2. Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Celtic Studies. Submissions are to be made by the supervisor.
🗓️ The deadline for submissions in both categories is 31 March 2026. All submissions should be sent to Prof Elena Parina; see celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/ for details.
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1. Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best Scholarly Article in Celtic Studies (by a pre-doc), published in a peer-reviewed journal or edited volume. Submissions may be made by the author themselves.
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🚨 SCE Student prizes announcement!
We warmly invite submissions for the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prizes of the Societas Celtologica Europaea in two categories:
- Best Scholarly Article in Celtic Studies
- Best PhD Thesis in Celtic Studies
More info below or at: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/
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Diolch i Malo Adeux am ei seminar ar ‘Ystoria Daret: sources, circulation, reception’. Thank you to Malo for his seminar last week. A recording is available on YouTube👇
youtu.be/7Ow88Xw2guM
A medieval manuscript image of two men holding hands. Annouces a Symposium in Gender in Medieval Insular Literature, held 29-30 May in Aberystwyth, Wales.
You're going to see this from me a lot for a while. Please share, and contribute if you are a medievalist working in this area! It's going to be great. #medievalsky #genderstudies
wp-research.aber.ac.uk/medievalgend...
Poster advertising H M. Chadwick Memorial Lecture, Cambridge, 19 March 2026. See link.
Léacht ar an mborradh a tháinig faoin litríocht Breatnaise i dtréimhse Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240).
A lecture on the flourishing of Welsh literature in the age of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240).
Cambridge, 19 Máirt/March 2026.
#DIASdiscovers
www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archive...
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus! Happy St David's Day!
Déardaoin na seachtaine seo beidh mé ag caint ar an gcnámh seo agus cnámha eile (!) den chineál céanna 👇
St. David preaching in an historiated D in Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.27, p. 618
St. Patrick preaching in an historiated P in Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.27, p. 453
In honor of St. David's Day, the story of St. Patrick being kicked out of Wales by an angel in order to make way for the Welsh saint:
#DyddGŵylDewi 🏴 (1/9)
Please join us for the conversation and celebration! Learn more about the volume here: brill.com/display/titl...
Thanks to CSANA; to Catherine, John @jdmccafferty.bsky.social, and Máire; to Brill @dgb-mem.bsky.social; BC Irish Studies @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social and all the contributors!
The Celtic Studies Association of North America is happy to announce a virtual book launch for An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by Brendan Kane (U Connecticut) and Patrick Wadden (Dublin City University) on Thur, March 12 at 1:00 PM (EST) / 5:00 (Ireland).
Free lunchtime lecture! I’ll be giving a talk at the Dublinia Museum next week on
‘𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜: 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’
Thursday 5th March, 1pm
Still a few tickets left on Eventbrite – all welcome!
www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublinia-s...
The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 D 17, the Ó Cléirigh Genealogies. The scribe of this mid-17th C genealogical manuscript was Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, one of the compilers of the Annals of the Four Masters.
Registration is now open for Sacred Networks: New Perspectives on Hagiography and Saints’ Cults in the Celtic and Norse Worlds, 1-2 May at University College Dublin, organised with @networknorse.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sacred-net...
🤔 Did you know we organise 2 student prizes every year? This year's deadline is tba soon. Kee an eye out!
➡️ the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies
➡️ the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best scholarly article by a pre-doc in Celtic Studies
🔗 celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/
Out now!
Follow the link below to subscribe to and read the new issue of Studia Celtica ⤵️
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/uwp/...
Read on for a taste of the latest issue 📚
We are pleased to invite researchers to submit their original work for consideration in our upcoming 2026 issue of Studia Celtica Posnaniensia. We welcome high-quality submissions that cover all aspects of Celtic linguistics, literature, culture, and history. Submission deadline: 30 May 2026.
Volume 10, Article 5: “Welsh and Diversity: Welsh Drag Queens and Their Perspective on the All-Welsh Rule” by Oliwier Gralak, Katarzyna Szczuczko & Kacper Szłapiński.
#Eisteddfod #RheolGymraeg #Welsh #dragqueens
pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sc...
For the week that’s in it: the LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for February 2026 is Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland MS Adv. 72.1.13, containing an Irish translation of Bernard of Gordon’s chapter on lovesickness:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
Animal rib bone covered in handwritten Irish text.
Bígí linn! Léacht Am Lóin le @pomuirch.bsky.social! Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟖
The Eighth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Rathcroghan Visitor Centre 23-25 June 2026.
Rathcroghan Visitor Centre is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the eighth edition of the International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales.
Our very own Natasha Sumner's book will be published next week by Princeton University Press!
Heroes of the Gael traces the evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song over 1,400 years.
You can pre-order now:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Ireland’s fascination with ancient Greece, from our origin legends to Joyce’s Ulysses
𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘆𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘀
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙣𝙖́𝙣 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣
John Carey
More Info: bit.ly/3OyLT6A
#Eschatology #Translation #Irish #Apocrypha #Bible #Christianity
Maynooth Early Irish Research Seminar: Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd, Positioning Meath and Clonard in the Central Middle Ages. 12 February 2026 at 17:00 in Room 2.31 Iontas Building, Maynooth University
Bígí linn | Join us for the first Early Irish & Celtic Studies research seminar of the semester. Thursday 12 February at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS.
*Positioning Meath and Clonard in the Central Middle Ages*
Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social)
Fáilte roimh chách!
Happening tonight, 5pm Irish time! Come to learn more about the early Acallam na Senórach and the new manuscript I've found... Stay for later rewriting techniques and scribal features 👀 @disappearingtext.bsky.social
🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
CfP: 2026 Postgraduate Symposium of the @studyscotlit.bsky.social, @glasgow.ac.uk, 8 May 2026. Submissions deadline: 15 March 2026. Hybrid attendance will be an option; PG travel bursaries will be available, courtesy of the Andrew Tannahill Fund. ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...
We often get asked for stories about the Fianna's encounters with the Tuath Dé (also known as the Túatha Dé Danann) and the answer changes depending upon whether we're talking about the literary or folk traditions surrounding Fionn and his gang.
