The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 10(iii) and it is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday - Thursday. Come visit!
Check @rialibrary.bsky.social to learn more about this MS and explore highlights from the Library’s collections.
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This annual lecture series commemorates Noel O'Connell (1929-1991) who was involved in and contributed hugely to several London-based Irish societies, including the Irish Texts Society and the Irish Literary Society. For more about him read this irishtextssociety.org/pdfs/NoelOCo...
You can find out more about James Hardiman and his long and productive career in the Dictionary of Irish biography www.dib.ie/biography/ha...
The British Library holds the largest collection of manuscripts containing Irish language material outside Ireland, totalling over 200 items. Of these, the largest group are the 121 manuscripts of the Irish historian and lawyer James Hardiman (1782–1855).
Our annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture, jointly organised with the Irish Literary Society, will be given this year by Nollaig Ó Muraíle on 'James Hardiman and his manuscript collection in the British Library’ at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, on Thursday, 28 May 2026 at 7.30 p.m.
Our President Ruairí Ó hUiginn recently gave a great overview of the Ulster Cycle on the Medieval Irish History podcast. Well worth a listen.
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Programme for the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar, Winter Term 2025
🚨 The next Bonn+Marburg online Celtic Seminar is next week, 9th Feb, 18:00 CET.
💬 Nina Cnockaert-Guillou: "Scribes, manuscripts and words: coming to terms with different versions of Acallam na Senórach" @disappearingtext.bsky.social
To get the link, please contact celtic@uni-bonn.de 🔗
The lecture, organised with the support of @nli.ie, will be delivered online. Register here
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Our speaker, Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, School of Irish, @tcddublin, will show the importance of the harper at the Gaelic court, the symbolic significance of the harp, and the reception of harping performances.
A reminder that our annual Ó Buachalla Lecture is coming up next Wednesday, 3rd December at 6.30 pm and will examine literary descriptions of harpers, harps and harp music in bardic poems between the 13th and 17th centuries. irishtextssociety.org/obuachalla-l...
And remember Members of the Society get a 30% reduction on all our publications and on @ria.ie publications. To subscribe online check out shop.ria.ie/products/iri...
The proceedings (Subsidiary Series 36) look at Ó Cathasaigh's life as a Traveler, tin-smith, and bailiff. The stories are analysed in a national and international context. You can order the book through your local stockist of Irish books or online from @ria.ie shop.ria.ie/products/iri...
Notwithstanding this, the volume remains in print in hardback for more than a few shillings 86 years later and is available from your local stockist of Irish books or online from @ria.ie shop.ria.ie/collections/...
The collection received a mixed reception on publication, with critics arguing the Society should publish literature and not folklore – one declaring that 'these tinker's tales' might have been published 'for a few shillings in paper binding,' revealing other prejudices.
The volume was the first repertoire collection of folklore by a single narrator published in Irish and the first Traveller collection. It also provides a source of information about the social history of rural Connacht and the language shift in East Mayo.
In breaking news, the Society has launched the proceedings of our 25th Annual Seminar, organised with @ucc.ie, which looked at “Sgéalta Uí Chathasaigh, Mayo Stories Told by Thomas Casey” collected, edited and translated by Douglas Hyde (Vol. 36 Main Series 1939).
Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
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You can order any of our books through your local bookshop or online through the @ria.ie bookshop. And remember our members get a 30% discount on all our publications. Membership details on our website irishtextssociety.org.
The Scriptorium was buzzing this year, delivering two new editions in our main series, Vol 69 On the Faults of Poetry: An Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts V, and Vol 70 Táin Bó Fliodhaise - The Cattle Raid of Fliodhais. A greater contrast in subject, content and style you could not imagine.
Our annual seminar jointly organised with @ucc.ie is happening this Saturday in the Venice of the North. Full details at irishtextssociety.org/events. This year we’re looking at The Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore.