Heroic Gaelic Tales in Modern Music: Ossianic Ballads
23 Sep, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh & online
Tickets £5 in-person / free online

Presenting new work reinterpreting traditional #Gaelic heroic lays / laoidhean through the collaboration of South Uist singer, Màiri Macmillan; the Edinburgh Quartet; & the composer Ned Bigham

#Scottish #literature #song #CelticStudies

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heroic-gaelic-tales-in-modern-music-ossianic-ballads-tickets-694840846677

Heroic Gaelic Tales in Modern Music: Ossianic Ballads
23 Sep, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh & online

Presenting new work reinterpreting traditional #Gaelic heroic lays / laoidhean through the collaboration of South Uist singer, Màiri Macmillan; the Edinburgh Quartet; & the composer Ned Bigham

#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #CelticStudies #Ossian

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heroic-gaelic-tales-in-modern-music-ossianic-ballads-tickets-694840846677

#CallforPapers – Crisis & the Celts
International Medieval Congress at Leeds, 1–4 July 2024

Proposals sought for 20-minute papers analysing the conference theme of “Crisis” as it applies to the literatures of the #Celtic peoples during the #MiddleAges.
Submission deadline: 14 Sept 2023

#Scottish #Gaelic #Irish #Welsh #Breton #medieval #CelticStudies #Celts #literature

Okay, I'm #NewHere, let's try an #introduction

Hi, I'm Finn. I'm a #medievalist in the field of #CelticStudies specialising in the late Ulster Cycle. I'm particularly fond of Láeg mac Riangabra, Cú Chulainn's charioteer.

I'm also an #author, and I write #YA and #fantasy fiction. Two YA thrillers published so far: The Butterfly Assassin & The Hummingbird Killer, about a traumatised teenage assassin trying and failing to live a normal life. More on the way 👀

Mostly here to talk niche nerdery!

As ought to be abundantly clear, I have no idea how to use Mastodon and am still getting my head around the platform. But hello! Hoping to find others working in #CelticStudies and #Medieval literature to chat to on here, since the loss of Twitter-based academic community is a real bummer for me as an independent scholar. If we met at #ICCS23 last week, please come and say hello :)

When JSTOR fails, the homies come in clutch

#celticstudies #celtic #irish #irishmythology #celticmythology

Very honoured that Prof Dr David Stifter MRIA will present my paper at the XVIIth International Congress of Celtic Studies.

#iccs23 #celticstudies #kingalfred #fanfiction #celtic #ogham #medievalisms

Medieval (Scottish) Gaelic literature: the case of Finn mac Cumaill
Video of a talk given by Dr Geraldine Parsons on 23 May 2023

Introducing the corpus of #medieval works centred on the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill. The earliest texts are #Irish – yet, outwith the #Gaelic tradition, Finn is often seen as a #Scottish literary creation, not least because of James Macpherson’s imagining of him as Fingal in the #18thcentury

#literature #CelticStudies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_rPUdkDTxw

“Bealltain (Beltane) is the first day of May. On May Day all the fires of the district were extinguished & ‘tein eigin’, need-fire, produced on the knoll.”

—“Am Beannachadh Bealltain” (“The Beltane Blessing”)
from Carmina Gadelica (Alexander Carmichael, 1900), online via the National Library of Scotland

#Scottish #Gaelic #folklore #CelticStudies #MayDay
https://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/78420254

Academic appointment in Celtic at Utrecht:

Utrecht is offering a 4-year lecturer position (70% FTE) in Celtic Languages and Culture (open specialisation, though note the medieval focus of the programme). Application deadline is 15 May 2023. Start date is 1 September 2023.

For details, please follow the link:

https://www.uu.nl/organisatie/werken-bij-de-universiteit-utrecht/vacatures/lecturer-in-celtic-insular-languages-and-cultures-07-fte

Questions? Contact Dr Aaron Griffith, a.griffith@uu.nl

@medievodons

#CelticStudies #Irish #Welsh #Gaelige #Cymraeg #medieval

I just boosted the 'toot' about tomorrow's (Tuesday 25 April) online CSANA lecture from Greg Darwin and Joey McMullen. Check out the original toot for more information.

