The central focus of this project is on the premier Finn Cycle text, Acallam na Senórach 'The Dialogue of the Ancients'
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The Disappearing Text: comhdháil / conference
- Tionólfar comhdháil ar Acallam na Senórach ar an 21-22 Lúnasa, 2026 i gColáiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh.
- Two-day conference on all aspects of the Acallam text and tradition, 21-22 August, 2026 in UCC.
- Clár ar ball / programme to follow.
Project-related talks
- 2025, 31 Deireadh Fómhair: 'Béalaireacht agus Liteartacht in Acallam na Senórach', Comhdháil Lae in Ómós do Sheán Ó Coileáin, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh.
- 2025, 28 August: ‘Switching Places and Narrating Stories: Caoilte and Oisín’s Roles in Agallamh na Seanórach’, Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies (Societas Celtologica Europaea), Bonn, Germany, 27-30 August, 2025.
- 2025, 5 June: ‘Tadhg Ó Neachtain and Seón Mac Solaidh’s Agallamh na Seanórach’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society conference, Trinity College Dublin, 5-6 June, 2025.
- 2025, 5 March: 'Agallamh na Seanórach agus Cúige Mumhan', Public Lecture to the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.
- 2025, 3 March: 'Beginning at the End: The Creation of Acallam na Senórach', Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Seminar, University of Cambridge.
- 2025, 27 February: ‘Variants, Versions and Recensions: The Textual Tradition of Acallam na Senórach’, Classical and Medieval Cultures Seminar, Queen’s University Belfast.
- 2024, 4 December: 'The Disappearing Text: Acallam na Senórach', Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies, University College Cork.
- 2024, 22 November: ‘“Let the reader find the remainder” of Agallamh na Seanórach’, Tionól, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 21-23 November, 2024.
- 2024, 31 October: ‘From Acallam na Senórach to Agallamh na Seanórach: Structuring Narratives and Recycling Texts in (Early) Modern Ireland’, Celtic Research Seminar, University of Oxford & University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth.
- 2024: 12 October: ‘The Manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach’, 43rd Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 11-13 October, 2024.
- 2024, 4 October 2024: ‘Going Full Circle: the Life Story of a Fíanaigecht Tale from the Twelfth to the Twenty-First Century’, ‘Afterlives of the Acallam and Related Texts’ Workshop, University of Glasgow.
- 2024, 28 Meán Fómhair: ‘Dinnseanchas agus Ómós Áite in Acallam na Senórach’, Comhdháil ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe, 27-28 Meán Fómhair, 2024.
- 2024, 18 September: ‘Place-names, Storytelling and Intertextuality in Medieval Ireland’, Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies, University College Cork.
- 2024, 3 July: ‘Dindshenchas and Acallam na Senórach: Compilation, Textual Transmission, and a “Sense of Place”’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, 1-4 July 2024.
- 2024, 7 June: ‘Moving Towards Digital Editions of Medieval Irish Narrative Texts with Acallam na Senórach “The Colloquy of the Ancients”’, International Symposium on the Future of Digital Editing & Publishing, University College Cork, 6-7 June, 2024.
- 2024, 1 June: ‘“Running Up That Hill”: People and Places in Acallam na Senórach’, 11th Celtic Students Conference, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, 30 May – 1 June, 2024.
- 2024, 30 May: ‘Bodleian Library Oxford MS Laud Misc. 610 as a Repository of Fíanaigecht Literature’, Societas Celtologica Nordica, University of Oslo, 29-30 May, 2024.
- 2024, 5 April: ‘Early Witnesses to Acallam na Senórach: Leabhar Ua Maine and Laud MS 610’, Celtic Studies Association of North America Conference, Farleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, 5-7 April, 2024.
- 2024, 8 March: ‘Agalla(i)mh na Seanórach: Rewriting Stories within Stories’, Ó Cléirigh Seminar, University College Dublin.
Project-related publications
- K. Murray, ‘Na Mná sa Luath-Fhiannaíocht’, in M. Ní Annracháin agus T. Ní Shíocháin (eag.), Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann Feimineach agus Inscne na Gaeilge (2023) 146-55.
- N. Cnockaert-Guillou, ‘Textual Structure, Dialogue and the Layout of the Manuscripts of Acallam na Senórach’, Studia Celtica Fennica 20 (2024) 125-46. [Open Access; DOI: https://doi.org/10.33353/scf.147011]
- N. Cnockaert-Guillou, ‘An Edition and Translation of “Finn and Mac Lesc” Including “Fuitt co bráth” and “Tánic sam”’, Celtica 36 (2024) 116-57. [Open Access; DOI: https://doi.org/10.58480/SCS-fnucz-m3ya5]
- N. Cnockaert-Guillou, ‘Frame Tale, Embedded Tales and Narrative Devices in Acallam na Senórach’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 88 (Winter 2024) 21-46.
- G. Parsons, ‘The Immacallam and the Ulster Cycle’, in G. Toner, L. Ní Mhaoláin and F. de Brún (eds), Craobh Eolais: A Festschrift for Ruairí Ó hUiginn (Maynooth: An Sagart, 2025) 123-34.
- K. Murray, ‘Oscar in Early Fenian Sources’, in G. Toner, L. Ní Mhaoláin and F. de Brún (eds), Craobh Eolais: A Festschrift for Ruairí Ó hUiginn (Maynooth: An Sagart, 2025) 109-22.
- K. Murray, ‘Leabhar Ua Maine as an Early Witness to Acallam na Senórach’, North American Journal of Celtic Studies 9, ii (2025) 262-9.
- N. Cnockaert-Guillou, ‘A Reassessment of the Manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a New Version of Acallam na Senórach’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 72 (2025) 111-38. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zcph-2025-0002]