The School of Celtic Studies is dedicated to the study of Irish and the other Celtic languages, both written and spoken, throughout their history, as well as related areas of cultural, social and legal history. Employing both academic staff and post-doctoral scholars, we publish books and other online resources, issue our journal Celtica, and host events such as our annual conference, Tionól.
We also host important online resources in our field.
Monasticon Hibernicum, a database of early Christian ecclesiastical settlements in
Ireland, produced by Ailbhe MacShamhráin with Nora White and Aidan Breen at Maynooth University
The Bardic Poetry Database, by Dr Katharine Simms of the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin.
Next up at #SCSTionól2019: Ciaran McDonough (@metamedievalist) with insights into "Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, Golden Ages, and the British Government" Retweeted by
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Paul Russel asks if "Gerald of Wales intended to write a Life of St Patrick"? Research from the Lives of Welsh Saints project, arising from fragments (in truest sense of the word). #SCSTionól2019Retweeted by
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Honoured to launch the first extensive book about the Norse-Gaelic contacts in a Viking world by Colman Etchingham, Jon Vidar Sigurdsson, Maire Ni Mhaonaigh & Elizabeth Ashman Rowe at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @Dubliniaviking@emer_purcell@northbird_ellenRetweeted by
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2nd speaker today at #SCSTionól2019 is Jason O'Rorke (@NUIGClassics) with a talk on "Bobbio and the transmission of HibernoLatin grammatical treatises". An medieval author analysed centaurus as "head of taurus" - clearly an Irishman. Retweeted by
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#SCSTionól2019 day 2 kicks off with Nicholas Thyr, "Brendan, Bangor, Bobbio: evidence for the place(s) of composition of Navigatio sancti Brendani": an antiphon quoted in the Nauigatio has a close parallel only in the Ambrosian liturgy in Milan. Retweeted by
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Another speaker with @MaynoothUni connections at #SCSTionól2019: Colmán Etchingham, former lecturer at @MaynoothHist, with "Inis Cathaig/Scattery: dín attaig do Gallaib 7 do Gáedealaib ‘refuge-shelter for Foreigners and Gaels’" Retweeted by
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Very excited about the next speaker at #Tionól2019@SCSLibrary: Conor McDonough OP, a former student of mine, who speaks about "The Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (RIA MS 23 O 48): A Book for the Use of Preachers?". Retweeted by
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School of Celtic Studies
The School of Celtic Studies is dedicated to the study of Irish and the other Celtic languages, both written and spoken, throughout their history, as well as related areas of cultural, social and legal history. Employing both academic staff and post-doctoral scholars, we publish books and other online resources, issue our journal Celtica, and host events such as our annual conference, Tionól.
Major projects of the School include:
We also host important online resources in our field.
Ireland, produced by Ailbhe MacShamhráin with Nora White and Aidan Breen at Maynooth University
School of Celtic Studies
Final talk of a very busy and successful #SCSTionól2019 When was a túath not a túath and a church not a church? Thomas Charles-Edwards
Editing a fragmentary legal source: A study of the Senchas Már Status-Tract @maria_hallinan #SCSTionól2019
Was Cú Chulainn born in a barn or a palace with swinging doors? asks Damian McManus @TCDRnaGaeilge #SCSTionól2019
Andrea Palandri @SCSLibrary concludes the morning session #SCSTionól2019 #DIASdiscovers
Day 3 of #SCSTionól2019 starts with Roisín McLaughlin
Celtica Vol. 31 launched tonight at #SCSTionól2019 and will be available to purchase tomorrow books.dias.ie Edited by Barry J.Lewis and Ruairí Ó hUiginn with assistance of @ChantalKobel @Naoicea Andrea Palandri and Daniel Watson #DIASdiscovers
@metamedievalist rocking it at with chair Andrea of @SCSLibrary #SCSTionól2019 Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Next up at #SCSTionól2019: Ciaran McDonough (@metamedievalist) with insights into "Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, Golden Ages, and the British Government" Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Léacht Reachtúil mar chuid den #SCSTionól2019 anocht 8pm. Thomas Davis Theatre @tcddublin "Of Purity and Pork: Legal Imaginaries in Early Ireland" Prof. Robin Chapman Stacey. #DIASdiscovers dias.ie/event/scoil-an
.@siobhbar @EarlyIrishMU speaking at #SCSTionól2019 on "The categorisation of recipes in medieval Irish medical manuscripts" twitter.com/ChronHib/statu…
Paul Russel asks if "Gerald of Wales intended to write a Life of St Patrick"? Research from the Lives of Welsh Saints project, arising from fragments (in truest sense of the word). #SCSTionól2019 Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Honoured to launch the first extensive book about the Norse-Gaelic contacts in a Viking world by Colman Etchingham, Jon Vidar Sigurdsson, Maire Ni Mhaonaigh & Elizabeth Ashman Rowe at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @Dubliniaviking @emer_purcell @northbird_ellen Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
#SCSTionól2019 our Bernhard Bauer and Viktoria Krivoshchekova are presenting on the translating of glosses and ideas between Latin and old Irish in the Priscian mss @EarlyIrishMU @MaynoothUni @ChronHib Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
.@Naoicea introducing @Bernhard_Baver and @kiltyrie at #SCSTionól2019 twitter.com/ChronHib/statu…
2nd speaker today at #SCSTionól2019 is Jason O'Rorke (@NUIGClassics) with a talk on "Bobbio and the transmission of HibernoLatin grammatical treatises". An medieval author analysed centaurus as "head of taurus" - clearly an Irishman. Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
#SCSTionól2019 day 2 kicks off with Nicholas Thyr, "Brendan, Bangor, Bobbio: evidence for the place(s) of composition of Navigatio sancti Brendani": an antiphon quoted in the Nauigatio has a close parallel only in the Ambrosian liturgy in Milan. Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Another speaker with @MaynoothUni connections at #SCSTionól2019: Colmán Etchingham, former lecturer at @MaynoothHist, with "Inis Cathaig/Scattery: dín attaig do Gallaib 7 do Gáedealaib ‘refuge-shelter for Foreigners and Gaels’" Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
#SCSTionól2019 Speaking after the tea break: Annie Humphrey (TCD) and the Irish names for the Scandinavians, Danair and Lochlannaigh. @IrishResearch Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Very excited about the next speaker at #Tionól2019 @SCSLibrary: Conor McDonough OP, a former student of mine, who speaks about "The Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (RIA MS 23 O 48): A Book for the Use of Preachers?". Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library