#CelticStudies #Irish #Medieval #MiddleAges #Ireland

Ireland, Scotland, & the Wider Gaelic World: Re-thinking the Paradigms
Thurs 27 April, 7–9pm, free online

The concept of a ‘wider #Gaelic world’ or ‘Greater Gaeldom’ has proven highly controversial within the historiography of later #medieval (& #earlymodern) #Scotland & #Ireland. Dr Simon Egan explores the issues.
#Scottish #Irish #history #CelticStudies
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ireland-scotland-and-the-wider-gaelic-world-re-thinking-the-paradigms-tickets-589950827807

Online lecture: The next Celtic Studies Association of North America online lecture series event is on the topic 'Eochaid Éolach and the transmission of the dindṡenchas of Loch Garman', presented by Greg Darwin (Uppsala) and Joey McMullen (Indiana Bloomington) on Tuesday 25 April 2023 at 12 pm EDT (= 5 pm BST).

Registration required for this event; register here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8x5hdc

#Irish #CelticStudies #Dindsenchas #Ireland

For @LlHopwood @jenythevans @OxfordCEMS
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RT @elena_parina
We are hiring! 24 months as PostDoc (80%) within the DFG-funded project Early Modern cultures of translation in Wales: innovations and continuities [16th c.], part of the DFG SPP2130 Cultures of Translation in Early Modern Times. #CelticStudies
https://twitter.com/elena_parina/status/1637740049058889729

'Lament: A Celebration': a Cambridge Group for Irish Studies day-long symposium on 3 May marking the 250th anniversary of the Irish poem 'Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire' / 'Lament for Art O'Leary'.

Speakers include Prof Angela Bourke, and poets Martina Evans and Paul Muldoon. In-person and online via zoom. Free, but registration required. Full details and registration tabs for both online and in-person attendance here:

https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/events/CGIS-Lament/index.htm

#Irish #Gaelige #keening #poetry #CelticStudies

Postdoc opportunity in Celtic studies in Bonn:

The Institute of English, American and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn seeks a postdoctoral research associate (80%) within the DFG-funded project 'Early Modern cultures of translation in Wales: innovations and continuities', led in Bonn by J-Prof Dr Elena Parina (eparina@uni-bonn.de).

Knowledge of Welsh, English and German is required.

Further info: https://www.spp2130.de/index.php/en/translating-into-welshii/

#Welsh #Cymraeg #CelticStudies #Postdoc #UniBonn

This year's annual meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, entirely online, starts a week from tomorrow and runs four days (16-19 March).

Plenary speakers: Jenny Day (Aberystwyth), Clare Downham (Liverpool), Brian Ó Conchubhair (Notre Dame) and Corinna Salomon (Wien).

Full programme available at celticstudies.org. Contact Prof Joe Eska (eska@vt.edu) to register.

#CelticStudies #Irish #Welsh #Breton #Cornish #Ireland #Scotland #Wales #Brittany

https://celticstudies.org/

@medievodons

Online symposium: Ireland: An Island and Beyond, 3 March 2023

UCLA's CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is sponsoring a seminar organised by Joseph F. Nagy (Harvard) with papers by Nagy, Fangzhe Qiu (UCD), Truc Ha Nguyen (Maynooth) and Patricia Palmer (Maynooth) on various aspects of Irish literature and society in the medieval and early modern periods.

Further information and registration links here:

https://cmrs.ucla.edu/event/ireland-symposium/

#Ireland #Irish #medieval #CelticStudies

@medievodons
@philosophy

Morgan Moore of the University of Toronto will deliver the next Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) virtual lecture on Wednesday, 1 March 2023 at 12.00 Eastern Standard Time (= 17.00 GMT, 18.00 CET). Her subject will be 'Embodiment and dialogue in two medieval body and soul debates'.

Registration at this link:

http://tinyurl.com/2y9wt93w

#CelticStudies

Ung, this is when I wonder if I have the right transcription from the MS. The sentence has "oir do doigh" where "oir" means "because of" and "do doigh" also means "because of". but this comes after verbs of believing and a word for proving.

#CelticStudies