The Disappearing Text Project

*Congratulations, even!

Cgonratulations Nina! And thanks for this sneak preview of sunny UCC, which we hope will be in evidence during our Acallam conference in August!

We recommend it highly Ciaran - but that'll come as no surprise!

The first day of sun in a long time and a lovely surprise in the post: the latest ZCP with my investigation of Reeves Agallamh manuscripts... and discovery of another witness of the early Acallam. 🕵🏻‍♀️ @disappearingtext.bsky.social

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:

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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

Acallam talk alert! 🔔 Register at celtic@uni-bonn.de to get the link to Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's talk, next Monday 9th February at 18:00 CET.
@ninacnock.bsky.social will discuss some of the Disappearing Text project's work so far, and the (many) different versions of Acallam na Senórach..!

Ag súil go mór leis an ócáid seo! The biggest Acallam na Senórach conference ever 🤩

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🚨Save the date!🚨A conference on Acallam na Senórach will be held on 21-22 August 2026, in University College Cork. Programme to follow. Further information will be available in due course at www.ucc.ie/en/disappear....

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🚨Save the date!🚨 Tionólfar comhdháil ar Acallam na Senórach ar an 21-22 Lúnasa 2026, i gColáiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. Clár ar ball. Beidh tuilleadh eolais le fáil ar www.ucc.ie/en/disappear... i gceann na haimsire.

Really happy to have this article out in print officially!! All Acallam enthusiasts will be interested in it, I hope 👀 This article brings important new things to light regarding the textual and manuscript transmission of Acallam / Agallamh texts..!

The 2nd major contribution to our rethinking of the Acallam's transmission - comhghairdeas leat @ninacnock.bsky.social! A huge moment in the study of this work!

A reassessment of the manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a new version of Acallam na Senórach Résumé L’Agallamh na Seanórach de l’Évêque Reeves fut éditée par Ní Shéaghdha à partir du plus ancien manuscrit dans lequel ce texte se trouve, RIA MS 24 P 5 (dixseptième siècle). Cet article…

📚 Second Acallam publication alert this week! 🔔 Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's latest article, "A Reassessment of the Manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a New Version of Acallam na Senórach", was just published in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 72 (2025).

This is an important addition to the scholarship on the textual transmission of the Acallam - an area of study that is expanding at a dizzying rate, often courtesy of @disappearingtext.bsky.social project members (stay tuned for further publication news from @ninacnock.bsky.social!)

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📚 New publication alert! 🔔 Prof. Kevin Murray's latest article, "Leabhar Ua Maine as an Early Witness to Acallam na Senórach", was just published in the North American Journal of Celtic Studies 9:2 (2025).
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It's such a privilege to be working on this project with brilliant colleagues. Please follow along if you are interested in #CelticStudies, medieval literature, #medievalsky, approaches to editing and translation, Finn mac Cumhaill and more ...

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The project team includes Prof. Kevin Murray (PI), Dr Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social, Dr Cian Ó Cionnfhaolaidh, Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou @ninacnock.bsky.social, Yingying Gu, Dr Vijayakumar Nanjappan and Dr Enkhbold Nyamsuren. This research is funded by @researchireland.ie. 2/2

We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on our project, which will produce editions of the earliest version of Acallam na Senórach 'The Colloquy of the Ancients', the central Finn Cycle text from medieval Ireland. New software will also be developed to help in this work. 1/2