TIONÓL 2012

Welcome

Fáilte go dtí suíomh lín Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh! Welcome to the website of the School of Celtic Studies!

The School of Celtic Studies is a constituent School of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies established by the Government of Ireland under the Institute for Advanced Studies Act (1940). The School is the paramount centre of scientific research and publication in the discipline of Celtic Studies world-wide. Research activity encompasses all aspects of the Celtic languages and their literatures, as reflected in the School catalogue of publications (Publications in Celtic Studies). This includes series devoted to Irish, Breton, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Hiberno-Latin. Naturally special emphasis is placed in day-to-day research on all aspects of the Irish language and its literature, as reflected in publications series devoted to Early Irish Law, Irish Dialects, Irish manuscript catalogues, Medieval and Modern texts, Irish Bardic Poetry, not to mention special productions such as grammars, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.

The School of Celtic Studies is engaged in many long-term research projects and actively pursues the development of the online aspect of these. The Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) project aims to provide images of all Irish manuscripts with accompanying descriptions from holdings in libraries in many countries, beginning with those from Irish libraries. The project digitizes manuscripts at high resolution and makes the images available via a dedicated website, which currently attracts up to three million visits per annum. Other major current in-house projects include the preparation of an online diplomatic edition of the important fifteenth-century Irish manuscript, Leabhar Breac; development of an online digital Sound Archive containing vast resources of recorded modern Irish speech (GLÓR); and most recently the ‘Ogham-in-3D Pilot Project’, which aims to make 3-D images of all Ogham stones available with full description and analysis online. This project is a joint venture undertaken in collaboration with the School of Theoretical Physics, DIAS.

The School of Celtic Studies has strong national and international ties with scholars and institutions engaged in research in all areas of the discipline. The links are upheld and nurtured, for example, by our ‘O’Donovan Scholars’ program enabling young post-graduate scholars to engage in research directed by School of Celtic Studies staff; the ‘Bergin Fellowships’ awarded for post-doctoral research; and through means of regular internal research seminars (open to qualified visitors), regular annual conferences, and occasional specialist symposia. A triennial International Summer School in Celtic Studies hosted by the School of Celtic Studies, with all courses taught by staff of the School, draws large numbers of scholars young and old from many countries. Our next Summer School is scheduled for July 2011. Finally the School also conducts a Visitors’ Program which facilitates scholars engaged in research in Celtic Studies from Europe, North America, Australia, and farther afield (many of these former Scholars of the School or whose work has been published by the School) in availing of our outstanding specialist Celtic Studies Library.

Pádraig A. Breatnach
Director

March 2011