Jobs / Scholarships / Prizes

• Scoláireachtai Uí Dhonnabháin (O'Donovan Scholarships) [2], Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath. Email application to: eibhlin@celt.dias.ie (closing date: 5 January, 2026).
• Irish Language Linguists, EU, Brussels (closing date: 5 January, 2026 at 12.00).
• Research Assistant, School of Computer Science and Information Technology / Department of Early and Medieval Irish (Project: The Disappearing Text [#092254]; closing date: 21 November, 2025). 
• Assistant Lexicographer in Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (FNG), Royal Irish Academym Dublin (closing date: 19-11-2025 at 15.00).
• Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Irish Folklore and Ethnology, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies (closing date: 17-11-2025 at 12.00).
• The Childers Professorship of Irish History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge (closing date: 25 October, 2025).
• Societas Celtologica Europaea annual PhD prize and prize for best scholarly article by a young academic (submissions to eparina@uni-bonn.de).
• Annual Vivien Law Prize established by the Henry Sweet Society for the best essay submitted on any topic within the history of linguistics (submission by September 30 each year).

Conferences / Seminars / Call for Papers

• Eleanor Knott Memorial Lecture, Trinity College Dublin, 27 November, 2025: Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh.
• Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2026: ‘Women and the Weird’, Saturday, 21 February, 2026 (call for papers deadline: 10 November, 2025).
• Fifth Oslo Student Conference on Medieval Europe, 12-14 March 2026, Oslo (Gairm ar pháipéir / call for papers spriocdháta / deadline: 12 December 2025 to oslomedievalstudentconference@gmail.com).
• Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre: Litríocht na Gaeilge roimh an 20ú haois (comhdháil ar an ngreann i litríocht na Gaeilge), Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh, Déardaoin 30ú Aibreán 2026 (tuilleadh eolais le fáil ar ball).
• Sacred Networks: New Perspectives on Hagiography and Saints’ Cults in the Celtic and Norse Worlds, 1-2 May 2026, University College Dublin.  
• Celtic Students Conference, Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), 11-13 June 2026 (Gairm ar pháipéir / call for papers spriocdháta / deadline: 12 December 2025).

Annual / Regular Events

• SAMS: Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies, UCC. Next talk: Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh, 'From injury to insult: humour, horror and suspension of disbelief in the Colloquy of Fintan mac Bóchrai and the Hawk of Achill', 8 October, 6.00pm – West Wing 5, UCC.
• School of Irish Learning, UCC: seminar series.
• Annual ITS seminar, UCC, 8 November 2025.
• Annual ITS / Ó Buachalla Lecture: (3 December, 2025: An Dr Deirdre Ni Chárthaigh [online]).
• Annual Tionól, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 14-15 November, 2025 (clár).
• Comhdháil ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na Gaeilge, Roinn na Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh, Meán Fómhair, 2025.
• Léachtaí Cholm Cille 2025: Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad, 4-5 Aibreán, 2025.
• 44th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium, October, 2025.
• CSANA: Celtic Studies Association of North America, annual conference, 7-10 May, 2026,  St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada (deadline for submissions: December 1, 2025 to celtic@stfx.ca).
• Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Winter Lecture Series, 2025-26 (online and in-person).
• Marburg Celtic Seminar: please register at celtic@uni-marburg.de.

To have an event noticed here, please email EarlyandMedievalIrish@ucc.ie.

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