Frankfurt Book Fair sale
For the duration of the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, we will be offering 20% off all books bought through books.dias.ie.
Book Sale: 20% off
20% off all publications during Tionól 2015!
Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies 2011
Available from 25 June 2015. Order online now.
Call for papers: Tionól 2015
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.
New publication: The Art of Bardic Poetry
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.
Statutory Public Lecture 2014
Professor Liam Breatnach: The Church in the Laws of Early Mediaeval Ireland
Part of Tionól 2014
Dr Deborah Hayden
phone: +353 1 6140176
e-mail: deborah@celt.dias.ie
About
I completed a BA in Latin and French languages and literatures at Wellesley College before taking a second undergraduate degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic at the University of Cambridge, followed by an MPhil and PhD in the same department. From 2011–2013 I was a postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow in Celtic at Christ Church, University of Oxford.
Research Interests
My main research interests centre on medieval Irish and Latin language, literature and textual culture, the history of linguistic thought and education in classical and medieval tradition, early Irish medical manuscripts and medieval Irish and Welsh law. I am currently working on editions and translations of two medieval Irish texts: one a tract on literary analysis and rhetorical doctrine, and the other a discussion of practical medical matters.
I also serve as Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas.
Selected Publications
Books
2014: Elizabeth Boyle and Deborah Hayden (eds) Authorities and Adaptations: The Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Ireland (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), xlvii + 361 pp.
Book chapters
2014: (with Elizabeth Boyle), ‘Introduction: Authority and Adaptation in Medieval Ireland’, in Authorities and Adaptations: The Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Ireland (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), pp. xvii–xlvii
2014: ‘Anatomical Metaphor in Auraicept na nÉces’, in Authorities and Adaptations: The Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Ireland (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), pp. 23–61
2013: ‘Two Fragments of Auraicept na nÉces in the Irish Franciscan Archive: Context and Content’, in Celts and their Cultures at Home and Abroad: A Festschrift for Malcolm Broun, ed. Anders Ahlqvist and Pamela O’Neill, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 15 (Sydney: University of Sydney), pp. 91–124
Journal articles
2015 (forthcoming): ‘On the Meaning of Two Medieval Irish Medical Terms: derg dásachtach and rúad (fh)rasach’, Ériu 64
2014: ‘Some Notes on the Transmission of Auraicept na nÉces’, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 32 (2012): 134–79
2011: ‘Poetic Law and the Medieval Irish Linguist: Contextualising the Vices and Virtues of Verse Composition in Auraicept na nÉces’, Language and History 54.1: 1–34
Reviews
2014 (forthcoming): Dónall Ó Baoill, Donncha Ó hAodha and Nollaig Ó Muraíle, eds (2013), Saltair saíochta, sanasaíochta agus seanchais: a Festschrift for Gearóid Mac Eoin (Dublin: Four Courts Press), in Celtic Studies Association of North America Newsletter, Samhain 2014
2012: James Acken (2008), Structure and Interpretation in the Auraicept na nÉces, Études celtiques 38: 330–4
One-day law conference videos available
The talks from the one-day law conference in honour of Fergus Kelly on the occasion of his retirement, held on 28th June 2014, are now available.
One day law conference in honour of Fergus Kelly
A one-day law conference in honour of on the occasion of his retirement Professor Fergus Kelly was held on Satuday 28th June 2014. The talks given are below.
Thomas Charles-Edwards (University of Oxford): ‘Bretha Comaithchesa and Early Irish Farming’
Fangzhe Qiu (University College Cork): ‘The traditionalisation of early Irish law’
Neil McLeod (Murdoch University, Australia): ‘Removal on Sick-Maintenance: when did it cease?
Paul Russell (University of Cambridge): ‘Welsh and Latin in medieval Welsh law’
Morfydd Owen (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth): ‘Medieval Welsh cows, calves, bulls and oxen’
Liam Breatnach (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies): ‘The law of the church in Bretha Nemed Toísech’
Huw Pryce (University of Bangor): ‘Nineteenth-century receptions of medieval Welsh law’
Jaqueline Bemmer (University of Oxford): ‘Nuances of immunity and permitted violence: interpreting quotations with glosses and commentary from the cairde-text’
Fergus Kelly’s retirement speech
Fangzhe Qiu
phone: +353 1 6140116
e-mail: fq@celt.dias.ie
Research Interests
Early Irish law; narratives in law texts; Old and Middle Irish language; early Irish poetry and metrics; medieval grammatica; historical comparative linguistics (Indo-European, Turkic and Sino-Tibetan).
Publications
‘Wandering cows and obscure words: A rimeless poem from legal manuscripts and beyond’ Studia Celtica Fennica X (2013), 90–111.
‘Narratives in Early Irish Law: a Typological Study’, in Medieval Irish Law: Texts and Contexts, eds. Anders Ahlqvist and Pamela O’Neill (2013), 111–141.
News & Events
- 17th November – School of Celtic Studies Statutory Public Lecture 2017
- School of Celtic Studies Tionól 2017 – Programme now available
- School of Celtic Studies Tionól 2017 – Call for Papers
- Mon 3rd July – Celtic Studies Summer School launched by Mary Mitchell-O’Connor, Minister of State at the Department of Education with special responsibility for Higher Education
- Summer School book discount!
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