more than a few shillings 86 years later and is available from your local stockist of Irish books or online from @ria.ie shop.ria.ie/collections/...

The collection received a mixed reception on publication, with critics arguing the Society should publish literature and not folklore – one declaring that 'these tinker's tales' might have been published 'for a few shillings in paper binding,' revealing other prejudices.

The volume was the first repertoire collection of folklore by a single narrator published in Irish and the first Traveller collection. It also provides a source of information about the social history of rural Connacht and the language shift in East Mayo.

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).

Binn gotha na dtéad The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry

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
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You can order any of our books through your local bookshop or online through the @ria.ie bookshop. And remember our members get a 30% discount on all our publications. Membership details on our website irishtextssociety.org.

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.

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.

Plunging headlong into the 21st Century, we are now on Bluesky. You can still follow us on the platform formerly known as Twitter @IrishTextsSoc and our website irishtextssociety.org