As part of UCC’s 180^th Anniversary celebrations, the Department of Early and Medieval Irish would be delighted if you could join us for a public lecture by Professor John Carey entitled ‘The World’s First Professor of Celtic? Owen Connellan and Cork’, on Wednesday, 17 December 2025 at 4pm, Aula Maxima, UCC.

Mar chuid de chomóradh 180 bliain ó bunaíodh Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh, ba mhór ag Roinn na Sean- agus na Meán-Ghaeilge tú a bheith i láthair ag léacht leis an Ollamh John Carey dar teideal ‘The World’s First Professor of Celtic? Owen Connellan and Cork’, Dé Céadaoin, 17 Nollaig, ag 4i.n., Aula Maxima, COC.

Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh

‘Intertextual weavings in the Colloquy of Fintan mac Bóchrai and the Hawk of Achill’

The Department of Irish and Celtic Languages in Trinity College is delighted to announce the third Eleanor Knott Memorial Lecture. It will take place in the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, at 6pm on Thursday, 27 November 2025.

Eleanor Knott Memorial Lecture 2025

The Seminar of Ancient and Medieval Studies (SAMS) is a research forum established to bring together researchers in late antique and medieval studies from across the university.

The third talk in the 2025 SAMS autumn series will take place on Wednesday, 26 November at 6.00pm in the CACSSS Seminar Room ORB G27.

Prof. Tom Birkett, School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork will speak on the topic ‘Mapping the Reception and Legacy of the Vikings with NorseMap’

Seimineár Scoil Léann na Gaeilge 2025

Tabharfaidh an tOll. Dr Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha léacht dar teideal ‘Aislinge Meic Con Glinne agus Corcaigh' ar an 20 Samhain ag 5 i.n. (sa Sciathán Tiar 5.).

In this paper, Jo D’Ambrosio Wolf, the current Gerard T. Wrixon Postdoctoral Fellow, discusses colour terminology in medieval Irish medical writings. The paper analyses the curious use of buide (‘yellow'), the medieval Irish form of modern Irish buí (‘yellow’), in the pathology of plague.

https://www.dias.ie/2025/10/22/tionol-2025/

Tabharfaidh an Dr Aoife Granville léacht dár teideal 'Old Comrades: Traidisiún, Mairseáil & Féiniúlacht Phobail i nDaingean Uí Chúis' don Chumann le Béaloideas Éireann ar an 10 Samhain ag 7 i.n. (Seomra West Wing 5).

The Twenty-Sixth Annual ITS seminar jointly organised by the Irish Texts Society and the combined Departments of Irish, UCC, will be held in UCC on Saturday, 8 November 2025. The subject of this year’s event will be The Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore, Irish Texts Society Main Series, vol. 16 (1914), edited by Patrick Power. 

Please register online at https://uccshop.ie/shop/the-twenty-sixth-annual-irish-texts-society-seminar/ The deadline for registration is Monday, 3 November 2025.

The Department of Folklore and Ethnology are delighted to host folklorist and ethnomusicologist John Fenn, Head of Research and Programs at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress since 2017, for a lecture on 'Spaces and Places of Fieldwork'. Join us in the CACSSS Seminar Room, ORB G_27, on Monday 03 November from 1-2pm. All are welcome at this face-to-face event. 

Tionólfar Comhdháil Lae in Ómós don Ollamh Seán Ó Coileáin ar an 31 Deireadh Fómhair 2025 i Seomra Seimineár Choláiste na nEalaíon, an Léinn Cheiltigh agus na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta, Áras Uí Rathaille, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. 

A Conference in Honour of Professor Seán Ó Coileáin will be held on 31 October 2025 in the Seminar Room of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, O’Rahilly Building, University College Cork.

A symposium on investigating an aspect of the materiality of the medieval manuscript.

This symposium, hosted by the McCarthy Multi-Spectral Imaging (McCarthy MSI) Project of the Department of Modern Irish, brings together scholars to explore the quire as a core unit in the structure of the manuscript.

The Seminar of Ancient and Medieval Studies (SAMS) is a research forum established to bring together researchers in late antique and medieval studies from across the university.

The first talk in the 2025 SAMS autumn series will take place on Wednesday, 8 October at 6.00pm in West Wing 5

Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh will speak on the topic From injury to insult: humour, horror and suspension of disbelief in the Colloquy of Fintan mac Bóchrai and the Hawk of Achill.

Fógraíodh Sraith Sheimineár Scoil Léann na Gaeilge, Fómhar, 2025 le déanaí. Soláthraíonn gach Roinn de na trí Ranna atá sa Scoil caint don tsraith i gcaitheamh téarma an fhómhair/gheimhridh agus téarma an earraigh.

The Autumn Seminar Series of the School of Irish Learning has just been announced for 2025. The Seminar Series of the School of Irish Learning comprises a public lecture from each of the three Departments in the School during the Autumn/Winter term and the Spring term.

Comhdháil Teagaisc 2025 brings over 185 educators to UCC for Irish-language teaching conference.

Thug grúpa mac léinn ó Choláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh cuairt ar cheantar Mhúscraí ar an 1 Márta. Tógadh an pictiúr ag Tobar Ghobnatan.

A group of UCC students visited the Múscraí Gaeltacht on 1 March. Pictured here at Tobar Ghobnatan (St. Gobnait's well)

Tá síneadh cúig bliana curtha lena Meamram Comhthuisceana ag Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh agus Coláiste na Rinne.

UCC and Coláiste na Rinne have extended their Memorandum of Understanding for a further five years.

Ceardlanna amhránaíochta le Conchubhar Ó Luasa, Ealaíontóir Cónaithe 2024/25, gach Céadaoin i mí Feabhra

Singing workshops with Conchubhar Ó Luasa, Irish-language Artist in Residence 2024/25, every Wednesday in February

Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures 9

Title: Pwyll y Pader: A Medieval Welsh Tract on the Meaning of the Lord’s Prayer according to Hugh of Saint-Victor

Author: Elena Parina and Erich Poppe, with Sergey Ivanov

ISBN: 978-0995546981

Buy from the UCC Bookshop €12.00