Professor Werner Nahm, Director of the School of Theoretical Physics, will give a seminar on Is Tartessian Celtic? in the Lecture Hall, 10 Burlington Road, on Friday, 16 October 2015 at 3.00 p.m.

Fieldwork for 2015 has been completed and we now have newly digitised ogham sites, stones and inscriptions (including 3d models of ogham stones) available on our website.

Wednesday evenings at 5pm, beginning 7th October 2015, Seminar Room, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4

Professor Liam Breatnach will continue reading the Old Irish metrical rule Anmchairdes Mancháin Léith.

This text is edited (without translation) by Kuno Meyer in ZCP 7 (1910) 310–12. The reading will resume with verse 12.

The seminars last one hour and the School of Celtic Studies welcomes external participants.

Monday evenings at 5pm, beginning 5 October 2015, Seminar Room, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4

Barry Lewis will read a selection of fifteenth-century Welsh bardic poems from the new online edition of the works of Guto’r Glyn, perhaps the best-known of the poets of the so-called CanrifFawr or ‘Great Century’ of Welsh poetry.

The selection will cover both serious and humorous genres, including praise, elegy, political comment and bardic disputation. We will begin with Guto’s most ambitious poem, composed in praise of William Herbert after he took the castle of Harlech for the Yorkists in 1468, and after that we will read Guto’s powerful elegy for Herbert from the aftermath of the disastrous battle of Edgecote or Banbury in 1469.

Texts will be provided, as well as translations, in order that those unfamiliar with Middle Welsh will still be able to benefit from the seminar. No prior knowledge of Welsh is required.

All texts and translations are available online at www.gutorglyn.net. The first text is poem 21,‘Tri llu aeth i Gymru gynt’.

For the duration of the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, we will be offering 20% off all books bought through books.dias.ie.

20% off all publications during Tionól 2015!

Available from 25 June 2015. Order online now.

This year’s Tionól will take place at the School of Celtic Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, on 20 and 21 November. Papers will relate to any aspect of Celtic Studies, and will be 30 minutes in duration. We would be grateful to anyone who intends offering a paper for this Tionól if they would submit details of the following:

• proposed title of paper
• abstract of paper (in writing or as an e-mail attachment)
• notice of any lecturing aids that may be required

The programme for the Tionól will be finalised in the autumn, and will then be circulated, and will appear on this site. The deadline for submission of papers is Friday 21st August. Submissions should be marked for attention of Tionól, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Rd., Dublin 4, or emailed to tionol@celt.dias.ie.

Beidh Tionól na bliana seo ar siúl ar an 20ú agus 21ú Samhain. Léifear páipéir a bhaineann le gné ar bith den Léann Ceilteach, agus a mhairfidh leathuair an chloig. Daoine a mbeadh ar intinn acu páipéar a léamh sa Tionól seo, bheimís buíoch díobh ach an t-eolas seo a lua linn:

• teideal an pháipéir
• achoimre an pháipéir (i scríbhinn, nó mar iatán ríomhphostais)
• áiseanna a bheadh ag teastáil

Socrófar clár an Tionóil sa bhfómhar, cuirfear in úil ansin do chách é, agus foilseofar ar shuíomh idirlín na Scoile é. Dé hAoine 21ú Lúnasa, an sprioc. Moltar iarratais a chur ar aghaidh go dtí Tionól, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath, 10 Bóthar Burlington, Baile Átha Cliath 4, nó tríd an ríomhphost go dtí tionol@celt.dias.ie.

Bardic poetry dominated the Irish literary landscape for at least four centuries, from 1200 to 1600. The standardised language and metres developed for versification in this period and the poets’ sophisticated analysis of them are among the outstanding achievements of Irish learning. The clearest record of this achievement is found in an immensely valuable series of treatises on these matters by master poets. A new edition of one of the most accessible and wide-ranging of these is presented here, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction, a line-by-line commentary, indexes and a translation into English.

Available from Friday 14th November, 2014.

Professor Liam Breatnach: The Church in the Laws of Early Mediaeval Ireland

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Part of Tionól 2014