The Eighteenth Annual Irish Texts Society Seminar

5 Nov 2016

The Eighteenth Annual Irish Texts Society Seminar will take place on Saturday, 5 November, 2016 in University College Cork under the auspices of the Department of Early and Medieval Irish in association with the Department of Modern Irish. The subject of this year’s event will be Eachtra an Mhadra Mhaoil / Eachtra Mhacaoimh-an-Iolair: Two Irish Arthurian Romances, edited by R.A. Stewart Macalister, Irish Texts Society, Main Series vol. 10 (1908). The programme is available here: http://irishtextssociety.org/seminar.html

Cainteoirí / Speakers

• Caoimhín Breatnach: ‘Two Irish Arthurian Romances: Language and Manuscripts’.
• John Carey: ‘Two Irish Arthurian Romances and The Grail’.
• Erich Poppe: ‘Arthur in Celtic Tradition’.
• Bernadette Smelik: ‘Perception and anticipation: what Eachtra an Mhadra Mhaoil can teach us’.
• Marie-Luise Theuerkauf: ‘Tristan and Late Medieval Romances: James Carney's Ur-Tristan Revisited’.

For enquiries relating to the Seminar, contact Dr Pádraigín Riggs, Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh; email: p.riggs@ucc.ie

Please register by October 28th 2016.